
Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. Keeping your visitors engaged requires interest to be maintained and desire to be built, in order for them to be ready to take the next action.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
Whatever the proposition, it is benefits, not features, that hook visitors’ attention.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
In any no-win game situation, the ideal solution is to change the game.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
To get visitors to engage with the page, you may use secondary devices to catch their attention by highlighting key messages that do not belong in the most noticeable headline: Add minor headings or a subhead (an additional, often longer, headline that follows the main headline). Consider “pull-quotes” (callouts). Highlight keywords in the body tex
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If you see more than about ten areas of contrast, you could end up with a page that is drawing the eye in too many different directions,
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
Icons can help to draw attention and to distinguish key points or links from body text,
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
“People choose to buy based on emotion and then justify with logic” is one of the fundamental laws of sales.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
The higher your traffic, the more feasible it is to use more distant goals.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
Can you judge the impact of one page on the final conversion results?