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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. |
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 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. |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2009 Tim Ash |
Writing Sales Copy for Conversions One of the most common components you can test is sales copy. Changing your approach to writing can often lead to a double-digit increase in conversion rates. |
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. |
D-Lib April 2007 |
Toward an Effective Understanding of Website Users: Advantages and Pitfalls of Linking Transaction Log Analyses and Online Surveys An experiment involving the complementary power of online surveys and TLA suggests both benefits and drawbacks to Web site owners in using one or both of these tools. |
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 November 30, 2010 Eric Enge |
Search Engine Optimization in an Increasingly Social World SEO is changing rapidly, in part due to the increasingly social nature of the web. A look at what's driving these changes and some of the implications of how they impact our behavior. |
Search Engine Watch May 9, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Converting Searchers to Buyers Attracting people to your web site is just the first step in an effective search marketing campaign. To be truly effective, your site must also persuade visitors to take advantage of your products or services. |
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Usability Testing on a Shoestring: Test-Driving Your Website Would you buy a car without driving it first? Probably not. Then why would you consider launching a library website without at least taking it out for a test-drive? |
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Survey Says: Less Is More New tools make us less reliant on surveys, but that doesn't mean they have to go away |
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. |
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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. |
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 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 8, 2009 Herndon Hasty |
Putting the 'Search' in Research Knowing your customer is critical to reaching them effectively, and creating the ideal environment to convert them into buyers. Fortunately, your search efforts provide a great platform for learning about your customers through publicly available data and inexpensive testing opportunities. |
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 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. |
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Secret of My Success: Breaking News: A CRM Success Story The Cincinnati Enquirer turns to WebSurveyor to help guide its editorial direction. |
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3 Keys to a Successful Web Presence A sound organic search strategy should be the core of every business's marketing efforts, but being found is just the beginning. |
CFO July 1, 2006 Russ Banham |
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New Architect August 2002 Janice Fraser |
The Culture of Usability How to spend less and get more from your usability-testing program. |
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The Big Picture -- Well-Rounded SEM for SMBs, Part 3 More elements a small business should consider when looking at a well rounded search engine marketing campaign include local search, usability, and creating a Web site that will increase conversions. |
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Search Engine Watch June 23, 2009 Carrie Hill |
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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 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. |
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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. |
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Getting "Engaged" Web analytics is helping a new generation of pharma web sites get engaged. |
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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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 July 22, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Usability and SEO More and more SEOs are becoming usability experts. Here's why. |
Search Engine Watch May 2, 2008 Chris Boggs |
Top 5 Non-SEO Ways to Increase Your Search Rankings Contrary to what some search marketers may think, marketing is not all about search. By branching out into other areas, like usability and PR, you can increase the effectiveness of your search efforts. |
CRM December 1, 2015 Jeff Coleman |
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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 1, 2009 Tim Ash |
The Decision-Making Funnel, Stage 2: Interest On the Web, interest is very fleeting. A world of other Web sites is just a mouse click away. The key to creating the interest is to focus on the visitor's role or current needs. |
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2009 Tim Ash |
Landing Page Optimization Pitfall -- Not Collecting Enough Data In statistics, results do not become stable until a large enough sample is tested. Accordingly, making landing page decisions using data from a too-small sample size can lead marketers to make bad decisions. |
CRM November 7, 2014 Ken Bisconti |
Get on Your Customers' Holiday Wish Lists with Stellar Customer Service Equip your call center with the visibility to reduce customer struggles. |
Entrepreneur March 2004 Kim T. Gordon |
Team Effort Talk is cheap; failed marketing programs aren't. To get results, get sales and marketing teams working together. |
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The ROI Treatment Get better results by creating an ROI model. |
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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. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 George R. Plosker |
Conducting User Surveys: An Ongoing Information Imperative Remaining relevant to users is critical to library survival. What better way both to ascertain what users desire and to inform them of capabilities they are unaware of or don't use? Practical tips and suggestions on how to go about doing such a survey |