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  • Great resource for landing page optimization

    Friday, April 11th, 2008

    I just received a link to an amazing resource from MarketingExperiments, it’s a compilation of great webinar summaries and case studies that they have done. They cover topics from landing page optimization to price testing to PPC and more. While not everything is about testing specifically, all their advice and ideas can be [...]

    3 difficult optimization results and what you can learn from them (2 of 3)

    Thursday, April 10th, 2008

    Note: This is the second post of a 3 part series, each focusing on one type of test result that is tough to deal with. Read the first article on highly mixed data.
    As an optimization analyst, this is probably the hardest result to bring to a client. Oddly enough, it actually is favorable [...]

    3 posts on 3 topics

    Thursday, March 6th, 2008

    Edit: I fixed all the links in this post.  Copy and pasting is getting the best of me!
    I recently came across a few great posts that I enjoyed and wanted to pass onto you all. The first is from Tim Ash, who has written a great book on Landing Page Optimization. One [...]

    How to get ideal test conditions (and results)

    Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

    A big mistake in testing is to overlook variables inside and outside of the test that impact results. In an ideal test, the only variables would be the ones you are testing on your page. That usually isn’t possible though, but as long as you account for them in your analysis, you will [...]

    What can your data really tell you?

    Thursday, December 6th, 2007

    Online testing is a bit different from other marketing data. It uses live traffic to find out what works. Analytics is the same, measuring what’s occurring at the moment. So why is that important? Well you can infer all you want from surveys, usability studies and demographics, but in the end [...]