Thanks for the reply. It makes a bit more sense now. So, if I were to write two versions of the same sales page and add in the code from Google – if people click on the sales page visible, would some of them then be taken to the other sales page I’m testing?

All this testing stuff is awesome – I had no idea Google Optimizer even existed!

Christina

With that said, I was trying to edge you toward a paid product (affordable ebook or similar) that you could probably produce in a few days that would walk someone through an advanced setup in E-junkie with custom pages, integrating with Aweber and Google, etc.. I was thinking it was a solid “niche” product similar to what you are doing with your other businesses. I searched for it, it doesn’t exist (to the best of my knowledge), and it solves a specific problem that your existing target market has. I would gladly buy such an ebook if it delivered on those issues because it would easily save me a ton of time in figuring it all out myself. Does that make sense?

In other words, I was trying to be helpful – there was no criticism at all.

Again, I appreciate what you are doing whether you go for this product idea or not. I was just being a fan expressing an unmet need that could be the kernel for a niche product.

Hope that helps…

As far as the details, I understand what you’re saying, however if I went through all the details for everything I’m talking about, it would take me forever and a day. I do get into detail about many things that I go over, and add things that make life easier too (i.e. the Optimizer plugin I mention here), but I can’t possibly do it for everything, and usually there are clear instructions about how to do most of these things on the product or service’s website.

Regarding the thank you page for e-junkie, if you go to Edit Account Preferences, you can insert a URL under the thank you page area to override e-junkie’s default ty page.

Thanks for understanding. I’m just a one man show so i can only do so much, and I thought I was doing a lot already.

I saw how quickly you answered Christina’s question above, but I never heard back from you on my question earlier in July. Believe it or not, I’m still interested in your thoughts on the idea. It could be an ebook or some related product. Heck, I’ll even be your guinea pig to see if it is explained clear enough to implement.

What are your thoughts?

To answer your question, YOU still have to provide the traffic, but the tool will divide that traffic evenly between all of the versions of the page you want to test. If you don’t have any traffic, then the test won’t really work. How the tool does this – not quite sure but you do have to insert some code into each of the versions and the original and it does it ninja style for you. Hope this helps!

As you well know after combining your Leed Ebook and E-Junkie and Aweber together that there are some implementation details not discussed here that are easy to get stuck on. For example, changing e-junkie’s hosted thank you page to hosting on your own site so that you can place the optimizer code on the thank you page and combining all of that with getting your ebook buyers to opt-in to an Aweber list since E-junkie’s email capabilities are severely limited involves some complication.

In short, the devil is in the details and doing it right is more complex that it appears at first. Given you that you’ve already walked the talk, you could save us all a ton of headaches with a detailed post or mini-pdf instructing us with excruciating attention to detail.

Would you be open to sharing screen shots and exact implementation details of how you put these pieces together? It would be a great value-added piece as I’m not finding it elsewhere and could use the help (along with many of your other readers, I’m sure).

Thanks, Todd