Convert! – Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

Ben Hunt is Principal Consultant for Scratchmedia Ltd. He operates webdesignfromscratch.com, which provides tutorials and advice to over 120,000 web developers each month. Ben has been designing, coding, and producing web sites for clients worldwide for more than 15 years, and is considered a leader in the web usability industry. Forewords by Ken McCarthy , founder of the System Seminar, and Drayton Bird, Drayton Bird Associates.

Acknowledgments. Foreword. Foreword. Introduction. Part I Designing for Traffic. Chapter 1 How to Transform Your Web Site's Success. Does This Sound Like Your Web Site? The "First Best Guess" Method of Web Design. A New Perspective on Web Design. The New Approach. Chapter 2 Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals. Keyword Research. On-Page SEO. Off-Page SEO. Chapter 3 Expanding Your Reach. What Are You Really Selling? Researching Your Markets. Marketing Joe's Miracle Hair-Gro. Chapter 4 Using the Awareness Ladder. Your Key to Reaching Deeper Markets. Why the Old, Narrow Model Fails. The New Concentric Model. Chapter 5 Working Through the Awareness Ladder. Save the Pixel. Bridge Natural Health. Muazo. Imagic2015. Me2Solar. Ville & Company. Bolwell RV. EasySpeedy. Applying the Awareness Ladder to Your Site. Part II Designing for Conversion. Chapter 6 Making Your Site Sell. The New Approach to Design for Conversion. Step One: Modeling Your Site's Funnels. Step Two: Analyzing Your Funnels. Step Three: Optimizing Conversions Through the Funnel. The Three Elements of Conversion. Chapter 7 Get Their Attention. Optimization Discipline. Getting Attention: The Power of Appeal. Make Your Appeals Relevant. Self-Interest. Emotion. Designing for Attention. Chapter 8 Keep Them Engaged. Affirm the Positive Signs. Resolve Concerns and Build Trust. Build Interest. Make It Easy. Chapter 9 Call Them to Action. Classes of Next Steps. Build Momentum. Six Tips for Crafting Compelling Calls to Action. Put It All Together. Chapter 10 Executing Your Web Site Strategy. Target Early Opportunities. Create Core Content. Add More Funnels. Generate Traffic. Consider Step 0. Keep Going! Chapter 11 Optimizing Your Web Pages. Google Website Optimizer. My Optimizer Tips. The Way of Optimization. Index.