Digital marketing is complex. Conversion rate optimization is one of the most difficult elements for businesses trying to adapt to the digital age.
Conversion rate is the number of website visitors that reach the goal. Optimization attempts to improve this number. Optimizing your conversion rate can help increase revenue per visitor, as well as improve your business affordability and eventually grow your business.
It can be difficult to track what visitors do on a page in order to increase conversions. However, a heatmap can help make this easier. Let’s find out more about heatmaps and how they can help you increase conversions.
What’s a heatmap?
Heatmaps are a simple tool that allows you to see how visitors behave while they browse your site. Although there are many conversion optimization tools available, heatmaps are the most cost-effective and efficient. They help you determine what actions to take to increase conversions and optimize your website to attract more visitors.
Heatmaps offer a visual overview of user interactions on your website, which is different from Google Analytics. These heatmaps are visual representations of user activity. The colors indicate the frequency of clicks. The color red is used to indicate the highest frequency of clicks, and the opposite, green, indicates the lowest frequency. Heatmaps can be used to increase conversions once you have the data you need.
Heatmaps are essentially a visual representation of how layout, user experience, and design impact conversions. A heatmap is a visual representation of how conversions are affected by design, layout and user experience.
There are many types of heatmaps
Heatmaps are heat mapping tools such as click maps, scroll maps and moving maps. These maps allow you to learn all you need about visitors to your site, and each type allows you to inspect different aspects of your site’s performance.
Click maps
Click maps show where site visitors click when they use desktop computers or tap on their mobile devices. Touch heatmaps are click maps that can be used on touch screens. These maps are color-coded and show which pages are clicked/tapped most often. The map’s colors are red, green, yellow, orange and orange (from the lowest to the highest frequency).
Click maps are a great way to see if visitors click on an item that is not clickable. It is also possible to identify elements that aren’t clicked on by site visitors. You can identify the top click-spots on a particular web page and eliminate distractions to improve the user experience.
Move Maps
You can use move maps to get an idea of what people are searching for on your website. These maps are useful for desktop users. They track where visitors place their cursor while they are browsing a webpage. These hotspots are used to show visitors where they pause frequently on your website pages. The spot that is not moving for long periods of time will heat up.
Research shows that there is a correlation between the part of the screen that people are looking at and their current location on the screen. With the help of a moving-map, you can determine what your visitors are looking at and how long they’ve been there.
Scroll maps
A scroll map can help you locate exact entry and exit points to a website. It is possible to see where visitors scroll down, and where they leave the webpage. A region becomes more reddened the more people view it.
You can analyze the scroll map data to determine when people lose interest and if they actually use the site as intended. You’ll be able to determine what you can do to improve conversion rates if they don’t.
Scroll maps are the best option for long web pages such as blog posts. A scroll map can be used on your blog to learn more about the interests and interactions of your readers. This data can be used to optimize, grow, or build your blog, improving on-page SEO.
How to use heatmaps to increase your conversions
Heatmaps provide very precise data about user interactions and their interests. You can collect data from large groups of users without needing to spend on focus groups.
Heatmaps indicate whether there are clear points of friction. Heatmaps can be used to identify pages that appear clickable, but are not. These pages also reveal which elements get users’ attention and which ones prevent them from converting. They also show how users interact and use CTAs.
You can decrease shopping cart abandonment by using heatmaps. Heatmaps are a great tool to help you identify the problem and fix it. These problems can be easily fixed. For example, you might not see the checkout button. Visitors may also be distracted by promotional banners, which can cause them to miss the checkout button on their shopping cart pages.
Heatmaps can be used to increase conversions by identifying dead components. Heatmaps identify aspects that are often overlooked or not noticed by many people. Once you have the data you can decide which features you want to keep or remove.
Heatmaps can show exactly where people click on pages to help you determine if they are following your CTA’s instructions. This is one of heatmaps’ best features to increase conversions. Heatmaps can be used to track eye movement and focus, which allows them to pinpoint the areas that are most popular. This data can be used to adjust the page design to strategically place the calls-to-action in the areas that receive the most attention.
Author bio
Monica Andrews, a digital marketer, is currently working with digitaldot.us. Monica is a writer and aims to provide practical advice to new businesses to navigate the digital world.
