On 1/9/13 2:53 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Rob, >>> >>> How should I send the zip to you? I finished four placements, we can create >>> more variations on the wording, it's a simple change. >>> >> >> If it is less than 25MB, you can mail it to me directly. >> > > A quick update for the team: Samer and I worked offline to get his > design variations for the download page integrated. So the content > experiment is now up and running and we'll know in a couple of weeks > which version gives the greatest rate of sharing via Facebook, Google+ > and Twitter. > > I'd rather not make public the exact URL's for the variations, since > visiting those pages directly could distort the statistics being > gathered, but if you visit http://www.openoffice.org/download you will > probably be shown one of the variations with the social sharing icons. > > Currently we're seeing a "conversion rate" of around 0.1%, meaning > 0.1% of visitors to the page share their excitement with their social > network. Since we get around 100K downloads/day, that amounts to > around 100 shares per day. And if each person has 100 people in their > social network, that gives us 10,000 impressions per day, which is > some nice free advertising. To put that in perspective, 10,000 is > greater than the size of our Twitter, Facebook and Google+ subscriber > lists combined. Plus, the nature of the sharing is that the post will > come from someone familiar, since it is shared within a social > network. So the impact is that much greater. > > The point of this "content experiment" is to find the design that > gives the highest conversion rate. This is the first step. We might > do additional variations later as well. > > In any case, thanks to Samer for his contributions over the holidays! >
... too fast thanks for sharing, very interesting but I don't see any sharing icons when following the link Juergen
