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On November 14, 2010

How To Test Your Page Layout for Horizontal Attention

Jakob Nielsen’s group is at it again: more eye-tracking research!  We’ve blogged about Jakob’s findings before, and even questioned if they yield hard and fast rules for layout, so naturally we were intrigued to see his group has been crunching


On November 14, 2010

Another Late Stage Traffic Conversion Rate Improvement

My name is Melissa Burdon, I’m addicted to online testing, and if there were an “Online Testers Anonymous,” I am 99% certain my clients would not want me to get help! In my last post, I shared a test we


On November 14, 2010

The Power of Compounding Conversion Rate Increases

After reading my colleague Melissa Burdon’s last two posts about impressive testing wins with a client, I thought it would be fun to discuss the amazing financial gains that come to businesses that keep testing instead of assuming they’ve gotten


On November 14, 2010

Latest Details on Conversion Conference 2010

Welcome to a new week and a fresh start!  Another very short post to remind everyone who’s going to the Conversion Conference in San Jose: make sure to come say “Hi” in the ‘Newcomers Pavilion.’ Also, make sure to attend


On November 14, 2010

Five Tips to Avoid the Forever-Test

I have a recurring nightmare: I wake up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat, because I was having the nightmare about… “The Forever Test”! What’s the Forever Test, you ask?  It’s when you set up a


On November 14, 2010

Testing Woes 101: Lessons From a Messy Test

Anyone ever done testing on their website undoubtedly has run some poorly-designed experiments; that’s how we learn.  It’s easy to make subtle mistakes in the design of a test that cause “messy” results, but read on to learn how to


On November 14, 2010

Conversion Conference: The Training Wheels Are Off

Some Grok readers have been asking for a “wrap-up” post about the first ever Conversion Conference.  I won’t attempt any sort of journalistic ‘coverage’ of the session contents, since I was at our booth most of the time and only


On November 14, 2010

Don’t Let Customers Abandon Your Cart So Easily

One of the first things we look at in our analysis process of a site is the conversion funnel, whether it be a lead generation form, a shopping cart checkout, or otherwise.  This is the point at which the visitor