Along with link popularity, there are
many effective tactics to increase traffic to your
website. Clearpath Technology in Australia, works on a comprehensive strategy to increase
traffic, leads, sales or other conversions to enhance your business.
To increase sales, you must increase your conversion
rates. Conversion rate is a measure of the number of
prospects that actually buy or signup for your product
or service. For most websites, it is usually the percentage
of visitors that make a purchase. Many websites concentrate
solely on increasing the number of visitors to increase
sales. However, if these sites improve their conversion
rate, they would have a significant, positive effect
on revenues. Here are a few simple considerations to
improve conversion rates at minimal expense.
Beginning with your website domain name, make sure
you stand out from the competition. Select a website
name that differentiates your business yet makes sense
to your target audience and is easy to remember.
Next, make sure that your content addresses exactly
what your audience needs and delivers it in a design
that is attractive, easy to read and navigate.
Be relevant. If you are targeting a market with specific keywords,
your audience should land on the precise page on your site after typing
those keywords. For example, if your audience types “vintage
wine”into a search engine, on clicking your link they should
be taken to the page on your site listing and selling vintage wines.
They should not land at the home page of your website which has a link
to the vintage wine section.
Being relevant is a simple, often overlooked strategy.
This strategy uses landing page, a single page on your
website designed to quickly convert a specific visitor
into paying customer, hot lead, sign-up, etcetera.
It can be a very valuable strategy. For example, if
you have 10,000 visitors a month to your website and
you convert 1%. That would be 10 Sales. If you could
increase the conversion rate by 500%, then you could
now get 5 times the amount of sales with the same marketing
budget. We’ll show you how to use landing pages
to do just that.
Measuring and testing is the key to improving conversion rates. You
can’t improve conversion without measuring visits, sales and
other criteria. Not measuring means you’re making an educated
guess at what actually happens on your site. Get a good measurement
system, learn what it’s all about, and test your changes.
Most importantly, build trust. You can’t sell anything if your
audience doesn’t trust your site. Prominently display your privacy
policy, shipping procedures and the fact that you employ encrypted
security for customer transactions. Also, use testimonials to make
them aware of your many satisfied customers. Make it easy to find contact
information, especially customer support via email. Finally, educate
your audience via articles, ‘how-to’sections or newsletters
to instill trust over time.
Growth is necessary for business survival. Stand still and the competition
will quickly overtake you. Increasing your conversion rates and trust
factor is a business growth strategy that every business can use.