Your website is your 24/7 salesperson

When a prospective customer lands on your website it’s critically important that the website do what a good salesperson does: find out what the prospect needs, showcase the offering you have that can best satisfy that need, answer questions about it.

And if need and offer look to be a good match, make it easy for your prospect to satisfy that need by taking whatever conversion action has value for you. Depending on where that visitor is in the buying cycle - researching a product category, comparing various products, getting an idea of prices, ready to buy - that might be a newsletter subscription signup, a downloadable brochure, or an actual on-the-spot sale.

Only when your website converts well will you get the full benefit from your investment in the marketing and advertising that attracted well-qualified prospects.

Why conversion ratio is important

Getting 1000 visitors to your website and converting 1% of them and getting 100 visitors and converting 10% of them both give you 10 conversions. But with the website that converts at the rate of 10%, your net value of each conversion will be much greater because it will have cost you significantly less to get.

Unfortunately, any website lacks a key advantage that a human salesperson has when dealing face-to-face with a prospect: feedback from the prospect, and the opportunity to adjust the sale pitch accordingly.

So to do the best possible job of converting prospects to customers, your website needs to have the flexibility to address the needs of people with different kinds of personalities as well as those at different stages of the buying cycle.

Traffic is good, but conversion is better.

For both organic and sponsored (PPC) search, the objective is to prequalify site users to increase the likelihood of sales, and maximize the return on Internet marketing investment. Getting more traffic doesn't always make for the best ROI.

Example: There's no intuitive way to know that the conversion rates of these seemingly interchangeable keywords (below) would be so different. Accurate conversion analysis makes the difference between paying $8.72 or $0.54 for a conversion. (Actual client data):

What makes a website convert well?

• Simple, consistent navigation that makes it easy for visitors to find what they’re looking for
• Headlines and above-the-fold content that grab visitors and draw them in
• Persuasive copywriting: The Internet may be a “visual medium” - and good imagery is important to attracting and holding interest - but words are what gets the sales job done. (And image captions are the next thing most people read on a page after the headline.)
• Emotional appeal is necessary - because most people buy on the basis of emotion, then find some logical basis on which to rationalize the purchase.
• It's also important that your website use calls to action to tell people what you want them to do, and not simply leave them to their own devices to figure out what they should do next. Because indecision will immediately set in, and indecision leads to inaction, not conversions.

Sales is a tough job, but your website needs to do it.

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Conversion Rate Optimization Resources

Conversion Optimization Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide by Neil Patel
Just what it says it is, by Forbes Top-10 Marketer Neil Patel

Conversion Rate Optimization by MOZ
The math behind Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), and the synergies between CRO and search engine optimization (SEO), explained by the SEO software developers at MOZ

Conversion rate optimization by Wikipedia
Scholarly article on statistical significance and the test-focused approach to CRO

Conversion Rate Optimization by VWO
Comprehensive article stresses the connection between the CRO process and user experience (UX).

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