How to Improve Website Conversion

 

Where to Start?

If You Have a Lead Generation Website, Start with Your Response Page 

Your response page is the page that gives the details of your offer and includes your response form. Check your analytics to determine the percentage of visits to that page that result in a form completion:

Compare: a)  number of visits to the page within a defined period of time, to b) the number of form completions

Test the following items on your response page (if you haven't already), to see if you can improve your form completion percentage: 

1. Offer Copy 

Your offer is what's driving the response, so the copy must prove the benefits of responding. Be sure the scanning visitor (80-90% of all visitors) can quickly see the benefits of your offer. Consider crafting bullets that each focus on a unique benefit of your offer. 

2. Response Page Headline

If your page headline doesn't focus on the key benefits of your offer, consider testing a new headline. 

3. Response Page Button Size

If your button isn't prominent on your page, consider making it larger, or a different color to stand out more.  (Note: Remove all of those old "Clear Form", "Reset" or "Cancel" buttons from your website.)

4. Response Page Layout

Be sure either the button or the response form begins "above the fold" so every visitor to the page can see the page is asking for a response. 

5. Response Button Copy

If your button says "Submit," it's time to test something more benefit-oriented, like: "Send me the white paper!" Don't worry about your button being too large (there's likely no such thing!). Get an action statement on your button. 

6. Amount of Information You Require

The more fields the prospect has to complete, typically the lower your response. Do you really need all of that information? Pare down to just what you need — name, email address, and any specifics that will help you target your conversion series.

Note: watch the number — and length — of any pull-down menus in your answer fields. Streamline and simplify where possible. 

Consider Results of Your Offer

Should you change you offer?  Before you do, look at the amount of traffic to the offer page. If there's significant traffic to the offer page, that indicates there's significant interest in your offer.  (If few visitors complete your form, though, that probably indicates a problem with your offer page itself as discussed above.)  

If traffic to your offer page is low, it could be due to the way you've marketed your offer on your website.  It's often a case of: 

• Not making your offer visible enough throughout your website (resulting in poor traffic to your offer page).  Be sure you're promoting the current offer prominently throughout your website.  Your offers should be prominently positioned above the fold on as many pages of your website as possible.
• Not really convincing the prospect of the value of your offer ( to get the prospect to click through to your offer page)

If your offer appears in prominent locations throughout your website, and it promises a benefit to your target audience -- and your traffic to your offer page is low, it could be time to test a different offer.

Review Website Analytics

If your entire website isn't generating enough traffic, consider launching some traffic-building campaigns. If you're only getting 100 visitors to your site every month, and you're hoping to generate 200 new response form completions, the problem isn't your response page or offer. 

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