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Search Engine Watch April 15, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 3: Desire, Part 1 The AIDA conversion funnel governs all Web conversions. We've examined Awareness and Interest, so now we'll take a look at the Desire stage. |
Search Engine Watch October 29, 2008 Tim Ash |
Landing Pages and the Decision-Making Process Landing page optimization and testing is a complex activity that requires knowledge of many fields, including usability, copywriting, math, and Web design. But at its core, we're still trying to influence the behavior of people, and human nature hasn't changed. |
Search Engine Watch April 1, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 2: Interest On the Web, interest is very fleeting. A world of other Web sites is just a mouse click away. The key to creating the interest is to focus on the visitor's role or current needs. |
Search Engine Watch June 10, 2009 Tim Ash |
What Is the Desired Conversion Action? Understanding your conversion actions is the key to landing page optimization success. Knowing what to measure for different situations can help you optimize your site for the right goals. |
Search Engine Watch May 27, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 4: Action, Part 2 Each product or service category only has room for a tiny number of established leaders, and they capture disproportionate value in their respective market categories. Other products or services require additional steps to lead visitors to action. |
Search Engine Watch August 20, 2008 Tim Ash |
What Are You Converting? Many people view conversions as large-scale events, such as product sales or sign-ups for a service. But a conversion can mean many things, depending on the site. |
Search Engine Watch April 29, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 3: Desire, Part 2 We've been discussing the well-known AIDA conversion funnel and how it governs all Web conversions. We've already examined awareness and interest, and now we continue looking at the desire stage. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 1: Awareness Awareness, and its close cousin attention, are scarce commodities in our fast-paced world. People learn to tune everything out, so it takes more effort for an advertiser to break through the clutter and noise to reach their target audience. |
Search Engine Watch August 6, 2008 Tim Ash |
How Long Should My Landing Page Test Run? What's the right length for a landing page optimization test? That's a bit like asking 'how long is a piece of string?' But there are some guidelines to follow to help you know when enough is enough. |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2011 Stephen Cobb |
Anchor Your Landing Pages and Convert Wayward Clickers Your chances of converting the traffic you drive to your site will increase if you can keep visitors focused on your conversion message. A landing page anchor is designed to do just that. |
Search Engine Watch June 11, 2008 Tim Ash |
Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 1 How do you find problems with your landing page hidden in your test results? Instead of waiting only for good news, filter it out instead. Accentuate the negative. Focus on problems and things that are askew. |
Search Engine Watch August 19, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Art of the Landing Page: 7 Tips For Increasing Conversions Landing page optimization and testing can have a dramatic impact on your online marketing profitability. But even without testing you can quickly eliminate several common mistakes that can instantly skyrocket conversion rates. |
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2004 Grant Crowell |
Search Online, Buy Offline: How to Tell? Many people do extensive product research online but end up buying from brick and mortar retailers. How can you track the effectiveness of search marketing campaigns that result in offline purchases? |
Search Engine Watch December 6, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Funneling your Traffic into Conversions Rankings and referrals are important but even more so is what your traffic is doing once they get to your site. Following these few easy steps helps to get your traffic back on track. |
Search Engine Watch September 15, 2008 David Szetela |
Show Me the Money: Bidding for Profitability Setting ad group bid prices at the beginning of a campaign is one of the more challenging tasks for many PPC advertisers. The answers are a snap once you know the fundamentals. |
Search Engine Watch December 18, 2008 David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: PPC Visitors Have ADD This week I'll pick up on the introductory discussion of PPC landing pages. |
Search Engine Watch September 30, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Myth of Perfect Conversion Don't make the mistake of assuming that every visitor is a potential prospect or buyer for your goods or services. The mythical 100 percent conversion rate simply doesn't exist. It's a delusion. |
Search Engine Watch June 23, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Taking the Fear Out of Web Analytics for Your Small Business Do you have Web analytics installed on your small business Web site? If not, you should. How will you know how your Web site is performing if you aren't measuring the right data? |
Entrepreneur September 2009 David Port |
How to Make Your Website Really Sell The best advice for converting visitors to your company's website into real revenue. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2008 David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning? Expert PPC advertisers realize that PPC landing pages have more impact on conversion rates and ROI than anything else they can do. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2010 Marty Weintraub |
Google Analytics, Conversion Tracking & Single Segment Reporting Power There's awesome power in the simplicity of surfing Google Analytics, only studying a single conversion setting. The only limitation is your imagination. |
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2010 Joseph Kerschbaum |
Using Conversion Funnels to Improve Your Conversion Rate, Part 1 How you can apply data from Search Funnel reports in AdWords to improve your conversion rate and overall PPC performance. |
Search Engine Watch January 21, 2009 Tim Ash |
Writing Sales Copy For Conversions, Part 2 Once visitors end up on your landing page, you're no longer competing for their attention with other Web sites, so change the focus to the task they're trying to accomplish. |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
Learn the Full Value of Your Paid Search Program If you have a conversion without revenue tied to it, here's how you can use data from various channels to help put a value on those events. |
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2009 Tim Ash |
Landing Page Optimization Pitfall -- Not Collecting Enough Data In statistics, results do not become stable until a large enough sample is tested. Accordingly, making landing page decisions using data from a too-small sample size can lead marketers to make bad decisions. |
Search Engine Watch March 11, 2009 Eric Enge |
Improve Conversion Efficiency with Demandbase Increasing conversion efficiency should be the goal of every Web site publisher. Regardless of what you're trying to accomplish with the sit, having a higher conversion rate than your competitor provides you with a strategic advantage. |
Search Engine Watch January 19, 2009 Ron Jones |
Web Analytics 101, Part 1 Without looking to see how your Web site is performing, and learning more about the people visiting your site, you're throwing away a huge opportunity. |
Search Engine Watch June 25, 2008 Tim Ash |
Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 2 Web analytics on your Web site can help you uncover and prioritize potential site problems. Some additional techniques to discover conversion issues on your landing pages include mining onsite search, or conducting usability testing, focus groups, and surveys. |
Search Engine Watch November 9, 2010 Adam Goldberg |
Connecting Rings and Bricks to Clicks (Connecting Online to Offline) Want to increase the value of your advertising today? Implement a system that ties your online ad spend to your offline conversions using these simple techniques. |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2009 Tim Ash |
Writing Sales Copy for Conversions One of the most common components you can test is sales copy. Changing your approach to writing can often lead to a double-digit increase in conversion rates. |
CRM June 3, 2015 |
TruConversion Launches New Web Analytics Product TruConversion brings together heatmaps, surveys, polls, AB testing, form analytics, and conversion funnels in one product. |
Search Engine Watch June 24, 2009 Tim Ash |
Applying Probability to Landing Page Optimization In the context of LPO, probability can be viewed as simply taking the best guess given the available information. The more information you have, the more accurate your guess will become. |
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2008 David Szetela |
Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions Knowing how and when to make decisions about your PPC campaign's keyword and ad performance can make or break your campaign. Just remember that almost every action you take to improve your PPC ad campaign should be based on conversion data. |
Search Engine Watch September 10, 2010 Frank Watson |
Tracking Success, Part 2: AdWords and Social Media Tricks and tools to help you track conversions in AdWords and on social media sites, especially Facebook and Twitter. |
Search Engine Watch June 24, 2008 Carrie Hill |
The Big Picture -- Well-Rounded SEM for SMBs, Part 3 More elements a small business should consider when looking at a well rounded search engine marketing campaign include local search, usability, and creating a Web site that will increase conversions. |
Entrepreneur November 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Graceful Landing A well-conceived landing page sends the right signals about your company and helps customers navigate toward the sale. |
Search Engine Watch February 28, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Searchers Still Like to Buy Offline A new study says that though a majority of shoppers use the internet to research products, nearly half still prefer to make their purchases through bricks and mortar retailers. |
Search Engine Watch July 23, 2008 Tim Ash |
How Valid Are Your Landing Page Test Conclusions? Landing page testing can lead to major Web site changes. How sure are you that your conclusions are valid? |
Search Engine Watch August 23, 2010 Jeremy Hull |
What's the Value of a Paid Search Impression? Tie conversion metrics to paid search impressions with this incredibly useful tool for determining the true value of your paid search campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance. |
CRM May 2015 Maria Minsker |
Customer Reviews Drive CitizenShipper's Word-of-Mouth Marketing Trustpilot's review validation platform adds credibility to claims |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 David Szetela |
Google Conversion Optimizer: The Best-Kept Secret in PPC? Google quietly added Conversion Optimizer to every advertiser's AdWords account a few months ago. In a nutshell, it regulates keyword-level bids, promising to deliver as many conversions as possible, at or below a cost-per-conversion you specify. |
Search Engine Watch May 8, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Customer Segmentation and SEO -- A Beautiful Couple Search engine optimization on its own can be a very useful tactic to bring leads to your site. But developing a deeper understanding of your primary markets and using customer segmentation in your content become important SEO considerations that can lead to a higher probability of conversion. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 Ed Slott |
New Rules for Roth 401(k) Conversions Changes for in-plan conversions are buried deep in the fiscal cliff tax deal. Here s how they may affect your clients. |
Search Engine Watch March 15, 2011 Alex Cohen |
3 Tips to Use Paid Search for a Complex Sale Successfully targeting learners vs. buyers requires different approaches. These tips will help you reach your prospects when they're ready to learn. |
Entrepreneur October 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Analyzing the Analytics How to make sense of your website's performance data. |
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2004 Shari Thurow |
Search Engine Marketing For Travel-Related Sites Search marketing in the travel industry is brutally competitive, with intense jockeying between travel agencies, affiliates, wholesalers and travel products companies themselves vying for top positioning. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2011 Ed Slott |
Q&A: Roth IRAs Advisors should be ready for a slew of new tax-related questions about 2010 and 2011 Roth IRA conversions. Here are some of the most frequent questions I receive from financial advisors. |
Search Engine Watch May 7, 2008 Eric Enge |
The Top 3 Reasons PPC Lead Gen Campaigns Miss Volume Targets - Part 2 Understanding how to analyze keywords using a waterfall analysis can give you a great deal of insight into what's happening with your campaign, and bring a sharp focus to the nature of the opportunities available to you. |
Search Engine Watch April 7, 2009 Aaron Shear |
Lassoing Your Loss Leaders Loss leaders are words or phrases that typically have such a high cost that they have a negative conversion rate. However, the general thought with loss leaders is that a user is just starting their research with these highly competitive and costly terms. |