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Even if you double the incoming traffic to your website, your conversions will still suffer if your website isn\u2019t functional.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to regularly examine your site in order to be sure that everything is functioning exactly as you would want it to if you were a prospective customer visiting for the first time. Make sure all of your links, calls to action and landing pages are functioning properly. Take the time to fill out and test the contact form to ensure that the message actually gets delivered to the intended person. If any of these aspects of your website aren\u2019t working properly, make it a point to fix them, or have them fixed immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Any prospect that ends up on your website for any reason isn\u2019t very likely to place an order on a site that isn\u2019t functioning properly. You can also forget about first time visitors becoming regulars or directing their friends to websites that don\u2019t function properly.<\/p>\n<p>For every day that an integral aspect of your site isn\u2019t functioning, you are losing sales. It doesn\u2019t matter how much work you put into your Internet marketing efforts if your prospects can\u2019t take the next step do to a poorly functioning site. We carefully monitor and test all contact forms and work hard to improve our user&#8217;s experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people get so absorbed in spending time driving traffic to their site that they forget about the functionality of the site itself. In order to ensure the maximum amount of possible conversions from your Internet marketing efforts, your site needs to have completely usable functions and features. 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