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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 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 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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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 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 January 23, 2009 David Szetela |
Google Conversion Optimizer: The Best-Kept Secret in PPC? Google quietly added Conversion Optimizer to every advertiser's AdWords account a few months ago. In a nutshell, it regulates keyword-level bids, promising to deliver as many conversions as possible, at or below a cost-per-conversion you specify. |
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 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 January 5, 2011 Stephen Cobb |
Will 2011 be the Year of Conversion Rate Optimization? The business logic behind conversion rate optimization is compelling, yet in 2010 many businesses managed not to do much about CRO, perhaps distracted by trends like social media. But 2011 will be the year that CRO finally has something to crow about. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2010 Melissa Mackey |
Boost PPC Performance With Google Conversion Optimizer Find out the best ways to use Google's Conversion Optimizer to boost your paid search performance. |
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 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 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 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 March 11, 2009 Eric Enge |
Improve Conversion Efficiency with Demandbase Increasing conversion efficiency should be the goal of every Web site publisher. Regardless of what you're trying to accomplish with the sit, having a higher conversion rate than your competitor provides you with a strategic advantage. |
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 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. |
Entrepreneur October 2009 Mikal E. Belicove |
Analyzing the Analytics How to make sense of your website's performance data. |
Search Engine Watch September 15, 2008 David Szetela |
Show Me the Money: Bidding for Profitability Setting ad group bid prices at the beginning of a campaign is one of the more challenging tasks for many PPC advertisers. The answers are a snap once you know the fundamentals. |
CRM March 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: A company can't determine which Web-site factors either drive conversion rates or detract from a customer's experience. Tech Solution: multivariable testing tools. Kefta Dynamic Targeting... Memetrics xOs Enterprise... Optimost Enterprise Solution... |
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 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 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. |
Entrepreneur November 2003 Catherine Seda |
The ROI Treatment Get better results by creating an ROI model. |
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. |
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 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 January 19, 2009 Ron Jones |
Web Analytics 101, Part 1 Without looking to see how your Web site is performing, and learning more about the people visiting your site, you're throwing away a huge opportunity. |
Search Engine Watch December 4, 2008 David Szetela |
PPC Landing Pages: The End of the Line -- Or the Beginning? Expert PPC advertisers realize that PPC landing pages have more impact on conversion rates and ROI than anything else they can do. |
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. |
PC Magazine April 19, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Your Site's Stats Now that you have a Web site, it's time to learn how to analyze the traffic that your visitors generate. |
Search Engine Watch August 20, 2010 John Lee |
Make Google AdWords Bidding Features Work for You What works best for your PPC campaign? A look at AdWords' latest feature, Enhanced CPC, plus a recap of manual CPC bidding, automated bidding, and Conversion Optimizer. |
InternetNews March 4, 2005 Brian Livingston |
Are Your Visitors Seeing What You Think? Web sites that've been changed to exploit the findings of this study have sometimes generated two to three times the response rate from visitors, at little cost to the site owner. |
Search Engine Watch February 12, 2009 David Szetela |
One PPC Landing Page, Infinite Faces Creating custom landing pages for PPC ads can help boost your conversion rates by percentage points. |
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 October 13, 2008 David Szetela |
Reading the Tea Leaves: Interpreting Keyword Reports Once enough data has accumulated, it's important to run reports and take action based on the data. But what do all those numbers mean, and how should we make adjustments to improve PPC campaign performance? |
HBS Working Knowledge May 22, 2006 |
Five Guidelines for Using Statistics Although the perspectives offered here won't qualify you to be a high-powered statistical analyst, they will help you decide what to ask of the analysts whose numbers you rely on. |
Entrepreneur September 2009 David Port |
How to Make Your Website Really Sell The best advice for converting visitors to your company's website into real revenue. |
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 November 13, 2008 David Szetela |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Click-Through and Conversion Rates What's a good click-through rate? What's a good conversion rate? That's not an easy question to generalize on, but there are some guidelines that can help you see if yours is acceptable. |
Search Engine Watch December 6, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Funneling your Traffic into Conversions Rankings and referrals are important but even more so is what your traffic is doing once they get to your site. Following these few easy steps helps to get your traffic back on track. |
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2008 David Szetela |
Judging PPC Performance: Focus on Conversions Knowing how and when to make decisions about your PPC campaign's keyword and ad performance can make or break your campaign. Just remember that almost every action you take to improve your PPC ad campaign should be based on conversion data. |
Search Engine Watch April 6, 2011 Andy Atkins-Kruger |
How to Test International Search Marketing Opportunities at Low Cost Tips for businesses with limited resources on overcoming marketing challenges when taking expanding to new territories. |