What is Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO)?

Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is the process of improving your website to increase the percentage of visitors who complete a desired action, such as making an enquiry, booking online, phoning your business, signing up or purchasing.

What counts as a conversion on a website?

A conversion is any desired action that moves a user further along the sales funnel, not only a sale. Examples include completing a form, booking online, calling from the website, subscribing to a newsletter, signing up to a service, adding a product to the basket, or clicking through to key pages.

Can CRO increase sales without increasing marketing spend?

Yes. CRO focuses on getting more value from existing traffic by improving user experience, messaging, trust signals and funnel pathways, helping more visitors become leads or customers without needing to increase your marketing budget.

What is a good conversion rate?

A good conversion rate depends on your product or service and your conversion action. The page references an average conversion rate of 2.35% across industries and 5.31%+ for top-performing organisations, with some dental sites achieving around 10%.

Which website areas do you monitor for CRO?

Common CRO monitoring areas include device type, traffic sources, user location, exit pages, engagement rate per visit, cost per conversion and bounce rate—helping identify where users drop off and where improvements will have the biggest impact.

What CRO tactics do you typically implement?

Typical tactics include improving UX (especially on forms and calls-to-action), simplifying and clarifying web forms, refining on-page messaging, using buyer personas, setting SMART CRO objectives, testing and iterating based on data, user research and competitor analysis, and improving site speed and page performance.

Do you set up funnels and user-journey improvements?

Yes. The service focuses on optimising conversions along the entire user journey, including building and improving funnels that guide users towards valuable actions such as enquiries, calls, bookings or purchases.

Do you add tools like live chat and site search?

Yes, where appropriate. The CRO service can include installing site search and live chat, integrating pop-ups carefully, and adding trust factors such as customer reviews and social proof to support conversion decisions.

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Turn more users into customers without having to increase your marketing budget.

Improve your website's conversion rate
Understand your customers better
Improve customers’ on-site experiences
Set up funnels to guide the customer
In-depth behavioural analytics
Targeted customer value solutions
Maximise sales and increase return on investment

Increase the percentage of users to perform a particular desired action on your website

Understanding The Impact of CRO

Optimise conversions along the entire user journey

Any successful business knows that Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is the core of their digital marketing strategy and is essential for increasing the percentage of visitors that convert via your website. Otherwise, what’s the point of having one?

CRO is the process that encourages more of your website visitors to become engaged followers and, more importantly, purchasers, so when you’re working with a digital agency, it’s essential they cover CRO as part of their service.

However, don’t get confused. Many marketers will associate conversions with a sale, when in fact, it’s any desired action that takes place on your website that moves the user further along the sales funnel toward making a purchase.

Types of conversions

Clicking a banner ad or a text ad
Clicking through to a webpage
Subscribing to a newsletter
Completing an online form
Signing up to a service
Sending an email
Phoning from a website
Clicking through to book online
Adding a product to the cart

    
 
 
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CRO marketing strategy

First, we need to begin by defining a good conversion rate. Your conversion rate will be the percentage of visitors who complete a conversion, so if all users convert, then you’ll have a conversion rate of 100%. But what’s the industry standard?

Larry Kim, founder of WordStream claims the average conversion rate across industries is 2.35%, but the top 25% of companies in the world will have a conversion rate of 5.31% or higher. But it depends on your product or service. For example, many of our dental clients enjoy a conversion rate of 10%.

Following a clear, CRO strategy can help double and even triple your current conversion rate quickly. But first, you’ll need to begin by monitoring and improving your website’s overall performance using tools like Google Analytics to oversee key areas.

Key areas to monitor

Device type (mobile, tablet etc)
Traffic sources
Location of your users
Exit pages (last seen pages of a user)
Engagement rate per visit
Cost per conversion
Bounce rate

CRO tactics

Enhance the user experience (UX)
Refine your communication
Utilise buyer personas to comprehend your customers
Improve based on concrete data
Implement SMART objectives for CRO
Evaluate your CRO strategies
Perform competitor analysis
Carry out user research

We'll do it all for you

When working with Vanilla Circus, we’ll take care of the nitty gritty, including analysing your data and competition to immediately identify where users are falling off and how we could better capture them. Our Conversion Rate Optimisation service includes optimising your website pages, messaging and layout, bearing in mind the different devices users will visit you.

On top of this, we’ll follow a set of practices that include:

Improving the UX of online forms and improve CTAs.
Ensuring all web forms are simple and clear.
Installing site search and live chat.
Integrating pop-ups wisely.
Adding trust factors like customer reviews.
Integrating social proof and user-generated content.
Improving the website’s site speed.
Offer offers and incentives that create urgency.
Optimise content, headers, title tags and metadata.
Dive deep into the buying persona of your customer.
Analysing your website’s data.

veronica tribolati

13/12/2022

Thanks Ben and Libby for your great work and efforts to improve our SEO position and increase our sales, big noticeable difference since we started working with you, we are very grateful and happy to recommend to other companies looking for your services.

Tobiasku France

We have been working with Vanilla Circus, Ben, and Libby for a while now with great results so far, our rank on top keywords has improved along with an increase in traffic and qualified leads which is most critical to our business. Always friendly, professional, and responsive. Good content generation and flexible for any requests we have made. Enjoy working with them. Thank you!

Rachel Derby

03/10/2022

I’ve been working with Ben for a few months now to help create my website, content and start my SEO journey. Ben has been a delight to work with, his work is excellent and he is incredibly knowledgable which he is happy to impart to newbies like me. I find him very trustworthy and reliable and am happy to have found him.

Raj Patel

29/09/2022

Delight to work with. They have a comprehensive strategy and regular meetings to discuss progress. Could not be more happy with the team

Victoria M

28/09/2022

We got great results working with Ben at Vanilla Circus - they managed the SEO for three of our healthcare websites, all which saw a very good growth in traffic and conversions over that period. They were also very proactive in setting up Live Chat for us and getting to know our hospital, the treatment involved, how we work and what services we offer so that they could offer valuable strategic website navigation guidance to maximise sales.

Stuart Patterson

Vanilla Circus provide a fully compressive and detailed service , i cannot recommend them enough. Rubbish Clearance Limited.

Rosa Bennings

20/05/2022

They are an excellent team at VC espcially Libby. I am leaving my current marketing role but will hopefully convinve my new Head Of to use you guys. Thank you for making my life easy

Emma Norton

12/03/2021

If I could add 6 stars I would. Vanilla's ethos and approach to SEO are totally unique. It was such a relief to speak to a company that puts everything in plain English. After 4 SEO companies in London and in Manchester, we finally feel that we are not being taken for a ride and that we can clearly see things improving month on month. We are now into our 14 month and we are delighted with the results and have no hesitation recommending Ben and his team to anyone (except our competitors) Em

Brenda Roberts

15/02/2021

Excellent SEO, what can I say. We have now been working with Vanilla for over 24 months and all I can say is they quietly get on with it. Our traffic is up, are content is much better and our telephone is ringing with new patients making appointments. Ben, Libby and Martha has been amazing!