
Form Design Best Practices For the Best Sign-up Forms that Convert
It’s a scenario we’ve all had to deal with far too many times. You stand in a long queue for a long time in front of an office window. Then when your turn comes, the person in charge hands you a piece of paper. And with a dull and monotonous voice says, “Fill out this...

How to Use Customer Testimonials On Websites And Get Buyers to Take Action
You know what it's like. You go to a site to buy something. You're interested in their offer. So you look for customer testimonials. But you can't find them. What happens next? Doubt seeps into your brain. You start to wonder if there's any truth to the site's claim....

Get Customers to Buy Using the Familiarity Effect
Have you heard of the time eBay changed its background color from yellow to white? People hated it. So what did eBay do? The legend story goes that they made a code which in the course of a few months, incrementally changed the color to white. One shade different...

Lead Generation Landing Page Best Practices
Let's not beat around the bush. If you're having problems generating leads, your business is going nowhere. Without a system that continuously generates leads, your business shrivels like an orange left out in the sun. You know what it's like. You have an offer with...

The Ultimate Guide to Trust Badges
You’ve done the hard job. You’ve attracted people to your site. They’ve read your copy. And they’re convinced your product is the one. They should now be itching to click the buy button. Well, not so fast, cowboy! This is the internet we’re talking about. And in this...

Fast Track the ROI of your Website Portfolio with Conversion Optimization
So. You’ve managed to build an amazing operations and SEO team for your website portfolio. All your main SEO keywords are on the front page or inside the top 3. You take websites to fully-fledged businesses in under a year. You know with certainty that you can...

User Experience: Your Guide For Improved CRO & SEO
User Experience (UX) has grown increasingly important over the years for getting the best out of your website. On the internet, where attention spans are lower than ever. Where there’s more competition, constantly raising the bar. You need to be at the top of your...

How to Reduce Cognitive Load
Your target customer lands on your site overwhelmed with many concerns. He’s plagued with distractions. A crying toddler. Hard day at work. Hangover. Slow computer. Dog demanding a walk. Because of this, he has limited energy to spend on your site. Psychologists call...

Foot in the Door Technique
Get this:Trust is one of the most powerful elements of your online business. Get people to trust you and conversions will skyrocket. If they trust you, they’ll listen to every word you say. If they trust you, they’ll buy what you sell. If they trust you, they’ll tell...

Understanding Bounce Rate
Bounce rate is an important metric. There’s only one problem. It’s largely, and highly misunderstood. See. People immediately associate a high bounce rate as an SEO problem. Which leads to agitation. But in fact, it’s mostly a CRO issue. And it isn’t a problem. It’s...

10Beasts: A Unique Affiliate Site Case Study
In November 2018, I did a presentation at the Chiang Mai SEO conference. I used 10Beasts as an example and discussed tweaks I would do to the website to increase its conversion rates. If we were to potentially work with them, that is. I also wanted to show how even...

How to Create the Best Call-to-Action Buttons
A lighthouse.That’s what your call-to-action (CTA) button is.It stops people in their tracks and leads them into a new course of action.But there’s one difference.When a ship captain sees a lighthouse, there’s only one certainty. There’s only one course of action -...

This is How You Use Social Proof to Make More Sales
Let’s see how good your visual perception is. Look at the two images below. Which of the lines in image 2 is the same length as the line in image 1? Easy, right? Now imagine there are 9 other people with you in the room. I ask them the same question. All 9 first give...

How to Design Pricing Pages that Convert
Pricing page.Product page.Landing page.Whatever you call it doesn't matter.We all know one thing:The person on this page is ready to buy. He just needs a little nudge to assure him that he’s making the right decision.This is an important page on your site.If this page...

eCommerce Conversion Optimization Case Study
eCommerce Conversion Optimization Case Study We’ve all been there: On the hamster wheel. You spend many long days and sleepless nights fighting tooth and nail to get more people to your site. You work on your SEO endlessly, You spend a big chunk of your revenue...

Scarcity Tactics used by the World’s Biggest Brands
16 seconds. That’s how quickly the $1800 Supreme x Rimowa 82L luggage sold out. It was an unlikely collaboration between a luxury brand and a streetwear company. There were no fancy ads or elaborate marketing campaigns. There was only a post on Instagram signaling to...

Perceived Value Theory 101
Imagine this: You're about to rescue a child stuck on the ledge of a cliff. There are two bags in front of you. Each bag contains a rescue kit. Here’s the kicker: One was made in Germany. The other in China. Which one would you pick? The bag you choose shows that you...
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[CASE STUDY] – How we Generated an Extra $15,048 in Monthly Revenue in 34 Days
The headline sounds like click bait right? It got your attention. That is what it was meant to do. You are about to learn exactly what web optimization techniques we did to increase one of our client’s monthly income by over $15,048. By the end of this post, you will...

Why Most Affiliate Site Split-Tests Fail (and how to fix it)
I have discussed this topic in previous posts but there is still a lot of confusion about the triple set up for affiliate split tests.In this post I will walk through in more detail and show you the solution to a major issue for affiliate SEOs:How to run a split test...

The Best AB Testing Tools 2020
Every week, I get asked, “What are the best AB testing tools?” The answer purely depends on your specific goals and requirements. To decide which software is best for you, consider a few things: Are you doing CRO on one or a few of your own sites or are you running an...

Attention SEO: How to Put Your Conversion Rate Optimization on Steroids
I was 15 years old: It was the year 2000. We had just survived the Y2k bug. There was a buzz in the air. The computer world wasn't over. Photocred. For anyone born after 1990, you'll remember, this was a strange time. As a nerd, it was the only thing we worried...

Monthly CRO Roundup – May 2018
If you’re anything like the team here at Convertica, you’re so absorbed in tinkering with, testing, and adjusting (and then testing again) everything on your site that you’ve missed some of the exciting things going on in the CRO world.Don’t worry, I don’t work the...

Empire Flippers Lead Generation Conversion Rate Optimization Case study
Today, I’d like to share a case study with you. Convertica’s experience working on the Empire Flippers valuation tool is the perfect example of the power of CRO done the right way. Analytics & Conversion Rate Optimization doesn’t have to be complicated, it just...

High Traffic & Low Conversions: Our 12-Step Checklist for Perfecting Your CRO Process
When it comes to CRO, the hardest part can be deciding what to start optimizing. I have already done a post showing where to start if you're new to CRO. The questions is, when you have the areas to focus on identified, what do you start testing? [sc...

4 A/B Split Testing Mistakes Newbies Should Avoid
What if I told you, you could find conversion rate increases with every single A/B split test by avoiding a few newbie mistakes. It's true. But that's the tragic feast or famine reality of A/B testing. Get it right, and your affiliate site is now a CRO BEAST that...

A Simple Conversion Rate Optimization Blueprint (for Newbies)
I live and breathe CRO. Every single week I talk to newbie, intermediate & high-level SEO’s and 99% of the time, the conversation goes the same way. These are actual comments from guys making more than 100k a year from SEO. "I can build and rank them, I just don’t...

4 Step CRO Blueprint for Increasing your Revenue in 2018.
January 16, 2018The SEO world is changing rapidly. In 2012, SEO was so consistent you could run the same system and get the same results over and over. At the start of 2018 it has completely changed, and no longer as straight-forward as it once was. Times have...
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[AFFILIATE CASE STUDY] Part II: Increasing Monthly Income by $32,532 in under a 90 days.
It’s a Sunday afternoon and I’m packing my suitcase in preparation for my trip back to Chiang Mai for the Diggity Marketing annual SEO conference. My phone starts ringing. It’s Robert. Me: Rob, what’s up.Robert: We did it man! Check your skype. Me: Wait, you hit...
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[AFFILIATE CASE STUDY] – How we Generated an Extra $15,048 in Monthly Revenue in 34 Days
The headline sounds like click bait right? It got your attention. That is what it was meant to do. You are about to learn exactly what web optimization techniques we did to increase one of our client’s monthly income by over $15,048. By the end of this post, you will...

The How-To of CRO: Step 1: Heat maps – Top Conversion Rate Optimization Tools
Today I’m going to go through and talk about my favorite heat map software and what we use them for. I'll go through my website that I've actually been running heat maps on for a while like a live case so that you can see a how it all works. I will go into this in...

Best Heat Map Tools for Websites
Are your website visitors not converting as much as you want? Use a heat map to find where they drop off. Are your users adding products to the cart but not checking out? Use a heat map. Do you want to know if your CTA button is doing its job? Start with a heat map....

Best Books for Understanding Conversion Rate Optimization
People constantly reach out to ask me what my favorite reads are on CRO, or if I can recommend books to provide a good foundation in CRO. Anyone who wants to learn about the fundamentals of CRO can do so by picking up a few good titles. Below are two of my 3 favorite...