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How cognitive biases influence email A/B tests

Martech

Learning to recognize and avoid these biases will help you run more reliable, data-driven testing and generate insights you can use to create more engaging and effective email messages and a stronger program overall. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing. We’re all human, and nobody’s perfect.

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What is A/B Testing? The Complete Guide: From Beginner to Pro

ConversionXL

A/B testing splits traffic 50/50 between a control and a variation. A/B split testing is a new term for an old technique — controlled experimentation. Yet for all the content out there about it, people still test the wrong things and run A/B tests incorrectly. Table of contents What is A/B testing?

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How to Estimate a “Net Value” for Your A/B Testing Program

ConversionXL

In my experience, I find that teams and organizations report many winning A/B tests with high uplifts, but somehow they don’t seem to bring those uplifts in reality. Five types of A/B test “wins” can exaggerate discovered uplifts. These five types of winners show up in every experimentation program.

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Measuring marketing incrementality: Best of the MarTechBot

Martech

A/B testing (split testing): This is one of the most straightforward and effective methods for measuring incrementality. Multi-touch attribution (MTA): While not as precise as A/B testing, MTA models can help allocate credit to various marketing channels based on their contribution to conversions.

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Learn The ABCs of Email A/B Testing

Salesforce

These might seem like small choices, but they are things that email A/B testing can help you figure out. With email A/B testing, you get all the valuable data you need to improve your next round of outreach. What is email A/B testing? How does email A/B testing work? Which image is best?

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Multi-Armed Bandit: When to Do Bandit Tests Instead of A/B Tests

ConversionXL

First, let’s dive into bandit testing and talk a bit about the history of the N-armed bandit problem. What is bandit testing? The practical differences between A/B testing and bandit testing Explore-exploit Benefits of bandit testing A few flavors of bandit methodology Epsilon-greedy method What about other algorithms?

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A/B testing and SEO: How to navigate pitfalls and maximize results

Search Engine Land

A/B testing can be a great tool for enhancing website functionality, user experience and conversions. However, when done at an enterprise scale, A/B testing poses unique challenges that can inadvertently undermine a site’s SEO performance. This article examines the nuanced relationship between A/B testing and SEO.