Conversion rate optimisation Fix the page before you buy more traffic.
Traffic is the expensive half and the page is the cheap half. Most businesses answer a page that loses two-thirds of its visitors by buying more visitors. Doubling what the page converts costs less, and it does not cost again next month.
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Seven ways
a page loses the visit.
None of these are subtle. They are what we find on almost every landing page we open.
What you are counting as a conversion is a page view
A form that loaded is not a lead. A thank-you page a bot reached is not a lead.
The page answers a different question to the one that was typed
Somebody searched for an emergency and the page opens with when the business was founded.
The first screen introduces the company
A photo of the van, a tagline, and the answer three scrolls down.
The form asks for everything before it has earned anything
Eleven fields to collect a phone number, a company name made mandatory on a residential job.
Price is the one question the page refuses to answer
No range, no starting figure, nothing about what moves it. So the visitor books with someone who will say.
Everything on the page is an exit
Full site navigation on a paid landing page, a carousel nobody waits for, a video nobody plays.
Nobody has opened it on a phone on mobile data
The layout jumps while it loads, the call button sits under the fold, and the people who left fired nothing.
Two numbers decide it. The rest is diagnosis.
A conversion page is a small, unforgiving thing. Nearly everything worth fixing on one can be counted on your fingers.
1
question the first screen answers
The one the visitor typed. Everything else up there is competing with it.
2
numbers that decide the page
How many arrived and how many booked. Every other metric exists to explain those two.
0
fields that get a free pass
Every field costs you completions, so each one has to earn its place.
3
seconds you can time yourself
Open your own page on a phone, on mobile data, away from the office, and count.
1
substantial change at a time
Change the offer, the first screen and the form at once and you have learned nothing.
4
days is not a result
Calling a test because one version is ahead after four days is how a business fools itself.
Traffic costs you again every month. The page does not.
Buying your way past a page that loses most of its visitors works for exactly as long as you keep paying.
The same money spent on the page keeps working after that — the half of the equation which does not reset to zero every month.
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The SoudCoh Standard v1.0
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Clauses published in full
The operating rules, written down where you can read them first
Firm-level figures from the SoudCoh record, not a projection for your page. Conversion work is reported against your own baseline, counted the same way before and after.
Ten things happen on a conversion engagement. Here they are, in order.
This is the part most agency pages keep vague, and the only part that decides whether the money works.
Establish what is actually being counted
We agree a conversion is a booked job or a qualified enquiry, then check the numbers record that.
Read the searches and the ads that feed the page
The words people typed to arrive are the cheapest copy you own.
Rewrite the first screen against the search
One question, answered above the fold, in the visitor's words.
Make the offer honest and put the proof beside it
A price or a range, what it includes, and the review placed at the decision.
Rebuild the form, field by field
Each field justified or cut, the right keyboard on a phone, errors that say what to fix, and a real confirmation.
Open it on a real phone, on mobile data
Not office wifi. Layout that jumps, tap targets, the call button, and how long the first screen takes.
Take things off the page
The navigation that leaks a paid visit, the carousel, the autoplay video, the second call to action.
Change one substantial thing
Then leave it alone. Changing three at once means arguing next month about which one worked.
Measure on booked jobs, over a long enough window
Long enough to cover a full weekly cycle. A number read on a Tuesday afternoon is about Tuesday afternoon.
Feed what wins into the rest of the site
The headline that worked on one page is usually the headline three others need.
The first ninety days, honestly.
- Week 0
The review and the first call
Half an hour on the jobs you want more of. Then we read the page, the searches, and what is counted.
- Week 1
Fix what is not in dispute
The defects nobody needs a test to agree on: the mismatch, the buried answer, the dead fields.
- Weeks 2–4
The first screen and the offer
Rewritten against the searches, the proof moved to the decision, and the price treated as a fair question.
- Weeks 4–8
The form and the phone
The form rebuilt, speed and layout fixed on a real device, and the follow-up checked. A slow callback is still a lost job.
- Weeks 8–12
Read it on booked jobs
Enough time has passed to judge on outcomes rather than clicks. Where it has not moved, we say which part is short.
- From there
Rhythm
One substantial change at a time, a fixed monthly report, and whatever wins carried across.
You keep the findings whether or not you hire us.
Conversion work lives in two of the six stages.
Compound is how our team works on any account — six stages every change passes through.
Sweep
Waste is found daily, named, and priced.
Here the sweep is the page: the field nobody needs, the link that leaks a paid visit, the second call to action arguing with the first.
Statement
A fixed rhythm, good news or bad.
Conversion changes are judged over weeks, so the report says what changed, when, and what booked jobs did afterwards — including the months where nothing moved.
What we publish.
Three of the four below are paid search accounts and every tile says so. Made2Clean is the closest to this page — a rebuild where the conversion rate and the speed both moved.
- Website rebuild · Cleaning48%more warm, ready-to-convert enquiriesConversion rate up 60% · average site speed improved 42% after the rebuildMade2Clean
- Paid search · Cleaning · Melbourne21.20% click-to-job conversion rate138 jobs from A$2,819.92 of spend · measured on booked jobs, not form loadsPink Flamingo
- Paid search · Antenna installation38%drop in cost per acquisition57% more qualified leads on the same account · 4.6x return on ad spendAADT Antennas
- Paid search · Carpet cleaning · Perth53jobs in the first 15 daysA$24.92 cost per job · the second, iterated campaign ran at A$23.88Cleanetic
Before you ask us anything
Here is what everybody asks first.
Conversion work, answered.
Timing, testing, cost, contracts, copy, and what happens when the offer is the problem.
The first call is free and there is no deck.
Book a free strategy callThe page is one part of a system.
If the whole site is the problem rather than one page on it, website design is the bigger conversation.
- Website designWhen the answer is a new site, not a better page on the one you have.
- Counting the enquiry properlyHow a booked job becomes a number. Nothing here means much without it.
- Better leads, not just moreWhen the form is full and the enquiries are wrong, the problem sits upstream.
- Technical SEORendering, crawlability and speed. What makes a page convert also makes it rank.
- Google AdsThe traffic half, and where your page's copy comes from.
- Marketing automation and CRMThe enquiry arrives at seven in the evening. What happens next decides the job.
- Lead generationThe whole pipeline, when you would rather start with the outcome than one page.
Four related briefings: what a good conversion rate means for trades, whether to run ads while the site loses people, how to tell whether enquiries are counted and why the enquiries arriving are the wrong ones.
Get the page review
We read your main page against the searches feeding it, check what is counted as a conversion, and list what is costing you enquiries.
No pitch deck. No upsell. A real conversation and a written list of what is missing.