Comments on: Convert More Leads With a Cleaner Website

By: Anne Kingston

Anne Kingston — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:39:21 +0000

I agree a clean website will convert way more due to the fact that customers will not lost or confused. Cause soon as that happens people will leave. you never wanna land on a page and give yourself a headache trying to figure out where eveyrthing is at. I definitely clean websites i find myself spending lots of time on them and most probably picking a few things.

By: web design leads

web design leads — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:46:33 +0000

Make your website simple yet captivating to attract customers. As mentioned, it should be easy to navigate, otherwise, the visitor will just lose interest and go to another one.

By: web design leads

web design leads — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:21:09 +0000

Make your website simple yet captivating to attract customers. It should be easy to navigate, otherwise, the visitor will just lose interest and go to another one.

By: web design leads

web design leads — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:46:54 +0000

There is a lot to consider in website marketing. I thought you’re done when you have site up and running. You’re right. You need an audience for that website. So you need to think of ways to drive people to your website.

By: Website Value

Website Value — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:50:13 +0000

I believe that users want it kept simple anyway!

Look at all the large sites at one time the were all simple for example Google to this day is clean!!

Look at craigslist another example… people tend to clutter their sites whether it be with useless stuff or a bunch of 2.0 garbage that isn’t really needed

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:58:08 +0000

Kyle,
Ugmonk is not one of our clients. The idea with using them as an example was to highlight on a simple level a no-nonsense page that would convert better than a messy page, not necessarily one that would perform better in a side by side SEO competition. That, of course, would be the topic for another blog post

By: Barry Harrison

Barry Harrison — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:23:38 +0000

Hi Nathan, thanks for your reply. I visited the Ugmonk site and agree that the actual website is much better than the screenshot.

You’ve convinced me that buttons aren’t necessary but I’m still having a hard time seeing black t-shirts on a black background

By: Kyle Hogan

Kyle Hogan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:30:45 +0000

Is the second example one of your clients?
Nice looking site, but with almost no text on the page you give for the clean site how can that compete with a well optimized site? That page looks great for a PPC landing page though.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:43:07 +0000

Barry, I see your point about the call to action, but I would suggest that a lack of options is sometimes a sufficient enough call to action (depending on the site of course). Like a squeeze page, Ugmonk gives you two options: the shirt or the price. When you click through, there’s a nice blue call to action button. It could be that the designers thought the blue button didn’t belong below each shirt image on the homepage. I would agree with them, but that’s just my preference.
Regarding your first point, the actual website affords a much better experience. The 1st anniversary shirt is the hardest to see, but even it’s not too bad.

By: Barry Harrison

Barry Harrison — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:12:14 +0000

Good points but the example you choose for Exhibit B has a couple obvious problems.

1. The black and dark blue t-shirts don’t show up on the black background.
2. Where’s the call to action? I don’t think that clicking on the t-shirt is an adequate call to action. You need to tell people what you’d like them to do.

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