For a serious business, it takes time and money to launch a well-functioning, branded website – sometimes only to witness little to no traffic. And even when visitors land, the majority of them bounce back to SERPs without taking action, a frustrating and all-too-common scenario for aspiring businesses.
But there’s a solution: website optimization, through which you can detect and address your site’s weak points, all by virtue of SEO, CRO, eliminating friction points, and other techniques I’m going to cover just below.
Once done, a proper website optimization strategy will help you drive more traffic, sales, and conversions.
Dive into this guide to learn the essential steps of website optimization and the website elements you might need to improve to see your bottom line grow.
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Did you know 63% of online buyers prefer to purchase only after a positive shopping experience? Poorly optimized websites lose two-thirds of their potential revenue, a serious concern for business owners.
No matter what you sell – if your user experience is laggy, SEO provides no visibility, and friction causes drop-offs, very few users will buy from you. But once your website elements align, you’ve got a potent marketing engine that puts your offers on the map and encourages your clients to act as you desire.
Here are some obvious benefits of optimized websites:
| Brand awareness | If users don’t convert immediately, they at least recognize your brand and stay open to future offers. |
| Mobile experience | A well-optimized site runs smoothly on mobile devices, boosting sales from smartphones and tablets. |
| Conversions | Content grabs attention and converts users into followers, buyers, or referrers. |
| Revenue | An increasing number of users interact with your website, resulting in more purchases and higher revenue. |
Surprisingly, FirstPageSage found that well-thought-out SEO can deliver a 748% ROI, making it an unshakable element of website optimization. SEO is divided into on-page and off-page:
The following paragraphs explore both, focusing on the most effective practices.
Google uses keywords, titles, and meta descriptions to identify the gist of your website or page and present it to relevant users.
First things first, you need to enrich your website with keywords, which are the queries users type in search engines to find the content they need.
Here’s how you can do it:
| “To get started in an unfamiliar area where you don’t have traffic and might not have a lot of data, do keyword research to see what kind of problems people are facing. Then write content that solves those problems or answers the questions that they’ve got. Make sure that what you’re doing is good and valuable.” – Jeannine Crooks from Amplify Webinar |
Once you’re done with keywords, ensure that the title and description communicate the content of your page and are enticing and within the optimal length range: 60 symbols for titles and 160 symbols for descriptions. Use this SERP simulator to measure your title and description lengths.
Although meta content is crucial for website optimization, it can’t resurrect difficult-to-read and non-informative pages – these quickly become invisible to Google.
Follow these guidelines to maximize content visibility:
| Utilize short paragraphs | Massive chunks of text repel users, so make sure to divide your pages into paragraphs and headers. |
| Add tables and lists | Whenever you have to describe three or more items, use a table, numbered list, or bullet points. |
| Be informative | Improve website content with facts, numbers, and case studies, and remove content that lacks substance. This will also increase user engagement, making it easier for readers to navigate your content and act. |
Backlinks are inarguably the top ranking factor. And while it takes time and effort to increase your domain authority, the good news is that you can get backlinks naturally by publishing case studies or other unique and valuable content. Statista maintains a 93/100 domain authority by constantly uploading useful case studies that others link to reinforce their points. Currently, Statista counts nearly 500,000 backlinks, making it one of the best SEO-optimized websites.
Another website optimization essential is internal linking, which involves linking your pages in a way that allows users to access related content when needed.
To organically connect your content, divide it into clusters or topical pillar pages. For example, an insurance website can have a cluster dedicated to life insurance and interlink the pages that belong to it. Then, as your website expands, you can link new pages to pillars and update the linking structure accordingly.
At this point, search engines must already work on your website optimization, but there is still a missing part: conversion rate optimization (CRO).
Here’s how you can grow your conversion rates across the board, step-by-step:
To begin, create an ideal customer profile (ICP) based on their demographics, psychographics, and pain points. Broader audiences may require several ICPs.
Next, use this data to send the right message to the right user at the right time. For example, an HVAC company, Carrier, does it quite effectively by showcasing their environmental impact and the thriving working conditions that their customers can experience.
Your content must synergize across touchpoints and marketing funnel stages to take consumers on a journey from being unaware of your brand to becoming your clients. A classic 4-stage sales funnel helps with that.
| Stage | Goal |
| Awareness | Build recognition through useful content, both organic (blog, social media posts, etc.) and paid ads. |
| Interest | Maintain educational focus within a comprehensive yet non-aggressive promotion strategy. |
| Consideration | Collect users’ emails to nurture them into purchase-ready leads over time. |
| Action | Use special offers, personalized emails, and retargeting ads to promote more aggressively to warmed-up leads. |
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Based on the ZeroBounce study, 93% of respondents use email every day. They sort their inbox, write letters, and browse through marketing emails – your brand promotion can be among them.
Indeed, email marketing is a broad topic that warrants a separate page for explanation. But if talking briefly, the open rate of your emails hinges on personalization – ensure your letters aren’t spammy by using the recipient’s name and presenting a unique offer in the subject line.
As for the body of the email, make sure it solves a specific problem, with at least one clear CTA:
Poor website navigation is a common sales funnel bottleneck, reducing engagement with your blog pages and emails. To reduce friction, adjust your site’s button colors, layout, etc.
Here’s how you can do it with Phonexa’s HitMetrix:
Phonexa’s HitMetrix not only helps elevate your navigation but also reveals the entire user journey from visiting your website to purchasing to make informed funnel adjustments.
By identifying which pages users spend the most time on, where they ignore CTAs, and how they behave during the checkout process, you gain clear insights into what specific areas need improvement.
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The likelihood of your users’ conversion directly correlates to your page loading speed:
Here’s how to carry out website performance optimization:
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Website optimization is a complex process of enhancing website components, including SEO, navigation, and loading speed, to deliver the best possible website performance. Well-optimized websites generate more conversions and sales.
To carry out effective CRO, you start by identifying your site’s weak spots: poor content quality, broken sales funnel, etc. Now, develop and implement supposed improvements, run A/B tests, and enhance your site with changes with positive results.
Follow these steps to optimize your website for SEO:
To begin with, implement lazy loading, reduce the size of your images without sacrificing quality, and place important content at the top of your page. Next, improve your website hosting, and a faster website speed will come.
Web content optimization starts with creating topic clusters. For example, a finance blog can have a cluster about loans, presenting popular US lenders, types of loans, etc. Ensure that pages within a cluster are interlinked and filled with useful information, such as case studies and unique guides or compilations. Finally, don’t forget to fill your content with relevant keywords, structure it with lists and tables, and write meta tags.
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