Author Tim Ferriss used Google AdWords to test click through rates for 6 different titles for his book after Wal-Mart vetoed his original title. In addition, he tested different book covers by planting variations in the new non-fiction section of a branch of Borders, observing reactions over a coffee.
Human Photos Double Your Conversion Rate
Using Visual Website Optimiser, Think Vitamin ran 2 tests to guage the effect of using human photos to improve conversion rates. In the second test, for example, using a photo of a person rather than a telephone icon on a contact page increased the conversion rate by 48%.
Bonus: ABtests.com
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Double Bonus: Publishing results as a link building tactic
The Basecamp example’s blog post has 41 linking root domains. The SEOmoz example on Conversion Rate Experts has 105 (or make that 106 once I’ve published this post). If you get interesting insights from your split testing, why not blog about it? Backlink analysis on some of the examples above should give you plenty of link targets.
Hope this post gives you some inspiration – let me know in the comments if you have any thoughts or further examples.
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