A/B testing is the field of digital marketing with the highest potential to apply scientific principles, as each A/B experiment is a randomized controlled trial, very similar to ones done in physics, medicine, biology, genetics, etc. However, common advice and part of the practice in A/B testing are lagging by about half a century when …
Digital marketers love tools. My career is built on search marketing, a specialty known for its fondness of tools. For years, we have had unique tools with unique metrics for each part of our job. One tool to check and report rankings. One tool to check and report broken links. One tool to check and …
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Building a Culture of Optimization is a very important topic and something our industry as a whole is still in the process of nailing down – most organizations I see haven’t yet reach maturity here. I’ve presented at several conferences, webinars, and meetings recently on the topic, and given the importance of building such a …
This April, Google announced Content Experiments for mobile apps, managed through the Google Tag Manager (GTM) platform. This is great news for any app developer as it allows for faster and more reliable iteration and optimization of app usage in ways that have not been possible in the past. I previously wrote an introductory post …
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” Benjamin Franklin In marketing, A/B testing is a technique for measuring the effect of web page changes on a performance metric, such as click through Rate, sign-ups, purchases, etc., on all of your visitors or a specific segment. Marketers have been …
A few years ago, Frito-Lay spot-tested an ad featuring two women in a laundromat. One woman callously steals the only available washing machine. Frustrated, the other exacts her revenge: she dumps Cheetos into the thief’s dryer full of white clothes. Focus groups hated the ad and criticized it as mean-spirited. Judging from their emotional reactions, …
A/B and Multi-Variate Testing (MVT) are essential conversion optimization activities and they deserve a separate pillar within a CRO Maturity Model. In a nutshell A/B and MVT testing allow you to test two or more different experiences (and it can be pages, images, copies.. you name it) head to head and find out what is …
If you’re not familiar with A/B testing, it is all about testing which version of a page is more effective in persuading the visitor to perform an action on a website; be that signing up to a list or buying an item on an online store. It allows you to incrementally optimise your landing pages …
Competition on the contemporary web is enormous, website usability is crucial as never. If a website is complicated, people will leave it without thinking twice. If it is not understandable, people will find something simpler. If information is hard to read, people will find something better. It will take no more than 10 seconds for …
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[Last Updated on November 2013] In this article I discuss Content Experiments, a tool that can be used to create A/B tests from inside Google Analytics. This tool has several advantages over the old Google Website Optimizer, especially if you are just starting the website testing journey. Content Experiments provide a quick way to test …
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