[Fearlesshunter]

Hello,

I've been running this website since 6 months and the conversion is too low (between 0.5 to 0.8%). I get about 600 unique visitors everyday (mostly for "best watches" posts), about 350-400 visits to Amazon but 0 or 1 sales, rarely 2-3 sales per day. What mistake am I making here? Please take a look at my website and let me know my mistake. It's completely based on watches anyway.

[Ged3]

Hi,
that's good traffic.




What you might consider is creating a list.


You could create buying guide to induce visitors to sign up.


Then once you have a list you can send out messages regularly so that they build up confidence in you and your site.


People hardly ever purchase on their first visit to a website, often it can only be after the third, fourth or fifth time.


Mailchimp have a free autoresponder service where you can try this - I am sure your conversion rate will double or treble once you have a list of subscribers.


I wish you well and I am sure you will make a success of this!


Ged

[Fearlesshunter]

Thanx for the reply Ged.

I have enabled the sign up form - gathered 365 emails but only 15-20 people opens the mail. I think its been 3 months since i started gathering the emails.

[riyaz08]

Do display marketing with your email list.

[Ged3]

Hi,
yes Riyaz08's suggestion of display advertising could work well as it would encourage people to open your emails.


Another solution is to go to some online forums where watches are discussed - do a Google search for watch forums.


Then find out what problems people may be having with watches, or choosing them for presents etc.


Then create a new list with a short guide that solves people's problems regarding watches.


E.g. What is the best watch to buy for a wedding anniversary, 21st Birthday present?


Then you create a short guide that answers this question with a link to the page with the watch that solves the problem.


Try and be creative.


You have solved the biggest problem most marketers have which is getting good traffic to your website.


Now you need to experiment with different ways to get visitors involved with your website so that they return and eventually purchase from you.


Best Regards


Ged

[agmccall]

your mistake is you do not do what you say you are going to do. When you get to the main page you say "We help you find the best watches. But there is nothing at all helpful on your site. Every thing is an affiliate link. Why would someone go to your site when all they have to do is go directly to amazon to get the same info.

People are probably leaving your site, maybe going to amazon or some other web store with your affiliate link. Then, they leave that site because they are looking for information, maybe independent reviews, maybe a buyers guide. But, whatever the reason, when they return to make the purchase they are cookied by the person that actually gave them the information they were looking for in the first place.

So basically, you will remain at your current conversion rate unless you start providing some value to your visitors

al

[high_plains_drifter]

From a UX perspective - Firstly the design of the site looks like something for a SaaS product, not a watch store. The branding looks pretty bad too. If I were to guess just from my initial 5 second on the site I'd say the site was selling cheap watches (im not sure if thats the market you are going after)

Any product I click on just takes me to an affiliate site which is annoying and some of the sites I get taken too are not the best either (no high resolution images of the watches, no reviews)

Also its difficult to find a watch as I cannot filter by important things like colour, wrist band material, style of watch etc.

The other side of the coin which could be resulting in poor conversions could be that the traffic you are gaining is not relevant or targetted enough. Are you sure most of the clicks to your site are relevant. For instance if I read one of your 'top watches' articles and see a nice rolex in the list and then I come to your site and dont see a rolex or cant figure out how to filter by brands you certainly wont convert me into a customer.

[Brent Stangel]

The other side of the coin which could be resulting in poor conversions could be that the traffic you are gaining is not relevant or targetted enough

This plus the poor design is my guess.

Brent

[TrafficFlow]

Since you are getting all that traffic why not try monetizing the site with Adsense. But if you do that you need to add some unique content to the site and include a Privacy Page.

[Fearlesshunter]

Sounds good. I will definitely try this idea.. :)

[Fearlesshunter]

Yeah, i know i messed up my website. I'm actually concentrating on 2 of my websites. So couldn't focus well.

"The top quality watches" were meant as to select the top watches from Amazon & other stores and place on my website as a price comparison. I know it didn't go well. But still thanks for your opinion. I appreciate it :)

[Fearlesshunter]

Yeah, I added the affiliate link so that they should get straight to Amazon to read the reviews and get the product anyhow - as my website wasn't about watch reviews or so.

Your opinion was very helpful though. Thanks a lot, i will look after that :)

[Fearlesshunter]

I'm already monetizing but just with one ad. I feel like affiliate sales pay more than Adsense. :)

[Johnxx79]

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[Jason Kanigan]

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