Peep Laja, Author at CXL Blog

How to Build a High-Converting Landing Page: Anatomy, Structure & Design

A landing page is the first page that visitors see after clicking on your banner ad, PPC ad, or promotional email. It can be a specific page on your website or a separate page created exclusively for search engines.

Landing pages direct visitors to take a specific action, such as making a purchase, completing a registration, or subscribing to your email list.

Your landing page often determines the success of your ad campaign. A good landing page equals good ROI. A crappy landing page (needlessly) wastes money.

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How To Persuade People – 17 Lesser Known Jedi Mind Tricks

Want to know how to persuade people online and get what you want?

The power of influence is usually all that separates the successful from everyone else. These are some tactics, discovered through psychological research, that you have probably not yet heard about, but have the potential to increase your persuasive abilities.

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How to Write Sales Copy: 7 Never-Fail Principles

Why is it that some books become bestsellers and others can hardly sell a 100 copies? Why do you read some books with passion and interest but can’t get past the first 10 pages of others? What’s the difference?

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

What kind of content should you have on your site? How should you structure the menu? What should be the first-level menu items? One or two menus? What should the menu links be called? This post gives you answers.

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How to Design a Kickass Long-Form Sales Page (with Examples)

You know those sales pages that are really, really long? They’re great, but they mostly suck. I mean, the way they’re usually implemented sucks.

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10 Useful Findings About How People View Websites

Eyetracking and other user research have studied how people look at websites. Here are 10 useful findings you can use.

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Announcement: CXL Agency is changing

It’s been ten years since I started the CXL Agency.

We started off with a value proposition “we build websites that sell”. Most of our time went into building WordPress websites. The initial vision was to templetize and scale building conversion optimized websites. There were many problems with that, and we quickly learned, and adapted.

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The 10 Most-Read Articles of 2020

Where to start? This year was…something. Despite everything going on, we still published, and you still read—and got better at data-driven marketing.

Here are the most read articles of the year.

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Statistical Significance Does Not Equal Validity (or Why You Get Imaginary Lifts)

A very common scenario: A business runs tens and tens of A/B tests over the course of a year, and many of them “win.” Some tests get you 25% uplift in revenue, or even higher.

Yet when you roll out the change, the revenue doesn’t increase 25%. And 12 months after running all those tests, the conversion rate is still pretty much the same. How come?

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