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Search Engine Watch December 24, 2008 Tim Ash	Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 4 Today, we'll look at the final three elements needed in a landing page optimization program: a programmer, a system administrator, and a quality assurance tester.
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Search Engine Watch July 9, 2008 Tim Ash	Coherency in Landing Page Testing Coherency is an overall sense of your design hanging together. It is largely ignored by landing page testers, leading visitors to respond to incoherent pages with a variety of gut reactions, and none of them are flattering.
Search Engine Watch November 12, 2008 Tim Ash	Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team, Part 1 The success of your testing program relies heavily on the cooperation of many people in your organization. There are some key roles that you'll need to fill with the right kinds of people, or your ideas will never see the light of day.
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 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 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 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 June 25, 2008 Tim Ash	Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization, Part 2 Web analytics on your Web site can help you uncover and prioritize potential site problems. Some additional techniques to discover conversion issues on your landing pages include mining onsite search, or conducting usability testing, focus groups, and surveys.
Search Engine Watch July 22, 2009 Tim Ash	Your Baby Is Ugly After launching a landing page optimization project, you inevitably will find chinks in the armor of your beautiful and perfect creations. Before fixing anything, you have to let go of your ego and acknowledge that your baby is ugly.
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.
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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 December 7, 2009 Ron Jones	Usability and SEM 101, Part 1 To bridge the gap between setting the right SEM promise and delivering the expected Web site experience, we need to better understand users needs and desires and incorporate them into our Web design processes.
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 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 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.
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Search Engine Watch September 3, 2008 Tim Ash	Landing Page Optimization -- Insource or Outsource? Landing page optimization and testing can lead to huge performance improvements across your online marketing programs. But how do you capture these gains? Should you outsource your testing program or "insource" it by doing everything in-house?
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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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 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.
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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 November 25, 2009 Tim Ash	Roles vs. Personas vs. Cognitive Styles People who visit your site all have unique personalities and temperaments. Understand these differences all play key roles when planning for landing page optimization.
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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.
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.
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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.
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