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Increasing Conversions By Creating High Converting 404 Error Pages

One of the first things on everybody’s mind when they start a new website is to produce as much content as possible. After all, we want to get those backlinks, and we want to get a consistent stream of visitors to your website right?

Months go by, and you start to see more and more traffic coming it, this is a good indicator that you’re on the right track solving the same problems that your product is solving through the media you’re creating and promoting.

But did you know that the average lifespan of a webpage is around 100 days? According to Brewster Kahle, digital librarian at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, links tend to go bad over time due to moved or deleted content or changes in permalink structure.

So this means, that the beautiful, interesting experience your visitor is expecting can turn sideways when they are greeted with the dreaded 404, or “page not found” message.

One error page can kill all your hard work.

And what will the visitor do? They will hit that back button in their browser and go straight back to the search result page, trying to find a website that CAN help them with their problems.

Your first opportunity to impress a new lead and you just blew it, outdated and permanently moved web pages will leave your leads hanging without you giving them the opportunity to start a loving relationship.

No wonder that according to a 2010 study by Firefox, the back button was the most used navigational feature in their browser.

Although there is no formal estimate of the amount of lost sales and opportunities caused by people landing on a “page not found” page, we’re pretty sure every lost sale opportunity is one to money.

It isn’t all bad news though because 404 pages also represent opportunities if done well. If someone lands on your 404 page, you have their attention. How you use that attention is directly related to how successful your site will be in converting visitors.

This article will focus on turning those 404 error pages, into revenue, leads and sales.

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Getting More Leads By Creating The Perfect Contact Page

How many interested customers or clients reach out to you via your contact form?

Next, to your About Us page, your Contact page is one of the most important pages on your entire site. This is especially true if you’re offering a service based business that relies on people reaching out to you to work together with you.

Think about it for a second, people consume your content, they read more about your company and why you would be the perfect fit for them, next step they end up on your contact page.

Now what?

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How to Create the Perfect About Page That Drives Leads

Just like your thank you pages, your about page is one of the most overlooked pages on most websites. They are, however, one of the highest ranked pages on many websites.

So no matter what you call them, About, About Us, Meet the People, your About pages are important. REALLY important.

Surprised? Think about it from the perspective of the customers. They land on your website, the see your products, but they have no clue who you are. Your “About Us” page, is the place where they can not only find out more about what makes you, your business, or your product tick but more importantly what you can do for them.

Next to that, because they are most of the time the highest ranked pages on your website, it could also turn out to be one of the most common entry points.

So if this is such an important page, when this page sees so much traffic, why are most “About Us” pages so BORING?

Most of the time people spend days or months working on a good piece of content hoping it will rank well and will generate lots of traffic, so why aren’t you taking the same care for your About Us page?

In this article, we will show you 6 different ways to make your “About Us” page a lot less boring and a lot more converting.

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How Facebook Groups Can Help You Increase Your Organic Reach

Years ago before any of the major social networks popped up on the internet every little niche had their forums on the web. Some of them had tens of thousands of active users talking about anything you can think of. From restoring cars to training your dogs.

All you had to do was perform a search in the reigning search engines of the day, and you could find a great forum to participate in and started building relationships with the people on the forums.

Nowadays, Facebook Groups have pretty much replaced those niche forums. This is great from the user point of view because you can participate in 30 groups at the same time and it all runs through your Facebook newsfeed.

What we’ve seen happening over the last year though is that more and more people and brands are moving away, migration from Facebook Pages to Facebook Groups. This movement is understandable because Facebook made it harder and harder to get any of your fans to see any of your updates unless you pay to boost your posts.

There are, of course, ways to get better engagement on your Facebook page, even without ads, but at the end of the day, it is becoming harder every day to get noticed, to appear in the newsfeed of your fans without payments.

One of the other reasons why Facebook Groups are becoming more and more popular is because you can build a real relationship with your target audience.

Between the migration from old school forums and Facebook page owners, Facebook Groups has created an ecosphere where every target audience is actively reading and engaging with posts. A Facebook Group allows for a two-way interaction, where group members can post messages and ask questions as well.

In this post, we will be looking how you too can use this great medium to your advantage, how you can build real relationships again with your audience on top of Facebook.

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How To Get Started With Social Audio For Your Business On Anchor

For consumers to get excited about something, for a potential customer to be compelled by something it comes down to attention. Attention, not impressions. So while some companies focus around getting as many impressions as possible on their banner ads, great marketers focus on attention.

Your leads, your customers they need to consume your content.

Over the last couple of years, there have only been two places that have gotten the attention of consumers. The first one is mobile, and all the social networks that are built on that mobile experience. The second one is content marketing.

After all, content marketing is just solving the same problems that your product solves through media you create and promote. You’re helping your customers making their life better by handing them solutions so they can empower themselves.

Within content marketing, you can see a trend moving towards more visual content. Businesses are moving towards Snapchat and building brands on Instagram. According to Cisco in 2019 video will even present 90% of all internet traffic.

The second big trend in content marketing is audio. Edison Research created a report with fascinating statistics about this trend. And while it is not only about podcasts, but also about online radio, streaming, social media and beyond, this post will focus mostly on the podcasting part.

Some number to give you an impression though:

Podcast Listening Grew 23% Between 2015 and 2016
21% of Americans ages 12 and up have listened to a podcast in the past month (13% of the USA listens to Spotify monthly, and 21% of the country uses Twitter.)
64% of podcasts are being listened to on a smartphone or tablet.
Weekly podcast listeners consume five shows per week on average

So how can you and your company take the most out of this growing trend? That’s where Anchor.FM comes into play.

For those who don’t know what Anchor yet is, it’s maybe best to let them describe themselves:

The new Anchor lets you broadcast your voice, clip external sound bites, mix in full-length tracks from Apple Music and Spotify, take call-ins from your listeners, and add interludes created by world class sound designers and musicians, all from your phone. Plus, everything on the new Anchor can be heard on iOS, Android, Amazon Echo, Google Home, web, and in your car via Bluetooth.

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Using Instagram For Your (Small) Businesses, A Complete Guide

In the previous post on our site, we talked about Snapchat, and how you can make use of this great social media platform to drive sales for your company. Nowadays, however, it seems you can’t talk about Snapchat and not use Instagram in the same sentence.

Indeed, even generally speaking, when creating a social media strategy for your business, Instagram is a force to be reckoned with.

According to a 2014 study by Forrester Research, Instagram even has the highest engagement rate for brands among all social networks. The engagement they see happening on Instagram (4.21 percent) compared to Facebook (0.07percent) and Twitter (0.03%) is staggering.

In other words, Instagram engagement is 58 times higher per follower than Facebook and 120 times more than Twitter!

User interactions with brands' post as a percentage of brands' fans or followers

Instagram has the highest engagement rate for brands according to Forrester Research in 2014

And with the power of Facebook behind Instagram, it means that sending great targeted advertising, etc. is easy. Instagram is an easy to use, free platform, and the only thing it requires is a smartphone to set up an account and start using it.

Still not convinced? Research done by MDG Advertising shows that 67% of consumers consider clear, detailed images to be very important and carry even more weight than the product information, full description, and customer ratings. This makes Instagram a unique opportunity for your (small) business to reach your clients and visually tell your brand story.

If you think indeed, Instagram is a platform you would like to invest your time in, download the app (if you aren’t using it already on your phone) and let’s dive straight into how you can use Instagram for your company.

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Lead Generation Doesn’t Stop At The Conversion: Using Thank You Pages To Take Your Post Conversion To The Next Level

When doing Conversion Rate Optimization on your website, the first thing a lot of people are thinking of is changing the colours of some Call-To-Action buttons. After all, a lot of the focus of people working on growth is focusing on getting as many people as possible to take action on their landing pages.

Trying to get the visitors to click that CTA and buy, subscribe, or whatever kind of action you want them to take on your landing page. And after that happens, what’s next?

Most companies give a simple thank you page and hopefully move on to the next person that leaves their money or their email address.

Big mistake.

The “Thank You” page or “Confirmation” page is mostly one of the most overlooked and at the same time most valuable page on any website. They are an integral part of your conversion system that, when used correctly, can continue to boost your revenue.

Why would you leave money on the table like that? Don’t you believe us? Think about it for a second:

The “Thank You” page or “Confirmation” page usually has high-valued traffic. After all, the visitor (now lead) has just shown that they trust you and your company by completing a conversion goal on your website
Even if they are on that page for just a few seconds, that lead starts to wonder what to do next? If you’re just presenting them with a simple thank you message, you’re giving them no other choice but to leave your site. Why would you want to do that?

In this article, we will show you what you can do instead and how you can leverage them for even higher engagement, and higher conversions.

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10 Landing Page Mistakes That Are Killing Your Chances At Conversion

It can happen to the best of us, you’re spending lots of money buying ads, you’ve designed and optimised your ads so the get lots of clicks, but there are no conversions. You double checked again to make sure the links are not dead in the ad, and they are coming to your site.

So why aren’t they converting?

According to research done by MarketingSherpa, 44% of B2B clicks are directed to a home page, instead of a dedicated landing page. So where are you sending your traffic? Sending ad traffic to a dedicated landing page helps to improve your page relevance (which is an essential ingredient of your Quality Score, the single biggest factor in determining your ad results and costs).

Sending (paid) traffic to unoptimized landing pages is a big waste of time.

A landing page is a standalone page designed for one specific objective. Or at least it should be. In reality, even if you sent your traffic to a dedicated landing page, they ask their visitors for too many different things. Everything is shouting for attention. And with all these things screaming for attention, visitors tend to leave.

For you as a small business owner or a startup, every dollar wasted is a dollar you can’t spend growing your company. So what are the most common mistakes made on landing pages and what can you do to make sure you don’t make them?

In this article, we go through the ten most made mistakes and show you what you can about them.

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Increasing Conversions By Creating High Converting 404 Error Pages

Getting More Leads By Creating The Perfect Contact Page

How to Create the Perfect About Page That Drives Leads

Lead Generation Doesn’t Stop At The Conversion: Using Thank You Pages To Take Your Post Conversion To The Next Level

10 Landing Page Mistakes That Are Killing Your Chances At Conversion

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