As an eCommerce site you most likely employ many tactics to increase your traffic. With more than $3 billion spent on paid search alone, you might think that increasing traffic to your site is the best way to increase revenue.
It’s just one way.
Many eCommerce sites overlook the landing page. They spend so much time focusing on driving traffic, social media and page rank, that they forget the landing page. That’s got to change. The landing page is one of the most important ways to increase your revenue.
According to econsultancy, for every $92 spent acquiring customers, sites only spend $1 converting them. Let’s examine this lopsided stat. This study says that sites spend nearly $100 getting people to their site, but then they only spend $1 to keep them there. The odds they’ll stay? We’d say not too well.
Let’s clarify the landing page. A landing page doesn’t mean only your home page. A “landing page” is any page on your site that visitors can “land” on. Thus stems the importance of optimizing every “landing page” on your site.
We’re going to talk about seven landing page optimization mistakes eCommerce companies make and through this discussion, help spread the word about the importance of landing page optimization.
Mistake #1: The Mismatched Headline
Suppose you are selling men’s fishing boots, and you’ve created a Google Ad. Your ad headline says, “Looking for Men’s Shearling Fishing Boots?”
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