Conversion rate optimization (or CRO) is improving the conversion rate from ads, marketing campaigns, sales, or any aspect of your business where users are driven to take an action. If you run an email marketing campaign where you encourage people to click on a link to purchase a product, then CRO helps you by getting more people to take that step.
CRO can take different forms and names such as marketing optimization, website optimization, landing page optimization (LPO), optimization and testing, customer experience (CX), usability or market experimentation. Despite being based on optimization, CRO is different from SEO in that the former focuses on optimizing human behavior and the latter on optimizing search engine algorithm behavior.
