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Archive for October, 2006

Headline Writing Tip: Put a Powerful Quote in Your Subheadline

Monday, October 30th, 2006 Read more about Copywriting, Headlines

Over the past few weeks I have been running lots of split testing trying to find just the right way to use quotes and testimonials in our squeeze pages.  It turns out that it is a lot more tricky than you might think.
My first hunch was that any testimonial anywhere on the page would work […]

Copywriting Tip: Keep Rotating Your Headlines

Monday, October 30th, 2006 Read more about Articles, Copywriting, Headlines

It is all too easy to just stop testing. After all, running split test after split test can get pretty tiresome. However, that gives all of us that have a passion for metrics and testing a huge leg up because it is a proven way to leave your competitors behind.
Here is another example […]

Google AdWords Tip: Using Emotions is a Double Edged Sword

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 Read more about Articles, Copywriting, Google AdWords Tips

One of the things that I enjoy the most in writing my Google AdWords ads is to test different adjectives to elicit an emotional response from the Google visitors. I find it fascinating that changing one word can have radically different results.
In a way, writing ads for Google AdWords clearly shows that words truly […]

Landing Page Optimization Tip: Readability Can Impact Conversion Rates by 50%

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Read more about Articles, Copywriting, ClickMuse Tests, Landing Page Optimization

How much difference does improving the readability of your copy really make?
We tested two identical versions of our landing page… with one exception. In the winning version we had our introductory sentence neatly fitted in a block. It looks almost like a paragraph except that it is just one sentence. In the […]

Landing Page Optimization Tip: How We Boosted The Conversion Rate By 31% in less than a minute

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 Read more about Articles, ClickMuse Tests, Landing Page Optimization, Conversion Rate

What I am going to reveal below borders on being unbelievable.  I recently conducted an A/B test on one of our landing pages where all I tested was the capitalization of the first few bullet points.  I am not talking about the headline but just the introduction of the main copy on our landing page.
I […]