Here’s What I’m Loving Now About Leadpages Sites

They are included free with every Leadpages plan.  

Not only is Leadpages a leader in conversion-focused landing page builders, but each account also comes with 1-5 included websites.  If you run multiple sites, businesses, or signature programs, like I do, these extra sites come in handy.

They are low-tech, drag & drop.

Whatever high-tech magic happens, it happens behind the scenes.  They handle all of that - unlike WordPress, where I needed a PhD just to login…not really, but really.

Setting it up was FAST!

When I finally decided to use Leadpages sites, I had a website up & running in one hour.  You can pick a design, add your branding details, add your email carrier if you have one, get or transfer your domain, and launch in no time flat.  It took me an hour.  Let’s assume someone has to play around with things a bit, maybe 2-3 hours?

They have great templates.

There are a few dozen website and landing page templates to choose from.  I picked one I liked enough and modified a few things with the drag & drop editor.  I added my colors, which are shared with my landing pages.  My fonts also were shared between the landing page builder and my website.  They also have section templates to interchange sections of both landing pages and websites.  I pulled over some images to my website that were shared with my landing pages, and my website was published and live in under an hour.

I can link easily between my website pages and landing pages.

This is one advantage of using Leadpages and Leadpages Sites together, everything is connected.  No Zaps, no searching for links to embed in other platforms, no plugins, etc.. 

Even when I used WordPress, I still used Leadpages as my landing page builder because I think it is the best.  I could design easily on Leadpages and embed those pages into my WordPress.  To do that, I had to use a plugin, which was easy, yes, but still had to be managed.  When I Switched to LP Sites, everything was right there and on a shared dashboard.

My customers also can move seamlessly between my websites and various landing pages or opt-in boxes.

Their analytics are just enough.

Leadpages has focused on improving analytics and the user dashboard tremendously.  It collects and displays a lot of very helpful information.  Yet, it is not overwhelming, complicated, or busy.  Previous websites I’ve used had such complicated analytics dashboards that it became unhelpful.  

Leadpages also gives me a list of my leads’ emails right on the dashboard.  This is great if you don’t yet have an email list.  When you do get your list, you can export those leads over to your email service provider (ESP).

I don’t have to buy separate web hosting.

I have paid thousands of dollars to my hosting company for years, and it just keeps getting more and more expensive.  Leadpages Sites are hosted for free on Leadpages.  LP is also known for its super-fast loading speed and agility; so, it competes with the big hosting brands..  I don’t have to worry about conflicting plugins slowing down my site, trouble-shooting the admin dashboard, and other things that kept me from enjoying other platforms.

I don’t have to BE or HIRE an IT person.

Some people love that stuff.  I don’t.  I don’t want to have to be an IT person or learn to code, just to sell my stuff.  Like, I said, whatever high-tech magic happens, it happens behind the scenes.  Whatever problems there may be with the platform are between Leadpages and Jesus - and they keep me out of it.  Hallelujah.

Their customer service is top-notch.

The few times I’ve had to contact support, it was only to ask about upgrading or downgrading my plan, adding sub-accounts, and that sort of stuff.  They helped me design my agency strategy.  I honestly haven’t had any tech or functionality problems with the platform.  But, they have been extremely responsive with what I have needed.

They have weekly live coaching & design calls. 

Several times per month, they offer live coaching with their resident professional copywriters and design experts.  I have joined a couple of sessions right before launches, and they walk through my pages and give great feedback.  They also tell me why they are suggesting something, based on their understanding of thousands and thousands of pages.

They offer instant, on-page writing & design assistance.

Leadpages has introduced AI headline assistance and their LeadMeter.  With the AI assistant, you can get different, AI-generated headlines to improve your copy. 

With the LeadMeter, you can see how strong (likely to convert) your entire landing page or opt-in boxes are.  If they aren’t maximized, the LeadMeter tells you what you might want to change.  Then I can choose to accept the suggestions or not. 

Again, this is based on sound copywriting principles and LP’s experience across thousands of high- and low-converting sales pages.

I can host & deliver my lead magnets automatically.

I have several lead magnets and I let Leadpages host and deliver some of them for me.  However, most of mine are still delivered via my email funnels. 

This capability is important because, when I’m designing an opt-in box, LP asks me which lead magnet I want the customer to receive if they opt in.  There’s no funnel, no Zaps, no thinking about it again.  Then LP drops the person into my email list provider account.

They offer blogging capability.

The one thing WordPress is known for is blogging capabilities.  Leadpages doesn’t offer this…directly.  While you can have thousands of blog posts on WordPress, for example, you are limited with Leadpages.  Leadpages is best if you have 10-20 signature blog posts or articles.  On Leadpages SItes, you can have up to 100 pages.  So, theoretically, they could all be blog posts. 

There are 3rd party ways to increase blog capabilities right on Leadpages, to embed your Medium blog, or to link out to a blog hosted elsewhere, including WordPress.

I choose to use the signature/pillar content strategy.  However, if I ever need more than, say, 90 blog posts, I will use a third party or embedded solution.

They come with several conversion-optimization features.

Included with various plans are text capabilities.  Like, if I’m speaking from stage, I can tell my audience to text me at a certain number and Leadpages will start them into my funnels.  They have alert bars.  Those are the colorful bars you see at the top of many websites that tell viewers of something special happening now, like a flash sale or open enrollment, for example.

Leadpages integrates easily with other platforms I use.

It takes minutes to set up integrations with other platforms, like my email, and course portal.

I can host a basic course on Leadpages.

Now, LP is not a gated course portal in any way - yet.  But, if I take a hidden landing page or website page, I can host videos, text, images, audios, documents, and any other course content.  Then, after people buy, just email them the link to the hidden page.  I do this.  I also took a course like this once and was amazed at how seamless the experience was and how comprehensive the course was. 

While I don’t recommend this for a signature course, it could easily work for a free or low- to mid-tier course.  The course I bought was $197 and was hosted on three connected, hidden Leadpages pages.