544 Conversion Rate Optimization Tips
All tips are appreciated. Here's 544 ways to make you landing pages convert more effectively.
Optimizing your landing pages or website to perform better is a no-brainer, but if you’re short on time or resources then it helps to have a bag full of tricks to kick things off.
The collection of links below brings together over 500 tips on conversion rate optimization and landing page improvement.
Naturally, there will be some repetition of the core principles, but it’s a good idea to read the perspective of several experts when forming your own opinion.
- The Art of the Landing Page: 7 Tips For Increasing Conversions
- 7 fundamental tactics from one of the industry’s established leaders in landing page optimization and testing.
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- 31 Conversion Optimization Tips – and Counting
- A great quick read from Chris Goward. If you only have a few minutes to spare this is an excellent way to get your creative and analytical juices flowing.
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- 108 Ways to Improve Your Conversion Rate
- A massively long and detailed exploration of conversion optimization covers the concept and discusses how to test your web pages after applying their tips. Includes some great illustrations.
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- 10 Tips for Writing the Ultimate Landing Page
- The Copywriter Maven, Roberta Rosenberg, tackles landing page improvements from the perspective of the writer. Learn how to craft your copy specifically for landing pages from the author of the popular Copyblogger Landing Page Makeover Clinic series.
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- 7 actionable ideas to optimize e-Commerce website conversions for the holiday season
- Seven things you can do to improve the conversion of your e-commerce sites at the busiest shopping times of the year. This is an interesting and refreshing approach that highlights specific things to do during holiday seasons – rather than just generic advice.
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- Why your bounce rate is high and how to fix it – top 6 reasons why visitors immediately exit your website
- If you are new to the idea of conversion optimization, you could use this list to help spot the mistakes you might be making on your website. As they focus on bounce rate, you should do a quick check in Google Analytics to see what your own bounce rate is, and then explore these ideas to try and reduce it.
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- 3 Tips to Optimize Your Email Landing Pages
- Marc Kline examines 3 simple ways to improve the effectiveness of your landing pages when arriving via email marketing campaigns. AWeber are one of the leaders in email communication services so they should know a thing or 3 about the subject.
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- Optimizing Conversion Rates: It’s All About Usability – 5 Tips
- An examination of how usability principles can be applied to conversion optimization. As with all Smashing Magazine articles, there are great examples to complement the writing.
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- 31 quick points to instantly understand online conversion
- A really solid introduction to the concept of conversion and a focus on Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign marketing.
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- 10 techniques for an effective ‘call to action’
- 10 ways to improve the quality and convertability of your pages by focusing on the Call To Action. Tips include discussion of position, design and messaging.
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- 13 quick tips to increase online conversion rate via building trust
- Trust is a fundamental element of brand and conversion success and is the focus of this article. Ways to increase trust and the resulting improvements in conversion rate are discussed.
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- 6 Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages
- Reduce the bounce rate of your landing pages by collecting and understanding customer insight. An excellent perspective on the importance of knowing who your customers are. Lots of examples are provided to illustrate each point.
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- The 6 Landing Page Conversion Rate Factors
- Wider Funnel breaks down the 6 key factors required to improve the lift of your conversion rate.
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- 10 Landing Page Optimization Tactics
- 10 ways to improve your return on investment by optimizing your landing pages.
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- 7 Rules for Landing Page Optimization
- Another quick introduction to the concept of landing page optimization. #4 is a good rule to follow to help give your conversions a bit of last minute pep.
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- 14 Instant Landing Page Upgrades
- 14 suggestions for how to improve your landing pages for PPC and email marketing campaigns.
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- 10 Tips for Lead Generation Landing Pages
- Lead generation is the primary goal of landing pages for B2B marketing. In this post 10 tips are provided focused around capturing more leads to reduce your cost per acquisition.
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- 5 Successful Landing Page Optimization Tips
- Discussion of affiliate marketing and the use of professional design to improve the performance of your landing pages.
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- 30+ principles to a better landing page design
- More than 30 tips focusing on the art of landing page design. The underlying message here is the importance of understanding your visitors and designing in a manner that communicates to them correctly.
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- Design To Sell: 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert
- How to add a marketing element to your design skills – part 1 of a 2 part series.
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- 7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert
- The second article from Dmitry on designing for conversion optimization. As usual there are a lot of good visual examples presented to illustrate each point.
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- Landing Page Optimization For Dummies – 30 Points from the Cheat Sheet
- An overview taken from a book in the popular Dummies series.
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- 10 Landing Page Optimization Tips
- 10 best practices and a list of resource links surrounding the idea of optimizing Calls to Action (CTAs).
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- 5 Landing Page Optimization Tips
- 5 tips including one that talks about the importance of what you do on your thank-you page – an often overlooked facet of full-funnel conversion optimization (the parting gesture).
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- Top 10 Landing Page Optimization Tips
- 10 best practices tips that discuss the optimization of a landing page and why optimization is different to landing page design.
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- 7 Tips To Increase Landing Page Conversions
- Simple tips presented clearly with good working examples which aid understanding through extended context.
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- Conversion Magnet: 10 Tips to Creating a Brilliant Landing Page
- Example websites are examined in Matt’s list of 10 landing page conversion tips. He goes into a lot of depth on each point, making it a worthy read.
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- Optimizing Conversion Rates: Less Effort, More Customers – 3 Tips
- The theme of this post focuses on the online shopping world, and how to increase your success via better and more suitable advertising and increased trust factors. Includes an interesting comparison of different approaches to shipping costs.
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- 12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process to Improve Conversions
- The checkout process is a classic conversion process that should receive a lot of focus from usability and optimization experts. In this post Dmitry talks about not requiring registration, being transparent about availability and keeping the experience simple and focused.
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- 15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design
- I like this approach. By focusing on what NOT to do, Cameron is helping you spot your own mistakes and correct them before they have too big of an impact on your conversion rate. Attention is focused on e-commerce.
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- 101 Landing Page Optimization Tips
- I couldn’t offer up this list without including my own now could I? In this downloadable PDF you’ll find 101 opinionated tips on all aspects of landing page optimization: from the fundamentals, through trust, testing and how to leverage best practices in your personal workflow to ensure better performing pages.
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Thanks to all the websites and authors listed for their great conversion optimization tips.
Making the web convert better – 1 tip at a time.
Did I Miss Any Tips? Share Yours Below.
If you have any articles on the subject of conversion rate optimization or landing page optimization, then please share below.
Or add your own tip like Ben did in the comments.
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