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Avoid These Costly Mistakes
Make sure you own your domain
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Hiring someone to do SEO too early
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Running Google Ads without enough reviews
I personally manage millions of pounds of ad spend over the past 18 years in financial services.
Our clients with the most reviews on Google and/or Trustpilot get cheaper leads and better quality.
I could run the same ad to the same site with less reviews and it would cost more and attract lower quality enquirers.
People want to work with an adviser that have helped lots of people before them.
If you don’t have a reviews to display I wouldn’t waste advertising budget until you have.
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Nobody cares how good it looks!
Pretty websites don’t convert!
In reality it’s substance over style that wins the day when it comes to converting website visitors into enquiries.
If you want or need enquiries from your website then you need to think more than just the first impressions.
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Things We Do To Make Your Website Generate More Leads
The first thing you want people to see on your website!
What do I look for first when recommending website improvements?
Displaying the total number of 5 star Google and or Trustpilot reviews.
Referrals are brilliant leads, they already know you’ve helped someone successfully before. This is how you could replicate that feeling.
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Let people know who they are going to work with
The referral is a great lead because people know exactly who they are going to deal with.
My next website tip is to try and replicate that and sell your people not the brand, or prioritise the people over the brand.
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Avoid form fatigue!
Don’t give your website visitors form fatigue!
Make it really easy to get the information you need (not want!)
You wouldn’t believe the difference in quality and quantity of web leads by changing a few simple things.
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Add your reviews in the sidebar
One of the three main places we display Google and/or Trustpilot reviews is in the sidebar.
The sidebar is normally on a content page along the right hand side of the main body of text.
It reinforces how good you are and how you’ve helped lots of people before.
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