Within the industry it's commonly referred to as the "smell test" – basically you know if something stinks. It's astonishing how often a potential client contacts me about link building for their site, only to discover their site isn't anywhere...
Test the Developers The developer had numerous themes so decided to purchase another just to test and turned out that the same rookie mistakes were being adopted in both themes. One Simple Test Trust the WordPress Directory
Google has some impressive numbers coming out of what seems to be the beta test of this product with a limited number of Google Merchant Center users. Good news for Google advertisers looking to expand their advertising performance with dynamic...
And even if you get it wrong at first, you can always (and should always) test different offers to find the one that performs the best. But if you're only goal is links, you really aren't harnessing the full ROI potential of your assets and likely...
Then, marketers should test these new approaches to video-sharing before adding one or both to their marketing mix. Evaluate Vines: Advertisers can use Unruly ShareRank™ to test the ‘shareability' of their Vines pre and post launch;
The Google Local Carousel beta test that we saw last month is now rolling out to all U.S.users, Google announced. While the carousel has been used on tablet devices since December 2012, the carousel style results being available on a desktop is a...
My agency recently completed a co-exposure test to better understand the impact on keyword synergies. The test revealed a 200 percent increase in conversions when we had both paid and organic listings on the page.
It's going to take some time to rollout and test and ramp up and there might be a few cases where people might not be able to get an example but for the most part we are going to try to provide more and more information over time so that...
Even if a small percentage of users test Twitter ads or tell others about Twitter advertising, it would be a net win for Twitter, particularly since Twitter has seemed to struggle a bit in getting advertisers on board with their fairly new ad system.
According to Microsoft internal data from this test period, financial services advertisers with Sitelink Extensions saw an average 23 percent higher CTR than with standard text ads. It covered more than 300 million ad impressions over a 30-day...
Google’s advice on properly configuring your mobile site: “Try to test your site on as many different mobile devices and operating systems, or their emulators, as possible. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking...
Visitors will also be able to test the shareability of their own campaigns using Unruly ShareRank, an algorithm-based tool which uses over 100,000 data points to predict the number of shares a video will attract, before it is even launched...
Using the Content Experiments API, you are able to test content without using redirects. With the new Content Experiments API, developers can now run tests server-side to test experimentations with different page-dependent elements like a database...
Google's Labs are where they test new features that are still being refined. The most obvious is Google Analytics, which offers an in-depth analytics suite to help even the most basic user understand and improve traffic to their website.
If you can split test your way to doubling your click-through rate (CTR), all of a sudden that keyword could be worth almost twice as much as it was before. If you split test landing pages and double your conversion rate, the keyword has become...
In one recent test, Cyrus Shepherd disavowed every link to his website and saw no effect (initially). It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013. In the aftermath of that rollout, webmasters that were affected are now...
In addition, you can use regex to test for the presence of content on a webpage as Deep Crawl traverses a website. But since this is cloud-based, and the heavy lifting will be completed by Deep Crawl's servers, you don't have to shy away from large...
utm_source=searchenginewatch&utm_medium=unsolicited+news+article&utm_content=irrelevant+analytics+article&utm_campaign=test cid=blog:searchenginewatch:test-campaign-value One of the biggest challenges a marketer faces when trying to accurately...
I'm championing to get it launched in the UK on a test basis with a few retailers later this year," he said. Google is looking to bring its Trusted Stores program to the UK later this year. The Trusted Stores program allows retailers to display a...
Brands will want to strategically evaluate options, test the model and compare to benefits of maintaining ownership of transactional and relationship data when determining what will be managed on the social platform and what is best managed on the...
