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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:59:43 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Website Optimization</title><subtitle>Website Optimization</subtitle><id>http://www.yourinternets.com/website-optimization/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.yourinternets.com/website-optimization/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.yourinternets.com/website-optimization/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-06-29T21:48:09Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Is Your Website Design Losing You Sales?</title><id>http://www.yourinternets.com/website-optimization/2009/1/19/is-your-website-design-losing-you-sales.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.yourinternets.com/website-optimization/2009/1/19/is-your-website-design-losing-you-sales.html"/><author><name>Malcolm Lambe</name></author><published>2009-01-19T13:03:32Z</published><updated>2009-01-19T13:03:32Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[You seen this? The new <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-over-your-site-using-wisdom-of.html">Google Website Optimizer</a>. <blockquote>Website Optimizer allows you to create multiple versions of your webpage (maybe one version with a red button and one with a blue) and evaluate which variation best meets your goals (whether that is sign-ups, purchases, or simply having visitors click to another page). The tool uses traffic data and advanced statistical formulas to figure out, according to your visitors, what makes your website the most useful.</blockquote>You put some javascript in your code, they track you and voila!. The winner of their contest was this Candle Site. The thumbnail on the right is before optimization - <span class="thumbnail-image-float-right ssNonEditable"><span><a href="javascript:showFullImage('/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=%2Fstorage%2FCandle1.jpg%3F__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION%3D1232370347631',446,410);"><img style="width: 150px;" src="http://www.yourinternets.com/storage/thumbnails/3156278-2387472-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1232370352359" alt=""/></a></span></span>and the second thumbnail is of the site after the Google Optimization team had a crack at it. They improved sales by 20% over a month adding another $20,000 to sales. Not bad huh? <span class="thumbnail-image-float-left ssNonEditable"><span><a href="javascript:showFullImage('/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=%2Fstorage%2FCandle2.jpg%3F__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION%3D1232370455777',676,594);"><img style="width: 150px;" src="http://www.yourinternets.com/storage/thumbnails/3156278-2387475-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1232370461819" alt=""/></a></span></span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XJT9TCqzw4U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XJT9TCqzw4U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

<p>The <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-over-your-site-using-wisdom-of.html">Google Blog</a> always has some interesting stuff.</p>
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