Website
Chapters
- 01
Article2 min
A foundation isn't finished until you can measure it
Analytics, event tracking and a regular review turn a B2B website from a black box into something you can see and improve.
- 02
Article2 min
A landing page is a decision machine, not a smaller website
A landing page is not a small website. It exists to get one visitor who already knows what they want to make one decision.
- 03
Article1 min
About page
Visitors often leave an About page unsure who you are or why to trust you. This guide shows how to state your story, proof, and next step clearly.
- 04
Article1 min
Blog and resources
- 05
Article1 min
Build a single clear path, not a maze of choices
A page with a dozen equal calls to action gets none of them clicked, so give each page one clear path and a single primary action.
- 06
Article2 min
Build forty one-job pages, not one everything-page
Build many focused landing pages, one per search intent, instead of one page for every audience. AI agents make that set cheap to keep.
- 07
Article2 min
Build on a structure you can change without a project
Choose a CMS and page structure the marketing team can edit without developers, because the first version will be wrong and must change often.
- 08
Article1 min
Case studies
- 09
Article2 min
Common failures
Company brochure copy, unclear heroes, too many calls to action, slow pages and missing measurement are the usual website failures and fixes.
- 10
Article2 min
Common failures
Tailor page messaging to match visitor intent: a searcher and an ad clicker have different expectations, and one message cannot satisfy both.
- 11
Article1 min
Contact and demo page
- 12
Article2 min
Conversion does not stop at submit: close the loop with speed-to-lead
The form fill starts a clock. Reply to new leads within minutes, because a slow follow up wastes everything the page earned.
- 13
Article1 min
Earn attention before you ask for it
Gating content before proving value kills engagement, so give useful material freely and ask for details once the visitor trusts you.
- 14
Article1 min
Engagement is a means, not a metric to chase
Engagement is evidence that visitors are moving toward a decision, so optimise for the decision rather than time on page or scroll depth.
- 15
Article2 min
FAQs
Watch intent signals like scroll depth on key pages, primary action clicks and return visits, and read high traffic with low engagement as a mismatch.
- 16
Article3 min
FAQs
Answers on homepage length, the pages to build first, which calls to action to use and how to measure what a B2B site does.
- 17
Article1 min
Homepage
- 18
Article1 min
Measure intent, then change one thing and watch
Choose the few signals that read buyer intent, change one thing at a time and let the data give the verdict instead of the loudest opinion.
- 19
Article2 min
Message match: finish the sentence the ad started
Land visitors on a headline that finishes the exact promise the ad or email made, since a mismatch wastes the click you paid for.
- 20
Article1 min
Navigation and footer
- 21
Article2 min
One clear next step beats a menu of options
Give every page one primary call to action, because a menu of demos, trials and downloads leaves visitors choosing nothing.
- 22
Article2 min
One job, one CTA: the focus law
Give a landing page one call to action and repeat it down the page. More options only add decision fatigue and cost conversions.
- 23
Article1 min
Pricing page
- 24
Article1 min
Product and service pages
- 25
Article2 min
Proof carries the page: the 1-3-1 skeleton
Build each landing page on one promise, three proofs and one action, showing the outcome and answering the doubt that stops a visitor.
- 26
Article2 min
Proof does the selling, claims do not
Buyers skip generic claims, so replace them with named customers, specific numbers and case studies that make each claim verifiable.
- 27
Article1 min
Role and industry pages
- 28
Article1 min
Show, don't tell, and make the product the hero
Adjectives like intuitive convince nobody, so show the product doing something useful within seconds and let visitors see it for themselves.
- 29
Article1 min
Speed and clarity are engagement features, not technical chores
Slow or confusing pages lose visitors before they read a word, so treat load speed and clarity as conversion work, above all on mobile.
- 30
Article2 min
Speed and clarity beat beauty, every time
Load time and a clear path to action move conversion far more than typefaces and animation, so fix speed and clarity first.
- 31
Article2 min
Speed is a conversion feature
Slow pages lose conversions before they even load. Treat page speed as a conversion number owned by whoever owns the conversion rate.
- 32
Article1 min
The first screen decides whether anyone stays
The first screen must answer whether the product is for this visitor and can solve their problem within seconds, or they leave.
- 33
Article2 min
The form is a filter, not a gate
Long forms scare off good B2B leads. Ask for little at the door and qualify afterwards, treating the form as a filter rather than a gate.
- 34
Article2 min
The friction ledger: what actually leaks conversion
Audit a landing page against six items that measurably leak conversion before touching copy or design.
- 35
Article2 min
The hero has five seconds to answer three questions
Above the fold, a visitor must learn what you do, who it is for and what to do next within five seconds, or they leave.
- 36
Article4 min
Your website is a salesperson, not a brochure
Extract insights with customer interviews and heatmaps: numbers alone rarely explain why visitors hesitate.
- 37
Article3 min
How to run qualitative research
Use heatmaps, recordings, and survey data to uncover friction. Discover confusion and blockers that hurt your conversion rates and user experience.
- 38
Article5 min
Identify your best pages and redirect traffic
Don't build new pages yet. First, analyse which current pages convert best and redirect underperforming traffic there. Quick win with zero build time.
- 39
Article3 min
How to write an about page that builds trust
Write an about page that answers a buyer's three trust questions in order, with a clear opening, checkable proof, real people and one next step.
- 40
Article5 min
Optimise existing pages for mobile and message match
60%+ of traffic is mobile. If your page isn't optimised for small screens, you're losing half your visitors. Also ensure your ad promise matches the landing page headline exactly.
- 41
Article6 min
Build segment-specific pages only where volume justifies it
Calculate which segments need dedicated pages based on traffic volume and message distance. If belief gaps are close, segments can share pages. If gaps are large and volume is high, build separate pages.
- 42
Article6 min
Test systematically and apply learnings
A/B test one element at a time on highest-traffic pages. Start with headlines (biggest impact), then proof, then CTA. Apply winning patterns across similar pages without re-testing everything.
- 43
Article3 min
Run monthly landing page audits
Run a one-hour monthly check of your landing pages covering numbers, behaviour, message match, technical health and freshness, and fix the three issues that matter most.
- 44
Article3 min
Test above-the-fold variants
Run clean above-the-fold tests: pick one page, one metric and one change, run it for two full weeks, and log what you learned so the next test starts from evidence.
- 45
Article3 min
Improve page speed and mobile experience
Measure your key landing pages on a phone, fix the three biggest speed bottlenecks and set limits so the pages do not slow down again.
- 46
Article3 min
Personalise pages by traffic source
Change the headline, proof and call to action on a page depending on where the visitor came from, using simple rules and tracking parameters that need no personalisation platform.
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About this playbook
Your website is where people land when they are curious about what you do. In the thirty seconds they are there, they decide whether to move forward or leave. This means your website has a specific job: make it obvious who this is for, what problem you solve, and why you solve it better than the alternative. Then make it simple to take the next step. Most websites fail because founders try to say too much, show too much, or make it too hard to find the answer to the one question a visitor came to answer. This section covers how to structure your website around your visitor's question, how to design it so people actually read it, and how to measure whether it is doing the job. Start here if you are building a website for the first time or if your current one is not generating leads.