My first real attempt at a landing page

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Don't mess with my riddim
Aug 11, 2009
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Critique will be welcome, as this is my first real attempt to target people in a buying mode. I plan on running this with PPC (my first attempt at PPC as well). Feel free to tear the shit apart, because I'm a true newb when it comes to this stuff.

I took the copy from Guitar Center. I might change it up in the future.

http://www.musicdealfinder.com/overviews/guitar-overviews/gibson-les-paul-studio-electric-guitar-5/

~ Don
Ever hear the term 'above the fold'? You're wasting a fuckload of space on top.


Follow Amazon's model. They've split-tested their LPs like you wouldn't believe.
 
Horrible use of whitespace
Horrible navigation. It is just too confusing.

I'd definetly try and lay something out like Amazon or Ebay. A sidebar for navigation splitting guitars by brand, cost, etc.

Split-test again and again and again
 
- Move the search bar to one of the sides. Right now it's at the top, in a prominent position that you could be using to promote the guitar that you're promoting.

- Your call to action needs to be a lot clearer. Make it a button, split test different texts to see which results in the best CTR.

- The layout really confused me. Is the big guitar at the top the one you're trying to sell? If so, what is with the variations of it below? Your focus needs to be on the main guitar you want to sell. One or two related products is fine, but not the number you have there.

- Too much text. Add a star rating out of 5, bigger bullet points, anything to make it look less like an essay.

- On a similar note, instead of using default text, why not write a more personal review about the guitar? Give it a more personal touch, so people feel more reassured that it's a real musician recommending it and not just some random text a guy grabbed off another website.

- Put the price above the fold, preferably near your button. The merchant's page is a great example of how you should lay out your site, or, as has been suggested, Amazon or Ebay are also good. They're the big boys, who have probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to perfect their layout over the years. Use their research to your advantage when making a layout for an e-commerce shop.
 
Follow Amazon's model. They've split-tested their LPs like you wouldn't believe.

Hey Eric, I'll make sure to study their pages.

Funny thing about my layout is that before I changed it to how it looks now, I was getting about a 70 to 80% bounce rate. Now it's between 50 and 60% (from G traffic). How that all relates to affiliate marketing, I don't know. But I think that tells me that my site seems useful to some people and hopefully I will be setting myself up a good long-term website.

A sidebar for navigation splitting guitars by brand, cost, etc.
I was definitely thinking of that. Wonder if there's any WordPress plug-ins I use for expanding child categories once the parent is clicked. Some of that WP codex shit scares me.

what is with the variations of it below? Your focus needs to be on the main guitar you want to sell.
Seems like a good idea actually. I say that because technically all those guitars are the same model with only slight variations, such as color or what material the knobs are made up of etc. etc., and it might be better to actually narrow the guitars down by color, or at least shorten the list to like 2-3.

I'll try out some things and post the results. Thanks for the quick answers.