Shopify landing page design: 22 amazing examples + proven ideas

Landing pages are standalone webpages that contribute to a Shopify store's sales. Shoppers usually land on these landing pages through emails, ads or other digital campaigns.

The average conversion rate for an eCommerce landing page is just under 10%. There are a bunch of reasons for this low number and it has to do with how well a brand engages its visitors, entices its prospects and retains its customers. 

In this article, we’ve listed 22 creative landing page designs to encourage more sales on your eCommerce store.

1) Prioritise landing page speed over fancy design

The ideal page load time is nothing more than 3 seconds. But many eCommerce businesses act under the problematic view that visitors are looking for something really fancy.  Most eCommerce brands know how to create a landing page on Shopify, however they build content heavy sales landing pages and overload their websites.

How to design landing pages on Shopify:

• Do a waterfall analysis to gain more clarity on how the elements of your Shopify landing page are doing. The amazing thing about conducting a waterfall test is that in one go you’ll get a better understanding of the performance of CSS, HTML, JavaScript, plugins, images as well as third party content. 
  

• Use clean code. This will ensure messy bits like extra line breaks and improper indentations don’t eat away at your page speed. 
  

• Take time to compress and resize images. Ensuring that they are the right size and the right file format solves much of the loading speed problem. While PNG as a format works better for graphics, JPEGs are ideal for any form of photography-based images. 

2) Write better copy to relate with shoppers (even bots crack a joke, just ask Siri)

Going on and on about your product, in a salesy tone, will not necessarily make your visitors sit up and take notice. 

When you convey too much information in a bland, dehumanized voice, visitors might completely miss out on the most critical information. This has a direct impact on readability and how well visitors can process next steps they need to take, to convert. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Drill it down to the core message. To keep the copy on your Shopify landing page interesting, carry the traces of the BIG THING you are trying to say. 
  Create a narrative around your product or service but ensure the visitor knows exactly what you are saying and what they’ll be getting out of it. Check out how Lyft does an impeccable job at calling out to people who may want to supplement their income through driving. The writing clearly creates an outline of the narrative and bonds with prospects. 

• List down the benefits. Remember there’s a fine balance between being pushy and being persuasive. By clarifying the benefits, you can tell visitors why they can count on your brand. In the example below, Tuft & Needle approaches this in a way that’s easy on the eye and wedged in between other vital long-form informative nuggets. 
  

• Use language that appeals to the senses. Words and phrases that create a resonant emotional experience, can instantly connect your brand with visitors. Here’s a list of ten words/phrases that can truly transform your landing page:‍

I. 'Easy' - Life is hard anyway. When you use this word, you subtly convey that engaging with your offering won’t make your visitor’s life harder. 

II. 'Opportunity' - A word that continues to charm because it creates anticipation about the future. 

III. 'Your way' - Everyone thrives on agency and choices. The moment this phrase is used, it tells the visitor there is alignment. 

IV. 'Guaranteed' - Trust is at the root of all purchase decisions. And this is a word that talks of the responsibility your business is ready to take, to ensure a smooth experience. 

V. 'Results' - No matter how non-essential a purchase might seem, it is still helping visitors change something about themselves or their lives. This is why this word, when used well, is a grab!

VI. 'Enjoy' - Not a tough guess to figure out why this word does not get tiring. Everyone is looking for a payoff, no matter how big or small the purchase decision is. 

VII. 'Discover' - People love to get to know about all that they are still unaware of. To get the curiosity of visitors ticking, this is a great word to use. 

VIII. 'Improved' - Whether we readily admit to it or not, we are interested in anything that promises a better state. An improvement in your offering would subtly indicate an improvement it would create in the lives of visitors. 

IX. 'Now' - Talking of payoffs, the human tendency is to want some gratification right away. This is the word that best describes the ready payoff. 

X. 'Consistent' - No matter what your visitors are looking for in your offering, you can rest assured they are looking for consistency of experience.

3) Consider visual hierarchy—to organize landing page elements

Most Shopify brands offer confusing information hierarchy on landing pages that can turn off even the most patient visitor, simply because it fails to address their concerns in a logical flow. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Address a pain point in the headline. How you put this across through communication can decide how fast your visitors connect with your offering(s). 

• Talk about the benefits next. Remember your business and your offering are there for the sole purpose of improving someone’s life. If that does not stand out, visitors will not be interested to engage further. 

• Don’t waste time around the CTA. Find a way to introduce it right at the beginning, either in the headline or the one following it. In fact, let it come as a solution to the pain point you’re trying to solve and increase landing page conversion rate. 

• Offer social proof to build confidence. Based on your business context, you can offer such proof through recommendation snippets, star ratings or even a list of clients and partners that have trusted you in the past. In the examples below, Paintable does their social proof in two ways - client testimonial as well as a user expectation that the brand can meet.

4) Help shoppers overcome choice paralysis (making a decision is hard)

A one-size-fits-all approach can be confusing for visitors and they could potentially end up missing the point you’re trying to make (be it an offer or the launch of a new product line). 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Highlight why the customer is where they need to be. This is one way of ensuring you’re putting all your Shopify landing pages to work effectively. Consider the following example of a landing page of The Lip Bar. If someone is looking for a makeup kit without the hassle of going through separate products and making individual choices, this is ideal. The information on the page appears in stages and there’s something stunning for almost every complexion. 

• Create a landing page for almost every possible high ranking source. Because you want to catch your prospective customers wherever they may be spending their maximum time. In the digital context, people are constantly switching between PCs and mobile devices. When you tailor your landing pages, it ensures you are able to reach out to your target audience irrespective of where they are hanging out. 

5) Create FOMO (URGENT! EXCLUSIVE! SALE ENDING!) 

We live in an attention economy where offering multiple choices can kill the ability to make a decision. This leads to a user abandoning your site to never return. You don’t want to do that.

Efficient marketers usually bank all their efforts on creating an impactful landing page so that they can bid adieu to all the sliding banners and nudging pop-ups. However effective those pop-ups might be, they sometimes ruin the entire experience.

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

Make your landing page’s copy and visual so effective that they grab your visitor’s attention. Some of the ways to minimize distraction are by replacing pop-ups with a sticky banner, articulating your messaging in such a manner that it converts a visitor, and by mapping your visitor’s behavior.

6) Experiment with CTAs (and not just the button color) 

Many Shopify landing page designs have random CTA placement. Either there are too many, or they are not highlighted well enough to grab the visitor’s immediate attention. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Choose strategic locations to display your CTA. “Above the fold” is a phrase often used to describe the position that a visitor sees right after they land on the page. This placement ensures visitors exactly know how to act even before they scroll down all the way to the end. The Biome landing page is a good example of this. 

• Use different color blocks to ensure that the CTAs stand out. Highlighting your CTA by choosing a color that stands apart from the landing page’s background color, ensures people don’t miss it. Among the many color reference charts out there, this is one you can work with: 

• Get rid of too many CTAs. A study by Mark Lepper of Stanford University and Sheena Iyengar from Columbia University, almost two decades back, showed that the paradox of choice is indeed true. So the lesser number of choices you offer visitors, the more they are likely to feel largely satisfied with their browsing experience. A secondary CTA, on the other hand, offers an additional opportunity for visitors to convert without confusing them. So you can decide to have one, especially if you’re pushing offers and a specific product on the same landing page.

7) Emphasize benefits in headlines (skip the tech jargon)

Your Shopify landing page might have some amazing product(s), but having it talk about just the features and specifications, is a no-gamer. 
Put simply, they are looking for benefits. But that’s missing on most Shopify landing pages we’ve come across, causing visitors to jump off and never return. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• A straight, simple and direct approach. Cut to the chase, as they say. Because nothing beats simplicity, as you can see in the following landing page example. 

• Highlight the core selling point upfront, instead of it lingering within a block of text, where the visitor can easily miss it. 
  

• Ask a question that a visitor would. This is a powerful method because what this does is it subtly acknowledges the visitor’s doubts, while subsequently answering them.

8) Design for humans, not algorithms (your customers will last longer)

Marketers who have been working with paid search know how important it is to optimize sales landing pages based on search engine algorithms. However, many optimize ONLY FOR algorithms, forgetting the most important target in the process - customers. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Focus on user intent. The optimization scenario has undergone deep change after Google announced the BERT update in 2019. The update firmed the need for conversational language and context-setting. Consider the example of HelloFresh. The chief highlight here is the way they have focused on user intent - the web version offers an attractive discount while the mobile version speaks in a dynamic style (where “we save you serious stress” changes to “we save you serious time” and so on). 
  

• Tackle user queries with some personality. Instead of paying too much attention on what keywords and phrases to use, see how best you can tweak your content to answer the needs and curiosities of your visitors. And it doesn’t hurt to add some personality or humor to your copies - keeps things engaging.

9) Support full-scale mobile navigation (don’t just depend on a responsive site)

Shopify reports shows source of visitors by landing page. One of the biggest mistakes that Shopify brands make is to think desktop first when building their site. They don’t analyze how visitors behave across devices, leading to poor experience and low conversion rates. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Reconsider using plugins mainly meant for the web. Many of them like flash, frames as well as certain image formats don’t work for mobile. Consider using mobile-friendly technology such as jQuery, HTML5 and GIF or JPG image formats. 
  

• Optimize mobile page load time. According to a 2019 Portent report, the first five seconds of page load time have maximum impact on conversion rates. You don’t want to miss the bus because most eCommerce landing pages now aim to load as fast as possible. 
  

• Run site performance tests across devices. They can reveal fixes that you need to conduct based on page speed scores and waterfall tests.

10) Use original and creative images (there’s a reason for those stock image memes)

Many Shopify brands overuse stock images, leading to visitors and prospects feeling disconnected. It’s not that stock footage is a terrible thing, but you must take care in assessing exactly what kind of stock images and videos will suit your brand. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Remember the human factor. Images and videos that bring to life the human experience is a good idea. Consider the example of Medalia Art doing a small experiment featuring some paintings they wanted to sell. As a control, they displayed the paintings, whereas in a secondary version they featured the artists behind the paintings. For the first the conversion was 8.8%, but with the second featuring human faces, the number had climbed to 17.2%. 

• Avoid shoddy cut & paste additions. Even if you don’t have the budget to hire a designer who can give you stunning visual characters or photographer for a high profile shoot. Combining elements that are originally not together and making it seem like a bad Photoshop effort, is worse. 
  

• Say no to low resolution footage. Granted such images and videos can seem budget-friendly, but they won’t do much to enhance what you have to offer as a product.  

11) Highlight social proof to drive conversions (bragging rights!) 

In eCommerce, social proof supports the visitor’s intent of making a purchase. 

However, many businesses miss out on putting this crucial factor to good use. This leads to prospects feeling vague about whether they should believe your statements. Your brand’s integrity also may also go unnoticed because of the absence of proper social proof. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Feature relevant social proof. There are so many ways of highlighting social proof on your site that knowing what will work for your business is essential. Based on what you are trying to sell, you can choose from customer reviews, client logos, case studies, client quotes, embedded videos etc. In some cases, even a combination of the choicest methods might work well.
  
  Lush does social proof exceedingly well on their landing page. 

• Avoid negative social proof. Unlike positive social proof, negative social proof works in a roundabout way. The language is typically dismissive and doubt-creating, which can put prospects off. Imagine telling someone, “x number of people have regretted doing this. You don’t want to be one of them.

12) Rethink the “length” of the landing page (more than 3 scrolls, it’s out)   

Many Shopify stores have endless scrolling with heaps of information that needs processing, driving visitors crazy. Even if your Shopify landing page features a great narrative, beyond a point, it can disrupt visitor experience. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Run a heatmap analysis to find out where your visitors are most active and accordingly set the length of your landing page.
  

• A/B test your landing page. A study comparing different versions of your Shopify landing page can reveal what your customers want in real-time. This enables you to test a specific element and accordingly judge what improvement it requires.

13) Implement non-intrusive forms (please don’t ask about their hobbies)  

Shopify stores often introduce lengthy forms, without analyzing the context. Visitors and prospects find this intrusive or effort-intensive and can exit your landing page in no time. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Limit the number of required fields. Consider it a need-to-know basis. Even if you have, say, 15 fields that need filling up, is it necessary that a prospect gives all the information right away? See if there is a way to balance out what you label as required* with what you label as optional*. After 7 fields, conversion rates seem to drop off by at least 4% with every field. Notice how well the following form has been designed. Along with a limited number of fields, it features radio buttons so that people don’t get tired or bored of typing. 

• Clarify the precise reason for the form being there. You can treat this as a step to make visitors and prospects aware of what they will get out of filling the form. Is it a newsletter? Is it a special offer that’s available only for a week? Calling the benefit out is a great idea. 
  

• A/B test your form layouts. It is difficult to arrive at the right guess about how your landing page forms will perform without visitors making real inputs. An A/B test can reveal what your visitors’ preferences are more effectively. 

14) Put your customers first (put your charming hat on) 

Many Shopify brands think that if they highlight what is so great about them, shoppers will naturally convert into buyers. So they make their Shopify landing pages about product features, why their establishment exists and why shoppers should trust in them. When customer-centricity is missing from the landing page, it’s likely shoppers will not feel it is meeting their needs. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Understand your buyer persona (and their challenges). Considering how vast the eCommerce landscape is, this is essential. Think of buyer personas as a map that will enable you to speak directly to your target audience. And when you do establish a dialogue, you’ll be able to address their needs, preferences and challenges. 
  

• Bring out the benefits loudly and clearly. Because that’s what will inspire visitors to explore your website and product(s) further. This is a surefire way of convincing visitors why they ought to stick around. 

• State why you are passionate about the solution. eCommerce prospects are constantly checking in to see why they should believe in you. They are also (even if unconsciously) testing why you are offering the specific thing that you are offering. A passionate vouching from your end will only give them more confidence. 
  

15) Design unique landing pages for different audiences (appreciate your customer’s uniqueness)

eCommerce stores often vaguely understand the concepts of buyer personas and segmenting the audience. 

A single brand can have 10 different personas and that’s normal. Let’s say your brand has a teacher, a CFO, a teenager, and a home-maker as its audience, broadly. Now, do you think writing the same copy and creating one generic landing page for all these personas will convert them? Nope, it won’t.

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• To solve this, you can use A/B testing to understand what is performing well for your audience. Simply put, A/B testing allows you to quantify your page’s performance by comparing two versions of the same page. Another way to ease this challenge is by understanding the power of customer segmentation. Invest some time and create different segments for each set of your audience and basis that, craft the communication for them. 
• You can create multiple variations and play around with the visuals, copy, and tonality and see what works best. According to a report by eConsultancy, A/B testing is the most common method for optimizing landing pages and improving conversions. 
• Bifurcate your leads based on the source of their origin can also help you with better segmentation. If you know how they landed on your website and build a cohort of look-a-like audience, it’ll help you run retargeting campaigns while also helping you personalize messaging for them.

16) Make the landing page reflect ad copy (consistency, consistency, consistency)

This is something that too many landing pages suffer from. Mismatched messaging confuses visitors and prospects, while increasing the chances of them dropping off. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Check the visual and tone of language. If one or the other or both don’t match, you have a problem. In the following example, the visual and the voice are both off, leading to confusion and maybe even an amount of distrust.
  The following example shows how well an eCommerce brand can do this. The PPC ad headline and the landing page headline speak the same language, leading to a cohesive experience. 

• Create a separate landing page for each ad variation. Depending on what offer or incentive your ad is communicating, create a separate landing page to address it. This will avoid duplication and confusion. 
  

17) Write fact-backed statements (be less ambiguous) 

Granted that every eCommerce wants to make it big in their audience’s eyes. However, how many of them do it is flawed from the start. 

Generic information without any fact-finding or proof is a real issue. If you want your target audience to consider you seriously, it’s best you take a different approach. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Back your claims with researched data. No matter how wonderful your product is, visitors and prospects are interested in why they should believe in your claims. Well researched-data, especially with relevant links, can convince them faster and for good. 

• Use actual customer data to support your claims. If you have A/B tested your landing page variations and arrived at certain insights, feature them openly. You don’t know who is reading and who may get convinced, because real customer data is a kind of social proof. 

18) Limit the number of navigation elements (don’t make it a test of patience)

The point where businesses lose clarity about what sets a product page apart from a landing page, is where this mistake happens. Featuring too many products takes away from your Shopify landing page’s main intent - to narrow down the offering and create a clear call-to-action. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Stick to one product category. There’s a reason you have targeted a specific audience to come on to this page. Don’t cram it. Have a look at what Stylebygg has done with this PPC landing page. While there is no one hero product, the page clearly focuses on summer wear. 
• Remove all unnecessary links. Remember that a specific Shopify landing page is for either one product or a series of products and nothing beyond. Even the CTA needs to revolve around this. This quick example will show you how a single, highlighted CTA along with a subtle top navigation menu can work rather well. If it’s a campaign specific landing page, notice which links you really need to feature in the footer. Take out what has no relevance to keep the experience on the page neat and easy. 

19) Offer instant communication (customer service is the highest form of personalization)

Shopify stores aren’t getting in with the times. Offering 24/7 assistance is necessary but many fail to do so. 

You can always offer personal support. The live chat feature replaces that support and it is essential for visitors and prospects to feel they can take their doubts to somebody, without making the process complex. 

This is a big opportunity missed by many eCommerce sites out there. 

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

• Feature live chat on your Shopify landing page. It can just be embedded within a subtle symbol on the bottom right of the page, which when someone clicks, expands. Here’s an effective example:

Use tools like Drift to enable this for your store without the hassle of coding. 

20) Say goodbye to footers (get rid of distractions) 

One of the most neglected portions of a landing page is the footer. This means many eCommerce businesses tend to push down excess links from the top to the bottom.

This is a big problem because it invariably plays around with search rankings. They can also be distracting for the end user.

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

Remove links that are not needed. If it’s a campaign specific landing page, notice which links you really need to feature in the footer. Take out what has no relevance to keep the experience on the page neat and easy.

21) Strategize and space out your sales and discount campaign (everyone needs some space)   

Freebies, discounts, and free trials are amazing but bombarding a user with these every time they visit you might backfire. There have been instances where an established product has seen huge cart abandonment just because they opened all the doors to lucrative offers.

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

Give your visitors some breathing space and let them navigate through your site comfortably without looking for the close button for all your pop-ups. It’s not just to expect a higher level of commitment the moment they visit you.

Instead, invest your efforts in micro conversions. What this essentially means is to publish gated content pieces like product guides, videos, user case studies, etc. Try to get the basic details from there and add them to your funnel. Gradually, keep nurturing them and you will see them getting interested in your brand.

22) Continue the conversion after the Thank You page  

It’s common for many eCommerce businesses to think that since the “thank you” page comes right at the end of the sales funnel, it doesn’t hold much value. This is a mistake because this sort of thinking misses out on the opportunity of convincing and converting a visitor.

How to design creative landing pages on Shopify:

Introduce “thank you” even at unlikely steps. While intuitively it may make sense to acknowledge only when a visitor has made a purchase, there are more opportunities to say the two magic words. Here’s a quick example.

Give them a reason to talk about their purchase. There are times when people are so thrilled by what they have bought, along with a “thank you”, you can enable sharing across platforms. Here’s an example.

Send out a “thank you” post-purchase email. In addition to a page that’s devoted to acknowledgment, an email works wonders. In such a piece of communication, you can put extra information without sounding like it’s jargon. Here’s an example we found to be doing just that. It has a personalized touch without sounding unprofessional.

Here’s an example.

Summing up: Improve Shopify landing page design today!

It is clear that you’ll need to strike a nuanced balance between several elements for your Shopify landing page to keep converting at better rates. If you have several Shopify landing pages, a full site audit could well be what you need to make the first right move. 

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