Why YOUR 'Opinion' Of My Website And YOUR Website - Is Absolutely Irrelevant

[Mystro]

That conversion rate would increase if those 75,000 unique visitors per month is reduced down to filter out all the people visiting her site due to her general publicity and discussion in the business, media and web world. A lot of people from web marketeers, pr people to web designers like to talk about her site, some complimentary some not so complimentary. I'm not going to get into one of those discussions about the site, because for that particular site those kind of discussion can go on for ages.

But i dont think she would get those visitors if her site was anything but.

Even if you went there with no intent but to riddicule the site then see a car at a very competative price, it may just sway to buy it or tell a friend.

So chicken and egg for me with her site, if it were clean and normal would she get that volume? I doubt it, being wackey and mad helps her,

Even with my site my conversion is a little higher, but no where near , not even close to those volumes which is a great acheivment getting that amount of traffic.

It s numbers game with so many people visiting, people will buy, she has some deals cheaper than others some are not, its the site that makes her fortunes,

 

[directmarketingadvice]

But i dont think she would get those visitors if her site was anything but.

Good point.

Could she improve the usability, but keep the madness, and, overall, increase sales?

Will we ever know?

This is the point of testing.

Even if an ad/site is generating a lot of money, you don't know if that conversion is "high" unless you have other things to compare it with.

And, because every business is different, the only thing you can really compare yourself against is a different version of your own business.*

Steve

* Of course, you can compare yourself with averages for the industry, but those are pretty broad and don't tell you what's possible for you.

 

But i dont think she would get those visitors if her site was anything but.

Even if you went there with no intent but to riddicule the site then see a car at a very competative price, it may just sway to buy it or tell a friend.

So chicken and egg for me with her site, if it were clean and normal would she get that volume? I doubt it, being wackey and mad helps her,

Even with my site my conversion is a little higher, but no where near , not even close to those volumes which is a great acheivment getting that amount of traffic.

It s numbers game with so many people visiting, people will buy, she has some deals cheaper than others some are not, its the site that makes her fortunes,

Exactly Ling has the ability to go on various social media sites and forums and bring thousands of visitors in a day ,visitors vary in how targeted they are and that traffic has a much lower conversion rate.

SEO brings in highly targeted traffic ,but all traffic is good ,as is publicity good or bad.

As you say with leasing conversion is mostly down to being price competative as it is in nearly all aras of internet sales.

Traffic now is around the 120k mark per month and I expect it to be around 200k by christmas if not more.

The more traffic in general the lower ones conversion rate owing to more flotsam and jetsam.

Earl

 

[saxondale]

Exactly Ling has the ability to go on various social media sites and forums and bring thousands of visitors in a day

any chance you`ll be able to substantiate this one instead then?

The more traffic in general the lower ones conversion rate owing to more flotsam and jetsam.

Earl

at last the mote falls from his eyes.








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any chance you`ll be able to substantiate this one instead then?


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I suspect you may be better off discussing your problems with you're psychiatrist.

Earl

 

[Mystro]

any chance you`ll be able to substantiate this one instead then?




at last the mote falls from his eyes.








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Why do people always insist on evidence of what one is telling them, regardless if the truth has been somewhat exagerated or not,

It will take you 5 mins to find out that info (well maybe a bit longer with ling as the facts will be mixed with the dribble and theres a lot of stuff to go through)

See even a thread with no mention of that mad chinese woman at the start ends up with her as the topic

Stop Earl , stop now

 

[saxondale]

I suspect you may be better off discussing your problems with you're psychiatrist.

Earl

would that be the "problem" of not taking anything at face value ......

already you`ve gone from 3.5 million to 335K, one assumes your not paying out the difference in real money then.

player, nothing more

 

[saxondale]

Why do people always insist on evidence of what one is telling them, regardless if the truth has been somewhat exagerated or not,

It will take you 5 mins to find out that info (well maybe a bit longer with ling as the facts will be mixed with the dribble and theres a lot of stuff to go through)

See even a thread with no mention of that mad chinese woman at the start ends up with her as the topic

Stop Earl , stop now

I`ve taken the liberty of highlighting the reason ................

 

[RBS]

I can agree on this - I find myself very often spending lot of time looking at very nice and stylish websites and then less reading content. I`m really addictive to nice designs and stylish things. But maybe its just me like that?

Ugly website, even with good copy, wouldnt not encourage me to buy. The way my brain thinks - if website is ugly, then company must be poor if they cant afford proper one -->they are not getting business to make money -->then they are no good.

If I have never met company in real life, I have no choice as value them by website.

 

[MU Shirts]

Amazon is a pretty ugly website in my opinion... yet it's the number 1 ecommerce website.

It might have useful cutting-edge features upselling and cross-selling all sorts of their products but its messy pages puts me off. I only go to Amazon to find information on books, especially rare ones. Did you ever try getting in touch with them? They don't even have a 'contact us' or 'about us' link on their homepage.

I do have to agree that content is more useful than a pretty site. But a pretty site with content is surely a winner?

 

[Colin Parker]

Amazon is a pretty ugly website in my opinion... yet it's the number 1 ecommerce website.

It might have useful cutting-edge features upselling and cross-selling all sorts of their products but its messy pages puts me off. I only go to Amazon to find information on books, especially rare ones. Did you ever try getting in touch with them? They don't even have a 'contact us' or 'about us' link on their homepage.

I do have to agree that content is more useful than a pretty site. But a pretty site with content is surely a winner?

'Pretty' to one person is 'pretty good' and to another 'pretty bad'.

Don't judge a book by it's cover - and don't judge a website on it's looks.

Colin Parker

 

[MU Shirts]

'Pretty' to one person is 'pretty good' and to another 'pretty bad'.

Don't judge a book by it's cover - and don't judge a website on it's looks.

Colin Parker

Thus the '...in my opinion'!