PPC Advertising

How important is PPC relevance and how can you manipulate it to your advantage while maintaining a positive ROI? Anyone who has set up or managed a paid search campaign can testify that there is an art form involved in realizing the…

Affiliate Summit Miami Wrap Up

Eric Stockton, VP of Education at MarketingExperiments, recently flew down to sunny Miami to teach Affiliate Summit attendees how to apply and optimize subtle changes to their landing pages. The Power of Small Changes Tested was excerpted…

Conversion and Incentive

The most underused and powerful incentive is free shipping. People hate to pay shipping and always think you’re making money on those costs. Our upcoming brief on incentives shows you the science, the math, and the art of using incentives.…

Harnessing Social Media

EDITOR’S NOTE: You can listen to a recording of the clinic by using the link below. Harnessing Social Media Web 1.0 was the Web in its infancy, its first developmental stage. “Web 2.0” was coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004.…

Landing Page Confusion

We examine research findings to discover what factors determine the efficacy of online marketing email copy. Which will perform better, a landing page that has one clear objective or one that has multiple objectives? As marketers,…

Email Marketing Tested

We examine research findings to discover what factors determine the efficacy of online marketing email copy. EDITOR'S NOTE: The live clinic where this research was presented included practical application of the essential

Comparison Shopping Gets Granular

If you sell a product online, you already know how shoppers can check out your prices and the quality of your customer service through sites like PriceGrabber, Shopzilla and Google Product Search. But if you think it’s tough having your…

Home Page Design – Basics

By Gaby DiazStrategy Analyst, Marketing Experiments The home page is probably one of the most complicated pages of any website. It is the face of your company, the starting point of sales, a way to connect visitors to customer support or…

Email Marketing Tested

We examine research findings to discover what factors determine the efficacy of online marketing email copy. EDITOR'S NOTE: The live clinic where this research was presented included practical application of the essential principles…

The Importance of Site Metrics

By Carlos A. Espitia Analyst, Marketing Experiments This is a topic that I always thought of as online marketing common sense. Just like in any other marketing effort, we always (or should) want to know who our customers are, what they…

Website Usability Testing

By Bob Kemper Director of Operations,Marketing Experiments Usability video testing involves video recording a user going through a specific process for a website (e.g. an order). The aim is to observe how people behave in an actual site…