Squeeze Page Or Opt In Form For A Blog?

Hey South Bay

How are you doing?

Both depending on traffic. For your blog readers the optin form defintely. The more clicks you expect the fewer results you get.

For traffic that bring to your site to grab the offer, use a squeeze page. Reason: you do not want ANY distractions from your objective of getting the opt-in.

Catch you later
Sami

Agree with Sami - couldn't have put it any simpler...

Hi Sami,

Doing well.

Have gone through and picked out 5 PLR articles and am in the process of putting together a free report. Won't be long before I'm up and going.

Thanks for your very helpful info.

BTW, signed up for your next webinar in October.

Take care,

Christian

Agreed with Sami. For the squeeze page, I will create a static HTML page (not a blog page but standalone page created by HTML editor) for maximum conversion and it's more flexible to change for testing purposes.

I prefer an opt in form personally, it has converted better than a standalone squeeze page has. Sometimes subtlety can be helpful but always test because nothing is a one-size-fits-all kind of deal.

I always have the opt-in box with a headline and description, on the top part of my landing page.

I did a lot of split-testing of this, over a 6-month period (in 4 entirely unrelated niches), and as a result of all that, I don't use squeeze pages any more. That's not necessarily to say that you shouldn't, though - it was just what worked better for me, in my business, with my traffic demographics.

It's an interesting subject - if that sort of subject interests you! My suspicion is that people who haven't reliably tested it for themselves generally prefer squeeze pages, and some of them even seem eager to announce to all the world that "squeeze pages are always better", though I know just from my own testing that that isn't true.

Tip: "interpret cautiously" if people just tell you flatly that a squeeze page is the best way to go - there will be some (there always are) but they're usually people who haven't done extended split-testing. :p

Sami puts it exactly right... having the blog optin is always good as the moment the reader is impressed with your content he is going to part with his / her treasured email.. and squeeze page well u drive traffic from outside ... Good luck with both the efforts.

I agree with grumpyjack do both!

Send targeted traffic to the squeeze and then have the blog optin for the people who read your articles.

What I've seen recently - but not yet implemented - is having an opt-in form which unlocks some content at the end of an article.

Here's how that works. You write an article like 5 tips to do blah then at the end you say something like get my complete report on blah free just enter your email. They enter there email and the content(report link) is unlocked.

Check out Andy Jenkins blog I know he's using that strategy.

Cheers
TC

Squeeze page is definitely the best way to go if you are
talking about building a list. It's effective & targetted.
Good luck with your list building!

Wow. There's a huge crit wall of text here.

I prefer the opt-in form because it looks simpler to me. But you can test both and see which performs better.

Do both. You'll catch more fish with 2 nets instead of just one.

Yupe agree with matt78.. i m doing the squeeze page already, but am venturing into blog now..
good luck!

I do both. In the blog sidebar, I put an optin form. When visitors leave the web page, there is an exit splash directing them to the squeeze page.

But found out the visitors are annoyed, so I just turn on the exit splash (I'm using a WP plugin) once or twice a week, in certain days when traffic is usually at peak (i.e. Wednesday), and turned it off the rest of day.
Next time, I found out that the popup optin did the job equally effective

I have an opt in form in my sidebar and also a couple of banners on my blog that click through to a squeeze page

A squeeze page on your blog. You should also have a hover ad that entices your visitors to sign up also. You can use Aweber for this.

If you want to increase your email list. I would recommend you 3 things:

1 - Squeeze Page (but only appear for the first time visit of the visitor)
2 - Optin-box
3 - Pop-up (only appear for the first time)

For me, Pop-Up is the most effective of all 3 ways to increase email-list but only if the pop-up look good. If the pop-up looks terrible, it sometimes could decrease your reader instead. I would really recommend Pop Up Domination.

Squeeze Page is good too and to me, it's better than Optin box because it will only appear unlike the optin box which will appear all the time and sometimes could look annoying. I would really recommend Optimize Press for this.

Whatever you do test it thoroughly. You can also get some plug ins that will give you other options with squeeze pages i e directs a blog commenter to a related squeeze page or things like the covert action bar which helps increase opt ins.

A lot of people have given a ton of information on here I hope this little bit adds to that.

Do both. I create a squeeze page in OptimizePress - the WordPress theme - to capture names and emails from visitors I have targeted I also use it to create sales pages - I find it excellent for webpage creation I also have an opt-in on my Wordpress blog.

Pentwyn

You can have a squeeze page separately on a static one page html site, then you can have an optin on your blog like i do on mine peterosigbe dot com.

Having built a list of 100,000 and then monetized that list to the tune of $6M+ over the past 10 years I would advise this:

- Have 1 clear call to action on your page
- Offer massive value that solves the main PAIN of your niche
- Give the free item instantly and then intersperse emails with freebies and promotions
- Use videos, audios, reports, blog posts and images to appeal to all learning styles

Good luck! :-)

Both. put the opt in box in the sidebar along with whatever you typically have in there, and have a squeeze page that you link to in your posts. You might even try putting the squeeze page in the navigation bar too.

I always use a squeeze page and an optin form in the side bar of my blog. Been looking at adding an exit popup to my blog, there is evidences from other comments here that this is beneficial.

Depends on what youre looking for:

1. If you want a higher conversion of visitor to subscribers, then a stand-alone squeeze page a simple opt-in form with a strong Headline & call to action is all you need. Make sure all these elements fit within the browser frame (so your visitor doesn't need to scroll down). Have nothing else, so that your visitor isn't distracted away from opting in...

2. Having a optin form on a blog will definately reduce your subscriber rate, but it offers a better experience for your visitor. Furthermore, unlike option 1, Google will actually love you if your blog is dynamic, regularly updated & offers high quality exeperience.. Therefore, a blog with an opt-in form may end up high up in the search engine rankings thus gaining more exposure.....unlike option 1 where you may have to rely on PPC advertising or solo ads to get traffic. Don't expect Google to rank you high for a stand-alone squeeze page - or rank you at all!

JR

If you're running a blog then IMO you need to be running this theme which is ideal for capturing leads: Generate Theme

I think it heavily depends on your niche and the incentive you offer for people joining your list. For me I still use both, but squeeze page was the more effective.

I'd say a squeeze page is better, basically because they are designed to be email address extracting machines.

I have both on my blog and if I'm promoting a report I'll also have an opt-in at the bottom of my posts and about page. One golden tip with your opt-in make it real simple for folks to signup, don't give them too many options and boxes to tick etc