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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.

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A/B testing alternatives for low-traffic websites

ConversionXL

In a world where A/B tests are done by over 70% of online businesses , choosing not to follow a data-driven methodology to make informed decisions on website changes might seem unreasonable. Or if your management refuses to justify the costs of A/B testing? Alternatives to A/B testing for low-traffic sites.

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How to Segment A/B Test Results to Find Gold

ConversionXL

You run an A/B test , and it’s a winner. Does it mean that the treatments that you tested didn’t resonate with anyone? If you target all visitors with the A/B test, it merely reports overall results – and ignores what happens in a portion of your traffic, in segments. Your users are different.

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PXL: A Better Way to Prioritize Your A/B Tests

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If you’re doing it right, you probably have a large list of A/B testing ideas in your pipeline. We can’t test everything at once, and we all have a limited amount of traffic. You should have a way to prioritize all these ideas in a way that gets you to test the highest potential ideas first. Add it as a variable.

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Reminder – Google Optimize sunsets this weekend

Search Engine Land

This means you will no longer be able to create or edit experiments, personalizations, or view experiment reports after this date. However, you will still be able to run A/B tests in Google Analytics 4. Be sure to download it from the Optimize user interface before September 30. Testing in GA4. Why we care.

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How 8 Different A/B Testing Tools Affect Site Speed (Original Study)

ConversionXL

But A/B testing tools actually may slow down your site. We researched 8 different testing tools to show how your site performance is affected by each one. That was before implementing an A/B testing tool. After implementing the testing (according to the vendor’s best practices), the score dropped 12 points.

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9 things to do when SEO is great but sales and leads are terrible

Search Engine Land

Improve your site’s user experience (UX) UX and SEO have been talked about for years and are intrinsically linked, but many sites still haven’t spent time improving UX. You can, and should, test your site’s user experience from an unbiased source. Test, refine and test again. Run the test.