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99 Free (and Low Cost) Tools to Improve Your Website

November 22, 2010

1. MobiReady More and more visitors are arriving to websites using mobile devices today. Is your website ready for it? Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards. 2. Treepodia Other than mobile, video has been the other big demand from customers. Treepodia alows you to submit your XML product catalog feed to them and [...]

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A Quick & Cheap Way To Fix Blind Spots in Your PPC Efforts

November 12, 2010

Yesterday, Google announced that all advertisers now have access to product ads. This presents a great opportunity for advertisers. The user tests I have been involved in recently show that searchers eyes are certainly drawn to those ads before they are drawn to the standard blue links. This is just one more recent change Google [...]

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The Biggest Lie of Pay-Per-Click Marketing

August 10, 2010

[standing up] My name is Bryan and I am a screenshot addict. When I fall off the wagon, it happens every so often, I pick a keyphrase and start clicking through PPC ads and their landing pages taking screenshots of the entire experience. It’s hard to imagine how often the experience from keyword to ad [...]

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Want More Actions? Leverage the Point of Action

May 7, 2010

Two weeks of West Coast jet lag while keynoting three conferences means a lot of parties. At a reception, a guy named Peter told me that he read my book “Call to Action” a few years ago and that he used it as the basis to redo his company’s shopping cart. Peter more than doubled [...]

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Free Conversion Rate Consulting 2

April 28, 2010

In January, I was able to offer a couple of websites free conversion optimization consulting from my MarketMotive certification students. Those students had some terrific successes with our volunteer websites. For example, one retailer increased their conversion rate by 132% and one lead generation website increased their conversion rate by 111%. I need more volunteer websites to work [...]

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Testing Like an Olympian: An Interview With Janis Lanka, Elastic Path

April 27, 2010

Janis Lanka (@janislanka, manages front-end development for Elastic Path Software and was responsible for testing on the Official Vancouver 2010 Olympic Store. 1.    What were the precipitating events that caused your company to start testing? 1)      We knew there were areas of the site that could use optimization: our homepage could be less busy; our product details page could [...]

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