Problem · Owners
Our website gets traffic but nobody fills out the form.
Traffic without meetings is a hobby. A site that converts under 1 percent of visitors is not a marketing problem, it is a page problem, and the page is usually failing for one of five reasons you can diagnose yourself before lunch.
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Landing pages built for the query ship inside the 90 day ramp on Catalyst and Kinetic. A full rebuild on our stack is included with a 12 month term or $15,000 up front month to month. You own the code. Pricing is published.
Cause one: the traffic is the wrong traffic
Open Search Console and read the queries. If the top twenty are informational, how to, what is, definitions, you rank for curiosity, not intent. Curiosity converts at a fraction of a percent. A page that ranks for the commercial query, the service plus the qualifier a buyer types when ready, converts at 3 to 5 percent in our accounts. Fix the pages you rank for before you buy more visitors.
Cause two: the page does not answer the question the visitor arrived with
A researcher searching a model type lands on a homepage about your mission. A patient searching a symptom lands on a locations page. Every click that lands somewhere other than the exact answer costs you the visitor. In one life science engagement, matching the landing page to the search moved form fills 6.5x while clicks moved 3.7x. Leads grew faster than traffic because the traffic finally landed on its answer.
Cause three: the price and the proof are missing
Buyers complete 60 percent or more of the decision before contacting anyone, per BioInformatics research on life scientists, and the pattern holds for founders and practice administrators. If your site hides pricing, shows no numbers, and names no clients, the visitor finishes their research on a competitor's site and fills out that form instead. Publish the price or a range, publish a result with a method, name the people.
Cause four: the form asks too much, too early
Every field subtracts submissions. One client's demo form went to a single email field with a calculator that carried the prospect's own numbers into the request. Demo requests rose 5.8x in eight months. Ask for the email first, everything else second, and put the phone number and a calendar link next to the form for people who will not fill it out at all.
Cause five: nobody answers
This one hides in plain sight. The form works, the notification goes to an inbox nobody reads, and the lead is contacted four days later or never. Test it: fill out your own form on a Friday afternoon and time the response. If it is longer than one business day, you do not have a conversion problem yet. You have a handoff problem, and it costs nothing but discipline to fix.
Questions on this problem
Usually you need new pages first: one per commercial query, built to convert. A full rebuild makes sense when the platform cannot render fast, cannot carry schema, or is held by a vendor you cannot leave.
Under 1 percent on a brochure site is common. Pages built for the query and paired with ads run 3 to 5 percent in our accounts, higher when pricing is published.
On Catalyst and Kinetic we build landing pages inside the ramp on our stack and point your traffic at them. Rebuilding an old platform page by page rarely pays.
George Stoff, Founder and Lead Engineer
Thirty years building software, brands, and demand. On every account.