Landing pages are considered to be web pages that are not exactly part of the main website. This means that this webpage will have it’s own URL or domain and its own share of hosting. Landing pages are designed not to be crawled by the different search engines which means therefore that the Robot.txt of this web page must be edited and set to no-follow, this way your landing page will be kept away from the “eyes” of the search engine spiders. If Landing pages are not to be crawled how is traffic going to the landing page? The traffic going into the landing page will emanate from the PPC advertisement used or published by the website owner. This means therefore that a landing page is usually applicable or effective with those website that have existing pay-per-click campaign. It is a known fact that pay-per-click would allow your website to be displayed as an advertisement to different websites that actually publish such advertisements.
It is therefore important to note that the landing page only have limited SEO strategy applied to it because of the main reason that the landing page does not target the search engine crawlers but rather it targets the actual website visitors. Thus, it is important to note that the landing page must contain characteristics that would entice the user or the site visitor to click through the landing page and convert from a visitor to an actual client who will avail of the website’s products and services offerings. Several strategies that have to be applied in that specific landing pages must be created individually in consonance to each of the advertisements created, an advertisement must have a one to one ratio with a landing page, the purpose of which is to allow the website owner to customise the landing page according to the target audience of the landing page. Next is that your landing page may be only a single page but it does not mean that you are allowed to overcrowed and cram everything into that single page. Finally to have a sound and functioning landing page continuously test its effectiveness.
