Why Is It Important To Split Test

By Justin Harrison

Split testing is essential to be performed on the online businesses, and it is one of the lesser known areas of testing, which sounds more like Greek and Latin to others. In case, you happen to be one of them, who isn't really familiar with the term split testing, let us try to understand what split testing is really all about, with the help of a life real life example.

Since the term split testing isn't so self-explanatory, let's try to analyze its actual meaning and relevance to the business with the help of a simple example. Considering that you own a local retail showroom that sells electronic items such as microwave ovens, you can adopt vivid kinds of sales and marketing strategies, such as impressing the customers with your live demo of the product, educating them about its benefits, and there are other venues to do the same.

However, the same concept doesn't apply to the sale of same oven online, as the ways in which, you interact with the customer greatly varies, and you might not be able to make use of your customer-interactions skills in an ecommerce shop. Therefore, when the discussion boils down to online activities, a completely new approach needs to be adopted for sure. There's no comparison between these two approaches of sales, so no split testing can be carried out on these two ways, but split testing can be done individually in both the ways to closely monitor the areas of improvements in both these approaches independently.

Now, when you consider an online store that sells oven, the overall concept remains the same, but the way in which, you may sell the oven online in an ecommerce store rather than a conventional shop, would vary drastically, hence an altogether different strategy needs to be adopted. Split testing can be done separately for both the ways of generating revenues, but the whole point of performing split testing in focusing on the minute details of an approach rather than comparing two different ways of a campaign.

The split testing is all about testing two splits separately, both of which, vary from each other in minor ways. It essentially means that end up comparing even the minutest details, and learn to incorporate the changes that are beneficial. Split testing essentially concentrates on the lesser-noticeable aspects of an online business, which are otherwise hard to get noticed by anyone, resulting in a considerable loss in revenues.

Remember, getting a flawless product is all about continuous improvement, and split testing helps you to approach that nearly-flawless product within a short span of time. Even running the best advertising campaign is a part of the strategy, and overall marketing plan, so paying attention to the most successful ad formats may be worth your time. These small things can surely make a big difference as a whole.

The business that you do online either succeeds or fails miserably, based on the split test you take. Apart from the working and the results of its working, internet gives you very little information. By doing a split test effectively, the results can be effective. Your pages on the web will be more effective when you do your split test for what it is really intended for. - 32621

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Split Testing Explained

By Scott McKenzie

Simple language differences and tiny changes in presentation can be the difference between an extremely effective marketing campaign that nets you millions and a complete and utter failure.The Internet marketing world is a world of subtlety.

Because these changes are so small, it is often difficult to tell what it is you need to change in order to have a more effective marketing strategy. That is where the idea of split testing comes in.

Split testing is a sales tactic that tests two different sales pages, keywords, PPC copy and other online sales tools using an equal number of impressions/views to see which one converts more effectively. It is one of the few research tools that an Internet marketer has at their disposal that actually guarantees more conversions " rather than simply implying that more conversions are supposed to occur.

Here is an example: Imagine that you are buying advertisements through Google adwords in hopes that you will be able to maximize your hits per day. Start two ads at equal rates and put small differences in them. Add something subtle to one such as "money back guarantee" and leave the other one as it is.

Allow your advertising campaign to run for a short period of time, then evaluate the results to see which one was the first to reach 40 or 50 clicks. That particular ad should be considered your best. Split testing will tell you that for example, money back guarantee type advertisements got you the most clicks. Naturally then you will want to go with that, however, where in the ad would the line be most effective? Try again now by placing the line at the beginning and the end and then compare your results once more.

When you have completed this, you will have your highest preforming ad. This technique can also be used for sales copy, newsletters or anything that will increase your conversations. Some people rotate their sales pages using software and see which one gets the most sales. Through this they will eventually find the perfect sales copy. It will have a high enough conversion rate to almost guarantee success in internet marketing.

Internet marketing is still in an infant stage and much of what has been learned has been through personal stories, not science. Split testing uses large sample sizes to ensure the methods of advertising you are using is the most efficient way to garner sales. They use this science to guarantee the advertising campaign gives you the best conversion rate possible.

Because of this, it is those marketers that are willing to use Split testing that tend to have the most success in the field. In many ways, the best marketers never stop split testing, as they continue to look for the pinnacle of ad copy in an ever changing online world.Split testing is one of the few effective research tools that you can use on your own work. - 32621

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