* Internet Marketing blog archive for September, 2010

 

Who’s Testing What #9 – www.writers.com – BUSTED!

writers.com

C’mon writers.com! Do you have 668,389 members (as you can see in the control version) or 754,454 (as per variation 1)? Or are you getting almost 100,000 registrations in 5 minutes (that long it took to compare the control version with variation 1).

Be careful when you test numbers. Someone can spot you (muhahah).

writing.com control version

writing.com control version

writing.com busted variation

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Paid Links and Google AdWords Policy Infringement

AdWords Policy

On Google webmaster is stated very clear that buying links is in violation with Google’s webmaster guidelines.
Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results. – http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66736
But then, on Google AdWords you can get a lot of ads for such services:

paid links companies in AdWords

Paid Links Companies Advertising on AdWords

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Who’s Testing What #8 – www.yapta.com

yapta.com

Here’s an online travel aggregator that is testing. Can you spot the difference?

Yapta Control Version

Yapta Control Version

Yapta.com Variation 1

Yapta.com Variation 1

Pitstop Media offers ROI based internet marketing services such as landing page testing services and … Continue Reading » Who’s Testing What #8 – www.yapta.com

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Google Analytics Hack – More Columns for Pivot Tables

Google Analytics Hack

This is an advanced hack for Google Analytics. Unfortunately it won’t help you hack into your competitors’ accounts ;) but will help you export more data from Google Analytics pivoted tables.

This is not the same hack as the exporting more than 500 columns of data from any report. That one was one of the most annoying things I fixed (to be read hacked) long time back.

You’ll need:

- Firefox

- … Continue Reading » Google Analytics Hack – More Columns for Pivot Tables

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