Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 24, 2012 - Computers - 480 pages
A fully updated guide to making your landing pages profitable

Effective Internet marketing requires that you test and optimize your landing pages to maximize exposure and conversion rate. This second edition of a bestselling guide to landing page optimization includes case studies with before-and-after results as well as new information on web site usability. It covers how to prepare all types of content for testing, how to interpret results, recognize the seven common design mistakes, and much more. Included is a gift card for Google AdWords.

  • Features fully updated information and case studies on landing page optimization
  • Shows how to use Google's Website Optimizer tool, what to test and how to prepare your site for testing, the pros and cons of different test strategies, how to interpret results, and common site design mistakes
  • Provides a step-by-step implementation plan and advice on getting support and resources

Landing Page Optimization, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to increasing conversions and improving profits.

 

Contents

Understanding Landing Page Optimization
1
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3
Understanding Your Landing Pages
19
The MatrixMoving People to Act
35
Finding Opportunities for Site Improvement
63
Asking for Too Much Information
65
Conversion Ninja ToolboxDiagnosing Site Problems
111
Misunderstanding Your VisitorsLooking
141
Direct Response Pages
243
The Strategy of What to Test
251
Part IV
279
Preparing for Testing
305
Testing Methods
325
Part V
357
Insource or Outsource?
361
Developing Your Action Plan
371

Welcome to Your Brain
148
Persuasion Frameworks
157
Cultural Differences
165
Registration and MultipleStep Flows
201
Best Practices for Common Situations
202
Assemble Your Team
401
Uncover Problems and Decide What to Test
407
Collect the Data
416
Appendix Landing Page Testing Tools
438
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About the author (2012)

Tim Ash is the CEO of SiteTuners, a firm that improves website conversion rates through landing page diagnosis and redesign, conversion consulting, A/B split and multivariate test plan creation, and client training/ mentoring. Tim has worked with hundreds of clients including Canon, Google, Expedia, CBS, Sony Music, Facebook, Cisco, and Coach. He is a highly regarded keynote and conference presenter, and the chairperson of Conversion Conference. Rich Page is an Optimization Consultant and Web Analytics Manager for a Fortune 500 company. Maura Ginty is a digital-era word geek with deep expertise in search, content strategy, and social media programs at Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. All three authors are frequent speakers at online marketing conferences.

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