Best place for contact form?

[Ryan Ward]

So now that the world knows that I exist, I am trying to go through my pages and optimize them to obtain contacts. People only have 2 choices a phone call or a contact form. I would prefer phone calls , but, I realize that most people won't do that. So I am going with the shortest contact form that I have on all of my pages instead of a seller form and a buyer from and a contact form...I think I prefer short and sweet, but, my opinion doesn't really matter. So where is the best place on the page to have the contact form? Top, middle or bottom, or depends?

[keenjosh]

From an aesthetic standpoint it makes sense at the bottom of the page. A lot of lead capture designed sites -- like the ones produced by webagentsolutions or success websites -- put a form on every page. In fact, that is the only intent of the website and pages on sites like that...they're all at the bottom of the content.

[drewnick]

I've just put my form at the bottom of strategic pages and it seems to be attracting leads to fill it out. We'll see how it does overtime.

[Sam Dodd]

I like the bottam of the page contact forms as well. I will have them anywhere they look natural on my new REW website.

[drewnick]

Has anyone considered their affects on SERPs? I've heard that G doesn't like them on Adwords accounts as landing pages, so it could be a consideration.

[GregPDX]

I would like to put a contact form on the sidebar of a wordpress blog. Are there any widgets to do this?

What I'm thinking is an easy sign up for a newsletter or "report."

[arscherer]

Has anyone considered their affects on SERPs? I've heard that G doesn't like them on Adwords accounts as landing pages, so it could be a consideration.

I have to say that my website is not up to par, but I have heard that as well (that Google doesn't like lead capture on landing pages). Is there actually any truth to that, though?

[Dallas Broker]

I would place contact forms on bottom and leave good relevant content at top for SE's to pick up. I don't see why Google would have any problem with a site integrating some type of lead capture into their landing page after all the main reason anyone in any industry uses PPC is to capture leads.

[DMike]

I would place that way so if an user wants to send an email, to be able to send it any second. I would probabily place it on a sidebar, so he would just have to click on it(the sidebar would be on all pages) and i would probabily add it on the listing view pages. Also, i would fill the info on that forms as much as i can, so the user cand send it in a second(he would just have to fill his name)

[LandWatch.com]

I like it on a side bar. I understand wanting to have it at the bottom of pages to sort of sneak up on users after they read something attention grabbing, but I think having it on a side bar just looks and feels better.