This document discusses conversion rate optimization (CRO) which involves optimizing websites to increase the percentage of visitors that convert into customers. It defines what conversions are, how to measure them, and strategies to test and optimize elements like trust signals, audience targeting, page speed, and elements like calls to action and progress indicators to improve conversion rates. The key benefits of CRO are better return on investment through data-driven testing, improved customer insights, and enhanced user experience.
Growing Revenue through Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO
1. Growing Revenue through Conversion
Rate Optimisation (CRO)
Edd Wilson
SEO Strategist
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2. - Search marketing since 2010
- Joined Impression in 2014
- Agency and in-house
- Speaker at STAT city crawl & Ecommercial
Conference
- Regularly contribute to industry blogs
Edd Wilson
SEO Strategist / CRO Lead @ Impression
edd@impression.co.uk
5. What is CRO?
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO), or conversion
optimisation, is the process for increasing the percentage
of visitors to a website that convert into customers, or more
generally, take any desired action on a webpage.
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6. What is CRO?
To get leads/sales, you need to make it easy for website
users to interact
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7. Average online business
Time spent trying to
bring traffic
Time spent trying to
convert traffic
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10. Types of conversions
Ecommerce - Completed purchase
Lead Generation - Contact form completion, Phone call
Media/Content website - Articles read, bounce rate and page views
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11. Types of conversions
Macro Conversions
Revenue Based Conversions
Ecommerce order completion, paid subscription sign up
Lead/member acquisition conversions
Application form completion, member sign up
Enquiry conversions
Contact form completion
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12. Types of conversions
Micro Conversions
Navigation based conversions
Viewing a product page, entering the checkout process, reaching an application form
Interaction (or completed action) based conversions
Adding a product to the cart, downloading a PDF brochure, watching a promotional video,
social actions, email newsletter sign up,
Engagement based conversions
Time on site over a certain threshold, number of pages viewed above target,
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36. Trust Signals - Reviews/Case Studies
90% of consumers read online reviews before visiting a business
88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal
recommendations
- 2017 study from BrightLocal
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54. Trust Signals - HTTPS
What Google Say
From July 2018 on Chrome will mark HTTP sites as “non secure”.
For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by
strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the
last year, we’ve also helped users understand that HTTP sites are not
secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not
secure”. Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome
will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”.
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59. What you’re trying to find out...
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What are they trying to overcome by investing in your
product/service?
What about your product/service appeals to them?
What are they thinking about when deciding whether or not to buy
from you?
73. Mobile First Indexing - Q4 2017
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What Google Say
Google begins mobile first indexing, using mobile content for all search rankings. While called an 'experiment,' it’s actually the
first move in Google's planned shift to looking primarily at mobile content, rather than desktop, when deciding how to rank
results.
What you can do
Audit your website from a mobile perspective - Pete from Impression
82. Hypothesis
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Changing X into Y will get you Z
X = What your analysis indicates as a problem
Y = What change you think will solve that problem
Z = What will have this effect on your KPI