Internet Marketing Strategies - Easy to Implement Methods to Higher Website Conversion

Website conversion mastery is an online marketing term that refers to techniques designed to increase a website’s conversion rate.

The conversion rate refers to the success of a website in encouraging visitors to take specific actions or in the website’s success in achieving specific goals. In general, the metric may be measured as conversion rate = number of actions achieved / number of website visitors.

For example, content creators are focused on encouraging visitors to register for membership, download software, subscribe to newsletters and so on. At this level, a website’s conversion success may, for example, be measured as conversion rate = number of newsletter subscriptions / number of website visitors.

At the financial level, an online business is ultimately seeking to achieve sales and profits. For this purpose, its conversion metric might be measured by its sales conversion rate = sales revenue / number of website visitors.

Most websites convert only a fraction of visitors into paying customers. Online conversion rates typically average about two or three percent. Some sites achieve ten percent. Very few get to fifteen percent.

Internet marketers identify a range of measures to improve conversion rates including measures focused on researching visitor demographics and psychographics (or personalities); developing a unique selling proposition; performance gaps; total website redesign; persuasion architecture; testing and conversion paths; strengthening the site’s credibility by displaying official independent endorsements as well as positive customer feedback; and finally, total website redesign. Many of these measures require significant research and many months to complete.

There are many strategies which can help you in converting your site traffic into money. Arguably, the top five strategies for achieving significant short term improvements may be listed as:

1. Understand your visitors’ goals

2. Populate the site with high quality content (text, images, audio, video)

3. Design an uncluttered page layout

4. Review website design to improve usability (so as to decrease visitor drop-off Rate) by removing barriers to conversion

5. Improve overall site navigation

If you are out to attract prospective customers and develop your online presence and exposure, you owe it to yourself and the financial future of your business to learn everything you can about Internet marketing.

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Dr. Dave Hale, The Internet Marketing Professor, specializes in the integration of Web 2.0 strategies into business marketing systems of all sizes.