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Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
 
 

Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion [Kindle Edition]

Ben Hunt
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February 8, 2011
Solve your traffic troubles and turn browsers into buyers

When web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an ordinary web site and a great one, he expected to find the key in design simplicity. But when his team more than doubled the conversion rates for a wide range of sites, they identified simple yet powerful solutions involving design, copy, appropriate analysis, classic optimization techniques, and targeted testing. You'll find the fixes easy to implement, and they're all right here.

  • Understand the essentials - your market, your proposition, and your delivery.
  • Create a site that is seen by the right people, provides a compelling experience, and generates the desired action.
  • Learn how to use testing to improve your site's conversion rate.
  • Discover the holistic nature of web site optimization and why multiplicity matters.
  • Examine dozens of simple techniques for building traffic, engaging your audience, and crafting effective calls to action.
  • Combine creativity with analysis for the best possible results.

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.



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This advice can transform your web site's success

When web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an ordinary web site and a great one, he expected to find the key in design simplicity. But when his team more than doubled the conversion rates for a wide range of sites, they identified simple yet powerful solutions involving design, copy, appropriate analysis, classic optimization techniques, and targeted testing. You'll find the fixes easy to implement, and they're all right here.

  • Understand the essentials — your market, your proposition, and your delivery
  • Create a site that is seen by the right people, provides a compelling experience, and generates the desired action
  • Learn how to use testing to improve your site's conversion rate
  • Discover the holistic nature of web site optimization and why multiplicity matters
  • Examine dozens of simple techniques for building traffic, engaging your audience, and crafting effective calls to action
  • Combine creativity with analysis for the best possible results

About the Author

Ben Hunt teaches web designers, developers and marketers how to make websites that work. Ben has been designing, coding, and producing web sites for clients worldwide for more than 17 years. He is considered a thought leader in web usability, web design and online marketing fields. His site webdesignfromscratch.com provides tutorials and advice to over 120,000 visitors each month.

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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I've been building websites for 12 years and have long believed that most sites are a waste of money; they look pretty but don't generate profits for the client. I tell prospects that if no one can find your site - and they don't do what you want (buy, donate, sign up, order) when they get there - it's money down the drain.

Still, web design courses have focused on how a site LOOKS ("graphic design") or the technical aspects of building a site. Ben Hunt goes beyond that. He marries technical knowledge with solid marketing fundamentals in a clear and compelling way. And best of all he provides examples of sites he's redesigned, explaining the reasoning behind each revision.

If you design websites, if you do copywriting for websites, if you simply want to understand how "online marketing" is SUPPOSED to work - get this book!
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As a small business owner who's been involved in several website designs -- and paid thousands of dollars to 'experts' on upping the conversion rates on web visits -- I say "read this book before you hire any experts." The reason? After reading this you may not see a need to spend thousands of dollars on 'experts.' In fact, I was in the middle of a website overhaul at the same time I got this book, and reading it saved me plenty of hours (read: $$) with my designer.

What I liked:
- Hunt acts as a consultant/advisor, not a theorist or artist.
- Hunt's "if/then approach makes his advice easy to grasp. No fluff.
- Photos showing the nuances and how little changes made big differences.

What I didn't like:
- LOL ... Nothing. I liked it all.

Take this book and Jakob Nielsen's "Prioritizing Web Usability" and you have a wealth of information for designing websites that bring results (read: $$).
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I've been developing web application for 10 years and the one area that I have always been weak in is reliable conversion rates for my clients. I can deal with the complexity of the software, but the presentation and flow of the message for the audience is a different animal all together. For those of you who work in the online industry, you are probably aware of the wide array of skillsets required to take a concept through the entire lifecycle to completion. I've only read through a portion of this book, but so far, Ben is conveying the right message for professionals in my field. Having to deal with servers, development frameworks, existing applications (cms/ecom), design opinions and copy can make any web project way more complicated than it has to be. The focus on simplicty in design, copy and analysis that Ben has put together will definitely help bring me into the minds of the visitor for a better conversion rate and ultimately successful projects.

I highly recommend this book to all online professionals of all backgrounds.

-Josh (Bend, Or)
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Like a One-On-One Coaching Session with An Expert
Many of these books are about pitching a consultant, or about bits and pieces of a strategy meant to convert you to a way of thinking. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cristin Riffle
Cool Cover and Concept, OK Content
This book is a decent primer on web design ideas, but doesn't really deliver in terms of content. There are other books on Amazon that are better for usability and maximizing... Read more
Published 2 months ago by John Watson
Highly recommended from a web design professional
If you have worked in web design and development for any length of time, you have probably built a number of what the author refers to as "best guess" website solutions. Read more
Published 2 months ago by M. Hertzler
Helped one of our clients to double their sales in one year
As an Internet marketing specialist, I consider this book to be "The Bible" on online marketing. I have read many books on this subject, but none of them have helped me to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Timothy
Simply powerful advice
In this age of cookie-cutter website design, it seems most sites are either over designed or simply confusing. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Drew Ross
Excellent guide to internet marketing
Ben definitely knows what he is talking about and I think his methodology of creating multiple entry points for people based on the solution they are looking for and their stage in... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dobes Vandermeer
Excellent resource
I read this book in about a week, and I have to say, it's a wonderful read. It is full of good ideas and concepts to help you re-focus on how to improve for conversion. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Rommil Santiago
Excellent Read!
I am so glad that I had a friend tell me of this book. I am only 70% thru it and just cant put it down. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Deckman
A Web Revolution is Taking Place, Do You Want to Profit?
I read A LOT of marketing books, probably 20 or so in the last year. The two that stood out were "Get Rich Click" by Marc Ostrofsky and "Convert" by Ben Hunt. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Robert Clarke
This book brought me to a new level as a Marketeer
I am a web designer and internet marketeer. I absolutely devoured this book and I still refer to it from time to time. Read more
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I have been creating websites since 1994. I have always looked beyond the thrill of sexy graphics, being interested in usability, SEO, and now conversion!

To me, web design is all marketing. It should support powerful communication, whatever it is you need to communicate. So graphics are important, but getting the right message to the right people is even more so.


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