The Essentee Blog

How engaging is your website and why should you care?

2017-03-09T00:41:42+00:00

'Engagement' is open to interpretation but for the purposes of this post and in the context of a website, it means how well your site captures people's attention and encourages them to do something – be it read content, push buttons, fill out a form, make a comment etc.

So, how do you know? You can't actually measure how engaged a person is, but you can infer it by what they do on the website. And how do you measure it? - enter Google Analytics statistics

Of course you need to be clear about the goals of your website and how you want people to use it to really understand how you are doing and what your engagement statistics mean. Everything may not be what it seems at first glance.

Improve your website with these 5 landing page rules

2017-01-22T21:13:05+00:00

A landing page is any web page that a visitor can arrive at or “land” on.

It's common to refer to a landing page as being a stand alone web page that has been designed for a single focused objective in response to an advertising campaign, say from Adwords.

However, much of what makes sense for a landing page makes sense for any page on your website – particularly those that relate to your services or products. Because visitors could arrive – or land- on any page on your website not just your homepage.

So here's five you can easily apply:

What is a website 'landing page' ?

2016-04-19T05:29:19+00:00

This is term used frequently in online marketing conversations – so what does it mean?

It's an important concept that can make a significant difference to the effectiveness of your online marketing efforts.

Using AIDA to improve website conversion rates

2016-01-13T02:20:00+00:00

People often cry "My website gets plenty of visitors, but they aren't doing anything!" By 'anything' they mean they aren't filling out that form, requesting a quote, buying something, subscribing to a blog or whatever other action is required.

This can be very frustrating, as after all that's why you spent all that time, effort and money to get the website looking like the thing of beauty that it (hopefully) is.

The process of turning a visitor (prospect or lead) into a sale (sign up, enquiry or purchase) is what is know as conversion. Your website could (actually, no – make that should) have multiple conversion goals to support different stages in the buying cycle.

And if it's not happening on your website, the question is "Why?" and that's what this post is all about. But first things first.....

How to Use Pop-Ups On Your Website to Drive Conversions

2015-10-02T02:54:35+00:00

One of the biggest challenges for any website owner or marketers is how to get more people to do something on your website whether it is buy, sign-up, download, subscribe or enquire.

Competing for that all-important attention from impatient website visitors can be a real head scratcher. Enter pop-ups.

Historically pop-ups have a reputation as an annoying distraction, interfering with the user experience. Although they do have a bad reputation, but there is evidence that they a) work and b) done properly you can avoid annoying existing or potential customers.

How to get more enquiries from your website.

2015-03-02T02:35:51+00:00

We all want our website to send us tons of business, right?

But achieving this can be a frustratingly elusive goal for many business owners.

Fortunately I'm here to tell you there are proven tactics to work toward achieving it and some of them are contained in this post.

It takes at least seven touches to make a sale – where does your website fit in?

2013-04-24T04:28:44+00:00

Are you the proud of owner of a website that looks good, but for some reason isn't pulling it's weight?

Wondering why?

It could be that there is not enough on your website to encourage multiple visits or touches with your business.

Web Design Tips: Effective Calls to Action

2011-01-05T02:33:18+00:00

Web users have very short attention spans – and your visitors will have come to your website for a reason.

Make it clear to them how to achieve it with calls to action that people just can't resist and can't be ignored!