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Selling Tips: Strategies for Success in Online Business

In today's digital age, the world of selling products and services has shifted dramatically. With the rise of e-commerce and online marketplaces, individuals and businesses have unprecedented opportunities to reach a global audience. Whether you're a seasoned online seller or just starting, these selling tips will help you maximize your success in the competitive online marketplace.
Understanding the Online Selling Landscape
Before delving into specific strategies, it's essential to understand the online selling landscape. The internet offers a vast and diverse ecosystem for selling, and success depends on several key factors. 1. Identify Your Niche Niche marketing is a powerful approach in the online world. Find a niche that aligns with your expertise and interests. By targeting a specific audience, you can stand out in a crowded market. 2. Research Your Target Audience Understanding your target audience is fundamental. Conduct market research to determine their preferences, pain points, and buying behavior. Tailor your approach to meet their needs. 3. Competitive Analysis Study your competitors. Identify their strengths and weaknesses. This knowledge can help you differentiate your offerings and develop a unique value proposition.
Crafting Your Online Presence
Your online presence is the face of your business in the digital realm. It's crucial to make a positive and lasting impression. 4. Professional Website Invest in a professional website with a user-friendly interface. Your website should provide a seamless shopping experience, from browsing products to checkout. 5. High-Quality Product Listings Create detailed and enticing product listings. Include high-quality images, clear descriptions, and pricing information. Transparency builds trust with customers. 6. Mobile Optimization With the increasing use of mobile devices, ensure that your website is mobile-responsive. Mobile optimization is critical for capturing a broad audience.
Effective Marketing Strategies
Marketing plays a pivotal role in online selling. Here are some effective strategies to consider. 7. Content Marketing Content is king in the digital world. Create valuable and engaging content, such as blog posts, videos, and infographics, to attract and educate your audience. 8. Social Media Presence Leverage social media platforms to connect with your audience. Develop a content calendar and engage with followers regularly. 9. Pay-Per-Click Advertising Consider pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on platforms like Google Ads and Facebook Ads. PPC allows you to target specific keywords and demographics. 10. Email Marketing Build an email list and implement email marketing campaigns. Personalized emails with special offers can drive conversions.
Customer Engagement and Satisfaction
Retaining customers is often more cost-effective than acquiring new ones. Focus on building lasting relationships. 11. Exceptional Customer Service Provide exceptional customer service. Address inquiries promptly, resolve issues, and go the extra mile to exceed customer expectations. 12. Reviews and Testimonials Encourage customers to leave reviews and testimonials. Positive feedback can boost your credibility and attract new customers.
Analytics and Optimization
Continuous improvement is essential in online selling. Use data-driven insights to refine your strategies. 13. Analytics Tools Utilize analytics tools to track website traffic, conversion rates, and customer behavior. These insights can guide your decision-making. 14. A/B Testing Conduct A/B tests to optimize various elements of your website and marketing campaigns. Small changes can lead to significant improvements.
Conclusion
Selling products and services online is both an art and a science. Success requires a deep understanding of your audience, a strong online presence, effective marketing strategies, and a commitment to continuous improvement. By implementing these selling tips, you can navigate the online marketplace with confidence and build a thriving online business. Remember that online selling is dynamic, so stay adaptable and open to new strategies as the digital landscape evolves. Read the full article
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SweetSyn’s Guide To Etsy
(I will add more as I learn more)
When I officially started my Etsy in 2018, I had no idea what I was doing. I’ve constantly had people asking me what tips I had for getting started. Unfortunately, I told them you needed a following to make sales. Boy was I wrong. SEO is the key. Buckle up, I’m going to learn you a few things. (I’m Texan don’t judge me for that sentence.)
“Search Engine Optimization”, which is the reason when you search for something on Etsy, you see a bunch of bland titles. Being Creative with titles will only hurt you. You need to have targeted, keyword-based titles and tags, to make sure you end up at the top of the food chain.
Listing Titles
This part is long due to the fact that I never knew how important this was.
The best way to do this is to start typing in what you’re selling into the Etsy search bar. Any related autocomplete phrases that are related to the pop-up list, is what should be in your title. (Keyword 1 - Keyword 2 - Keyword 3 - Keyword 4) and so forth. For example, I simply clicked on the search bar and it gave me a list of the current most popular searches. One of them was marble earrings, and the first listing had the best selling badge. Their title was “Handmade Polymer Clay Marble Triangle Earrings | Minimalist Geometric Earrings | Hypoallergenic Surgical Steel Stud | Multiple Size”. The second listing, from another shop, was “Marble Stud Earrings, Marble Jewelry, Round Stud Earrings, Wedding Stud Earrings, Marble Studs, Statement Studs, Minimalist Studs”.
I know how tempting it is to come up with a clever name for your listing, but Etsy doesn’t like that. Putting a long title full of keywords makes it more likely for someone to see your listing without searching through 240 pages. Yes, there were exactly 240 pages of marble earrings. The last one, way at the end was simply titled “Rosé Marble Earrings”. I don’t know about you, but I have no idea how to put that little mark over the ‘e’ when typing on a computer.
The second part of this is being more specific than just ‘marble earrings’. If someone is looking for something more specific than marble earrings they’re going to search more of what they want. This is how you separate yourself from everyone else on those 240 pages. The two listings I found were round studs and the other was geometric triangles. Maybe I hate circles, and I specifically want triangles, so I search “marble triangle earrings”. That’s in the title of the first listing, I’m going to find that listing.
DO NOT PUT YOUR SKU’S IN YOUR TITLES! You will lose sales because of this. Your title is very important, no one is going to be searching “866798Q”
Additionally, Etsy will not show more than one or two items per seller on any given page of search results. That way smaller shops have a bit more of a chance. Make sure you’re targeting different keywords per listing, or you’ll be competing with yourself.
After a few months, go into your listing analytics to see which keywords are getting that listing more views. You may find that your main keyword, or the first few words in your title, isn’t working as well as another one. If something is working better, make it the first part of the title, and you should even more views.
Adding titles in other languages will not help your listing. Etsy automatically translates for other languages.
I’ve seen a few people say that Etsy has changed and that they don’t like ‘title stuffing’. However, that’s not the case in what I’ve seen. The entire first two pages of marble earrings were nothing but long ‘stuffed’ titles.
This is a comment from an admin of one of the Etsy Facebook groups I’m in, he is a social media marketer:
“YES title stuffing is bad and you should not do it, because Etsy & Google do not count that as quality SEO.
However, we must first understand exactly what "Title Stuffing or Keyword Stuffing" really is.
Keyword stuffing is when someone fills a webpage (in this case an Etsy title) with the same keywords they want to rank for, over and over again in hopes that the more times they use the keywords the more relevant Etsy and Google will see their page or listing.”
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“Now as far as your Etsy title goes you should absolutely use your keywords, but not repeated over and over again, while also keeping a non-robotic tone.
2 examples of title stuffing:
1. Title stuffing for one specific keyword, example (baby shirt): Cute Baby Shirt | Baby Shirt | Boy Baby Shirt | Soft Baby Shirt | Matching Baby Shirt | Baby Shirt Gift
Basically stuffing the same word over and over again.
2. Title stuffing for the maximum keywords: Comfy Baby Shirt, comfortable, for boys, for girls, gifts, cheap, organic, cotton, romper, jumpsuits, newborn, baby clothes
Both of these examples are using spammy tricks to rank high. But this will not work and both Etsy and Google will ignore you.
You want your title to sound fluent and not like a robot while using your keywords.
Also, you want to avoid changing up your titles too much, because your listings SEO needs to season a bit for maximum effectiveness.”
Tags
A major thing that I have learned over this process is that your tags must be written in sentences and not individual words. For example instead of marble, earring, earrings, geometric, geometrical, your tags should be Marble Earrings, Studded Earrings, Geometric Jewelry. MOST IMPORTANTLY! Use ALL 13 tags! Think about what makes your product unique, you don’t need to repeat categories and attributes. You also don’t need to use the same keywords as your title, unless you want to highlight a certain keyword. Tags and titles that do not relate to your listing, can have a negative impact on your visibility.
Fill out everything you can on the listing, such as categories and attributes, which also act like tags. The more you fill out the more likely someone will find your listings.
Adding tags in other languages will not help your listing. Etsy automatically translates for other languages.
Pricing
Be mindful of everyone else’s prices, customers are not only going to look for quality, but also the best deal. Though, you don’t want to end up making a negative profit.
Cost of goods (per product) + Profit (I like to do the cost of supplies x2) + Shipping (if you’re doing free shipping) = Price
The reason I double the dost of supplies for my profit is for in case something goes wrong, I still made a little money for my time. You made need to adjust this to compete with other sellers.
Shipping
Etsy gives priority to listings with free shipping in the search results, it also sounds a bit better to the customer. Don’t worry you won’t lose out on money by offering it, all you have to do is include the shipping cost in the price.
However, if you do plan on offering international shipping, I recommend charging for it. I live in Texas, and it costs $8 dollars to ship a sticker to Canada. Whereas shipping to Maine only costs 70 cents.
Play around with shipping options, it took me a long time to learn that sending stickers as a letter, instead of a package or flat envelope, is MUCH cheaper. The downside, there is no tracking number. So I only recommend this for items that are very cheap to remake.
Photos
Your product photo is the first thing that is going to be seen when someone is searching for an item. I made the major mistake of not caring what my photos looked like for the longest time. From lazily taking a screenshot of my Cricut design space for a decal listing, to setting my mugs on my tacky paint-covered table. Don’t do this, make your photos look professional. Now I’m not saying go hire a photographer to take your photos. Simply lining a bix with paper, or draping a sheet over a chair can create a perfect backdrop.
Put your best photo first.
A 2017 survey showed that 90% of Etsy shoppers said the photo quality was very important in their decision making. Think about it as, if you don’t take the time for quality photos, that most likely means you’re not taking the time to make quality products.
When posting your photos on the web browser version of Etsy, your image needs to be at least 2000 pixels wide. A simple way to fix this, the way I do, is resizing the photo in Paint 3D or a photo editor. Another way is simply making the listing on the mobile app because it won’t have that requirement.
Description
I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve heard it from a few people, repeat your title in the description.
This is yet another thing I struggled with. I felt that the title said enough, what more was there to explain about a car decal, other than the size? Well, a lot. Now I’m not saying be one of those annoying recipe pages, that gives their life story before getting to the ingredients and the actual recipe. Just make sure it tells exactly what the customer expects to receive.
Don’t copy someone else’s description, develop your own voice. Give all the details you can about your product, because just like policies, this can save you from something going wrong. The customer isn’t able to touch your product and get a full feel of what it is. A well-written description can be the make or break of a sale.
Play 20 questions with yourself.
Reviews
You’re bound to get a bad review at some point. Don’t let it be the thing that shuts you down, and ruins your shop. Message the customer and see what you can do to change their review. If you can’t change it, don’t worry. Learn and improve from it. When looking at reviews, I hardly ever take the negative ones seriously, unless there’s a lot of them. If you have 50 good reviews and 5 negatives, you’re going to be okay.
Sometimes you have to take the hit and lose some profit. Say their package gets lost in the mail, and there’s nothing that can be done about it. You may have to refund them or send them another. Something I’ve always done to keep customers happy, if something goes wrong I send a small freebie with the replacement. Usually, it’s something extra that I have laying around.
Marketing
Social Media is your best friend! Use everything you can, and HASHTAGS! HASHTAGS! HASHTAGS! Before I even started TikTok or Etsy, I wanted to have a huge Instagram following. I ended up with 1,000 followers, just by using a ton of hashtags. No matter what site you’re using, if it allows you, use every hashtag under the sun. This is where you can get extra with it, especially Instagram and Tumblr where you don’t have a limit. Just make sure you separate it from your caption.
Using social media to grow a following can help so much! I would never have made it through 2020 without my following. Seeing a more personal side of you can help a lot, and you’ll even make some amazing friends along the way! The most rewarding thing is when you’re told you inspired someone to start making arts and crafts or living their dream.
Other Information
Make sure your policies are clear. If you do not offer refunds or returns, and a customer reports you for not refunding them, this will save you!
Experiment with things, see what works best for you! Having a following and ignoring all of this worked for me for two years. Eventually, my TikTok views dwindled, meaning sales went with it.
The more items you have listed, the more likely you are to be seen. Try to post something new once a month. Additionally, the more you have the more likely someone that found exactly what they wanted, will buy more from you. If they see something else they like while looking at one item, you’re making more money.
Categories are much easier to do on a web browser. All you have to do is type in what your listing and it will give you suggestions. Mobile Etsy is nearly impossible to figure out where to list decals and stickers. You’d never guess to look in electronics, would you?
Helpful Sites
https://keywordseverywhere.com/
https://www.thesaurus.com/
https://erank.com/
https://www.keysearch.co/
https://www.keywordtooldominator.com/
https://seller.tools/
Resources
https://printify.com/blog/2020-etsy-seo-secrets-all-you-need-to-know/
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THE HEART OF YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY.
Your website is the foundation of a good online marketing strategy. Just say: the beating heart. Without a decent website, your entire strategy collapses like a pudding. In other words: this is the absolute starting point where you can place your product range. Yet you should absolutely not see it as a product catalog. Translate your products into benefits for the consumer.
A concrete example?
Take sun protection now. People post it because it blocks the heat, provides a lower energy bill and gives a sense of privacy. If sun protection providers know that comfort, money and safety are important factors, they must formulate this as concrete benefits for the consumer. In this case you have to make the consumer feel that awnings solve their problems.
This could be on your website, for example: 'Blessed hey, the sun. Well, not always ... In the summer, the sun often causes your home to overheat. In winter, on the other hand, the sun is so low that it always causes dazzling. Did you know that with high-quality sun protection you will never suffer from the above recognizable situations? Moreover, this lowers your energy bill by at least 5%. Discover all the benefits of sun protection here. ”
That is different from: 'With roller shutters and Verboven sun blinds you keep the sun out of your eyes. We specialize in roller shutters and sun blinds. View our range. ”
Some communication tips for your website
This is just one optimization you can implement on your website. Discover more tips below to transform your website into a lead paradise:
Be inspiring: show realizations and projects . An extra tip here: show what your products and / or services are for in practice. Tell us which products you used for this project and explain this.
Build trust with reviews : testimonials make or break your business. Not convinced? Take the test on yourself. Imagine: you go to a village in the Ardennes. Then you search the internet where you can eat well. Then you come to TripAdvisor and you come across two restaurants. One has not yet been reviewed and the other has four reviews from people who speak highly of it. Where will you be dining?
Speak plain language: avoid technical terms or abbreviations when describing a product or service. Nope, we really don't know what RAL19085 or a PVC extruded clip profile with a Ø3MM fabric string can be combined.
P stearate not about how good you are, but do it. This comes down to a summary of the above: show this in the way you write your texts, with realizations, with reviews, etc.
Respond to online inquiries as soon as you can . If someone enters your showroom and shouts: 'I want a quote!', Do you leave it there? Why do many construction industry companies do this online? Some just don't get in touch, while still providing an online tool for a quote request.
Think of the different target groups that end up on your website. Make sure your website is wide enough to accommodate different target groups.
YOUR COMPANY ON GOOGLE
Another way to be found is to register your company with Google. When someone searches for your brand name, they automatically see a company profile on the right. Below you can see an example of Coolblue:
I will explain how to do this in a short video of just 6 steps.
What are the benefits of this?
Online visibility : the people who search for your brand name immediately get a very visual example of your organization. They see the logo and atmospheric images of the showroom. Then they also see interesting information such as the address (with which they can consult directions with one click), website and opening hours. And what do we also see? Reviews from satisfied customers! You're on the map: When you verify your business information, your business will appear on Google Maps. This way, customers can request directions to your company. All contact details and reviews will also appear. Discoverable on different devices: Whether your customer searches for your brand at home or on the road on his laptop, iPad or mobile phone, he will find the same company profile including the correct information.
BLOGGING: THE WAY TO SCORE AT GOOGLE
Do you want to express your love to Google? Then start blogging. And this is why:
46% of all internet users read at least one blog per day. (HubSpot Science of Blogging)
Blogging is what you should do for this too:
B2B marketers who blog on average get 67% more leads than marketers who don't. (HubSpot State of Inbound)
Marketers who prioritize blogging are 13 times more likely to get a positive ROI. (HubSpot State of Inbound)
Blogs are ranked fifth in the rankings of most trusted online sources. (HubSpot Science of Blogging)
When you start blogging, you have to make sure that you blog about a topic that has search volume . For this you use Google Keyword Planner or alternatives such as Keywordtool.io or Wordstream . Do not focus on short-tail keywords such as 'Insulation', but on longer keywords such as insulation placement, insulation benefits, insulation premiums, insulation material and insulation <enter city>. This way you have more chance of top positions in Google.
Concrete titles that you can simply copy :
Save on your energy bill with these insulation tips.
Find out if your plans are eligible for the Flemish renovation premiums.
With these secrets you place insulation like a professional.
Survive the summer with customized sun blinds.
Renovating a bathroom? First read the following points for attention.
FACEBOOK: SHOW YOUR TRUE FACE
"Is Facebook not over yet?" some will think. Well, Facebook is still not outdated for businesses. It can really grow your business. With 1.6 billion active profiles, chances are that your target audience is prominent.
There are different strategies, formats or creative ideas to communicate to your target audience. Most importantly, just be honest and genuine as a brand . Sorry for the Bond Zonder Naam advice, but we will keep repeating it as long as companies ignore that advice.
So forget your marketing story and all your promotions. Tell your real story. Nobody wants nicely packaged, inflated USPs. Facebook is a social medium. We underline equally socially. It's about two-way street, interaction and relationship building . And in which relationship are you allowed to brag, or worse, lie?
Show photos from behind the scenes. Put your staff in the spotlight, show customer achievements including quotes, and more. The possibilities are enormous. When you have a Facebook page, people will leave reviews on it. Respond to these reviews regardless of whether they are positive or negative. Provide a fast response time so that the consumer realizes that you are dealing with him personally.
A well-maintained Facebook page can cost blood, sweat & tears. When you start looking at the results, your heart sinks completely. "Am I doing all this for 2 likes and 100 impressions?" you wonder out loud. You can ask your friends and family if they like and share your posts, but do you think that will pay off? Another, more correct solution is message sponsorship.
LinkedIn: SHARE RELEVANT CONTENT
Another social medium you should really focus on is LinkedIn. The chance that you will get leads from this is greater than on other social channels. LinkedIn is a business channel. When people follow you on Linkedin, it means that they are really interested in your services or products.
The messages here can be more businesslike. Talk about your business, the environment, and the growth you envision. In the ideal world, share your own relevant blog posts or share interesting articles from your sector . In this way you show that you are concerned with what is going on. This gives the consumer confidence.
Using social media also has a positive effect on your ranking in Google . If your pages are alive, Google will reward you with better rankings. In addition, your company profile on LinkedIn will also be found in the search engines. This effect increases when employees indicate on their personal profile that they work for you. Take the test here .
INSTAGRAM / PINTEREST: THE EYE WANTS SOMETHING TOO
Visual channels such as Instagram and Pinterest are perfect for creating a community . You will not score masses of leads from this, but it is still important to be present in the environment of your target group.
Instagram gives you the opportunity to display your brand, services and in a fun way. As a company in the construction sector you can post beautiful photos of realizations or behind the scenes. Plus, you're on a two-way street so your fans can get feedback right away.
Some #instatips:
Always use the same filter so that you define a clear style.
Make use of Geotags.
Use the correct #hashtags. Be sure to explore and see which hashtags are used within your sector.
With Pinterest, you are more likely to collect ideas for the end user. For example, you can make all photos on your website Pinnable . When those images are pinned, they will often be 're-pinned' and a snowball effect will occur. This way you increase the traffic to your website and you take on the role of influencer.
VIDEO CONTENT: PROVIDE YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE WITH INFORMATION IN AN EFFICIENT WAY
In every trend report you can read: video content is getting trendy. Wrong. Video content is hip. How many videos do you watch per day? A lot huh? That in itself is not surprising, because video is one of the most effective channels for conveying a specific message and disseminating it on a large scale . This is because there is too much information to be found these days. Humanity is asking for an efficient channel to find out quickly. And video is the answer to this question.
Deploy video content through how-tos. This way you can develop a concept / video sequence such as '60 seconds'.
Recognize the correct insulation in 60 seconds.
Your shutters spic and span in 60 seconds.
Ask online about your renovation bonuses in 60 seconds
Movies of the atmosphere, projects, walkthroughs, 3D drawings, how to use products safely, ... are also possible. Don't be put off by time. You know what they say: ' It always seems impossible until it's done '
EMAIL: BUNDLE YOUR CONTENT
You can collect all of the above content and email it to your database in the form of a newsletter. Provide a balanced newsletter that also looks good. There may be promotions, but alternate enough with fun, relevant content. Also write a haunting headline so that you trigger people to open it.
So not: 'The overview of Dakwerken Wouters'
Well: "Do you already know these secrets to save on your energy bill?"
For email marketing you can use programs such as MailChimp, Campaign Monitor or all-in-one platforms such as HubSpot.
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35 Tips That Make SEO Work For Your Website
These days the manner by which we structure URL addresses, compose title labels and meta-depictions, streamline site pictures, etc turns out to be less significant as Google centers around other SEO factors (generally on substance and third party referencing procedures). In any case, as we're finding out about the SEO nuts and bolts, the main way we ought to do it is to find out about great practices.
This is actually what we're going to do now.
1. Make your site's structure understood, natural and forward-thinking.
The manner in which you sort out a site engineering, and its route is pivotal for both SEO and your guests. Web indexes experience a connection structure to discover and record pages. On the off chance that your site is organized well, all the pages and subpages will be effectively found and listed via internet searcher crawlers.
Additionally, a natural route will work for your guests as it will enable them to discover what they desired at all measure of time conceivable. A 'three ticks' standard says that any data on a site ought to be accessible for a client inside close to three ticks. This is the manner by which you should design it.
Page URL
2. Remember one essential catchphrase for a page URL.
The website pages in your area might be advanced for a wide range of catchphrases. It is said that the most ideal path is to concentrate just on one watchword state and to incorporate it straightforwardly in the URL address.Use hyphens (- ) rather than underscores (_) in URLs.
3. Use hyphens (- ) rather than underscores (_) in URLs.
At the point when you use underscores to isolate words in a URL name, Google will peruse it as one single word. This implies the_best_seo_practices will be treated via search crawlers as 'thebestseopractices'. That one is difficult to peruse, correct?
4. Pick a static URL address rather than a unique one.
There are two kinds of web addresses: static and dynamic.
A static URL resembles that:
your-area name.com/classification/the-best-search engine optimization rehearses
A unique one can resemble this:
your-area name.com/class/?p=028705
While web crawlers can without much of a stretch comprehend both of the URLs, for individuals dynamic URLs are totally obscured.
For example, in the event that you have a blog on WordPress you can see that a default URL address of a specific post is dynamic.
At the point when you click the 'distribute' button, WordPress will consequently change over it into a static location. Notwithstanding, it will pick irregular catchphrases from the blog's title. As far as SEO, it would be better on the off chance that you alter the URL name yourself which is conceivable as observed previously.
5. Keep a URL address brief, unmistakable and significant.
A guest ought to have the option to tell initially what a specific site is about. In the event that you decide to alter a URL address yourself, you'll not just work for the watchword improvement, yet you'll likewise make it simpler for a client to comprehend what the person in question can discover on a specific site. Along these lines you'll make a searcher's life somewhat simpler.
Title-tag, meta-portrayal and ALT-trait
6. Make a sweet title-tag for each and every page of your site.
A title tag portrays what your area is about. This is one short sentence in which you portray your online space. It will show up in a few spots, for example, the SERPs, internet based life, outside pages, and in programs (see models underneath).
It ought to be short, infectious and unique enough to draw in the consideration of those individuals who are your focused on crowd. Indeed, it implies that you ought to communicate in their language and present your site in a manner that would be appealing to them.
7. Use meta-depiction to introduce your image better.
A meta depiction is a short passage which is shown under a title tag on the SERP (see screen above). A meta-depiction offers you the chance to present your image before a searcher visits your site and really observes the items that you offer.
The ideal length of a meta-portrayal is between 150-160 characters.
8. Remember to utilize ALT qualities for the entirety of the pictures.
Web indexes don't understand pictures, they read the ALT text. You should utilize an ALT credit to help motor crawlers better comprehend the importance of a picture and what it speaks to. Obviously, it's acceptable to utilize catchphrase phrases you focus to portray the pictures on the website page itself.
Additionally, it is acceptable to put watchwords in the content that encompasses the pictures and make it bolded. Along these lines motor crawlers will realize that this piece of a post is especially significant for perusers.
Whatever CMS (content administration framework) you use, each time you transfer a picture you will get an opportunity to enhance it with appropriate watchwords. It's simple. The following is the manner by which you can upgrade pictures in WordPress.
Catchphrases and watchword phrases
9. Discover watchwords that will work for you.
Website design enhancement is basically founded on watchwords. The way in to a decent SEO technique is to discover what words clients type into a quest bar when they search for sites like yours. With a rundown of pertinent catchphrases in your grasp, you'll be a most of the way there.
One (and the most well-known) method of doing a catchphrase research is to utilize Google Keyword Planner. This free apparatus is accessible to anybody with a Google AdWords account, which is likewise free. When you arrangement your record and give more insights concerning your site, you'll get a rundown of watchword recommendations.
Your main responsibility is to pick the most pertinent watchword phrases from the rundown. Be that as it may, it is likewise significant that those watchwords are mainstream among clients (have a generally high number of normal month to month look). Ultimately, they ought to have medium or low rivalry (very few sites attempt to advance for those catchphrases).
This is just simple in principle. The precarious part about Google Keyword Planner is that it shows the assessed number of normal rivalry is for the number paid promotions for that specific watchword. With regards to the opposition for the natural outcomes will be entirely unexpected.
So the best thought is to utilize extra (and generally paid) devices for checking the real catchphrase trouble metric.
All things considered, Google Keyword Planner is a decent beginning stage for catchphrase research. Here you can peruse increasingly about how to utilize Google Keyword Planner.
10. Blend various kinds of watchwords at the same time.
Fundamentally, there are three principle kinds of watchwords: nonexclusive, wide match and long tail. Every one of them draw in somewhat various sorts and measure of traffic. The most secure and the best procedure is to blend those kinds of catchphrases so as to get distinctive assortment of traffic.
Nonexclusive watchwords are vague and extremely broad terms, for instance: "content showcasing" or "development hacking" are those sorts of catchphrases. Such terms give a great measure of traffic, which, simultaneously, isn't very focused on. Conventional watchwords are additionally serious.
Wide match catchphrases normally gives a decent harmony between the traffic volume and its importance for a site. They could seem like: "development hacking for new companies" or "substance promoting best practices". Traffic that originates from those expressions will be better focused on, which implies that individuals who visit will be bound to turn into your future customers and supporters.
Long tail catchphrases are long expressions (they could be even entire sentences) that individuals type into search bars. "Instructions to set up a substance advertising procedure" or "how to utilize development hacking strategies to grow a business" are instances of long tail catchphrases. They won't carry a great deal of traffic to your site. In any case, guests that they furnish you with, are well on the way to turn into your drew in clients.
11. Remember to remember an area for your watchwords.
Along these lines you'll streamline your site and your business for both neighborhood searches and nearby customers. For example, in the event that you offer substance advertising administrations and you're situated in San Francisco, it's acceptable to you let your potential clients know and put catchphrase such an undeniable watchword state like: "content promoting administrations in San Francisco".
12. Spot your catchphrases in features, subheadings and stay messages.
Few out of every odd spot on your site will give your watchword states a similar introduction and SEO power. In a substance's structure the best places to put your watchwords are features, subheadings, bolded segments inside a content and stay messages (duplicate that portrays joins).
When portraying joins never utilize the "click here" term! It gives positively no data about what can be found under a specific connection, in addition to you pass up on the opportunity to improve a book interface.
Thusly you'll do it right:
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Additionally, if conceivable, put the most significant catchphrases likewise for the sake of your site's areas.
13. Put catchphrases normally all through your on-page content.
They should fit into the specific situation. In the event that you over do it and stuff your substance with such a large number of watchword phrases, you will make your website page look nasty and ugly both for clients and motor crawlers. Catchphrase stuffing will bring about a negative client experience and definitely will hurt your site's rankings.
14. Attempt to concentrate on one watchword while improving a site page.
It is a great idea to upgrade a website page with one watchword state as opposed to a few ones one after another. By concentrating on one watchword, you'll be certain that it increases all the SEO power it can get. Enhance title and meta labels of a site alongside its substance (feature, subheadings, body text, connections and pictures).
15. Enhance all pictures with legitimate catchphrases.
Remember to utilize watchword phrases all through the site's substance, yet additionally in the picture portrayal. It is additionally accepted that it's acceptable practice to utilize words, for example, "picture", "photograph", "picture" alongside your picked watchword while depicting a picture with an ALT characteristic.
16. When you begin doing SEO, track the presentation of every one of your watchwords.
On the off chance that you don't follow the inquiry rankings of your site and don't have a clue how specific watchwords work for your situations in SERPs, you should simply quit doing SEO by and large. Site improvement is a drawn out procedure which requires cautiously following every one of your endeavors. With regards to catchphrases, you need to know which ones work for your rankings.
Content despite everything wears the SEO crown.
17. Distribute just top notch, new and watchword rich substance.
One of the most significant SEO factors these days is a site's substance. On the off chance that you give helpful and noteworthy data to clients, web indexes will rank your site higher in SERPs. To get the best enhancement results, you ought to likewise refresh your substance as regularly as it is conceivable. Along these lines you'll keep your site new and your crowd intrigued.
18. Give extraordinary consideration to spelling and language structure of your substance.
Excellent substance implies perfect spelling. The facts confirm that individuals regularly incorrectly spell words they type into search bars. Some the of not really prescribed methods encourage to upgrade a site likewise for incorrectly spelled catchphrases so clients who are bad at punctuation could without much of a stretch discover it. Be that as it may, unnecessary incorrect spellings and poor language structure can just mischief your site's rankings.
19. Ensure your substance is remarkable and important.
To make a site hang out in the profundity of the web is the hardest activity for each and every individual who maintains an online business. There's no enchantment formula that can be applied and give manageable outcomes. Be that as it may, web search tools will in general prize those sites that carry a genuine incentive to their clients.
A site that has data that special and significant (enlightening, helpful and coherent) will acquire introduction in the SERPs. Web search tools rank higher those sites which attempt to have any kind of effect (positively obviously!) and give genuine incentive to individuals.
20. Plan content that interests to your focused on crowd.
Only one out of every odd bit of substance will be fascinating for every single client out there. Your site will get before an arbitrary crowd every once in a while. Be that as it may, your activity isn't to satisfy everybody, except to make content customized to the requirements of your clients.
Build up a purchaser persona before you begin putting your assets into content creation. Distribute just those bits of substance that issue to your crowd.
21. Cautiously plan your substance technique.
Truly, you ought to have a procedure for content that you distribute on your site. In addition to the fact that you should know precisely what sort of data you might want to give, yet in addition how frequently. This applies particularly in the event that you run a blog inside your site. Start with making a guide for content creation.
22. Make your substance simple to peruse.
On the Internet, individuals will in general output text as opposed to peruse it from spread to cover. That is the reason you ought to give an away from of each bit of substance. Use features, subheadings, shots and bolds in the most pertinent segments of your duplicate.
Likewise, attempt to make your substance more distinctive – use pictures, genuine models, infographics or recordings to outline data better and make your substance significant. Additionally remember to put legitimate catchphrases all through the substance.
23. Deal with all copy content on your site
Copied content – a similar substance that shows up on numerous one of a kind URLs – isn't welcome via web search tools and can cause a genuine drop in a site's rankings. In any case, once in a while it's difficult to abstain from copying content, particularly on web based business sites where a similar item is introduced on independent website pages with various size and additionally shading.
In cases this way, you should utilize a standard label that brings up which page ought to be considered as unique according to copied content. You can likewise utilize a 301 divert to ensure that SEO juice is coordinated to one site address and not isolated into a few pages.
Third party referencing matters a great deal
24. Construct a solid backlink profile for your site.
Inbound connections that go to your webpage are the second most significant SEO factor (directly after substance) that has extraordinary effect on your site's rankings. From the principal long periods of making a SEO system for your business, you should arrange for which external link establishment methodologies you'll put resources into.
Picking trusted and significant sites that you'd prefer to get backlinks from will be a decent beginning.
25. At the point when effectively picking up joins point just for the quality ones.
Just connections from quality and confided in sites that pull in a high measure of traffic can have a genuine and great effect on your site's rankings. In the event that a definitive site connects to yours, a portion of this "authority" is moved to your site.
Web crawlers begin to confide in your webpage more. What's more, when they think about it as a decent wellspring of information, they are likewise all the more ready to rank it higher in their SERPs.
Keep in mind: quality is in every case more significant than amount with regards to connections, substance, and SEO as a rule. A lot of malicious connections can just damage your rankings, not make them higher.
26. Try not to put resources into supported connections.
It's obviously better to concentrate on coming to legitimate web journals and giving them genuine worth instead of pay for a nasty or profoundly limited time articles with a backlink to your site. Such a distribution won't bring you much traffic, nor will it give you validity in perusers' eyes.
It's much better in the event that you locate a regarded blog or news source from your specialty and present your broad mastery on a specific subject as a blog entry, contextual analysis, infographic, introduction, and so forth.
Genuine worth creates traffic, devotees, commitment and backlinks. At the point when you give something beneficial, you'll receive a quality backlink squeeze consequently. No cash will give you maintainable SEO results and quality inbound connections like that.
27. Connection to other quality sites.
On the off chance that you connect to different sites, you help to advance their substance, yet additionally you let others realize that you exist. Basic as that. Furthermore, in the event that you give quality substance, individuals whose work you've shared will be additionally ready to advance your site also.
Quality third party referencing is increasingly about making connections, not trading joins.
28. Procure joins by helping individuals
In the SEO world, the cash is joins. At the point when you help other people, for instance by sharing your insight, important bits of knowledge, simple to-execute tips and free apparatuses, you generally receive something consequently. Clients ordinarily feel appreciation and the need to give you something in return – they give joins.
In the event that you choose to burn through cash on paid battles, consider spending them for picking up backlinks, yet to really help individuals. There are a lot of good cause and not-for-profit associations that are searching for supports. Consequently, they will make reference to you on their sites.
Fortunately spaces which end with .organization (for association), .edu (for training), .data (for data), .gov (for government) have higher area authority than business sites and are far superior trusted via web crawlers. Accepting connections from them will give your site a great deal validity.
29. Make content that individuals couldn't want anything more than to connection to.
As it was referenced above, on the off chance that you give a genuine incentive to your guests, they will be glad to impart it to their loved ones. You won't need to request it. Along these lines you will get 'characteristic' connects that web crawlers are partial to.
30. Manufacture great associations with sites from your specialty.
Web search tools have truly brilliant calculations. On the off chance that you attempt to pick up joins from superfluous sites (even the quality and confided in ones), you won't get any connection juice as web crawlers will think about it as one of the manipulative procedures.
It's far superior in the event that you put your time in making associations with sites and organizations from your specialty. You could trade significant substance with your crowds and become your backlinks in a protected manner.
31. Make your internet based life nearness.
Alright, the facts demonstrate that joins from web based life are 'no-follow' which implies that they don't have the immediate effect on your rankings. Be that as it may, having a brand nearness in online networking channels can expand traffic to your website and assemble your notoriety by and large.
The more noticeable your substance is via web-based networking media, the more possibility that individuals will share it by means of blog entries, discussions, social bookmarking locales, and different roads, normally expanding your connection profile.
32. Look for visitor blog trade openings.
Visitor blogging is a famous and a fairly sheltered strategy for picking up backlinks. A blogger offers to compose a post on another blog from a similar specialty. The individual gets a significant inbound connection while the blog have gets a great substance for nothing.
Nonetheless, on the off chance that you need this method to work for you, the main route is to target top notch writes that are additionally pertinent to your webpage, as opposed to taking an interest in conventional blog trade systems.
33. Try not to exaggerate visitor blogging.
An enormous size of visitor blogging just for connect reason for existing is considered as an infringement of Google's principles. Visitor blogging ought to bring esteem not exclusively to the two sides (the blogger and the blog have) yet for clients too. Web optimization has consistently been a long haul and tedious procedure, however these days it is additionally increasingly about clients, not site proprietors.
Toward the finish of a day, it's common individuals who use web search tools regularly. On the off chance that they can't discover pertinent data there, they will quit utilizing them and change to different sources.
34. Screen the nature of your backlink profile.
In the wake of executing any SEO procedure, you have to screen your endeavors. With respect to external link establishment you should check what results you get. You ought to do it not exclusively to know whether your difficult work is paying off, yet additionally to ensure that you're not harming your rankings with low quality inbound connections.
Furthermore, remember to…
35. Discover what your opposition is accomplishing for SEO.
Continuously watch out for your rivals. Discover what catchphrases they enhance their sites for and screen their rankings alongside yours. Do it regularly. Check what sites they show up on and what content they distribute on their blog.
You should know those not to duplicate their SEO procedure, however in actuality, to locate your own exceptional method of streamlining your site. Likewise, don't be hesitant to change the methodology when you realize that it neglects to bring you great, practical outcomes.
To wrap things up
We trust that those tips will be a decent beginning for making your online nearness progressively noticeable and easy to understand. On the off chance that you previously started your SEO experience, you can regard the above tips as an agenda that assists with keeping your technique significant and powerful.
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If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
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If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
The two of us have run a lot of tests with Google’s Optimize, and we’ve probably made a mistake with every single one of those tests. Excuse me, I mean we learned something new with every single one of those tests.
If you’re new to Google Optimize, here are 13 tips and tricks we’ve gathered from all those learning experiences. Hopefully this blog post can help you start running fast, effective, and revealing A/B tests in half the time it took us to learn these lessons.
1. Setting up Google Tag Manager (GTM)
First, the very technical groundwork.
To use Google Optimize you will first need to install the Optimize tag on your website. There are several different ways you could go about the installation. The good news for you is that we’ve tried them all and one approach stands out as the clear winner.
We strongly recommend that you set up Google Optimize via Google Tag Manager (GTM). It allows for the fastest, most consistent deployment across your entire site, and taking the time to set up Tag Manager will pay dividends in your productivity and flexibility down the road. If you’re new to tag management, on the fence, or you just want to get ahead of the game, check out the Portent post on common mistakes in Google Tag Manager.
Once you’re up and running, the good news is that GTM comes with a built-in tag for Google Optimize.
To get started, you’ll create a new tag in your account, then specify that you want the Google Optimize tag.
Next, you’ll need to paste in your Google Analytics ID into the corresponding box as your tracking ID. You’ll also paste the container ID into the Optimize Container ID box.
Finally, you’ll want to set up a trigger to fire on every page of your site (or just the pages you want to test with Google Optimize). This trigger should already be offered as an option if you follow this install method, so you’ll simply select it.
Once you have everything set up as described you will want to go into preview mode in GTM make sure your tag works where and how you intended. It should look something like this.
Once you confirm that the Optimize tag is firing correctly in preview mode you’ll publish the tag to your live site. Once done, you’re set to create your first experiment in Google Optimize. (But read the next few sections before you do.)
A quick warning: Unlike Google’s guide to deploying Optimize with Google Tag Manger, we do not recommend that you set up the tag to fire before your Google Analytics tag. Doing this can actually cause your Analytics tag not to fire on the page you are testing via Optimize. Translation: the order in which you run the test as the page loads could leave you blind to your actual traffic in some cases.
2. Look at your traffic to set timeline expectations
Before you ever run an experiment in Google Optimize, one of the first things you need to do is make sure that pages receives enough traffic to run the test in a timely fashion.
We’ve had plenty of occasions where a client has a hunch they’d love to test for an important page, often near the bottom of their conversion funnel. But on inspection we see that there’s so little traffic that declaring a statistically significant winner would take over a month. That may be fine depending on your situation, but it’s incredibly important to set expectations if your boss or your executive team are expecting answers quickly.
As a rule, we recommend you choose pages for tests that average at least 1,000 pageviews a month over the last 3 to 6 months. This will ensure that your experiment gets steady traffic and the experiment is able to complete in a matter of days or weeks, not months.
Semi-Pro Tip: If there’s a page that absolutely positively must be tested quickly but it’s low traffic, consider whether you could use paid ads to drive the right kind of prospects to this page at a higher pace.
Create a situation that allows you to say “Yes, and here’s what we would need to do to accelerate the timeline.” Again, work with your paid search and/or remarketing experts to work out what kind of audience and approach would drive the right traffic to this page. Translation: prospects that are at a similar stage of their buyer’s journey to those who will see the page in the future. Few things are worse than explaining an experiment led to the wrong conclusion because of a self-inflicted anomaly with your traffic.
Rule of thumb: target pages with 1,000 or more monthly pageviews
See Section 5 for some related takeaways and a little more on this topic.
3. Create a test plan
One drawback of using the basic, free version of Google Optimize is that you’re unable to run more than three simultaneous tests. Three parallel tests should still give most marketers plenty of horsepower, however, and the best way to stretch this for maximum insight is to create a real test plan.
What’s in a test plan? Whatever you want, as long as it gives you direction, project scope, and a clear path to answering your bottom line business question. But here are some ideas to get you started:
Page title and URL
Test type
Hypothesis
Targeting
Description of changes or screenshot of mockup
Page traffic and time estimate
Funnel or persona target of page
A good test plan looks and acts kind of like an editorial calendar, or Agile project management roadmap. Keep a shared document to which your team can add ideas for future tests (icebox), and work at least two weeks ahead. Tests take about two weeks to complete, depending on traffic, and a deliberate schedule of rolling launches will make those three simultaneous tests feel like an army.
4. Use custom objectives
Data might not “lie,” but it can definitely mislead. Make sure you’re asking the right questions.
Here’s an example of two goals set up on a test: session duration, and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Session duration is a metric option baked into Optimize; our MQL data was pulled from a custom objective we set in Google Analytics. As you can see, the new variant wildly outperformed the original page in session duration, but interestingly drove far fewer MQLs:
Comparing performance by MQL
Comparing performance on Session Duration
If we’d just been looking at session duration, we might think our new variant won. But because we had a critical custom objective in place, we could tell that the original was actually converting more effectively. In this case, taking the time to get our real business goals and KPIs into the test saved us from pushing a “winning” variant to our whole site, which ultimately would have meant losing business.
5. Optimize is perfect for testing PPC landing pages
One of the coolest things about Google Optimize is that you’re able to use your experiments for PPC landing pages.
Using Optimize for PPC landers is might be the fastest way to see quantifiable ROI from A/B testing. Landers are typically high-converting pages with a clear, easy-to-measure goal. You can run multivariate tests with different form lengths, CTAs, titles, and imagery to determine the perfect formula for a high-performing landing page.
Pro-Tip: Extend the value of your newfound knowledge about what’s most effective for your target audience by crafting a set of landing-page best practices specific to your customers and your business. Make sure the learnings hold up, and keep iterating through new tests to drive your conversion rates even higher.
6. Consider starting on desktop-only
At this point, it’s a given for most marketers that you need to optimize your site for mobile traffic if you have any meaningful component of mobile visitors, let alone Google’s Mobile-first Index. This absolutely extends to testing messaging or layout changes to make sure that results do not differ by context.
That said, when you’re unsure how a change in Google Optimize will affect your CSS or breakpoints for mobile devices, you absolutely need to check. In fact, you need to check the mobile view no matter what. Trust us on this.
Although services like Unbounce or Google Optimize do have tools that allow you some control over a test appearance in mobile, it can definitely be time-consuming to get them up to snuff. In some cases with Google Optimize, we’ve simply hit a brick wall with certain complex or highly customized client sites.
For example, even on our own site getting the mobile version of a test right takes some elbow grease. Here’s a visual of a test from Portent’s Content Services page in Optimize on desktop view:
Looks fine. Now here’s the mobile view:
Ooph.
A mess, right? This is really common with Optimize. When you start moving containers around and changing the padding, your test might look fine on desktop but the mobile or tablet version will be borderline unreadable.
You can either work on your design until it works well for all devices or change the device targeting to only display to desktop users, traffic permitting:
See Section 11 for more on the importance of doing your own quality assurance.
7. Make the most of targeting options
Of course, you can (and should) target users and test based on more than just device-type. You can target users only on specific browsers, in specific countries, or even specific cities. (Or you can exclude these localities—for example, how well does your Space Needle picture and Seattle branding test with audiences outside Washington State?)
With “Page referrer” (located under “Behavior” in Google Optimize), you can target users arriving to your page through a specific source. For example, if you’re trying to test a new landing page for folks arriving via your blog, you can do that without creating a new URL; you could also serve the test only to folks coming in from a different website entirely.
With “Time since first arrival,” you can define how long a user must be on the website before the test fires in order to eliminate high-bounce sessions. And you can use JavaScript or information from your data layer to get even more granular with customers and their history on your site.
And if you’re lucky enough to have budget and need that justifies upgrading to Optimize 360, you can directly access all your Google Analytics audiences as a targeting segment.
8. Save your work
Seriously. Just do.
Optimize doesn’t have the same handy auto-save features as some of Google’s other products. If you close that window too early, kiss your test goodbye. You’ll be prompted to save if you’re trying to navigate back, but you’re SOL if you close all your tabs by accident.
Not that this has ever happened to us. Y’know, it just seems like it could be incredibly frustrating.
9. Use a script editor with script from the original website
Getting a little further into the nerdy technical best practices: When you create an experiment in Google Optimize you will have the option to work with a lot of code, and will frequently need to use it. When I first did an experiment through Optimize I had to start over at least three times because I forgot to use a script editor. Doing so keeps the code clean and accurate as you move it around.
We recommend inspecting the elements of normal, live, non-test pages on the site you’re working with and copying the code of elements you want to mimic into Atom or a similar editor.
At Portent we frequently use the script editor Atom, which is for Macs.
This means you don’t have to guess at the HTML for an element you want to create in your new design, and Atom keeps that code organized for you so you don’t make a mess of your Optimize layout. You can then paste that code right into your test design with the HTML.
Handy for not screwing up page layout, tables, image handling, etc.
10. Image hosting
Want to add an image to your test that doesn’t exist on the current website? There are two ways to do this.
Skipping ahead to the answer: The better way is to upload the image directly into the CMS of the site and link to that internal file. If you’re working for a client or you don’t have access to upload files to your site for whatever reason, an easy workaround is hosting your images on a free image hosting..
http://ift.tt/2ylUyzV
0 notes
Text
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
The two of us have run a lot of tests with Google’s Optimize, and we’ve probably made a mistake with every single one of those tests. Excuse me, I mean we learned something new with every single one of those tests.
If you’re new to Google Optimize, here are 13 tips and tricks we’ve gathered from all those learning experiences. Hopefully this blog post can help you start running fast, effective, and revealing A/B tests in half the time it took us to learn these lessons.
1. Setting up Google Tag Manager (GTM)
First, the very technical groundwork.
To use Google Optimize you will first need to install the Optimize tag on your website. There are several different ways you could go about the installation. The good news for you is that we’ve tried them all and one approach stands out as the clear winner.
We strongly recommend that you set up Google Optimize via Google Tag Manager (GTM). It allows for the fastest, most consistent deployment across your entire site, and taking the time to set up Tag Manager will pay dividends in your productivity and flexibility down the road. If you’re new to tag management, on the fence, or you just want to get ahead of the game, check out the Portent post on common mistakes in Google Tag Manager.
Once you’re up and running, the good news is that GTM comes with a built-in tag for Google Optimize.
To get started, you’ll create a new tag in your account, then specify that you want the Google Optimize tag.
Next, you’ll need to paste in your Google Analytics ID into the corresponding box as your tracking ID. You’ll also paste the container ID into the Optimize Container ID box.
Finally, you’ll want to set up a trigger to fire on every page of your site (or just the pages you want to test with Google Optimize). This trigger should already be offered as an option if you follow this install method, so you’ll simply select it.
Once you have everything set up as described you will want to go into preview mode in GTM make sure your tag works where and how you intended. It should look something like this.
Once you confirm that the Optimize tag is firing correctly in preview mode you’ll publish the tag to your live site. Once done, you’re set to create your first experiment in Google Optimize. (But read the next few sections before you do.)
A quick warning: Unlike Google’s guide to deploying Optimize with Google Tag Manger, we do not recommend that you set up the tag to fire before your Google Analytics tag. Doing this can actually cause your Analytics tag not to fire on the page you are testing via Optimize. Translation: the order in which you run the test as the page loads could leave you blind to your actual traffic in some cases.
2. Look at your traffic to set timeline expectations
Before you ever run an experiment in Google Optimize, one of the first things you need to do is make sure that pages receives enough traffic to run the test in a timely fashion.
We’ve had plenty of occasions where a client has a hunch they’d love to test for an important page, often near the bottom of their conversion funnel. But on inspection we see that there’s so little traffic that declaring a statistically significant winner would take over a month. That may be fine depending on your situation, but it’s incredibly important to set expectations if your boss or your executive team are expecting answers quickly.
As a rule, we recommend you choose pages for tests that average at least 1,000 pageviews a month over the last 3 to 6 months. This will ensure that your experiment gets steady traffic and the experiment is able to complete in a matter of days or weeks, not months.
Semi-Pro Tip: If there’s a page that absolutely positively must be tested quickly but it’s low traffic, consider whether you could use paid ads to drive the right kind of prospects to this page at a higher pace.
Create a situation that allows you to say “Yes, and here’s what we would need to do to accelerate the timeline.” Again, work with your paid search and/or remarketing experts to work out what kind of audience and approach would drive the right traffic to this page. Translation: prospects that are at a similar stage of their buyer’s journey to those who will see the page in the future. Few things are worse than explaining an experiment led to the wrong conclusion because of a self-inflicted anomaly with your traffic.
Rule of thumb: target pages with 1,000 or more monthly pageviews
See Section 5 for some related takeaways and a little more on this topic.
3. Create a test plan
One drawback of using the basic, free version of Google Optimize is that you’re unable to run more than three simultaneous tests. Three parallel tests should still give most marketers plenty of horsepower, however, and the best way to stretch this for maximum insight is to create a real test plan.
What’s in a test plan? Whatever you want, as long as it gives you direction, project scope, and a clear path to answering your bottom line business question. But here are some ideas to get you started:
Page title and URL
Test type
Hypothesis
Targeting
Description of changes or screenshot of mockup
Page traffic and time estimate
Funnel or persona target of page
A good test plan looks and acts kind of like an editorial calendar, or Agile project management roadmap. Keep a shared document to which your team can add ideas for future tests (icebox), and work at least two weeks ahead. Tests take about two weeks to complete, depending on traffic, and a deliberate schedule of rolling launches will make those three simultaneous tests feel like an army.
4. Use custom objectives
Data might not “lie,” but it can definitely mislead. Make sure you’re asking the right questions.
Here’s an example of two goals set up on a test: session duration, and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Session duration is a metric option baked into Optimize; our MQL data was pulled from a custom objective we set in Google Analytics. As you can see, the new variant wildly outperformed the original page in session duration, but interestingly drove far fewer MQLs:
Comparing performance by MQL
Comparing performance on Session Duration
If we’d just been looking at session duration, we might think our new variant won. But because we had a critical custom objective in place, we could tell that the original was actually converting more effectively. In this case, taking the time to get our real business goals and KPIs into the test saved us from pushing a “winning” variant to our whole site, which ultimately would have meant losing business.
5. Optimize is perfect for testing PPC landing pages
One of the coolest things about Google Optimize is that you’re able to use your experiments for PPC landing pages.
Using Optimize for PPC landers is might be the fastest way to see quantifiable ROI from A/B testing. Landers are typically high-converting pages with a clear, easy-to-measure goal. You can run multivariate tests with different form lengths, CTAs, titles, and imagery to determine the perfect formula for a high-performing landing page.
Pro-Tip: Extend the value of your newfound knowledge about what’s most effective for your target audience by crafting a set of landing-page best practices specific to your customers and your business. Make sure the learnings hold up, and keep iterating through new tests to drive your conversion rates even higher.
6. Consider starting on desktop-only
At this point, it’s a given for most marketers that you need to optimize your site for mobile traffic if you have any meaningful component of mobile visitors, let alone Google’s Mobile-first Index. This absolutely extends to testing messaging or layout changes to make sure that results do not differ by context.
That said, when you’re unsure how a change in Google Optimize will affect your CSS or breakpoints for mobile devices, you absolutely need to check. In fact, you need to check the mobile view no matter what. Trust us on this.
Although services like Unbounce or Google Optimize do have tools that allow you some control over a test appearance in mobile, it can definitely be time-consuming to get them up to snuff. In some cases with Google Optimize, we’ve simply hit a brick wall with certain complex or highly customized client sites.
For example, even on our own site getting the mobile version of a test right takes some elbow grease. Here’s a visual of a test from Portent’s Content Services page in Optimize on desktop view:
Looks fine. Now here’s the mobile view:
Ooph.
A mess, right? This is really common with Optimize. When you start moving containers around and changing the padding, your test might look fine on desktop but the mobile or tablet version will be borderline unreadable.
You can either work on your design until it works well for all devices or change the device targeting to only display to desktop users, traffic permitting:
See Section 11 for more on the importance of doing your own quality assurance.
7. Make the most of targeting options
Of course, you can (and should) target users and test based on more than just device-type. You can target users only on specific browsers, in specific countries, or even specific cities. (Or you can exclude these localities—for example, how well does your Space Needle picture and Seattle branding test with audiences outside Washington State?)
With “Page referrer” (located under “Behavior” in Google Optimize), you can target users arriving to your page through a specific source. For example, if you’re trying to test a new landing page for folks arriving via your blog, you can do that without creating a new URL; you could also serve the test only to folks coming in from a different website entirely.
With “Time since first arrival,” you can define how long a user must be on the website before the test fires in order to eliminate high-bounce sessions. And you can use JavaScript or information from your data layer to get even more granular with customers and their history on your site.
And if you’re lucky enough to have budget and need that justifies upgrading to Optimize 360, you can directly access all your Google Analytics audiences as a targeting segment.
8. Save your work
Seriously. Just do.
Optimize doesn’t have the same handy auto-save features as some of Google’s other products. If you close that window too early, kiss your test goodbye. You’ll be prompted to save if you’re trying to navigate back, but you’re SOL if you close all your tabs by accident.
Not that this has ever happened to us. Y’know, it just seems like it could be incredibly frustrating.
9. Use a script editor with script from the original website
Getting a little further into the nerdy technical best practices: When you create an experiment in Google Optimize you will have the option to work with a lot of code, and will frequently need to use it. When I first did an experiment through Optimize I had to start over at least three times because I forgot to use a script editor. Doing so keeps the code clean and accurate as you move it around.
We recommend inspecting the elements of normal, live, non-test pages on the site you’re working with and copying the code of elements you want to mimic into Atom or a similar editor.
At Portent we frequently use the script editor Atom, which is for Macs.
This means you don’t have to guess at the HTML for an element you want to create in your new design, and Atom keeps that code organized for you so you don’t make a mess of your Optimize layout. You can then paste that code right into your test design with the HTML.
Handy for not screwing up page layout, tables, image handling, etc.
10. Image hosting
Want to add an image to your test that doesn’t exist on the current website? There are two ways to do this.
Skipping ahead to the answer: The better way is to upload the image directly into the CMS of the site and link to that internal file. If you’re working for a client or you don’t have access to upload files to your site for whatever reason, an easy workaround is hosting your images on a free image hosting..
http://ift.tt/2ylUyzV
0 notes
Text
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
The two of us have run a lot of tests with Google’s Optimize, and we’ve probably made a mistake with every single one of those tests. Excuse me, I mean we learned something new with every single one of those tests.
If you’re new to Google Optimize, here are 13 tips and tricks we’ve gathered from all those learning experiences. Hopefully this blog post can help you start running fast, effective, and revealing A/B tests in half the time it took us to learn these lessons.
1. Setting up Google Tag Manager (GTM)
First, the very technical groundwork.
To use Google Optimize you will first need to install the Optimize tag on your website. There are several different ways you could go about the installation. The good news for you is that we’ve tried them all and one approach stands out as the clear winner.
We strongly recommend that you set up Google Optimize via Google Tag Manager (GTM). It allows for the fastest, most consistent deployment across your entire site, and taking the time to set up Tag Manager will pay dividends in your productivity and flexibility down the road. If you’re new to tag management, on the fence, or you just want to get ahead of the game, check out the Portent post on common mistakes in Google Tag Manager.
Once you’re up and running, the good news is that GTM comes with a built-in tag for Google Optimize.
To get started, you’ll create a new tag in your account, then specify that you want the Google Optimize tag.
Next, you’ll need to paste in your Google Analytics ID into the corresponding box as your tracking ID. You’ll also paste the container ID into the Optimize Container ID box.
Finally, you’ll want to set up a trigger to fire on every page of your site (or just the pages you want to test with Google Optimize). This trigger should already be offered as an option if you follow this install method, so you’ll simply select it.
Once you have everything set up as described you will want to go into preview mode in GTM make sure your tag works where and how you intended. It should look something like this.
Once you confirm that the Optimize tag is firing correctly in preview mode you’ll publish the tag to your live site. Once done, you’re set to create your first experiment in Google Optimize. (But read the next few sections before you do.)
A quick warning: Unlike Google’s guide to deploying Optimize with Google Tag Manger, we do not recommend that you set up the tag to fire before your Google Analytics tag. Doing this can actually cause your Analytics tag not to fire on the page you are testing via Optimize. Translation: the order in which you run the test as the page loads could leave you blind to your actual traffic in some cases.
2. Look at your traffic to set timeline expectations
Before you ever run an experiment in Google Optimize, one of the first things you need to do is make sure that pages receives enough traffic to run the test in a timely fashion.
We’ve had plenty of occasions where a client has a hunch they’d love to test for an important page, often near the bottom of their conversion funnel. But on inspection we see that there’s so little traffic that declaring a statistically significant winner would take over a month. That may be fine depending on your situation, but it’s incredibly important to set expectations if your boss or your executive team are expecting answers quickly.
As a rule, we recommend you choose pages for tests that average at least 1,000 pageviews a month over the last 3 to 6 months. This will ensure that your experiment gets steady traffic and the experiment is able to complete in a matter of days or weeks, not months.
Semi-Pro Tip: If there’s a page that absolutely positively must be tested quickly but it’s low traffic, consider whether you could use paid ads to drive the right kind of prospects to this page at a higher pace.
Create a situation that allows you to say “Yes, and here’s what we would need to do to accelerate the timeline.” Again, work with your paid search and/or remarketing experts to work out what kind of audience and approach would drive the right traffic to this page. Translation: prospects that are at a similar stage of their buyer’s journey to those who will see the page in the future. Few things are worse than explaining an experiment led to the wrong conclusion because of a self-inflicted anomaly with your traffic.
Rule of thumb: target pages with 1,000 or more monthly pageviews
See Section 5 for some related takeaways and a little more on this topic.
3. Create a test plan
One drawback of using the basic, free version of Google Optimize is that you’re unable to run more than three simultaneous tests. Three parallel tests should still give most marketers plenty of horsepower, however, and the best way to stretch this for maximum insight is to create a real test plan.
What’s in a test plan? Whatever you want, as long as it gives you direction, project scope, and a clear path to answering your bottom line business question. But here are some ideas to get you started:
Page title and URL
Test type
Hypothesis
Targeting
Description of changes or screenshot of mockup
Page traffic and time estimate
Funnel or persona target of page
A good test plan looks and acts kind of like an editorial calendar, or Agile project management roadmap. Keep a shared document to which your team can add ideas for future tests (icebox), and work at least two weeks ahead. Tests take about two weeks to complete, depending on traffic, and a deliberate schedule of rolling launches will make those three simultaneous tests feel like an army.
4. Use custom objectives
Data might not “lie,” but it can definitely mislead. Make sure you’re asking the right questions.
Here’s an example of two goals set up on a test: session duration, and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Session duration is a metric option baked into Optimize; our MQL data was pulled from a custom objective we set in Google Analytics. As you can see, the new variant wildly outperformed the original page in session duration, but interestingly drove far fewer MQLs:
Comparing performance by MQL
Comparing performance on Session Duration
If we’d just been looking at session duration, we might think our new variant won. But because we had a critical custom objective in place, we could tell that the original was actually converting more effectively. In this case, taking the time to get our real business goals and KPIs into the test saved us from pushing a “winning” variant to our whole site, which ultimately would have meant losing business.
5. Optimize is perfect for testing PPC landing pages
One of the coolest things about Google Optimize is that you’re able to use your experiments for PPC landing pages.
Using Optimize for PPC landers is might be the fastest way to see quantifiable ROI from A/B testing. Landers are typically high-converting pages with a clear, easy-to-measure goal. You can run multivariate tests with different form lengths, CTAs, titles, and imagery to determine the perfect formula for a high-performing landing page.
Pro-Tip: Extend the value of your newfound knowledge about what’s most effective for your target audience by crafting a set of landing-page best practices specific to your customers and your business. Make sure the learnings hold up, and keep iterating through new tests to drive your conversion rates even higher.
6. Consider starting on desktop-only
At this point, it’s a given for most marketers that you need to optimize your site for mobile traffic if you have any meaningful component of mobile visitors, let alone Google’s Mobile-first Index. This absolutely extends to testing messaging or layout changes to make sure that results do not differ by context.
That said, when you’re unsure how a change in Google Optimize will affect your CSS or breakpoints for mobile devices, you absolutely need to check. In fact, you need to check the mobile view no matter what. Trust us on this.
Although services like Unbounce or Google Optimize do have tools that allow you some control over a test appearance in mobile, it can definitely be time-consuming to get them up to snuff. In some cases with Google Optimize, we’ve simply hit a brick wall with certain complex or highly customized client sites.
For example, even on our own site getting the mobile version of a test right takes some elbow grease. Here’s a visual of a test from Portent’s Content Services page in Optimize on desktop view:
Looks fine. Now here’s the mobile view:
Ooph.
A mess, right? This is really common with Optimize. When you start moving containers around and changing the padding, your test might look fine on desktop but the mobile or tablet version will be borderline unreadable.
You can either work on your design until it works well for all devices or change the device targeting to only display to desktop users, traffic permitting:
See Section 11 for more on the importance of doing your own quality assurance.
7. Make the most of targeting options
Of course, you can (and should) target users and test based on more than just device-type. You can target users only on specific browsers, in specific countries, or even specific cities. (Or you can exclude these localities—for example, how well does your Space Needle picture and Seattle branding test with audiences outside Washington State?)
With “Page referrer” (located under “Behavior” in Google Optimize), you can target users arriving to your page through a specific source. For example, if you’re trying to test a new landing page for folks arriving via your blog, you can do that without creating a new URL; you could also serve the test only to folks coming in from a different website entirely.
With “Time since first arrival,” you can define how long a user must be on the website before the test fires in order to eliminate high-bounce sessions. And you can use JavaScript or information from your data layer to get even more granular with customers and their history on your site.
And if you’re lucky enough to have budget and need that justifies upgrading to Optimize 360, you can directly access all your Google Analytics audiences as a targeting segment.
8. Save your work
Seriously. Just do.
Optimize doesn’t have the same handy auto-save features as some of Google’s other products. If you close that window too early, kiss your test goodbye. You’ll be prompted to save if you’re trying to navigate back, but you’re SOL if you close all your tabs by accident.
Not that this has ever happened to us. Y’know, it just seems like it could be incredibly frustrating.
9. Use a script editor with script from the original website
Getting a little further into the nerdy technical best practices: When you create an experiment in Google Optimize you will have the option to work with a lot of code, and will frequently need to use it. When I first did an experiment through Optimize I had to start over at least three times because I forgot to use a script editor. Doing so keeps the code clean and accurate as you move it around.
We recommend inspecting the elements of normal, live, non-test pages on the site you’re working with and copying the code of elements you want to mimic into Atom or a similar editor.
At Portent we frequently use the script editor Atom, which is for Macs.
This means you don’t have to guess at the HTML for an element you want to create in your new design, and Atom keeps that code organized for you so you don’t make a mess of your Optimize layout. You can then paste that code right into your test design with the HTML.
Handy for not screwing up page layout, tables, image handling, etc.
10. Image hosting
Want to add an image to your test that doesn’t exist on the current website? There are two ways to do this.
Skipping ahead to the answer: The better way is to upload the image directly into the CMS of the site and link to that internal file. If you’re working for a client or you don’t have access to upload files to your site for whatever reason, an easy workaround is hosting your images on a free image hosting..
http://ift.tt/2ylUyzV
0 notes
Text
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
The two of us have run a lot of tests with Google’s Optimize, and we’ve probably made a mistake with every single one of those tests. Excuse me, I mean we learned something new with every single one of those tests.
If you’re new to Google Optimize, here are 13 tips and tricks we’ve gathered from all those learning experiences. Hopefully this blog post can help you start running fast, effective, and revealing A/B tests in half the time it took us to learn these lessons.
1. Setting up Google Tag Manager (GTM)
First, the very technical groundwork.
To use Google Optimize you will first need to install the Optimize tag on your website. There are several different ways you could go about the installation. The good news for you is that we’ve tried them all and one approach stands out as the clear winner.
We strongly recommend that you set up Google Optimize via Google Tag Manager (GTM). It allows for the fastest, most consistent deployment across your entire site, and taking the time to set up Tag Manager will pay dividends in your productivity and flexibility down the road. If you’re new to tag management, on the fence, or you just want to get ahead of the game, check out the Portent post on common mistakes in Google Tag Manager.
Once you’re up and running, the good news is that GTM comes with a built-in tag for Google Optimize.
To get started, you’ll create a new tag in your account, then specify that you want the Google Optimize tag.
Next, you’ll need to paste in your Google Analytics ID into the corresponding box as your tracking ID. You’ll also paste the container ID into the Optimize Container ID box.
Finally, you’ll want to set up a trigger to fire on every page of your site (or just the pages you want to test with Google Optimize). This trigger should already be offered as an option if you follow this install method, so you’ll simply select it.
Once you have everything set up as described you will want to go into preview mode in GTM make sure your tag works where and how you intended. It should look something like this.
Once you confirm that the Optimize tag is firing correctly in preview mode you’ll publish the tag to your live site. Once done, you’re set to create your first experiment in Google Optimize. (But read the next few sections before you do.)
A quick warning: Unlike Google’s guide to deploying Optimize with Google Tag Manger, we do not recommend that you set up the tag to fire before your Google Analytics tag. Doing this can actually cause your Analytics tag not to fire on the page you are testing via Optimize. Translation: the order in which you run the test as the page loads could leave you blind to your actual traffic in some cases.
2. Look at your traffic to set timeline expectations
Before you ever run an experiment in Google Optimize, one of the first things you need to do is make sure that pages receives enough traffic to run the test in a timely fashion.
We’ve had plenty of occasions where a client has a hunch they’d love to test for an important page, often near the bottom of their conversion funnel. But on inspection we see that there’s so little traffic that declaring a statistically significant winner would take over a month. That may be fine depending on your situation, but it’s incredibly important to set expectations if your boss or your executive team are expecting answers quickly.
As a rule, we recommend you choose pages for tests that average at least 1,000 pageviews a month over the last 3 to 6 months. This will ensure that your experiment gets steady traffic and the experiment is able to complete in a matter of days or weeks, not months.
Semi-Pro Tip: If there’s a page that absolutely positively must be tested quickly but it’s low traffic, consider whether you could use paid ads to drive the right kind of prospects to this page at a higher pace.
Create a situation that allows you to say “Yes, and here’s what we would need to do to accelerate the timeline.” Again, work with your paid search and/or remarketing experts to work out what kind of audience and approach would drive the right traffic to this page. Translation: prospects that are at a similar stage of their buyer’s journey to those who will see the page in the future. Few things are worse than explaining an experiment led to the wrong conclusion because of a self-inflicted anomaly with your traffic.
Rule of thumb: target pages with 1,000 or more monthly pageviews
See Section 5 for some related takeaways and a little more on this topic.
3. Create a test plan
One drawback of using the basic, free version of Google Optimize is that you’re unable to run more than three simultaneous tests. Three parallel tests should still give most marketers plenty of horsepower, however, and the best way to stretch this for maximum insight is to create a real test plan.
What’s in a test plan? Whatever you want, as long as it gives you direction, project scope, and a clear path to answering your bottom line business question. But here are some ideas to get you started:
Page title and URL
Test type
Hypothesis
Targeting
Description of changes or screenshot of mockup
Page traffic and time estimate
Funnel or persona target of page
A good test plan looks and acts kind of like an editorial calendar, or Agile project management roadmap. Keep a shared document to which your team can add ideas for future tests (icebox), and work at least two weeks ahead. Tests take about two weeks to complete, depending on traffic, and a deliberate schedule of rolling launches will make those three simultaneous tests feel like an army.
4. Use custom objectives
Data might not “lie,” but it can definitely mislead. Make sure you’re asking the right questions.
Here’s an example of two goals set up on a test: session duration, and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Session duration is a metric option baked into Optimize; our MQL data was pulled from a custom objective we set in Google Analytics. As you can see, the new variant wildly outperformed the original page in session duration, but interestingly drove far fewer MQLs:
Comparing performance by MQL
Comparing performance on Session Duration
If we’d just been looking at session duration, we might think our new variant won. But because we had a critical custom objective in place, we could tell that the original was actually converting more effectively. In this case, taking the time to get our real business goals and KPIs into the test saved us from pushing a “winning” variant to our whole site, which ultimately would have meant losing business.
5. Optimize is perfect for testing PPC landing pages
One of the coolest things about Google Optimize is that you’re able to use your experiments for PPC landing pages.
Using Optimize for PPC landers is might be the fastest way to see quantifiable ROI from A/B testing. Landers are typically high-converting pages with a clear, easy-to-measure goal. You can run multivariate tests with different form lengths, CTAs, titles, and imagery to determine the perfect formula for a high-performing landing page.
Pro-Tip: Extend the value of your newfound knowledge about what’s most effective for your target audience by crafting a set of landing-page best practices specific to your customers and your business. Make sure the learnings hold up, and keep iterating through new tests to drive your conversion rates even higher.
6. Consider starting on desktop-only
At this point, it’s a given for most marketers that you need to optimize your site for mobile traffic if you have any meaningful component of mobile visitors, let alone Google’s Mobile-first Index. This absolutely extends to testing messaging or layout changes to make sure that results do not differ by context.
That said, when you’re unsure how a change in Google Optimize will affect your CSS or breakpoints for mobile devices, you absolutely need to check. In fact, you need to check the mobile view no matter what. Trust us on this.
Although services like Unbounce or Google Optimize do have tools that allow you some control over a test appearance in mobile, it can definitely be time-consuming to get them up to snuff. In some cases with Google Optimize, we’ve simply hit a brick wall with certain complex or highly customized client sites.
For example, even on our own site getting the mobile version of a test right takes some elbow grease. Here’s a visual of a test from Portent’s Content Services page in Optimize on desktop view:
Looks fine. Now here’s the mobile view:
Ooph.
A mess, right? This is really common with Optimize. When you start moving containers around and changing the padding, your test might look fine on desktop but the mobile or tablet version will be borderline unreadable.
You can either work on your design until it works well for all devices or change the device targeting to only display to desktop users, traffic permitting:
See Section 11 for more on the importance of doing your own quality assurance.
7. Make the most of targeting options
Of course, you can (and should) target users and test based on more than just device-type. You can target users only on specific browsers, in specific countries, or even specific cities. (Or you can exclude these localities—for example, how well does your Space Needle picture and Seattle branding test with audiences outside Washington State?)
With “Page referrer” (located under “Behavior” in Google Optimize), you can target users arriving to your page through a specific source. For example, if you’re trying to test a new landing page for folks arriving via your blog, you can do that without creating a new URL; you could also serve the test only to folks coming in from a different website entirely.
With “Time since first arrival,” you can define how long a user must be on the website before the test fires in order to eliminate high-bounce sessions. And you can use JavaScript or information from your data layer to get even more granular with customers and their history on your site.
And if you’re lucky enough to have budget and need that justifies upgrading to Optimize 360, you can directly access all your Google Analytics audiences as a targeting segment.
8. Save your work
Seriously. Just do.
Optimize doesn’t have the same handy auto-save features as some of Google’s other products. If you close that window too early, kiss your test goodbye. You’ll be prompted to save if you’re trying to navigate back, but you’re SOL if you close all your tabs by accident.
Not that this has ever happened to us. Y’know, it just seems like it could be incredibly frustrating.
9. Use a script editor with script from the original website
Getting a little further into the nerdy technical best practices: When you create an experiment in Google Optimize you will have the option to work with a lot of code, and will frequently need to use it. When I first did an experiment through Optimize I had to start over at least three times because I forgot to use a script editor. Doing so keeps the code clean and accurate as you move it around.
We recommend inspecting the elements of normal, live, non-test pages on the site you’re working with and copying the code of elements you want to mimic into Atom or a similar editor.
At Portent we frequently use the script editor Atom, which is for Macs.
This means you don’t have to guess at the HTML for an element you want to create in your new design, and Atom keeps that code organized for you so you don’t make a mess of your Optimize layout. You can then paste that code right into your test design with the HTML.
Handy for not screwing up page layout, tables, image handling, etc.
10. Image hosting
Want to add an image to your test that doesn’t exist on the current website? There are two ways to do this.
Skipping ahead to the answer: The better way is to upload the image directly into the CMS of the site and link to that internal file. If you’re working for a client or you don’t have access to upload files to your site for whatever reason, an easy workaround is hosting your images on a free image hosting..
http://ift.tt/2ylUyzV
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13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
The two of us have run a lot of tests with Google’s Optimize, and we’ve probably made a mistake with every single one of those tests. Excuse me, I mean we learned something new with every single one of those tests.
If you’re new to Google Optimize, here are 13 tips and tricks we’ve gathered from all those learning experiences. Hopefully this blog post can help you start running fast, effective, and revealing A/B tests in half the time it took us to learn these lessons.
1. Setting up Google Tag Manager (GTM)
First, the very technical groundwork.
To use Google Optimize you will first need to install the Optimize tag on your website. There are several different ways you could go about the installation. The good news for you is that we’ve tried them all and one approach stands out as the clear winner.
We strongly recommend that you set up Google Optimize via Google Tag Manager (GTM). It allows for the fastest, most consistent deployment across your entire site, and taking the time to set up Tag Manager will pay dividends in your productivity and flexibility down the road. If you’re new to tag management, on the fence, or you just want to get ahead of the game, check out the Portent post on common mistakes in Google Tag Manager.
Once you’re up and running, the good news is that GTM comes with a built-in tag for Google Optimize.
To get started, you’ll create a new tag in your account, then specify that you want the Google Optimize tag.
Next, you’ll need to paste in your Google Analytics ID into the corresponding box as your tracking ID. You’ll also paste the container ID into the Optimize Container ID box.
Finally, you’ll want to set up a trigger to fire on every page of your site (or just the pages you want to test with Google Optimize). This trigger should already be offered as an option if you follow this install method, so you’ll simply select it.
Once you have everything set up as described you will want to go into preview mode in GTM make sure your tag works where and how you intended. It should look something like this.
Once you confirm that the Optimize tag is firing correctly in preview mode you’ll publish the tag to your live site. Once done, you’re set to create your first experiment in Google Optimize. (But read the next few sections before you do.)
A quick warning: Unlike Google’s guide to deploying Optimize with Google Tag Manger, we do not recommend that you set up the tag to fire before your Google Analytics tag. Doing this can actually cause your Analytics tag not to fire on the page you are testing via Optimize. Translation: the order in which you run the test as the page loads could leave you blind to your actual traffic in some cases.
2. Look at your traffic to set timeline expectations
Before you ever run an experiment in Google Optimize, one of the first things you need to do is make sure that pages receives enough traffic to run the test in a timely fashion.
We’ve had plenty of occasions where a client has a hunch they’d love to test for an important page, often near the bottom of their conversion funnel. But on inspection we see that there’s so little traffic that declaring a statistically significant winner would take over a month. That may be fine depending on your situation, but it’s incredibly important to set expectations if your boss or your executive team are expecting answers quickly.
As a rule, we recommend you choose pages for tests that average at least 1,000 pageviews a month over the last 3 to 6 months. This will ensure that your experiment gets steady traffic and the experiment is able to complete in a matter of days or weeks, not months.
Semi-Pro Tip: If there’s a page that absolutely positively must be tested quickly but it’s low traffic, consider whether you could use paid ads to drive the right kind of prospects to this page at a higher pace.
Create a situation that allows you to say “Yes, and here’s what we would need to do to accelerate the timeline.” Again, work with your paid search and/or remarketing experts to work out what kind of audience and approach would drive the right traffic to this page. Translation: prospects that are at a similar stage of their buyer’s journey to those who will see the page in the future. Few things are worse than explaining an experiment led to the wrong conclusion because of a self-inflicted anomaly with your traffic.
Rule of thumb: target pages with 1,000 or more monthly pageviews
See Section 5 for some related takeaways and a little more on this topic.
3. Create a test plan
One drawback of using the basic, free version of Google Optimize is that you’re unable to run more than three simultaneous tests. Three parallel tests should still give most marketers plenty of horsepower, however, and the best way to stretch this for maximum insight is to create a real test plan.
What’s in a test plan? Whatever you want, as long as it gives you direction, project scope, and a clear path to answering your bottom line business question. But here are some ideas to get you started:
Page title and URL
Test type
Hypothesis
Targeting
Description of changes or screenshot of mockup
Page traffic and time estimate
Funnel or persona target of page
A good test plan looks and acts kind of like an editorial calendar, or Agile project management roadmap. Keep a shared document to which your team can add ideas for future tests (icebox), and work at least two weeks ahead. Tests take about two weeks to complete, depending on traffic, and a deliberate schedule of rolling launches will make those three simultaneous tests feel like an army.
4. Use custom objectives
Data might not “lie,” but it can definitely mislead. Make sure you’re asking the right questions.
Here’s an example of two goals set up on a test: session duration, and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Session duration is a metric option baked into Optimize; our MQL data was pulled from a custom objective we set in Google Analytics. As you can see, the new variant wildly outperformed the original page in session duration, but interestingly drove far fewer MQLs:
Comparing performance by MQL
Comparing performance on Session Duration
If we’d just been looking at session duration, we might think our new variant won. But because we had a critical custom objective in place, we could tell that the original was actually converting more effectively. In this case, taking the time to get our real business goals and KPIs into the test saved us from pushing a “winning” variant to our whole site, which ultimately would have meant losing business.
5. Optimize is perfect for testing PPC landing pages
One of the coolest things about Google Optimize is that you’re able to use your experiments for PPC landing pages.
Using Optimize for PPC landers is might be the fastest way to see quantifiable ROI from A/B testing. Landers are typically high-converting pages with a clear, easy-to-measure goal. You can run multivariate tests with different form lengths, CTAs, titles, and imagery to determine the perfect formula for a high-performing landing page.
Pro-Tip: Extend the value of your newfound knowledge about what’s most effective for your target audience by crafting a set of landing-page best practices specific to your customers and your business. Make sure the learnings hold up, and keep iterating through new tests to drive your conversion rates even higher.
6. Consider starting on desktop-only
At this point, it’s a given for most marketers that you need to optimize your site for mobile traffic if you have any meaningful component of mobile visitors, let alone Google’s Mobile-first Index. This absolutely extends to testing messaging or layout changes to make sure that results do not differ by context.
That said, when you’re unsure how a change in Google Optimize will affect your CSS or breakpoints for mobile devices, you absolutely need to check. In fact, you need to check the mobile view no matter what. Trust us on this.
Although services like Unbounce or Google Optimize do have tools that allow you some control over a test appearance in mobile, it can definitely be time-consuming to get them up to snuff. In some cases with Google Optimize, we’ve simply hit a brick wall with certain complex or highly customized client sites.
For example, even on our own site getting the mobile version of a test right takes some elbow grease. Here’s a visual of a test from Portent’s Content Services page in Optimize on desktop view:
Looks fine. Now here’s the mobile view:
Ooph.
A mess, right? This is really common with Optimize. When you start moving containers around and changing the padding, your test might look fine on desktop but the mobile or tablet version will be borderline unreadable.
You can either work on your design until it works well for all devices or change the device targeting to only display to desktop users, traffic permitting:
See Section 11 for more on the importance of doing your own quality assurance.
7. Make the most of targeting options
Of course, you can (and should) target users and test based on more than just device-type. You can target users only on specific browsers, in specific countries, or even specific cities. (Or you can exclude these localities—for example, how well does your Space Needle picture and Seattle branding test with audiences outside Washington State?)
With “Page referrer” (located under “Behavior” in Google Optimize), you can target users arriving to your page through a specific source. For example, if you’re trying to test a new landing page for folks arriving via your blog, you can do that without creating a new URL; you could also serve the test only to folks coming in from a different website entirely.
With “Time since first arrival,” you can define how long a user must be on the website before the test fires in order to eliminate high-bounce sessions. And you can use JavaScript or information from your data layer to get even more granular with customers and their history on your site.
And if you’re lucky enough to have budget and need that justifies upgrading to Optimize 360, you can directly access all your Google Analytics audiences as a targeting segment.
8. Save your work
Seriously. Just do.
Optimize doesn’t have the same handy auto-save features as some of Google’s other products. If you close that window too early, kiss your test goodbye. You’ll be prompted to save if you’re trying to navigate back, but you’re SOL if you close all your tabs by accident.
Not that this has ever happened to us. Y’know, it just seems like it could be incredibly frustrating.
9. Use a script editor with script from the original website
Getting a little further into the nerdy technical best practices: When you create an experiment in Google Optimize you will have the option to work with a lot of code, and will frequently need to use it. When I first did an experiment through Optimize I had to start over at least three times because I forgot to use a script editor. Doing so keeps the code clean and accurate as you move it around.
We recommend inspecting the elements of normal, live, non-test pages on the site you’re working with and copying the code of elements you want to mimic into Atom or a similar editor.
At Portent we frequently use the script editor Atom, which is for Macs.
This means you don’t have to guess at the HTML for an element you want to create in your new design, and Atom keeps that code organized for you so you don’t make a mess of your Optimize layout. You can then paste that code right into your test design with the HTML.
Handy for not screwing up page layout, tables, image handling, etc.
10. Image hosting
Want to add an image to your test that doesn’t exist on the current website? There are two ways to do this.
Skipping ahead to the answer: The better way is to upload the image directly into the CMS of the site and link to that internal file. If you’re working for a client or you don’t have access to upload files to your site for whatever reason, an easy workaround is hosting your images on a free image hosting..
http://ift.tt/2ylUyzV
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13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way. The two of us have…
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13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
13 Tips for Using Google Optimize if You’re Not a Developer
If you want a play-by-play guide on how to use Google Optimize, Google has a whole help center for that. But if you’ve been using Google Optimize for any time at all, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of lessons that fall outside the purview of that help center. And you have to learn most of them the hard way.
The two of us have…
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