Update, I've sent Rob Weir a zip with the experiment pages. I'll need to touch base with Rob in a few business days. When its set up we can place friendly bets on what we think will win.
There are 4 experiments, here they are merged together in a single screen capture: * Note this is screen cap from a working copy on my desktop, icons/background images are not displayed. Hosted copies might look a little different. [image: Inline image 1] I think #1 will win. Which ever one between 2 & 3 gets more, we might integrate into the site's template for the rest of the website. Samer Mansour On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Starting a separate thread for integrating a 'Like Us' area into our > > website templates. > > > > The Experiment scope would be the home page, to provide users the ability > > to: > > - Follow Us on Twitter > > - Like Us on Facebook > > - Follow Us on Google+ > > > > This will improve the number of people reached when we communicate > through > > these relatively new streams of communication we have set up. > > > > I will draw up some placements of the 'Like Us' (html files) for the home > > page for another google experiment. I can have this done within a week. > > > > Great. > > A few things I learned from the last experiment: > > 1) It is OK to track the events with the social network as the > "label", e..g, _gaq.push(['_trackEvent','social', 'shareDownload', > 'facebook']); When we set up the experiment we can tell it count > all "shareDownload" actions the same. This also gives us a little > more information. > > 2) I heard from some users who were confused by the weird URLs they > were directed to. So we might keep it more generic, like > index1-passthru.html, index2-passthru.html, etc. > > 3) Google runs the experiment to see which variation is better than > the control. But the control is the current page as it is today. > With the last experiment the default page had no social sharing on it. > So tracking progress was a little bit weird. I'm not sure what we > can do about that, except be aware of it. > > > What we learn from this google experiment we would integrate into the > > templates elsewhere on the site(s). > > > > Yes. I'm looking forward to this. > > -Rob > > > Samer Mansour >
