Straight answers - July 2026

What Is a Landing Page, and Does Your Business Need One?

A landing page is one page with one job.

The straight answer

A landing page is a standalone page with exactly one job: turn a specific visitor into a specific action. Your website is the storefront: it serves everyone, answers everything. A landing page is the salesperson working one offer: one audience (say, clicks from a Google ad for "emergency roof repair"), one message, one button. You need one when you run ads (sending ad clicks to your homepage is how budgets die), launch offers, or want to test a message. The anatomy that converts: headline matching the ad's promise, proof, the offer, one action, and nothing else, no nav, no distractions.

Landing page vs homepage, concretely

HomepageLanding page
AudienceEveryoneOne campaign's clicks
GoalOrient and routeOne conversion
NavigationFull menuMinimal to none
MessageThe whole businessThe one offer, mirrored from the ad

Rule of thumb: every distinct ad campaign deserves its own landing page. When we ran the numbers on our own campaigns, matching message to page beat sending traffic to a generic page every single time.

What it costs

PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$01 AI build + publish a one-pager on a free address (with badge)
Launch$29/mo3 pages, your own domain, 25 AI edits a month, no badge
Pro$99/mo25 pages, blog, Stripe store, booking, full Next.js code export

Full details on the pricing page.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does a landing page cost?

Agencies charge $500 to $3,000 per landing page. Landing page SaaS (Unbounce, Leadpages) runs $75 to $200/mo. Or: describe the offer to PISCES and the AI builds the page in about 90 seconds, included in normal plans, which changes the economics of testing more than one idea.

Do landing pages help SEO?

Their day job is converting paid and campaign traffic, not ranking. But well-built ones targeting specific searches can rank too; just never noindex a page that answers a real query.

What is PISCES?

PISCES is the AI website builder from Marketing By Magnet: paste your current site's URL (or answer a few questions) and the AI builds your entire site in about 90 seconds. Free to build and publish a one-pager; $29/mo for your own domain; $99/mo for blog, store, booking and full code export.