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A Beginner’s Guide to Conversion Rate Optimization

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Did you know&comma; on average&comma; every dollar spent on marketing generates <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nielsen&period;com&sol;us&sol;en&sol;solutions&sol;capabilities&sol;marketing-roi&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">around &dollar;0&period;70<&sol;a> of profit&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If your marketing isn&&num;8217&semi;t producing much profit&comma; you might have issues in regards to generating conversions&period; If that&&num;8217&semi;s the case&comma; you may need to optimize your campaigns so that you&&num;8217&semi;re able to generate more money from your marketing spend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Read on&comma; and you&&num;8217&semi;ll learn how conversion rate optimization &lpar;CRO&rpar; can help you address this challenge&period; If you want to squeeze more out of your marketing&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll soon discover how CRO can help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Let&&num;8217&semi;s begin&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>What Is Conversion Rate Optimization&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Conversion rate optimization is when you try to get more people to complete a meaningful action during the customer journey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">What counts as a meaningful action will depend on your goals and the customer journey stage you&&num;8217&semi;re dealing with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">For instance&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s take the example of a landing page that asks people to enter their details in exchange for a whitepaper&period; In this instance&comma; a meaningful action might be getting people to enter their details when they hit this page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Therefore&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re doing CRO work on this landing page&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll try to increase the percentage of people that provide their details&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">CRO is a good thing because it helps you generate more customers without having to spend more money&period; For example&comma; suppose you&&num;8217&semi;re <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;roi-formulas-ppc-manager-know&sol;">using PPC ads<&sol;a> to drive traffic to a landing page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You might find that you have to spend &dollar;100 to generate ten signups&period; Well&comma; with the help of CRO&comma; you might instead be able to generate 20 qualified leads after spending &dollar;100&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">This means you now make more money from your marketing budget&comma; thereby allowing for a more profitable business model&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Make One Change at a Time<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you want to succeed with CRO&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a good idea to focus on making one change during each &&num;8216&semi;stage of testing&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">For instance&comma; suppose you&&num;8217&semi;re trying to optimize a landing page that has a header&comma; an image&comma; and a button&period; When doing CRO work&comma; you should only adjust one of these elements at a given time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In doing so&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll be a lot easier to determine what leads to an improvement or reduction in results&period; You can then use this knowledge when you&&num;8217&semi;re optimizing other parts of the customer journey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Now&comma; doing things this way can take more time&comma; and it does require some discipline&period; But&comma; if you want to end up with a clean data set that provides clear conclusions&comma; this is the best way to do things&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Make Use of Software<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Performing CRO tests can be complicated&comma; but thankfully&comma; there are many software suites that make the task easy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Most of these software suites give you access to a simple &&num;8216&semi;visual editor&&num;8217&semi; that allows you to perform tests&period; Using this editor&comma; you can select the elements found on a webpage&comma; and you can then adjust them any way you want to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So&comma; you can click on a button and change its size&comma; shape&comma; and color without having to mess around with any code&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">That said&comma; you will need to tinker with some code if you want to &&num;8216&semi;install&&num;8217&semi; these solutions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; this isn&&num;8217&semi;t that hard to do&comma; as you just need to embed some JavaScript code onto the pages you want to optimize&period; If your website runs on WordPress&comma; you can install a plugin that&&num;8217&semi;ll help you embed this code&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Besides these visual editor tools&comma; you may also want to invest in &&num;8216&semi;session replay&&num;8217&semi; tools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Such tools will record website visits&comma; thereby allowing you to see how people interact with your site&period; You can then use these recordings to identify potential sticking points in regards to website usability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Note that session replay tools have many use cases outside of what we&&num;8217&semi;ve covered above&period; If you have questions about these potential use cases&comma; you can <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;decibel&period;com&sol;blog&sol;6-cro-experts-on-why-session-replay-is-essential-to-improving-digital-experiences&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">get answers<&sol;a> here&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Set Up Tracking<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A lot of the time&comma; CRO comes down to studying data and then makes changes based on what you find&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Following this&comma; you need to set up tracking tools&comma; so you&&num;8217&semi;re able to capture data that you can later analyze&period; If you want to install these tools&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll need to embed some code into your site&comma; as with the examples mentioned earlier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The tracking tools you use will depend on the kind of marketing activities you&&num;8217&semi;re doing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">For example&comma; if you just have a simple blog&comma; you might be okay with installing something basic like Google Analytics&period; Yet&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re running Facebook Ads&comma; you should install the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;business&sol;help&sol;742478679120153" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Facebook Pixel<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">That&&num;8217&semi;s because if you install this pixel&comma; you can see which ads are producing conversions&period; You can then use this data to optimize your ad campaigns and the landing pages associated with these ads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Go Against Best Practices<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">As you begin to take CRO more seriously&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll probably read some resources that teach you how to perform tests&period; These resources will often list some best practices you should follow whenever you&&num;8217&semi;re running a CRO experiment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">While these best practices can be helpful&comma; you shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be afraid to go against them from time to time&period; In doing so&comma; you may discover strategies that other people aren&&num;8217&semi;t aware of&comma; and thus you may gain an edge over your competitors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Of course&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re going to go against these best practices&comma; you may also experience a sharp decrease in conversions&period; However&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s worth taking this risk when you consider the potential upside&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Will You Take CRO Seriously&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you take conversion rate optimization seriously&comma; you can improve the profitability of your business&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It&&num;8217&semi;s important to remember CRO is a skill&comma; and so it might take a while before you&&num;8217&semi;re able to produce some good CRO tests&period; Due to this&comma; you shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be too hard on yourself if it takes a long time to improve conversions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You just need to make sure you&&num;8217&semi;re performing a test each and every day&period; If you do that&comma; you should eventually create a test that&&num;8217&semi;ll deliver brilliant results&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you want to read another piece of content&comma; please visit our blog&comma; and you&&num;8217&semi;ll see our latest posts&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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