It all started with a simple tweet from Elon Musk announcing that he acquired x.com.

Danny Sullivan responded with a light-hearted tweet about what ranks for x at this point.

Things would have stopped at this until Chris Portscheller‏ injected himself into the conversation, dismissing the value of SEO when it comes to ranking.

It is surprising how some developers and UXers are still wrapping their heads around the benefits of SEO and the value it provides in building brands.
Equal to that is the lack of basic understanding of CRO and its principals most SEOs …

As interest grows in conversion optimization and A/B testing, marketers are always searching for a new design that will generate significant uplifts in conversion rates. Because the majority of AB tests fail to produce any meaningful results, many marketers are too eager to declare a winner for a split test.

So, even in the few instances where a testing software declares a winner, there is a good chance that you merely identified a false positive.

How do you avoid that?

You start by having a good handle on A/B testing statistics to ensure that your data is collected and analyzed …

Did you know anywhere from 80% to 90% percent of A/B tests do not produce any significant results?

In fact:

Only 1 out of 8 A/B tests drive significant change.

Done incorrectly, some marketers have begun to question the value of A/B testing…

…their A/B test reports an uplift of 20% and yet, the increase reported by the AB testing software never seems to translate into improvements or profits.

The reason?

“Most winning A/B test results are illusory.” (Source: Qubit)

Furthermore, the majority of arguments that call for running A/A testing consider it a sanity check before you run …

Regardless to how many CRO case studies you read about companies increasing a website conversion rate by 200% or 300%, the reality is that CRO is difficult.

If it weren’t, then most websites would have conversion rates of 20 and the 30%.

But that is not the reality. The average website conversion rate still hovers around 3%.

The good news is, there is a lot of focus on conversions nowadays. I remember in the early days of Invesp, most CMOs did not know what conversion optimization even meant. Today, most established brands have dedicated CRO teams. Even the number of …

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The CRO industry have evolved tremendously over the last twelve years.

I still recall conversations we used to have with CMOs and VP of marketing at large online retailers trying to introduce them to conversion optimization.

We would first try to determine if they even knew what were even talking about (it was that new): “Have you considered CRO?”

The first response for the most part was, “CRO? You mean SEO. Yes, we are working on increasing traffic to our website.”

“No, I am not talking about SEO, I am talking CRO…conversion rate optimization. Increasing your website conversion rate.”