{"id":4929,"date":"2007-07-09T17:21:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/blog\/5-tips-on-adding-video-to-landing-pages\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T00:21:41","slug":"5-tips-on-adding-video-to-landing-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/blog\/5-tips-on-adding-video-to-landing-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips on Adding Video to Landing Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\/images\/headshots\/adam-green-thumb.jpg\" title=\"Adam Green\" alt=\"Adam Green\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"72\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"78\" \/>Landing pages are an important part of any pay-per-click campaign, the trick is to maximize the potential of those landing pages to &#8220;sell&#8221; the user on your product or service.  Depending on the focus of your business and campaign, the focus of your landing page will take on a different tone.  If you operate in the business to business world, your landing page is <em>probably<\/em> but not always used to generate interest in your product or leads for your sales team.<\/p>\n<p>It is a generally accepted practice that landing pages should be kept simple and provide enough content\/information to help the user convert (take whatever form of action you hope them to take).  One such tool is the idea of adding a video clip to your landing page which illustrates what your product\/service is about better than some text and images ever could.  Here are a few points to keep in mind when adding videos:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Don&#8217;t be intrusive<\/strong> &#8211; Try to stick to &#8220;click to play&#8221; videos rather than auto play.  Users may have their speakers turned up to loud or are at work and shouldn&#8217;t be watching videos.  Utilizing click to play gives the user the option to engage your video on their own time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Keep the size appropriate<\/strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t make the video the focus of your page, you don&#8217;t want the user to only interact with the video and not fill out the form &#8211; your ultimate end goal<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Make it fast<\/strong> &#8211; Consider load times and creating a positive user experience. It makes a lot of sense to host your video on places like Google Video or YouTube, the play back quality is very good and you don&#8217;t have to worry about hosting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Keep it Short<\/strong> &#8211; Keep your video to under 20-30 seconds.  Users don&#8217;t want to sit on your page for hours watching a long, boring corporate video that extols the virtues of your product.  Your video should focus on what value your product ads, a clear explanation of your product\/service and reinforce the focus of filling out the form on your page (or whatever conversion action you hope they take).<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n5. Always&#8230; Test and Measure<\/strong> &#8211; A wise man once told me, when in doubt &#8211; &#8220;test and measure.&#8221;  If the video is working well, it may not mean it is working at its optimal rate.  Perhaps a shorter video improves conversion, or a video with no sound&#8230; test, measure, rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Landing pages are an important part of any pay-per-click campaign, the trick is to maximize the potential of those landing pages to &#8220;sell&#8221; the user on your product or service.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}