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5 Popular eCommerce Trends That Might Be Costing You Conversions

ConversionXL

It’s quite likely that they will only distract visitors from your page goal, which is to increase clickthroughs to the ‘Add to cart’ button. It keeps flashing too quickly.”. With that being said, how would you justify the presence of social icons on product pages? A recent VWO study showed an increase of 11.9% image source.

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5 Characteristics Of High Converting Headlines

ConversionXL

The Content Marketing Institute reports that headlines with odd numbers have a 20% higher clickthrough rate than headlines with even numbers. For a long time, headline writers assumed that positive was better as far as clickthroughs, shareability, readability, and conversions. hours of every professional’s time each day.

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How to Optimize Videos for Conversions

ConversionXL

Also, it only works on browsers that support Flash. First, you can use annotations to get viewers to clickthrough to another site while they’re watching. This format doesn’t play natively on most Mac and Windows machines. If you self-host a video, you’re bound to slow down the load time as servers work harder. via a form.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. The Flash Sales sites and Local Deals sites both make shopping fun by offering deep discounts. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

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