Tweet In this post we demonstrate how to setup a Google Website Optimizer A/B test using the Motivity Ecommerce/CMS Platform. The Motivity platform includes a Google Website Optimizer module that allows you to test your website content and ecommerce pages. In order to test pages you normally need to insert snippets of JavaScript code provided [...]
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Tweet In this post we demonstrate how to setup a Google Website Optimizer Multivariate test on an Ecommerce Product Page using the Motivity Ecommerce/CMS Platform. The Motivity platform includes a Google Website Optimizer module that allows you to test your website content and ecommerce pages. In order to test pages you normally need to insert [...]
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Tweet In this post we demonstrate how to setup a Google Website Optimizer Multivariate test on an Ecommerce Category Page using the Motivity Ecommerce/CMS Platform. The Motivity platform includes a Google Website Optimizer module that allows you to test your website content and ecommerce pages. In order to test pages you normally need to insert [...]
Continue readingDecember 18, 2008
Tweet You don’t need to have a separate page to track Website Optimizer conversions We’ve learned that many people struggle with how to setup conversion tracking in Google Website Optimizer for videos, product demos, ajax forms, multiple forms on a page, or other pages that either have multiple desired actions or don’t have any clear [...]
Continue readingDecember 14, 2008
Tweet Google Website Optimizer Multichannel Ecommerce Case Study Why was this Website Optimizer test so important? This test makes a great case study for the value of follow up tests, how strong conversion rates can still be improved substantially, and most importantly provides a critical lesson in why the Google Website Optimizer results cannot be [...]
Continue readingNovember 20, 2008
Tweet After taking about 20 steps, I couldn’t get to the special offers in AT&T’s email! Apparently, AT&T doesn’t really want you to get your free ringtone or help the environment. Read the quick case study below… AT&T’s Mistake #1: Hiding the offer in the email preview Due to the use of only images in [...]
Continue readingNovember 13, 2008
Tweet We often talk about persuasion with our clients when discussing website optimization. Today, I came across a twitter post from Bryan Eisenberg that led me to a concise review of a recent online marketing flub they found by MagicJack. It provides a revealing discussion regarding the three fundamental questions of Future Now’s Persuasion Architecture(R): [...]
Continue readingNovember 13, 2008
Tweet Google has made their SEO standards more transparent than ever for webmasters with their new SEO Starter Guide! Understandably, diving into the relatively uncharted world of SEO optimization can be intimidating and tricky for new webmasters at first. But luckily, Google’s new compact guide will help to assuage some of those initial fears and [...]
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Tweet Google Analytics adds custom reports and advanced segmentationThese new features are in Beta, but should show up now when you log into Analytics. Advanced segmentation allows you to easily separate your traffic streams and then view these separations graphically. You can use existing segments or create new ones. Custom reports are where the fun [...]
Continue readingOctober 28, 2008
Tweet Kayden Kelly, Managing Director of Blast Advanced Media, to give presentation on “Marketing Benefits of Blogs & Does Your Website Rock?” to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Northern California Chapter) that puts on the International Emmy Awards. This is a must attend event for all people who live in the Sacramento [...]
Continue readingOctober 26, 2008
Tweet I recently read a great article in EContent Magazine (November 2008, Volume 31, Number 9) called “Build Community to Build Brand and Business” by Joe Dysart. Below are the highlights of the article that validate our contention that transparent online reviews and social communities foster trust and affinity. Online Reviews Influence Purchasing Decisions While [...]
Continue readingOctober 22, 2008
Tweet Google analytics has made some great updates to the analytics package. One update that I have been anxiously awaiting (had to use some creative programming in the past) is getting an analytics API(Yay!). Another great new feature is the motion charts that can be heavily customized to really get a clear picture how efforts [...]
Continue readingOctober 17, 2008
Tweet Let’s say you’re a rookie in the field of search engine optimization, and you’ve just recently gotten the hang of how good fundamental SEO practices work. Let’s also say you’ve recoded your company’s new website in order to implement these best practices. So far you have removed all image-based page and section titles and [...]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2008
Tweet Ian Lurie from the conversation marketing blog posted a great list today with the basic features for ecommerce success. Ian writes from a internet marketer’s perspective. Which is great because too often business focus on just being able to sell products online. Doing that is like filling a brick & mortar store with products [...]
Continue readingSeptember 24, 2008
Tweet Want to make web design and development decisions easier? Then start testing! In a recent test, we utilized Google Website Optimizer to see if we could improve the conversion of a key goal (requesting a catalog) on an ecommerce web site. We identified what we believed to be the obstacles on the the current [...]
Continue readingSeptember 23, 2008
Tweet Unless you have been purposefully shunning the online social media movement over the past few years, by now you might have heard of a nifty website called Squidoo.Squidoo is essentially a wiki website functioning on Seth Godin’s credo that “Everyone’s an expert on something!” By that standard, anyone who is passionate enough about a [...]
Continue readingSeptember 11, 2008
Tweet Google’s recently introduced custom 404 error pages make your site more user-friendly. How often have you either clicked a link to a page that no longer existed or typed in an incorrect URL? The result is typically either a bland 404 page not found error (see example at right) or a static page that [...]
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