A little secret to reducing bounce on landing pages

How do you turn a generic landing page into a lasting first impression?

Honestly, it’s not that hard.

A while back I spent months analysing successful landing pages to find commonalities.

And there’s one area that lets 90% of landing pages down.

The “above the fold” section.

The above the fold section is super important (and often crap)

Thing is, it has a super important job.

It’s gotta hook attention and build enough interest to get people to scroll down.

Unfortunately, most fail. The average bounce rate without any scrolling sits at around 50%.

What causes this? Well, the 2 most common mistakes I see are…

• Writing way too much
• Being far too buzzwordy yet vague

Both are efforts to communicate the value of the offer.

Both fall flat.

The first cause it’s too much work to pick out the key point. The second because no one understand vague generalities.

Thankfully, there’s a simple system to writing an above the fold section that works.
After analysing hundreds of pages (which I marked up and shared on an old site), I spotted a common thread.

Great above the fold sections cover 4 main areas.