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Optin-Page / A-B Testing on Blog Home Page. How??

by AlexGoodall
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Any suggestions for a tool/plugin that will:

  • Make it easy to put an opt-in page (completely configurable - i.e. not dependent on the blog theme) as the home page of a WP blog,
and
  • Help with A-B (or more complex) testing for the opt-in page

Thanks in advance.


Alex
#blog #home #optinpage #page
  • Profile picture of the author cbrauer
    I don't really think I understand the question.

    If you do not want the first page or multiple pages dependent on your blog you can set up a home page and then add a blog to your website. The blog would be setup in a directory file on your main website. When you set up the wbsite just create a folder in the root directory named blog. when you set up wordpress it will ask where you want to install, just type in blog after the / in the wordpress setup.

    www.yourdomain.com main site

    www.yourdomain.com/blog

    Name the home page .index and if you want to test more than one page on your regular site you can have /index2 /index3 and so on.

    Just have a link to your blog someplace on the index pages so search engines will find it easily.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Not "dependent" on blog...? - maybe try my Any page is sales page guide below.

    Basically, it shows how to take any html file and make it a WP Page/template. Once there, you can set is as home page.

    For AB test, maybe WordPress › Google Website Optimizer for WordPress « WordPress Plugins
    (I know it was updated a year ago... but who knows, maybe it works)
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    • Profile picture of the author AlexGoodall
      cbrauer

      That's my default option, but I was looking at various tools/plugins that mame it easy to add optin-pages to a blog and was planning to use one of those.

      I was hoping to find someone that had gone one step further and combined A-B testing with such a tool.

      Istvan

      Your guide is excellent. Thanks for that.

      If I don't get any of those tools, I'll probably follow your guidance.

      I'll also look at GWOWP - thanks.


      But it's looking like the default option (a la cbrauer) is going to be the least hassel.

      Thanks guys

      Alex
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  • Profile picture of the author techvic
    AlexGoodall, I'm doing something similar to what you are asking on our company blog at Overcome Everything Inc

    We have a lightbox popup with an optin. Using Brian Terry's Optin Pop Advanced as the plugin. Optin Pop Advanced allows you to specify an external page where your popup copy is located. On this external page I have a Google Website Optimizer split test running.

    So the way it's working is Optin Pop Advanced serves up the external popup copy link, and Google Website Optimizer takes care of the split testing and tracking.

    It works great! The data is solid and we've steadily been improving our conversions.

    You could adjust the size of the popup to completely cover your blogs homepage if you want it to look like a front end page of your blog.

    The benefit of using the Optin Pop Advanced plugin is that I can specify how often the popup appears to visitors. I don't want it popping up all the time, that's just annoying. Once a day or once a week is better, keeps visitors happier too
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    • Profile picture of the author AlexGoodall
      techvic

      Thanks for the link to OptinPop - it looks like just the ticket.

      But why are you using Google Website Optimizer? The paid-for advanced version for Optinpop allows you to test multiple optin pop-ups.

      Did you not find that sufficient?

      Alex
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  • Profile picture of the author RussRuffino
    Alex,

    Optimize Press + Google Website Optimizer is what you want.

    R
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