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By Ayat Shukairy on March 24, 2008 12:38 am

For those eager for the next edition of my Landing Page tips for webinar attendees, wait no longer! The next site has a name that is familiar to many: Dave Ramsey.  The site sells books, finance software, and all sorts of tools to help people with budgeting and personal finances.

This is the landing page the folks at daveramsey.com sent me. This particular page is offering the top 10 featured items.

Dave Ramsey

The site looks nice overall, but what I found interesting was how the first 3 items were in a single row, whereas all other items had a row to themselves and users could buy those products directly rather than clicking on the link.

Tip #1: Stay consistent with the way you feature the items.

Tip #2:  Place an “add to cart” button for each item will be more effective in increasing conversion.

Dave Ramsey

The link for “more special offers” was a bit distracting and could impact the end result for customers to convert.

Tip #3: Avoid placing random links below categorized items as this may take the user to another page and distract them.

The link takes you to this page:

Dave Ramsey

And it really is a great page that has all kinds of special offers in addition to a link on both top and left navigations within the page.

Dave Ramsey has inspired many. This site offers great tools for those in need of financial assistance. But in order to help them, we must give them the means to find what they need in order to convert. A bit of optimization can make a big difference.

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8 Responses to “ DaveRamsey.com: Optimization review”

 
Adam Hyman Says -- March 26th, 2008 at 1:08 am

14.56% is a ridiculously high conversion rate.

what percentage of times do you look go to a website and not buy anything? its way more than 90%.

So conversion rate should be under 10%.

 
Dan Says -- March 26th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Dave Ramsey is great, and its nice to see he’s getting his site done well. I heard him on the radio the other day though say something like “DaveRamsey dot com BACKSLASH whatever…” tsk tsk tsk….someone needs to inform him its FORWARD slash LOL

 
 
fenix Says -- March 30th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

AHHH 14% conversion? holy crap man. I am still well below 1% lol.

I am defintaly going to buy your ebook (or the ebook tahts advertised on the post above this)

 
Insomnia Remedies Says -- March 30th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

I would definately like to have a 14% conversion rate compared to my measley 1% :(

Might have to buy this ebook.

 
Azeem Khan Says -- April 1st, 2008 at 10:55 am

I would like to say You have done very well thats why his conversion rate has increased.

 
Did Says -- April 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

@Adam & phenix :
Nowhere in the article Ayat says daveramsey.com has a conversion rate of 14.56% :-) ))
It’s just in the title of the article.

 
Dave Ramsey Says -- June 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Dave Ramsey is an amazing financial advisor. I would recommend him to anyone that is looking to get out of debt and be financially free.