Split testing the landing page

[Jon12345]

How do you split test your affiliate landing pages? Do you have your own script or have you bought one? When someone click's a link, do you have them go to an intermediate page for tracking before they get sent to the merchants page?

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Someone]

Send your clicks to this PHP script:

<?
if(rand(0,1) == 0) {
header("Location: http://www.example.com/split1");
} else {
header("Location: http://www.example.com/split2");
}
?>

After a significant amount of leads/sales, determine which page is the earned more. You'll need at least 15 to make any kind of valid determination (this is psuedo-statistics).

 

[waz67]

I'm a .net guy. I use a custom 404 handler and simple cms system which looks at the URL, extracts the page name, grabs all pages with that name in my cms and picks one at random. So when I create pages, if I want to do split testing of any number of pages, I just give them the same URL.

 

[Avalanche]

Google is running a beta of their free landing page optimizer if you can get in.

Website Optimizer - Adwords - Google

 

[bwb]

Google is running a beta of their free landing page optimizer if you can get in.

Website Optimizer - Adwords - Google

I haven't got my invite yet, what are your impressions of it and how does it work?

 

[Avalanche]

I haven't got my invite yet, what are your impressions of it and how does it work?

Still waiting on my invite - my company applied a month ago, and the company that just bought mine applied a couple weeks ago but no word on either. The beta must be pretty limited.

Google has a Demo video of the optimizer and this blog has a review with a bit more detail. One of the pics shows a taste of the stats.

 

[Mike]

Google is running a beta of their free landing page optimizer if you can get in.

Website Optimizer - Adwords - Google

I got a rejection letter. Basically says "We're full, check back later"