Aligning Usability with Web Marketing Strategies

Written by Nick Stamoulis

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When it comes to web marketing, there are a lot of different tactics that play into coming up with a great strategy that will allow you to meet your business goals. We think of strategies as relating to obvious marketing activities, such as social media, content marketing, and maybe even paid advertising. However, there is another piece of the puzzle – usability on your website. Often forgotten, it is the unsung hero of digital marketing. Here are some thoughts concerning aligning your website usability with your marketing strategies.

Start by Evaluating Your Website

In order to figure out the way forward, it helps to start with a usability audit. You need to figure out where you are in order to determine where you need to go. Here’s a look at what you can do:

  • Assess current conversion elements. Where are they on the website? How effective are they? If you can get some data at this stage, that would be helpful to assessing where things are at.
  • Determine what you are looking for. What are you really looking for? Essentially you want to get a pulse on how effective the current conversion elements are and how they fit into your business goals.
  • Compile your findings. A good conversion audit takes a while to put together, and once you have your findings in place, you’ll now have plenty of data to know what kinds of changes you need to make.

Make Changes by Priority

When it comes to making changes, some are more complicated to implement and some are much easier. Not only that, but there are some changes that will have an almost immediate impact on conversions. It is a good idea to make changes by priority. Make changes that will have a fast impact that will also be easy to implement.

From there, you can start to implement the usability changes that are a bit more complex to implement. Ultimately, you want to determine the priority – easier and most effective first, and then gradually implement changes that will also be effective but may be a bit more complex. What this means exactly will vary on the business.

Align with Your Business Goals

The ultimate goal is that you want to align usability with your business goals. Everything that you do in terms of usability changes has to align with what you are really trying to accomplish. What are your business goals exactly? How does that play into your website?  Goals include making sales,  generating leads from the website, and helping prospects move through the sales cycle. Is your website poised to help you accomplish this? If not, then you need to check your usability and conversion elements.

When it comes to finding success online, you need to evaluate the usability on your website and make changes accordingly. This could really help you take things to the next level and achieve the business’s goals. If your conversion elements aren’t properly in place, you won’t achieve your potential.

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