Friday, July 6, 2012

Importance of Split Testing In Your Web Strategy


As we have said a hundred times as is well known for the vast majority of marketers, marketing is not an exact science what works today might quit tomorrow or what was a resounding success for a company be a dismal failure for another.

The best strategy you can follow when looking for the prefect internet advertising campaign, website or advertisement exact ideal to increase sales is to maintain a continuous improvement approach in the style of total quality.

Now, what I supposed to be a total quality strategy in terms of our presence on the internet? because it is carrying out activities of split testing, which roughly is to compare performance between two versions of anything.

For example: If I have an ad in a payment system like Google Adwords click is a good idea to have two versions of the same to identify which is the best result is giving me and then try to improve it and make it to compare with a new ad .

If you have a website, I hope so, must change small details and take note of them, may be the size of letters and titles, distribution of elements, different colors, etc.. Once you have enough statistical data, in this case it is advisable to use a tool like Google Analytics analysis, should be to change other variable and thus go to seek information on the performance of the website.

The most important part of Split Testing, contrary to popular belief, is not to evaluate the performance of what is being "tested" if we are thin on the analysis that is going to result is a much more depth of our client, their behavior, their tastes, the stimuli to which it reacts more favorably, and so on.

All this information will allow us to make better decisions for planning the design of websites, our internet advertising strategy or whatever our project, we will clarify the customer profile that we are addressing.

It is likely that your budget does not allow a full service contract to carry out any split testing tactics constant in all levels of your web strategy, but it is important to do so, at least in spots where you can have more control and requires no major complications. Test with your ads on the internet is usually a good start.


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