Website Testing – are website owners the only ones who don’t want to test?
Thursday, June 11th, 2009One of the most challenging parts of my job is to convince people of the importance of AB, multivariate, and usability testing on their website. Initially, most companies want to focus on getting traffic through SEO and Google Adwords.
For new sites this is understandable–you can’t do AB testing on sites with no traffic.
However, websites with traffic should start multivariate testing immediately. It doesn’t interfere with increasing traffic through SEO or PPC. And it can improve conversions significantly.
Dan Ariely wishes his nurses would have been open to testing procedures.
It is somewhat comforting to know that Internet marketing is not the only area where people are reluctant to test. At the end of Dan Ariely’s fascinating talk about cheating, he tries to convince everyone of the importance of testing by concluding, “Unless we test those intuitions we won’t make things better.”
