Conversion rate optimization, starting with numbers you can trust
If your site converts two percent of visitors and could convert four, you are paying twice what you need to for every lead, on every channel, forever. That is a larger and cheaper opportunity than most traffic campaigns, and almost nobody works on it because traffic is easier to sell.
We start by making sure the measurement is real, because optimizing against a broken conversion event is worse than doing nothing. Then we find where people actually leave, prioritize by likely impact against effort, fix the obvious things immediately, and test only where there is enough traffic for a result to mean anything.
Verify the tracking before optimizing anything
We check every conversion action against something a human would call a lead, and reconcile the counts against your inbox and CRM. If page views or button clicks are being counted as conversions, every optimization decision made from that data was noise. This is where a surprising number of engagements stop and restart.
Include the phone, or you are optimizing a fraction
For most service businesses the majority of leads arrive by phone and are invisible in analytics. Optimizing a site while ignoring the channel most of your customers use produces confident conclusions about the wrong thing. Call tracking goes in early.
Watch real sessions
Twenty recorded sessions on your highest value pages will teach you more than a quarter of dashboard analysis. You see the person hunting for a phone number, giving up on a form field, or scrolling past the thing you thought was the main message.
Fix the obvious before testing anything
A form asking eleven questions, a phone number that is not a link on mobile, or a page with no clear next step do not need an experiment. They need fixing this week. Testing is for the genuinely uncertain decisions, not for things everyone already knows are wrong.
Be honest about traffic volume
Valid A B testing needs meaningful conversion volume, and most local and regional service sites do not have it. Running tests anyway produces random results that get treated as findings. We say when a test is not statistically possible and use judgment and best practice instead.
Then keep the wins
Every change gets recorded with what it did. Over a year that becomes a set of patterns specific to your business and your buyers, which is what makes each new page start better than the last one did.
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