Paste your book's pre-order page or launch landing. We grade it against book-launch patterns — author authority, retailer links, pre-order incentive clarity — and return three fixes referencing your hero, your bio, your buy-now block.
Results in 60 seconds.
Book launch landing pages have a uniquely brutal job. They're not converting a buyer with a problem to solve — they're converting a reader who's deciding whether to add this book to a stack of 47 unread ones already on their nightstand. Generic CRO advice — "add a CTA, simplify the form" — misses the point. The visitor's question isn't "is this book good?" It's "will reading this book change me in a way I want to be changed?" If your hero is the cover image and a generic blurb, you're showing what the book is, not what reading it does. The page has to make a specific transformation feel reachable in the time it takes to read the book.
Landing Doctor reads your book launch page the way a curious-but-skeptical reader does. We check whether your H1 names a transformation (not a topic), whether your author bio establishes the right authority for this book (lived experience vs. credentials vs. results), whether your pre-order page links to all major retailers (Amazon, B&N, Bookshop, indie) without forcing a single platform, and whether your incentive block makes pre-ordering feel time-sensitive without feeling manipulative. The fixes reference your actual page elements — your H1, your bio, your buy buttons.
A book cover in the hero is decorative. A specific transformation promise is conversion copy. "Stop chasing productivity, start finishing" with the cover beside it converts better than the cover alone. We flag whether your hero does the work of selling the change, or just shows the book.
If your buy block is an Amazon button only, you lose readers who prefer indie bookstores, Barnes & Noble, or Bookshop.org. A retailer grid with all major options converts more pre-orders. We flag whether your buy block respects reader preference or forces a single platform.
Pre-order incentives — bonus chapters, a workbook, a live Q&A access — drive pre-orders, but only if visible above the fold and specific. "Pre-order now and get a free PDF" is generic. "Pre-order by [date] for the 30-page implementation workbook + Q&A access" is specific and time-bound. We grade your incentive's clarity and placement.
If you've written about productivity and your bio says "writer, speaker, podcaster", you've described every other writer-speaker-podcaster. Specific authority for this book ("spent 7 years researching this with 200 founders") moves readers. We flag whether your bio establishes book-specific credibility or sits in author-resume territory.
Free preview returns three priority fixes. The $49 audit unlocks the full 12-dimension breakdown — hero transformation specificity, retailer-link coverage, pre-order incentive clarity, author authority, social proof structure, mobile flow, urgency mechanics, segment match — plus a hero rewrite (current vs. proposed copy), three pre-order-CTA variants ranked by expected impact, and the top five fixes with copy-paste replacements. PDF included for handoff to your launch team. Built for non-fiction launches, fiction debut campaigns, and re-launch pages on custom WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, and dedicated launch platforms.
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Results in 60 seconds.
Yes — the audit detects book type from your page copy and grades against the right pattern. Non-fiction pages get scored on transformation promise, author authority, and incentive clarity. Fiction pages get scored differently — on tone-matching the genre (a thriller's hero copy reads differently than a literary debut's), comp-title positioning ("if you loved [author], you'll love this"), and review-quote selection. Both benefit from the same audit, with fixes scoped by genre.
The audit grades whichever you submit and recommends accordingly. Most successful launches use one page that updates over the campaign — pre-order phase, launch week, and ongoing — rather than separate URLs. The audit will flag whether your page handles its current phase well: pre-order pages need incentive visibility and date clarity, launch-week pages need social proof and bestseller signals, ongoing pages need reader testimonials and a clear path to additional content.
Yes — and self-published launches often get the highest leverage from the audit. Without celebrity blurbs, your page has to lean harder on author authority (your specific lived experience), reader-style testimonials (early readers, beta readers), and a sharp transformation promise. The audit will tell you which sections are weak because you don't have big-name blurbs, and recommend swaps — your origin story, beta-reader quotes, your point of view — that hold the page together.
If you're routing book-page visitors to a related course, community, or coaching offer, the audit grades the path — whether the book page links cleanly to the next step, whether the offer is positioned as complementary (not as the real product), and whether you've made the book itself the hero or accidentally made it a lead magnet. If the book is being used as a Trojan horse for a backend offer, the audit will flag that and grade the integrity of the funnel.