Simple Sites Work Best

by thunderbird

Posted: 13 years ago 11 replies

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I am finding that the sites that work best are simple and bare-minimum (talking about graphics, not clothes), just text for ads (no images), no slideshows.

#effective websites #simple sites

WD Mino 13 years ago

Hi T,
What niche are you referring to. I just switched my sales page from high impact graphics to none and conversion has gone to Nil in the past 2 days.
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- thunderbird 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by WD Mino
  
  Hi T,
  What niche are you referring to. I just switched my sales page from high impact graphics to none and conversion has gone to Nil in the past 2 days.
  -Will
  
  Pretty high-end niches. That's all I'm going to say
  
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  dblacker 13 years ago
  
  Here's one on the default theme that does very well for me:
  
  West Coast & Jump Blues Guitar Lessons | Video Lessons For West Coast & Jump Blues Guitar
  
  For me it's all about the content being accessible and friendly.
  
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Josh989 13 years ago

i agree with this, you get best sucess whn you have not much text. But a few images

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- myob 13 years ago
  
  Hope this doesn't get out to my clients.
  
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  bradlean 13 years ago
  
  There's a saying that...
  
  no one Beats SIMPLICITY!
  
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  dblacker 13 years ago
  
  Couldn't agree more. All of my highest converting sites use one of these mimimal wordpress themes:
  
  Journalist 1.9 by Lucian E. Marin
  
  arthemia
  
  simpleX
  
  Arras
  
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ArgusTargus 13 years ago

Simple, but not too simple either. A lot of IMers are still taking the original default template from Wordpress, and create a marketing site. I think that is simple but can also be a turnoff for some people.

How about this, simple but attractive!
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WD Mino 13 years ago

Hi T,
O.K. I gotcha. It always comes down to testing but that is interesting. You would think in a high end niche you would want to be wowed even more.

Good post man
cheers
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garyv 13 years ago

I think it can also depend on your hosting. You can't make a Cadillac run too well w/ a lawnmower engine. Many people are putting up these process intensive wordpress sites on the cheapest hosting they can find. Then they wonder why they're not converting.
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HeySal 13 years ago

Jeeses Petes...........why the hell didn't you tell me that before we put a thousand pages on my site. Good grief.
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