The need for a CRO strategy is always important, from looking to convert potential claimants, building or updating your legal firm’s website and all the testing you need to do to make sure what you’re actually doing is having the desired effect. By creating a structured plan for your CRO strategy you can align your goals and ensure the CRO process runs smoothly. For your strategy you should focus on these four key components:

• Gather information
• Collect data
• Put the information together
• Revisit your strategy

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Gather information

The first step to building a successful CRO strategy is to gather all the important information which will help you to make informed decisions about where you need to start your CRO strategy. To do this there are five key areas of information you need to gather:

• Traffic volume
• Pages
• Goals
• Conversions
• Funnel process

You can read in our blog here, why these five are the most important pieces of information you need to gather for your CRO strategy and how best to collect them.

Data Collection

Your next step is to collect data on how potential cliamants interact with your website, and then through analysis use this data to influence how best to optimise your legal website and what further testing you may need to do.  Here are four examples of how you can carry out this data collection:

• Heatmaps – using a tool like VWO or CrazyEgg can allow you to gain data on how visitors behave on your website, from which components on a page they interact with most and how they move around your website.
• User testing – By setting up videos of users using your legal website you can gain valuable insight on what they liked and the areas which frustrated them the most.
• Surveys – By using tools like Google consumer surveys you can ask users question about your website, and how they found their interactions with it so that you can look to improve the areas they felt where weak.
• Analytics – There are huge amounts of analytical data that you can use, but some of the main metrics to focus on are bounce rate, time on page and pages per visit.

Pull together both business and user information

By collecting and gathering all of this information you are then able to identify the key pages and user's experience of your legal firm’s website. But now you need to bring all of that information together with your firm’s main business goals so that you can begin to build tests which will help you to optimise those key pages and increase conversion rate.

Put the plan in play

Now that both your goals and plan are aligned it’s time to carry out your legal CRO strategy. Begin by testing changes to those prioritised items, be it CTA placement, page layout or copy. By using A/B testing, multivariate tests or split URL testing to prove the validity of your changes before you approve them as permanent to your website.

Revisit

Finally to complete your CRO strategy and begin the cyclic process again, you need to revisit the strategy, gathering the information from step one and analysing how conversion rate optimisation changes have affected it, along with what can now be optimised to continue to increase your conversion rate.

By following these five steps you can build a successful CRO strategy for you legal firm allowing you to test and optimise your website so that you can increase conversion rate and generate more revenue for your legal firm.