Trying again as attachment. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote:
> My mail client gmail is not displaying the image > > With Warm Regards > > V.Kadal Amutham > 919444360480 > 914422396480 > > > On 2 February 2013 10:07, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > >> > > > > >
