# CRO

- Link: https://peacocksearch.com/services/cro/
- Published: 2026-10-12T10:14:34+00:00
- Author: Peacock Search

## Traffic but no leads?

It is the most common complaint about SEO and paid search, and it usually has one
of three causes. The pages rank for searches that were never going to buy. The pages
that do get the right visitors make it hard to get in touch. Or the tracking is 
wrong, and enquiries are arriving without being counted. CRO checks all three before
anything else changes, because each one has a different fix. The first is a targeting
problem, which belongs to SEO and paid search. The second is the work of CRO. The
third is a tracking repair, and it changes every other number in the report.

## What the work covers

 * Conversion tracking checked end to end: every form, call link and booking counted
   once
 * The path from landing page to enquiry, read in Analytics step by step
 * Forms: the number of fields, the error messages and what happens on a phone
 * Page speed and layout on the devices your visitors actually use
 * Headlines, calls to action and the words on the button
 * Landing pages for paid search that match the ad they come from
 * Trust: the facts a buyer looks for before getting in touch, placed where they
   look

## How changes are tested

Where a site has enough traffic, changes are tested properly: one change at a time,
with a control, run until the result can be trusted. Most small business sites do
not have that traffic, and pretending otherwise produces false wins. For those sites,
CRO fixes what is clearly broken, makes one change at a time, and compares before
and after over a fair period. Wins are shipped and measured. Losses are written 
up so the same guess is not made twice.

## Not the other CRO

In life sciences, CRO also means a contract research organisation. This page is 
about websites: getting more enquiries from the people who already visit yours.

## Who it is for

If you were looking for a conversion rate optimisation agency or a CRO consultant,
Peacock Search does the work directly, alongside the search work that brings the
traffic in. It suits businesses with steady visits and few enquiries, businesses
about to increase ad spend, and businesses whose site was built to look good rather
than to be used.

Online shops fit too, where the same work is measured in sales, not enquiries.

CRO from Peacock Search is run from Leeds for businesses in [Leeds](https://peacocksearch.com/seo-leeds/),
[York](https://peacocksearch.com/seo-york/), [Harrogate](https://peacocksearch.com/seo-harrogate/)
and [Sheffield](https://peacocksearch.com/seo-sheffield/).

## What Peacock Search will not do

 * Report split-test results from a site without the traffic to support them
 * Add testing or recording tools before you approve them and your cookie consent
   covers them
 * Promise a conversion rate
 * Keep quiet about a change that did not work

## What you get

 * A written review of where visitors stop and why, in order of what it costs you
 * Changes made or briefed for your developer, one at a time
 * Each change measured against your own Analytics, with the result written up either
   way