In this Article I want to tell you about a mistake I made reorganizing
my site which doubled the conversion rate of my site as a result.
Every business owner closely watches their conversion rate and
continuously searches for ways and strategies to increase this
magic number - in other words: manage to turn more and more
visitors into buyers.
I am not any exception and most of the steps I take in my business
are confronted with the impact these will have on the conversion
rate of my site.
When I was designing my site and creating the business plan
back in 2000, I planned on having one site on one domain only
focusing on one theme and divided into sections focused on related
subcategories.
I did as I planned and I was correct. Very fast I achieved #1 ranking
on all the major search engines for my main keywords and top ranking
for hundreds of related keywords targeted my site, and before long
my site developed automated and targeted traffic. My site ranked
within top 10,000 sites on the Internet, my Ezine Pathway To Success
grew over 130,000 subscribers and my sales followed accordingly.
Everything went smoothly until my marvellous hosting company was
sold to solely money-oriented people, with no interest in the necessary
technical requirements, and diverting the traffic of their clients
to their domain on top. It started to threaten my site and I had
to change it for another host.
PLUS, as my site grew beyond manageable size, I started to receive
quite a lot of requests for making it easier and faster to navigate
from subscribers and clients who were not willing to dig :)
My main service is to comply with the wishes of my audience, so I
developed a plan of reorganizing my site into subdomains focusing
on the main and most frequented niches incl my Ezine with my main
site focused on my main theme ie Internet Business Consultancy and
the tools and resources for home based business owners who seek
strategies for making their sites profitable.
As with all my ideas: as soon as I adopt a plan, I put it into
reality. So, I performed the overhaul of my site pretty fast.
As I was changing my hosting company and was not too accustomed
with the rules of my new host, I didn't know that my Ezine is not
delivered as it should, which I, in fact, learned later from my
subscribers.
The timing couldn't be worse: and that's exactly where the mistake
occurred: my site lost the automatic amounts of targeted traffic
it used to be receiving because my subscribers didn't receive my
ezine regularly, search engines only perceived the reduced size
of my main domain site and had yet to index all of my new subdomain
sites, so my overall Internet ranking dropped and suddenly I was
worse off than on the start.
I was really annoyed! Luckily, I found the cause out quite fast
and adopted strategies to again:
- establish automated targeted traffic by getting my new
subdomains indexed and top ranked by search engines:
separate Google sitemaps for the new subdomains did the trick
within days.
- deliver my ezine properly by installing several automatic
broadcasters: several different systems like dada mail, php...
Even though my traffic nor my overall Internet ranking is yet that
good as it used to be, I managed to actually double the conversion
rate of my site (which is great!) by leading the right visitors
straight to the part of my site containing the information and
products they are seeking without making them search my site or
leave it.
Plus I have added a couple of audios, special widgets and gadgets
making my site more attractive and interactive.
To sum up: this way I easily updated the majority of the pages and
my tests show that my site is doing better and better every day.
I don't say that making stupid mistakes like this is always a way
to do the right things. What I want to say is that even making
mistakes is better than doing nothing and expect miracles.
So, if you feel that your business can perform better (- every
business can), do something about it. Check the possibilities,
compare with your goals, ACT NOW and check the results!
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Irena Whitfield is the Internet Business Consultant you need if
you are seeking a dependable income from your home based business:
http://money.thecassiopeia.com/
