{"id":86356,"date":"2017-12-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/?p=86356"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:28:15","slug":"google-optimise-makes-ab-testing-free-smartinsights-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/conversion-optimisation\/ab-multivariate-testing\/google-optimise-makes-ab-testing-free-smartinsights-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Optimize makes A\/B testing free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google puts A\/B testing tools at everyone's fingertips by making it's Google Optimize\u00a0product free<\/h2>\n

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but since it launched out of beta in March 2017, there's a free CRO package that gives you the ability to run A\/B tests across your site. Almost half of smaller businesses don't currently utilize A\/B testing, which will mean they're potentially losing vast sums compared to\u00a0the revenue they could have been generating had they engaged in CRO.<\/p>\n

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How to do AB tests with Google Optimize<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Quick Win explores what AB testing is, and what process you should use to build a test. We will cover some ideas on what<\/em> you could test, as well as working out where<\/em> to focus your attention, hint, don\u2019t just jump to say your homepage, you may want to test somewhere else that will give you a bigger impact.<\/p>\n

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That's why this free tool is so powerful. It opens up the possibility\u00a0of A\/B testing to all players, regardless of size. Whilst currently there is a divide between larger businesses able to afford to use a paid A\/B testing tool like convert.com<\/a>\u00a0(which is a great tool) and smaller business unable to use these tools because of their cost, this free tool from Google will allow all businesses to optimize their conversion rate.<\/p>\n

The tool in question is Google Optimize<\/a>, which was previously part of Google's enterprise testing and personalized service called Google Optimize 360<\/a>. Google Optimize provides users with many of the features of Google Optimize 360, but without the enterprise level price tag.<\/p>\n

The optimize\u00a0visual editor allows for quick and easy edits via drag and drop, and if you need to it's easy to go into the raw HTML.<\/p>\n

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Google Optimize also lets you show personalized content to different users based on given rules, so you can start targeting prospects with the most relevant content for them. Again this is nothing new but it is the first time businesses have been able to use this kind of technology for free, opening it up to a whole host of smaller businesses.<\/p>\n

The tool also crunches the numbers for you to make it clear which tests are winning, which is great if you don't have a good grasp of statistics so would struggle to work what passes the threshold for a test to be statistically significant.<\/p>\n

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You can review how tests are performing and see which are meeting the winning criteria in the reporting tab. If you want to set started with Google Optimize for your businesses you can find out more here by taking our 'How to do A\/B Tests with Google Optimize<\/a>' Quick Win.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are limitations with the free version of Google Optimize compared to Google Optimize 360 which is a\u00a0paid service for Google's enterprise clients. The most important is that there is a limit of 3 simultaneous experiments. But that's sufficient to get most small businesses started. Read the comparison table for Optimize vs Optimize 360<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n

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