How patient are you when surfing the Web? According to recent studies, you're not as patient as you might think. Slow loading pages will impact your conversion rates, and probably affect the ranking of your pages on the major search engines as well.
Conversion math is sometimes hard to understand. How can really small increases in website conversion rates LOWER the cost of all f my marketing? Well, that is a discussion for another time. Now you don't have to think so hard about it.
Google has laid it out very clearly: If your landing pages are good, they will send you more traffic for less money. You don't have to be a math genius to figure out the importance of conversion optimization anymore.
Roll over the images at the top of this page. We know video is rocking conversion. Here's an innovative way to integrate video into a category page from apparel etailer J.Crew. I don't know if this feature is actually increasing conversion rates for J.Crew. Have you tried something like this to good effect?
This is a fabulous way of looking at your Pay-per-click (PPC) ad spend. The concept of a "marketin clearning" price range draws into sharp focus the importance of lowering your acquisition costs to participate in more search traffic and remain profitable.
Of course, the best way to lower your acquisition cost is to increase the conversion rate and average order value of your website.
I often say we're living in a golden age of marketing, in which we can find data to answer almost any question we have. And these tools aren't expensive. Every marketer can benefit from these tools with a little curiosity and patience.
@unbounce - Writing headlines and subject lines and tweets all have something in common: You have a limited number of characters to get a prospect's attention in a very noisy environment.
Steve Young gives us some tested subject lines to consider in our campaigns.
Have some fun with your subject lines and don't take yourself too seriously!
Stock photography is the lazy designer's crutch. Ironic considering that most pages miss a most basic marketing truism: "Show the product." This post offers some great insight into proper use of images on your Web pages.
Ready to take conversion seriously? Finally? If you want a great place to start, here are fifty bit-sized posts to get you started up the learning curve. I even got a mention. There are lots of ways to increase the performance of your website, and this list is organized into very helpful categories. Spend some time here.
Ready to take conversion seriously? Finally? If you want a great place to start, here are fifty bit-sized posts to get you started up the learning curve. I even got a mention. There are lots of ways to increase the performance of your website, and this list is organized into very helpful categories. Spend some time here.
@widerfunnel "We have tested rotating offers many times and have found it to be a poor way of presenting home page content." Enough said.
Businesses love rotating banners because they are cowards. They are afraid of picking something and running with it. They don't want to lose a chance to get everyone. Well, when you try to sell to everyone, you sell to no one. If you won't listen to me, please, read Chris Goward's article. When it comes to testing, the Wider Funnel people konw what they're doing.
"After clicking through 900,000 ads, researchers from Google discovered that the average mobile landing page loads in an embarrassing 22 seconds. That's over 7 times longer than most impatient internet users will wait before they abandon a page - 53% to be exact."