Landing Webpage (Lead Capture Page)

A landing webpage is a Webpage page that appears or that a visitor "lands" on after they click on an advertisement, article link or search engine result link.

This can be any page including your "squeeze" page, hence it can also be referred to as a "Lead Capture Page."

The main purpose of a landing page is to capture the visitors name and email address so you can market your product/service and ideas to them in the near future.

According to marketing pro Seth Godin, A landing page is the first page a visitor to your site sees.

Landing pages were important back in the day of email marketing, because if you included a link in your email, that was the page the permission marketee would land on if he clicked through.

Landing pages are even more important today because they are the page that someone clicking on a Google Adwords ad sees.

A landing page (in fact, every page) can only cause one of five actions:

Get a visitor to click (to go to another page, on your site or someone else's)
Get a visitor to buy
Get a visitor to give permission for you to follow up (by email, phone, etc.). This includes registration of course.
Get a visitor to tell a friend
(and the more subtle) Get a visitor to learn something, which could even include posting a comment or giving you some sort of feedback

I think that's the entire list of options

So, if you build a landing page, and you're going to invest time and money to get people to visit it, it makes sense to optimize that page to accomplish just one of the things above. Perhaps two, but no more.

When you review a landing page, the thing to ask yourself is, "What does the person who built this page want me to do?" If you can optimize for that, you should. If there are two versions of a landing page and one performs better than the other, use that one! This sounds obvious, but how often are you doing the test? How long does a landing page last in your shop before it gets toppled by a better one? And do you have a different landing page for every single ad, every single offer? Why not?

Landing pages are specific, measurable offers. You can tell if they're working or not. You can improve the metrics and make them work better. Landing pages are the new direct marketing, and everyone with a website is a direct marketer.

Add website landing pages to your marketing plans and watch your traffic and list grown exponentially.

Website landing pages are so important that I'd budget about $250 - $500 a month for their creation, tracking and tweaking