17th July 2014
Your contact form is one of your most valuable elements on your website, but did you know that your form could actually be putting people off contacting you?
Don’t worry, use the below stats and information to help improve your form and watch your conversions grow almost immediately:
Form length matters – Forms that require your visitor to fill out only 3 fields convert better than those with 4 or more fields. Expedia reportedly removed 1 form field, the “Company name” field and saw an increase of $12million in profits!
Don’t call me! – Forms that ask for a phone number have an average 5% drop in conversions, if it is not essential for you to have your clients phone number then do not ask for it and watch your conversions increase.
Optional – adding the word “optional” next to form fields also helps increase conversions
Don’t Submit! – Using the word “submit” has shown to have an effect of reducing conversions by 3%!! Whilst the words “Click Here” were shown to increase conversions by 30%!!
So has your contact form been under-performing or making any of the mistakes above? Why not try one or two of the changes mentioned above? You should see conversions increase by as much as 3% almost immediately.
Let us know how you get on, we love hearing your success stories!
With over 25 years website design, development and digital marketing experience, Craig Murphy is the managing director of ALT Agency and started building his first websites when he was just 12 years old. With a huge passion for web development and digital marketing, Craig is highly skilled in WordPress Development, PHP development and SEO strategy. Away from running one of the top rated web design agencies in Birmingham, Craig is a huge Formula 1 fan and speaks a lot about autism in business.
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