Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Search Engine Watch October 28, 2009 Tim Ash	The Cost of Landing Page Optimization You must be willing to suffer short-term pain during landing page testing in order to attain the long-term gain of improved performance and higher conversions.
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2009 Tim Ash	Landing Page Optimization Pitfall -- Not Collecting Enough Data In statistics, results do not become stable until a large enough sample is tested. Accordingly, making landing page decisions using data from a too-small sample size can lead marketers to make bad decisions.
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2009 Tim Ash	Granularity in Landing Page Optimization Between changing a button color or font size and completely redesigning a landing page, there's a continuum of possible changes to test. Changing the granularity of your tests allows you to include your important ideas while keeping test sizes reasonable.
Search Engine Watch July 23, 2008 Tim Ash	How Valid Are Your Landing Page Test Conclusions? Landing page testing can lead to major Web site changes. How sure are you that your conclusions are valid?
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2009 Tim Ash	How to Get Started on Landing Page Optimization Tips for getting buy-in from high-level executives and other team members.
Search Engine Watch August 5, 2009 Tim Ash	Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics in Landing Page Optimization The statistics branch of mathematics has a poor reputation among the public. While there's nothing wrong with statistics itself, there are many common misuses. Let's look at some of the implications for landing page optimization.
Search Engine Watch June 10, 2009 Tim Ash	What Is the Desired Conversion Action? Understanding your conversion actions is the key to landing page optimization success. Knowing what to measure for different situations can help you optimize your site for the right goals.
Search Engine Watch October 15, 2008 Tim Ash	Landing Page Optimization: Guessing vs. Testing The real experts on the design of your landing pages are your Web site visitors.
Search Engine Watch June 11, 2008 Tim Ash	Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 1 How do you find problems with your landing page hidden in your test results? Instead of waiting only for good news, filter it out instead. Accentuate the negative. Focus on problems and things that are askew.
Search Engine Watch May 13, 2009 Tim Ash	The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 4: Action, Part 1 We've been discussing the well-known AIDA conversion funnel and how it governs all Web conversions. We've already examined awareness, interest and desire. It's time for some action.
Search Engine Watch August 20, 2008 Tim Ash	What Are You Converting? Many people view conversions as large-scale events, such as product sales or sign-ups for a service. But a conversion can mean many things, depending on the site.
Search Engine Watch August 5, 2008 Carrie Hill	Increase Web Site Conversions with the Scientific Method It's so simple in description, but has unlimited potential. The scientific method can apply to any type of experiment, be it chemistry or Web site marketing.
Search Engine Watch June 24, 2009 Tim Ash	Applying Probability to Landing Page Optimization In the context of LPO, probability can be viewed as simply taking the best guess given the available information. The more information you have, the more accurate your guess will become.
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2011 Stephen Cobb	Anchor Your Landing Pages and Convert Wayward Clickers Your chances of converting the traffic you drive to your site will increase if you can keep visitors focused on your conversion message. A landing page anchor is designed to do just that.
Search Engine Watch June 23, 2009 Carrie Hill	Taking the Fear Out of Web Analytics for Your Small Business Do you have Web analytics installed on your small business Web site? If not, you should. How will you know how your Web site is performing if you aren't measuring the right data?
Search Engine Watch August 19, 2009 Tim Ash	The Art of the Landing Page: 7 Tips For Increasing Conversions Landing page optimization and testing can have a dramatic impact on your online marketing profitability. But even without testing you can quickly eliminate several common mistakes that can instantly skyrocket conversion rates.
Search Engine Watch May 28, 2008 Tim Ash	Testing Landing Pages with the Taguchi Method? Think Again! In statistical circles, it's a known fact that the Taguchi method is a bad fit for landing page testing. So why do so many marketers continue to use it to test landing pages?
Search Engine Watch September 30, 2009 Tim Ash	The Myth of Perfect Conversion Don't make the mistake of assuming that every visitor is a potential prospect or buyer for your goods or services. The mythical 100 percent conversion rate simply doesn't exist. It's a delusion.
Search Engine Watch December 24, 2008 Tim Ash	Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 4 Today, we'll look at the final three elements needed in a landing page optimization program: a programmer, a system administrator, and a quality assurance tester.
Search Engine Watch June 24, 2008 Carrie Hill	The Big Picture -- Well-Rounded SEM for SMBs, Part 3 More elements a small business should consider when looking at a well rounded search engine marketing campaign include local search, usability, and creating a Web site that will increase conversions.
Search Engine Watch September 17, 2008 Tim Ash	Landing Page Optimization -- Insource or Outsource? Part 2 Deciding whether to outsource your landing page optimization and testing program is not an easy decision. There are advantages to each.
Search Engine Watch December 18, 2008 David Szetela	PPC Landing Pages: PPC Visitors Have ADD This week I'll pick up on the introductory discussion of PPC landing pages.
Search Engine Watch October 29, 2008 Tim Ash	Landing Pages and the Decision-Making Process Landing page optimization and testing is a complex activity that requires knowledge of many fields, including usability, copywriting, math, and Web design. But at its core, we're still trying to influence the behavior of people, and human nature hasn't changed.
Search Engine Watch July 8, 2009 Tim Ash	Meaning-Making in Landing Page Optimization We all want to create "meaning" and see the larger patterns in our tests that can apply to other circumstances. But the world is very complex, and trying to generalize universal truths from a single landing page test result is often a horrible idea.
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2009 Tim Ash	The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 1: Awareness Awareness, and its close cousin attention, are scarce commodities in our fast-paced world. People learn to tune everything out, so it takes more effort for an advertiser to break through the clutter and noise to reach their target audience.
Search Engine Watch July 22, 2009 Tim Ash	Your Baby Is Ugly After launching a landing page optimization project, you inevitably will find chinks in the armor of your beautiful and perfect creations. Before fixing anything, you have to let go of your ego and acknowledge that your baby is ugly.
Entrepreneur November 2009 Mikal E. Belicove	Graceful Landing A well-conceived landing page sends the right signals about your company and helps customers navigate toward the sale.
Search Engine Watch July 9, 2008 Tim Ash	Coherency in Landing Page Testing Coherency is an overall sense of your design hanging together. It is largely ignored by landing page testers, leading visitors to respond to incoherent pages with a variety of gut reactions, and none of them are flattering.
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2010 Frank Watson	Paid Search Success Needs Great E-mail Marketing When developing your PPC strategy, don't forget about e-mail. Use your keyword, ad, and landing page data to improve conversions.
Search Engine Watch December 10, 2008 Tim Ash	Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 3 We've already described some key roles necessary for a successful landing page optimization program. Today, we'll examine three more roles: the copywriter, marketing manager, and user experience expert.
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2011 Ryan Woolley	Conversion Rate, A Most Powerful Lever Indeed Some best practices and a guide on how to execute an A/B split serve landing page test.
InternetNews August 17, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Online Shopping Up, Along With Abandoned Carts DoubleClick's e-commerce survey tells the tale of why e-shoppers are leaving their carts in the virtual aisle.
Search Engine Watch September 10, 2010 Frank Watson	Tracking Success, Part 2: AdWords and Social Media Tricks and tools to help you track conversions in AdWords and on social media sites, especially Facebook and Twitter.
Search Engine Watch January 28, 2009 Eric Enge	Track Those Alternate Conversions It's natural to think about revenue-generating events such as sales, leads generated, or ads clicked on when we think about conversions. But there are many other types of valuable conversions.
CRM November 22, 2011 Melody King	Three Keys to Successful Video Management Include them in your company's platform. As the Web continues its transformation into a video channel, marketers are putting greater emphasis on video to drive deeper customer engagement and increased sales.
Search Engine Watch February 24, 2005 Heather Lloyd-Martin	Forecasting Paid Search Traffic Despite the hype, being #1 in paid search results may not provide your company the desired bang for your marketing buck. Intelligently optimizing a paid search budget involves far more than setting random bid prices and guessing at returns.
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2010 Marty Weintraub	Google Analytics, Conversion Tracking & Single Segment Reporting Power There's awesome power in the simplicity of surfing Google Analytics, only studying a single conversion setting. The only limitation is your imagination.
CRM June 3, 2015	TruConversion Launches New Web Analytics Product TruConversion brings together heatmaps, surveys, polls, AB testing, form analytics, and conversion funnels in one product.
CRM January 11, 2013 Mikael Lyngso	Combating Shopping Cart Abandonment Leverage e-commerce data to boost online sales.
CRM February 2010 Lauren McKay	The New-Age Home Aided by SiteSpect, a specialist in elder-care placement boosts Web conversions and better addresses client needs.
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2009 Tim Ash	Writing Sales Copy for Conversions One of the most common components you can test is sales copy. Changing your approach to writing can often lead to a double-digit increase in conversion rates.
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2010 Joseph Kerschbaum	Using Conversion Funnels to Improve Your Conversion Rate, Part 1 How you can apply data from Search Funnel reports in AdWords to improve your conversion rate and overall PPC performance.
Search Engine Watch January 21, 2009 Tim Ash	Writing Sales Copy For Conversions, Part 2 Once visitors end up on your landing page, you're no longer competing for their attention with other Web sites, so change the focus to the task they're trying to accomplish.
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2010 Kevin Gibbons	How Is Your SEO Strategy Really Performing? Rankings, traffic, and CTR can be misleading. Here's how to avoid placing too much confidence in the wrong measurements.
Search Engine Watch January 19, 2011 Michael Bonfils	5 Factors to Help You Identify the Best Global Search Markets Why analytics, keyword research data, competition, technical challenges, and e-commerce challenges are the most important factors for identifying potential international markets.
Search Engine Watch November 26, 2008 Tim Ash	Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 2 The success of your testing program relies heavily on the cooperation of many people in your organization. We continue our look at some key roles needed for a successful landing page optimization program.
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2004 Grant Crowell	Search Online, Buy Offline: How to Tell? Many people do extensive product research online but end up buying from brick and mortar retailers. How can you track the effectiveness of search marketing campaigns that result in offline purchases?
Search Engine Watch April 15, 2009 Tim Ash	The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 3: Desire, Part 1 The AIDA conversion funnel governs all Web conversions. We've examined Awareness and Interest, so now we'll take a look at the Desire stage.
Entrepreneur October 2009 Mikal E. Belicove	Analyzing the Analytics How to make sense of your website's performance data.
Search Engine Watch June 25, 2008 Tim Ash	Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 2 Web analytics on your Web site can help you uncover and prioritize potential site problems. Some additional techniques to discover conversion issues on your landing pages include mining onsite search, or conducting usability testing, focus groups, and surveys.