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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.
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 August 6, 2008 Tim Ash	How Long Should My Landing Page Test Run? What's the right length for a landing page optimization test? That's a bit like asking 'how long is a piece of string?' But there are some guidelines to follow to help you know when enough is enough.
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 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.
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Search Engine Watch October 19, 2010 Thi Thumasathit	Wag the Dog: The Tail of Bid Management Search marketers need to focus on maximizing relevance and conversion before bid management. Relying exclusively on bid management solutions to drive the success of a search campaign is letting the tail wag the dog.
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 May 14, 2008 Tim Ash	Emotional Motivators in Landing Page Optimization Visitors will arrive at your Web site with their own needs, perspectives, and emotions. Since you don't know much about them individually, here's how you can influence them with the design of your site.
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.
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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 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 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.
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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.
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Search Engine Watch December 7, 2009 Ron Jones	Usability and SEM 101, Part 1 To bridge the gap between setting the right SEM promise and delivering the expected Web site experience, we need to better understand users needs and desires and incorporate them into our Web design processes.
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 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.
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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 December 7, 2010 Garry Przyklenk	How to Optimize Your Website for Great User Experience Across All Browsers and Devices A list of free, inexpensive, and premium tools to get you started in collecting qualitative feedback and objective data on factors affecting user experience on your website and landing pages.
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Search Engine Watch November 12, 2008 Tim Ash	Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 1 The success of your testing program relies heavily on the cooperation of many people in your organization. There are some key roles that you'll need to fill with the right kinds of people, or your ideas will never see the light of day.
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.
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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 September 3, 2008 Tim Ash	Landing Page Optimization -- Insource or Outsource? Landing page optimization and testing can lead to huge performance improvements across your online marketing programs. But how do you capture these gains? Should you outsource your testing program or "insource" it by doing everything in-house?
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.
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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 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.
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