Monday, December 28, 2009

Why Is It Important To Split Test

By Justin Harrison

Split testing is a unique type of testing carried out to improve the online businesses. Those who're not familiar with the term don't really understand its relevance with the online business, while those who know its power essentially take all the pain to carry out split testing to the maximum possible level.

Since the term split testing isn't so self-explanatory, let's try to analyze its actual meaning and relevance to the business with the help of a simple example. Considering that you own a local retail showroom that sells electronic items such as microwave ovens, you can adopt vivid kinds of sales and marketing strategies, such as impressing the customers with your live demo of the product, educating them about its benefits, and there are other venues to do the same.

When you do the same sale over the internet, asking queries about the product is not possible. Over the internet it is not possible to know the people views on the product, where as manual sale can do.

Sure thing, rewording the info about your product may be a good idea, but that may not be the only thing that you can really do. It is even possible to test the landing page of your website, check how the ads are doing, and tweak with other things to improve the overall effectiveness of your online marketing campaign. It could even mean that you check up the overall CPC of your advertising program, and dig into the details of the advertising campaign, which is performing at the best, and the one which is possibly performing a little lower.

With small changes in the splits, create two different splits that differ by a quiet minor change. One has to be selected from the two, which works better than the other. For example consider a small scenario that you have two different AdWords, one is running and the other ads up. One of them contains its sites URL written in capital letters and the second one does not. The split with capital letters works more efficient than the other by 0.4 percent. So before creating a split one should see that all the splits are in capital letters.

The working properties and the non-working properties of the product are given by the split test. Strict comparison should be made amongst the other products, in order to get a final copy that works fine when compared to the rest.

As no product is ever perfect, likewise no online marketing campaign is ever flawless, so split testing helps in finding out the areas of improvement, and rigorous split testing helps you in distinguishing what kind of minor tweaks have worked successfully for you, in certain areas, and what has not been beneficial despite all your efforts. Split testing gives you the best returns of your efforts dedicated to your online campaign, and let's you create a league of your own on the internet.

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