25 august 2025
Landing vs Pre-Landing: What's the Difference and Why One Can "Sell" and the Other Can Burn Your Budget
You launched an ad, the offer is top-notch, the creatives are catchy — but there’s silence at the exit. Zero conversions, the budget is going down the drain. Sounds familiar? And you’re already starting to suspect everyone: the affiliate, the advertiser, the algorithms, even Mercury in retrograde. But often the problem is more banal — you’ve led traffic to the wrong place. Because there are two different “gates” for the user: landing and pre-landing. One immediately pulls you to purchase or register, the other pauses and explains why it’s worth clicking further. And if you mix up the roles of these pages, you can burn the connection before it even has time to earn its first dollar. In this article, we’ll analyze: what are landing and pre-landing, how do they differ, in which cases do they work, and when do...