Here is an article submitted by Dan Lambart. Conversion is king and content is king……right……..right!
As an internet marketeter, what do you want? More visitors or more customers? The answer is quite obvious. You need to question yourself if you are making the effort needed to convert visitors into customers. You must identify the reasons for low conversion, what is lacking in your site?
You might have optimised your site through use of good key words, got a high position on the search engine but if your sales and profits have not increased then you need to check whether you are working in the right direction. To start with it, you need to take a close look at your web site. Well the first point you need to check is whether you have made your web site search engine friendly or reader friendly. Most of us make this mistake of optimizing our web site for the search engines. The search engines are however not going to buy your products or services, you want a real buyers for it. The search engines only provide you a platform where you can display your web site and its products. When you optimize your web site keep the reader in mind and not the search engine.
Quality information with relevant content always make the visitors ask for more information about your products and services. Over selling on your web site will never help. All the sales pitch that you use will not hold the visitors on your web site any longer than they wish to stay. Only by providing quality content you can catch the attention of your visitors for a longer period. You must identify and answer all probable questions that visitors may have and then subtly present your products and services. Believe very strongly in the adage “Content is King”.
The purpose of an online business is to sell. If you want to have a very successful business then you must understand your customers’ requirements. Study the keywords that they used to search for your products, whether they are finding solutions to their problems. You must also check which pages they are visiting most and from which pages they are leaving your site. With some research you can find out whether you are making it easy for the customer to navigate your site or whether you are frustrating them with unnecessary detail.
The moment you find out the problem with your site, make the corrections immeditely. Keep monitoring your web site on a regular basis and make it user-friendly. When you follow a consistent process of self analysis and improvement of your web site you can expect good results in conversion of your visitors to customers.
Dan Lambart is the Director of Sales and Marketing for AB Traffic a company providing a high quality targeted traffic service for for commercial web sites.
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1 Cathy(new comment) // Jun 20, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Cathy…
Just wanted to drop a note to let you know what a great site you have. It is a great resource and a great place to drop by….
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