A/B Split testing

A/B Split testing (or A/B Testing) is a marketing term which describes testing two variations of a marketing message on customers to determine which message is more effective in producing Conversion Actions by customers.

The "A" and "B" refer to the two marketing messages or designs.

1. 1. Mechanism ##

When a visitor comes to a website, the site implements a means to divide visitors into one or more groups (The "A" group, the "B" group, etc.) ConversionRuler customers can download a script to do this (available in [[PHP}] or ASP - ask for other implementations). Best case scenario to to divide traffic equally between both sources. Typically the "division" can be handled by a redirect to another set of pages.

When splitting traffic:

• Do so equally, or consistently, to be able to compare leads to conversions.
• Pages should have analogous "conversion points" - meaning you should not have one page have a "Buy Now" button and another lead to a dead end, for example
• Conversion Tracking should be installed on each page, and pages should record differently

1. 1. Analyzing Results ##

The larger your sample size for A/B Testing, the better results you will get. When your Conversion Tracking software runs a report, you should be able to get something like:

Test	Landings	Orders	Amount
A	1023	56	$394.32
B	1021	32	$561.44

In this case, you can see that Test A had more conversions, but had a lower revenue totals. Depending on the value of return customers for a campaign, marketers can make a decision based on the effectiveness of each message and the desired result to maximize profit.