Traffic Conversion Strategies - 4 Ways to Increase Conversion

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Traffic Conversion – 4 Strategies to Increase Conversions by Ryan Adams

One of the best things you can do to increase your leads and sales with online marketing is to focus on traffic conversion. If your site is really good at converting traffic (email opt‐ins, e‐commerce sales, lead forms, etc), you won’t need as much traffic. Too many business owners and marketing professionals focus on traffic and very little time is spent on traffic conversion strategies. Often times you need a lot less traffic then you think to make a lot of money using internet marketing. Here are 4 Traffic Conversion Strategies you can implement to increase conversion. 1) Soft Conversion – I call this traffic conversion strategy the soft conversion. This is

a must have for every business, I don’t care what industry you are in, you need to build

your email mailing list. Using a soft conversion strategy, which is essentially opting into

your email mailing list somehow, you are building one of your most important assets in

your business – your mailing list.

There are businesses that earn on average about $1 per person on their list every time

they mail to them. I know of companies that have over 100,000 people in their lists and

each time they send out a high quality email, earn a 6 figure income per mailing. This is

not the norm, but even for the small local business owner, having a list of 500‐1,000

people to mail to each month keeps you relevant and in front of your target audience.

Make sure that your soft conversion opt‐ins are tied to your email marketing software

and build your list automatically.

Some Ideas for Soft Conversions ‐ Whitepaper Download ‐ Sign Up for our Newsletter (come up with a good offer to get people to sign up, give something away, discounts, monthly giveaways, etc). ‐ Free Information Kit ‐ Video Access (have a great informational video to share, have people opt in to view it) ‐ Webinars ‐ Brochure download 2) Landing Pages – Improving the pages that have your offers on them can increase traffic conversion considerably. Split test some different layouts, offers and call to actions. Give the page some time to determine if it’s working or not. Often times people get impatient and change their landing pages too quickly without getting




enough data to determine if a change is necessary or not. If you are a local business trying to drive new leads, don’t overdo it! The simpler, the better in most cases. Make sure you have 1 phone number on the page that is highly visible. Often times, using a local number for a local online campaign (SEO, PPC, Email) is better vs using an 800#. You can also display a lead capture form on the page as well. With the lead capture form, asking for less information at this point will improve traffic conversion, so make sure you are not asking for too much from the prospect at this point or you might just drive them away. Get their Name, Email and Phone number. You may even have to leave the Phone number as “optional” at this stage in the lead generation process. A lot of people do not want to be contacted by phone or do not want to give out their phone number 3) Sell Benefits – Stop trying to sell yourself or your company and simply sell the benefits of what you are offering. Using bulleted lists outlining the benefits of your products and services helps your traffic quickly scan your content and find the solution to their problem. Solve problems with your benefits list vs talking about what your company does. Monitor your conversion rates and if they are not where you would like them to be, start split testing pages or make 1 or 2 changes at a time to measure the impact. Going back through your site and re‐focusing your content to sell benefits will improve conversion rates along with modifying your content to be easier to scan online (shorter paragraphs, bulleted lists, use headings). 4) Use Video – video can play a vital role in traffic conversion. Using a video on your

landing page, home page or elsewhere will provide a much higher level of engagement

with your traffic then text will. This is also a huge differentiator as most businesses do

not take the time to produce a video. You probably don’t even need to go and spend

much money to create a video, use a Flip Camera and shoot it yourself. Video can

provide a much higher level of personal touch with your prospects then your typical

web page content. There are all kinds of data online as to the conversion rates of pages

with video, do your own research and I think you will find that not using video is a big

mistake.

Judging by most of the traffic conversion strategies that we see sites using online, especially for small to medium sized businesses, most companies could double or even triple their conversions in a short period of time simply focusing on these 3 key areas outlined above. What would 2x‐3x’s the amount of leads from the same amount of traffic do for your business?




About the Author

Ryan Adams is a WSI Certified Internet Marketing Consultant. Having successfully developed several start‐up companies, both online and offline, he launched his next venture and opened a WSI Internet Marketing business with offices in Portland, ME and Chicago, IL. Ryan graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Southern Maine as well as receiving several advanced certifications from Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business and Cornell University. He is also a Google Certified Analytics consultant and holds several certifications in internet marketing from SEMPO, the leading educator in the field of internet marketing.

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