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Archive for the ‘Website Optimization’ Category

MindValley’s Social Media Marketing Unveiled

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Read more about Social Media, Viral Marketing, Website Optimization

Lately, we've been pretty busy behind the scenes working on putting together something new and revolutionary.
I've already unveiled a great deal of this stuff at an exclusive, private event. However, some of the basic tricks were already published here in this blog.
In this post, you'll find a list of those useful tricks compiled for your [...]

McAfee Magic: How One Tiny Tweak Boosted Sales by 15%

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Read more about Conversion Rate, Creating Trust Online, Landing Page Optimization, Make Money, Reviews, Split Testing, Website Optimization

Who knew that such a tiny, little addition - a small image to be precise - can have such a significant impact on sales?
Well, we certainly didn't expect it, and that just goes to show the importance of split testing even the smallest tweaks.
Here is what we did.
One of our biggest websites is www.SilvaLifeSystem.com and [...]

What Does Your Order Button Say?

Friday, August 29th, 2008 Read more about Copywriting, Split Testing, Website Optimization

Have you ever wondered what impact the language on your order button could have on the conversion rate of your site?
We did and we were shocked to find out what a huge impact such a tiny change could make to the conversion rate of our site.
Well, since we believe in continuously testing just about everything, [...]

150% More Traffic and 133% More Sales From A Few Tweaks. You Can’t Be Serious… Can You?

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Read more about Website Optimization

We just posted a free case-study video showing exactly how we helped a client score 150% more traffic and 133% more conversions.
It's almost exactly 16 minutes and depicts exactly what this entrepreneur did to her crazy niche site... which is "EMF Protection Equipment." You'll see "before" and "after" pics as well as hear from the [...]

Upcoming Internet Marketing Tests

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Read more about Split Testing, Website Optimization

We've been pouring through all the blogs, product releases, newsgroups and trends in the Internet Marketing world and building a queue of hot new ideas to test.
Here are some of the Ideas We'll be breaking Testing and Sharing Results Of
Facebook Advertising
How effective are CTRs on Facebook? Do clicks convert to leads or sales? We'll be [...]

Want to Annoy Your Visitors, Turn Away Customers and Screw Up Your Google Rankings? Great, just add a Flash Intro to Your Site

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Read more about SEO, Website Optimization

I was Googling to find the company "AIESEC Michigan", a recruiting firm in Ann Arbor.
Their official site is AiesecMichigan.com
But here is what Google shows:

Take a look at the last link on that page. Yup that's the site they want to draw traffic to.

SKIP?
Not only is their flash website killing their search engine rankings (How [...]

Long Copy or Short Copy : Here’s How to Choose

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Read more about Copywriting, Website Optimization

I was listening to one of Yanik Silver's CDs from his excellent copywriting course today and came across this interesting nugget.
A lot of people still don't understand that long copy tends to usually outperform short copy. They reason that long copy usually turns people off.
This is true. In the study quoted in Yanik's course, the [...]

The THUD Factor – How to Boost Sales by Re-Packaging Your Product in a Smarter Way

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Read more about Checkout Design, Website Optimization

This is a short tip but a powerful one.
Let's say you're selling a 300 page on Mexican Cookbook on your site. It contains a variety of recipes from beginner to advanced. You're selling this cookbook for $30.
Here's what you can do to immediately boost your profits.
Split Your Product in Two
Take that book and divide it [...]

Psychology and Ecommerce – How To Happily Marry Them

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Read more about Articles, Website Optimization

Every web site we build is optimized for 6 critical psychological triggers.
Use these triggers to inspire visitors to become leads and leads to become customers.
Note: With this power comes great responsibility.
It's the holidays, so we thought we'd share some of our strongest strategies with you.
There's a $474,500,000,000+ holiday pie to be split over the next [...]

The Paradox of Choice – Another Look

Friday, January 19th, 2007 Read more about Conversion Rate, Site Design, Website Optimization

There is an interesting discussion that we have been following and participating in regarding consumer choice.  There are two parts to this equation:
First, we have been living in an age where choice is exploding and the Internet further accelerated this trend.  That is why one of the top books on this topic is called: "The [...]