Using Internal Search To Optimize Your Website

Using Internal Search To Optimize Your Website

Drew eloquently described how to easily activate internal search tracking in Google Analytics. Let’s look into how you can use the data from the report. [box] Do visitors use the search function? Unless you have a specific site or section of your site that lends itself to searches (i.e. a large ecommerce site, a huge archive or catalog, many articles, or anything else that requires many database entries or lots of content), don’t expect a ...

anatomy of a killer landing page

The Anatomy of a Killer Landing Page

You’re doing it wrong. Do your online ads simply link to your homepage? Maybe you link directly to an event page or ticketing page. Okay, you’re doing better, but you’re likely still missing out. Landing pages are vastly underused in the arts. A landing page is simply the first page someone sees after clicking an online ad or an email or, heaven forbid, scans a QR code (is anyone still doing that?) Maybe you think ...

Pre-Populating Your Forms to Increase Conversions

There are many ways and many tips and tricks to increase conversion rates online. One of my favorite tricks is pre-populating a form with information you already have about a customer. We all know the fewer items you ask in an opt-in form, the better the conversion rate. When folks sign up for my wife’s music school updates, all we’re asking for is first name, last name and email address. That’s a low barrier. We ...

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