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Robb_Barrett
Robb_Barrett
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February 25, 2016
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A lot of people ask about pre-pop embedded forms...

  • February 25, 2016
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My question is why not just iFrame in a Marketo LP?  My company recently acquired another company that wants to maintain their website but incorporate Marketo. We were able to do this pretty easily by creating a landing page template that's basically just a form. They iFrame this into their landing page template and we get full info if it's a known lead in Marketo.

We've been testing this on different browsers and it's working nicely so far. What's the disadvantage of this method?

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Anonymous
February 26, 2016

I think the disadvantage might be conversion rate of the page the form sits on.  But not sure, I may need to test this out.  If it is iFramed in the web page then that might actually not be an issue but I am just not sure, you should check that out.

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    Anonymous
    February 26, 2016

    One main concern is usually responsiveness. Did you test it on different devices and window sizes, not just different browsers?

      Grégoire_Miche2
      Grégoire_Miche2
      Level 10
      February 26, 2016

      In Robb,

      In addition to Kristen's point:

      • Impossibility to pass URL parameters to the iframed page. So capturing UTM's or campaign sources with hidden fields becomes very difficult (you have to go through cookies or JS code)
      • Slowness of page display
      • Lower performance on an SEO standpoint
      • Double page hits count that you have to pay attention to when setting scoring or reviewing web activity (For instance in MSI)
      • Impossibility to know efficiently (otherwise than looking to the activity logs) on which page you were when the form was filled out (Marketo will give you the name of the iframed page, not the container page). You can workaround this last point creating a different iframe form page for each corresponding container page.

      -Greg

      Robb_Barrett
      Robb_BarrettAuthor
      Level 10
      February 26, 2016

      I pass URL parameters from the parent to the iFrame.  document.referrer works fine.

      Page display that we've tried is fine. No extra time.

      Robb Barrett
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