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Forms, popups, and landing pages — what’s the difference
Three surfaces for lead capture. When to use each.
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Forms, popups, and landing pages — what's the difference
Blankitt Marketing gives you three different surfaces for capturing leads. They look similar in the builder — same blocks, same submit flow, same contact creation — but they're meant for different jobs.
Inline form
A form you embed on a page you already own — your website, a docs page, an existing blog post. The form sits inline as part of the page content.
Best for: high-intent surfaces like Contact us, Get a demo, Subscribe. You expect the visitor to be reading the page already.
How: build the form, copy the embed snippet, paste it into your CMS. Or use the form's hosted URL as a fallback if you don't have a place to embed.
Popup
A form that appears in a layer over your page. Two triggers:
- Exit-intent — fires when the mouse leaves the top edge of the page. Catches visitors who are about to leave.
- Timed — fires after N seconds on the page. Catches engaged readers.
Best for: lower-intent surfaces where you'd otherwise lose the visitor. Use sparingly — popups annoy people. A "first visit only, exit intent, delay 20s" is roughly the right aggressiveness.
How: build the form, attach a popup surface, paste the popup snippet into your site. The snippet handles the trigger and the layer.
Landing page
A hosted page on Blankitt's domain (forms.blankitt.com/p/<slug>) with branding, copy, an embedded form, SEO tags, and optional GA4 tracking.
Best for: ad campaigns, social posts, anywhere you control the link but not the destination page. You don't have to ship code to your website to launch one.
How: build the form, then build a landing page that embeds it. Publish. Share the link.
Choosing between them
| Situation | Use |
|---|---|
| You have a page on your site that's already attracting traffic | Inline form |
| You want to convert visitors who are about to bounce | Exit-intent popup |
| You want to convert engaged readers | Timed popup |
| You're running an ad / social campaign | Landing page |
| You don't have a website yet | Landing page |
All three end the same way: the contact is created in Blankitt with the source field set to whichever surface they came in via. That's how you'll slice analytics later.