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It’s been a while since I last posted any results here. To be honest I wanted to give it some time so I had a conclusive result to report back to you. So much time has past I almost forgot what I was testing!

After re-reading my blog it all came back to me in a flash and I’ve gone and taken a fresh look at the Google Website Optimizer results.

So far the the total number of page visitors has been 2,538 since the test began. From this we’ve had 758 conversions.

Now you would have thought that by now we’d have a clear winner. That’s a decent amount of traffic and easily enough conversions right?

Does having the “as seen on…” logos actually increase conversions on this squeeze page I’m testing?

Unfortunately it’s not worked out as I had planned because Google Website Optimizer still hasn’t decided a high confidence winner from these 2 pages I was split testing.

Here’s what Google is telling me…

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It looks like the overall conversion rate is pretty decent, but I’m just not getting a clear winner. Based on what I’m seeing above I’m tempted to say not having the logos is better …but it’s so close.

These stats expand on the above a bit more…

wso3 Big Marketing Secrets Book: Update #4

So where to now?

I could let this test run some more or I could look at testing other more significant changes like:

1. The Headline
2. The offer
3. A totally different design

What I’ve learned from this test is small changes (like adding these “as seen on…” logos) don’t really make much of a difference.

Interestingly my opinion of split testing has changed as as result of this, now I’m thinking that it’s only worth testing the headline, the offer and a significantly different design. Everything else is mostly a waste of time!

What are your thoughts on split testing?

Remember...
-You can't improve what you don't measure!

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Website Optimizer is the free online software I’m using to run all my split testing, it’s a fantastically powerful and uniquely robust tool that you MUST use if you want to multiply your online profits.

Until about 5 minutes ago I was seriously considering creating a how to video for Google Website Optimizer.

That was until I discovered this excellent video Tom Leung created…

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Thanks Tom!

Remember...
-You can't improve what you don't measure!

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Here’s a quick video update on the stats AWeber is giving us in this never before seen split test experiment…

It’s these live conversion test results I’m giving you here that will point the way forward to the success of your own split testing.

If you missed the start of our conversion testing you can catch up with introduction of everything here…

Black, Yellow or Some Well Placed Flare?

P.S. These stats don’t include the JV email promo that’s going to be running in a few hours time. I’ll be back with more on that either tomorrow or over the weekend.

Remember...
-You can't improve what you don't measure!

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About to run a promo to a 7K list!

January 22, 2009

Great news!… The other day I set up a JV cross promotion with another marketer with a list of around 7,000 subscribers.
Basically this means I’ll run a promo to my 7k subscriber list for one of his websites and he’ll do the same for me with this promo of “The Big Yellow Book Of Turbo [...]

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Big Marketing Secrets Book: Update #3

January 18, 2009

A couple of days ago I ran another email promo to The List Auction promoting the Big Yellow Book of Turbo Marketing Secrets. This time I used a much shorter email that didn’t give any of the details away about the offer.
Here’s the message I sent…
Subject: a free gift for you…
{FIRSTNAME}
Here’s a 100% free gift [...]

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Terry Dean just said it all…

January 13, 2009

I’ve just finished reading an outstanding blog post by Terry Dean. In it he asks “What are you testing in your business today?”
Over the years I’ve learned a lot from Terry and constantly testing has got to be one the biggest lessons learned so far.
The fact is you’re going to write ads, you’re going to [...]

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Big Marketing Secrets Book: Update #2

January 12, 2009

Here we go… the next update on the results of this simple split test to see if having “as seen on” logos (a.k.a. “Flare”) makes any difference to conversions.
Hopefully by now you’ve been able to check out the 2 versions of the page I’m split testing, if you’ve not seen them yet here they are [...]

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Big Marketing Secrets Book: Update #1

January 6, 2009

It’s been a couple of days now since the Big Marketing Secrets Book A/B Split Test experiment began.
As I mentioned the traffic was fairly qualified exit traffic from a website targeting newbie opportunity seekers (note to myself: how can I categorize traffic more effectively?). However… since starting the test there have only been 47 page [...]

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Big Marketing Secrets Book A/B Split Test Experiment Begins…

January 4, 2009

Ok… here we go… this is the first in a series of A/B split tests for “The Big Yellow Book of Turbo Marketing Secrets” squeeze page.
As the results come in I’ll keep you posted (here’s the first screen shot)…
Just in case you’re wondering what I’m testing…
I’m testing if having “as seen on” logos (A.K.A. “flares”) [...]

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What is Google Website Optimizer?

December 30, 2008

When you’re on as many subscriber lists as I am there’s not much that gets past my radar and what I’ve got for you today is no exception.
So what is Google Website Optimizer?
Who better to show you what it’s all about than Tom Leung the Senior Business Product Manager of Google Website Optimizer.
Pay close attention [...]

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