In order to reach their target audience, website owners have to concentrate their efforts on site’s content, copy and design. Naturally, not by building an excessive amount of Flash applets and freaky animations. Website has to find out exactly what visitors want and provide relevant response to their needs. For example, if an Internet searchers click on the sponsored link, they should land at exactly the right place on the site, not at the home page. The majority of visitors simply will not work their way from the home page to the relevant page and attempt for conversion will fail.
All factors mentioned above are not possible without trust, due to the simple fact that a website will not sell anything if it can not gain trust. Customers need to trust site enough to part with their money. So, it certainly helps if a website is equipped with privacy policy, great SSL encryption, articles and tutorials, true testimonials of other satisfied and happy customers, who already purchased from the website. Conversion rates will increase, if website’s shipping procedure does not cause headaches for the clients, and prospects can easily find contact information and get decent support in case of emergency.
So the question arises, how to verify that all this strategy is working? Or, in other words, how to consistently improve the website conversion? You guessed it right. By measuring, testing and experimenting ...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Customers need to trust site
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