In the digital era, all businesses need a website.

After all, 30% of people said they consider organizations ‘unprofessional’ if they don’t have a website.

But it is not just about having a website.
You need a website that helps you stand out, attract more business, engage visitors, and convert them into paying customers.

Further in this article, we will be discussing the fundamentals of creating a website that attracts more business and directly improves your bottom line.

Let’s get started.

1. The planning phase

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing. – Dale Carnegie.

1.1. Define your target audience

To attract customers through your website, you need to know who they are and what they are looking for.
Start by identifying your target groups. Then create user personas. And develop your website keeping those user personas in mind.

1.2. Finalize your brand’s messaging

Your website is the most valuable digital asset for your business. The message that you convey on your website will define your brand image. Know what message and tone you want for your business. And ensure it is reflected in the content and design of your website.

1.3. Use the REAN framework to chalk out the customer’s journey and define the goals for your site

The REAN framework (Reach – Engage – Activate – Nurture) can help you plan how you will convert visitors to prospects and prospects to customers. Based on the user journey, you can outline the goals for your website. Decide on what results do you want to achieve with your website.

Inculcating the REAN model in your site design can help you get a performing website.

1.4. Pick a good domain and hosting

Your domain name is your address on the website. A good domain name is unique, but simple to remember and spell, and related to your business. Ensure your domain doesn’t look spammy to instill trust in your users.

And the right hosting provider will help you have a fast, scalable, and secure website.

1.5. Choose the right web designing and development partner

You could have a perfect vision and plan for your website. But if the execution is subpar, your efforts will go in vain.

Take time in vetting web design and development companies and finding a reliable and dependable partner.

2. The website designing and development phase

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs

2.1. Apply Fitt’s law of web design

Widely used in UI and UX design, Fitt’s law states that the time taken by a user to move a pointer to a target area is the function of the distance to the target divided by the target’s size.

For your website, it means that the buttons that you want to get clicked should be decently sized and not too far off in the corners. Make sure your website follows the law through and through.

2.2. Keep the navigation clean and simple

Your website is not a place for playing hide-and-seek.

Your website’s navigation should be clean, simple, and aligned with the user journey that you have designed. Visitors should intuitively know where they need to go for what information.

2.3. Consistently create different types of high-quality content

The content on your website is the key to conversions. Your site should have relevant blogs, and multimedia content like images, videos, infographics, and more. High-quality content distributed in the right way helps better engage and convert visitors.

2.4. Use the right colors as per your brand identity

Your website should reflect your brand identity. Picking the right color palette for your website ensures uniformity in your brand’s image.

2.5. Use effective call-to-action buttons

70% of users in a study said a call-to-action button pushes them to take the next step. Without a CTA button, people are likely to get confused and bounce off. Always have the right CTAs to ensure visitors move inside your sales funnel and not outside it.

2.6. Bank on the power of social proof

Testimonials and user reviews are digital versions of word of mouth. With the right social proofs tactfully displayed on your site, you can instill a sense of trust in the visitors for your business.

2.7. Consider using pop-ups on your site

Pop-ups, if used right, can help reduce bounce rates and increase engagement. Experienced web designers will know when and where to add pop-ups to offer value to your site’s users.

2.8. Focus on lead generation

Your business website should have carefully designed contact forms that can help you generate leads or queries straight from your site.

2.9. Make sure your site loads fast enough

One in every four visitors to your website will leave the site if it takes more than 4 seconds to load. And every second of load delay reduces user satisfaction by 16%.

The numbers speak for themselves about why it is essential to have a fast-loading website.

2.10. Pay attention to SEO

SEO helps your website get found on Google. With the right keywords, Meta title, Meta description, sitemaps, analytics, and other technical on and off-page optimizations you can please Google’s crawlers and rank higher in search engine results. And higher search rankings are directly linked to more traffic and better conversions.

2.11. Chatbot

If you are unavailable to attend to your prospects, they’d turn to competitors. To avoid that, set up a Chatbot on your website. It allows being always available and also helps capture leads and engage customers.

2.12. Business-specific integrations

Whether it is integration with a payment gateway, online appointment scheduling or ticketing system or something else, don’t forget to add business-specific integrations to your site.

3. The site testing phase

Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.  – Steve Maguire

3.1. Performance testing

Before you go live with your website, run all possible tests to check if all the elements on your website are working as intended. Checking the speed and responsiveness of your website is the most important. A website that doesn’t fast and correctly on mobiles, tablets, and all other devices will never attract business.

3.2. Ensure Regulatory Compliance

Making a sure website is compliant with ADA norms and other GDPR data and privacy regulation is also important before launch. Otherwise, you can land in legal trouble which will cost you not just money but also your reputation.

4. Monitoring the website

Once your website is up and running, make sure you constantly monitor important matrices, find out how your website is performing and how you are inching forward toward your goals. With constant analysis, you’ll be able to find out areas for improvement and enhancement.

In a dynamic world, it is important that your business website stays relevant, which is possible with frequent updates.

Getting started 

Unless you are willing to let your prospects go to the competitors you need to build a website that has nothing short of perfect. We at SynergyTop have been helping our clients do just that.

Whether it was a PHP-backed website that drove 39% more conversions for an LGBTQ+ mentoring platform or a WordPress-powered site helping a dance-based business increase subscription sales by up to 30%, we have always known what works best.

And we can replicate our models of successful and result-oriented website design and development for you too.

Write to us at contact@synergytop.com to schedule a free initial consultation with our experts.