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SeeWhy Reveals Lessons Learned from Top 10 Converting WebsitesANDOVER, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- SeeWhy, Inc., the company that boosts website conversion with real-time remarketing, today announced the availability of "Lessons Learned from the Top 10 Converting Websites," a free eBook that identifies the 10, top-converting ecommerce sites and the strategies they use to drive website conversion. With the top 10 ecommerce sites converting, on average, roughly 10 times as many visitors into customers as the typical site - 23 percent vs. 2-3 percent - the research offers valuable insight into the Internet's most successful conversion practices and the tactics used by the ecommerce teams behind them. "Lessons Learned from the Top 10 Converting Websites" is available now as a free download. "Most readers will find the report a great surprise because its findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom," said Charles Nicholls, founder and chief strategy officer of SeeWhy. "Conventional wisdom emphasizes SEO and streamlined conversion and shopping cart processes - reduce the number of steps, offer guest checkout, and the like - to optimize conversion rate. But the top 10 conversion leaders don't care about one night stands; they want long term relationships. Still, they convert about 10 times as many visitors as the average ecommerce site. Their secret, quite simply, is their focus on long-term relationships with their customers, and that cardinal rule drives all of their activities." Lesson Plan of the Top 10 The top 10 converting websites is based on Nielsen data for six months, ending in November 2009. In order to qualify, a website needed to achieve a minimum of 5 million unique visitors per month. Conversion is measured based on the ratio of site visitors to purchasers in a given session. As a group, the top 10 have not focused on short checkout processes, and the majority do not offer guest checkout. In fact, four out of the top five (and six out of the top 10) force users to create a full account before a first purchase. Instead, the top 10 have effectively taken a contrarian approach to conversion that includes the following tenets:
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