The CTA Checklist:
- [ ] Is your CTA accessible?
- [ ] Is your CTA aligned with what visitors want out of your page?
- [ ] Are your visitors ready to take the action you're asking for?
- [ ] Is the copy around your CTA doing a good job of explaining why the visitor will benefit from clicking on the CTA?
- [ ] Does the copy around your CTA show that clicking on it helps them solve their problems/achieve the outcomes they want?
- [ ] Does the CTA make sense with what's going with their business right now?
- [ ] Are you combatting all hesitations to clicking the CTA?
- [ ] Do your visitors know what will happen they click the CTA?
- [ ] Is the CTA language clear and action-oriented?
- [ ] Does your CTA connect to the headline of the page it takes visitors to?
- [ ] Do you have social-proof backing your CTA?
- [ ] Does your CTA look like a button?
- [ ] If you have multiple customer segments, is the CTA appealing for all of them?
- [ ] Do your visitors understand why the action you're asking for is required? (eg. if you're asking for an email ID, why is that information necessary?)
- [ ] Have you added CTAs wherever visitors want to take an action? (eg. in an FAQ response, under a feature section where people can learn more etc.)
- [ ] Does the CTA make sense in terms of its position on the page? At the very top of the page, visitors are likely not to take big actions right away.
Building the right CTA:
1. Why are visitors coming to your page?