Conversion Rate Optimisation Service
Improve the results from your website with our Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) service
Get more out of your website’s traffic by improving the performance of your website. Convert more traffic into leads and into revenue. Contact us about our Conversion Rate Optimisation approach.
What is CRO and why do I need it?
Conversion Rate Optimisation, or commonly known as CRO, is the art of making changes to your landing page, or content to improve your conversions. If you have a website, you’ll have conversion goals. If you aren’t set up to monitor and report on conversions for your website, you should consider our Analytics and Reporting service.
What are your conversion goals?
99% of the time, your ‘conversion’ will be one of three things: 1) website lead submission; 2) online purchase; and 3) online subscriber.
Sometimes your conversion could fall outside these trifecta of Conversion goals, such as getting visitors to share your content, or watch an entire video. However, the same process will be followed.
Why should I invest in your Conversion Rate Optimisation Service?
We’re sure you’ve heard the expression ‘throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick’ – or perhaps a variation of it. This is what you’re doing with your website if you’re not applying a form of CRO. You’re driving traffic and hoping they’ll convert but flip that and look at the drop-off rate.
If you’re successfully driving a significant amount of traffic to your website, you ought to capitalise on it. Our CRO service will use a series of tests and experiments to understand your audience and improve the conversion rate of your core pages and landing pages.
How to work out my Conversion Rate?
There is a simple formula to work out what your conversion rate is. Most analytics platforms, such as Google Analytics will automatically work this out for you but it’s always good to know in case you want to find out your conversion rate of a specific task.
Goal Completions / Coal Exposure = Conversion Rate
You simply divide the number of goal completions you have with the number of people who was exposed to that goal.
So if you’re looking for your conversion rate of a form completion, you take the number of people who completed that form an divide it by the total number of people who were exposed to that form.
e.g. 500 people visit a page with a submission form on it but only 50 people complete the form, you have a 10% conversion rate.
What makes a good Conversion Rate Optimisation service?
Here’s our simplified 5-step approach to CRO
Traffic:
Build an audience
Design:
Captivate your audience
Content:
Capture their interest
Analyse:
Know your KPIs
Experiments:
Discover what works
Traffic:
Build an audience
While not technically a CRO activity, it’s critical to your CRO success. There’s no point in developing your web pages to convert if there’s no traffic. So, the first step is to ensure you are driving relevant traffic to your website. This is where you’ll need to apply PPC or SEO strategies. These forms of inbound marketing, when done correctly, will drive relevant and engaged traffic to your website, making it easier to run CRO activities and improve your website’s success.
TIP: Look for increase in landing page unique views.
Design:
Captivate your audience
The UX (User Experience) of a website is critical for a website, it’s why so many companies are happy to spend £10,000s on a new website that captures their audience. A poll we ran on LinkedIn showed that 100% of people said that a poor website would put them off the company. While we don’t believe anything can be 100%, it’s obvious that the look and feel of a website is paramount to a company’s success. It’s important to work on the design of a website to improve its ability to capture the traffic’s interest. Your design should guide your traffic throughout the page and towards your CTA (Call to Action; often a form, video or product to be purchased).
TIP: Monitor a page’s bounce and scroll rate.
Content:
Capture their interest
If the design of the website is needed to capture traffic’s attention, the content itself is what is needed to retain their interest. The content itself needs to be thought provoking and relatable, telling a story that makes the audience want to read on. This is not an easy task and requires a deep understanding of your target demographic, the problems you’re trying to solve, and the pain points they face. Your CRO needs to play with the content on your page, reimagining it and reforming it over and over again until you’d crafted the perfect content for your audience. This is the case with more than you’re your website: it’s also necessary with your emails, PPC ads, social media posts. Every communication you send out needs to be thoroughly analysed to ensure your message is landing with your audience.
TIP: Monitor time on page and click-throughs
Analyse:
Know your KPIs
As we’ve already alluded to, you need to be able to tract what is happening on your website in order to understand how it’s performing. How can you know if your website is doing any better than last week, last month or even last year if you’re not monitoring it? Google Analytics is a must in any website’s arsenal but it’s not the only analytics and reporting tool we’d recommend.
TIP: Ask yourself, “How will I know if this works” and that will help you identify your digital marketing KPIs and report on it regularly
Experiments:
Discover what works
Now that we’ve worked on your existing content, it’s time to start creating new content for your website. During our Keyword research in the Blueprint stage, we should have identified a number of new topics (both Pillar and Wall content) that we’ll now begin to work on.
- Identify and scope out new content from keyword research
- Craft new value added content for your audience
- Review and optimise your blog posts
- Optimise your blog for users and build author profiles
- Generate audience driven content, such as FAQs pages
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