In Brand Perfect’s survey of top retailers, 29% of shoppers said poor design was a major reason for aborting an online shopping session. Remember rotating sliders that were on just about every website you went to? It turns out they were terrible for conversions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wisely observed that nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Your website should do the same. That’s especially true when it comes to your checkout process or landing page. When a visitor lands there, you’re just a few clicks (give or take) away from conversion.

We are in the middle of a cultural shift. This evolving change is highly visible in the current state of communication. As attention spans continue to shorten, the significance of the novel and long-form is giving way to the 140-character tweet, the ephemeral 10-second Snapchat (with an optional caption) and…

Eye movements. Have you ever thought about this? It’s not exactly the most popular topic in Internet marketing. But it is extremely important. The most basic interaction that a user has with your website is looking at it. How a user looks at your website has a profound impact upon…

Designing for higher conversions ain’t easy. Most CROs focus on tweaking their headlines, optimizing USPs and crafting compelling CTAs. Don’t get me wrong, these elements are incredibly important. Copy is after all at the heart of optimization. If you neglect to test and optimize your copy even the prettiest of…

The days of the long-form homepage are over! Or they might be anyway… In the past few days I’ve noticed a trend being adopted, or at least being tested, by several different sites. Specifically, the format involves encouraging visitors to try their software immediately, on the homepage, without the need…

Usability is a big part of conversion rate optimization, so it pays to get it right. You’ve got to design pages that are easy to use and keep people engaged. Otherwise, how will you get them to browse your site and respond to offers? The gold standard is

Is there such a thing as the perfect WordPress theme? Until now, I would have told you that was impossible. But now… James Farmer, CEO of Edublogs and IncSub, recently showed me a new WordPress theme that actually took my breath away. And I have to tell you, I’m seriously…

Conversion rate optimization is about optimizing existing traffic on your website. But what if you’re in the design phase of a new website? Can you design your website to be CRO-ready from day one—so it’s already set up to optimize your conversion rates? The key is to get the basic framework…