Saturday, June 8, 2013

Optimize For Conversions

By Carrie Serienz


Conversion rate optimization (CRO) in internet marketing is the basic process of producing a type of experience for a visitor of a website that is intended to persuade them into buying a product or service. Many people simply call it CRO, for short. Other types of sites use CRO, not only sites that are for financial transactions and e-commerce. Each business with a website should be taking advantage of these conversion routes that will make the company more successful.

As marketing budgets are only so big in a company, the maximum benefit must be extracted for the money spent on marketing. Utilizing a retargeting campaign produces a much higher ROI than a dollar spent on traditional display advertising in many cases, because of the ability to zero in on potential customers who have already visited your website and shown interest in your products or services.

However, to really squeeze every ounce of potential out of that ad spending, you need to consider where that ad is leading your customers because the higher your conversion rate and the lower your cost per action, the higher the final ROI you'll get on your campaign. Websites that have proper conversion optimization, will ensure that a visitor to the page has many more chances to purchase your products or services.

Create a call to action that is not only highly visible, but that draws attention to itself and uses plenty of cues to lead customers there. The internet is not a subtle medium.

Visitors who come to your site through display ads have different needs and wants, and are in a different part of the sales cycle than organic visits. Pages should be designed specifically for those who clicked an ad as part of your campaign and end up on your page. For a newer website, a basic page for all visits that come from non-direct sources will do, but in time, they should be tailored to suit these specialized leads.

Continuous testing brings you closer to finding the exact path to seamless usability for your web visitors. Improvements to user experience will persuade users to happily convert. No matter how people find you they are all searching for the same thing. They want answers to a problem, and you want to prove to them you have their solutions.

Effects must be maximized by optimization techniques in the proper areas. The highest rate of conversion must be sought out, by knowing where to start. A 100% increase might be possible on the last page of the ordering process however the increase in sales will be minor as a smaller percentage of overall site visitors see this page. A wiser move is to begin with the pages that get more hits, such as your landing page, which usually has a high bounce rate.

Engaged visitors are more confident and appreciate the experience more, so ensure this is how your site is, which will have a better chance of conversion, Trust is an essential element in the mind of a customer, so ensure that they feel this way in order to have a higher chance of converting them.




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