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Get Fast Usability Results

August 25th, 2009

Test usability and get fast results

After reading an article on improving conversions by Avinash Kaushik (this article is also full of free SEO and internet marketing tips) I decided to try out one of his suggestions – Five Second Test

The purpose of this usability testing tool is to find out what the users attention is draw to within the first 5 seconds they are on your website. This information could prove invaluable to increasing conversions and how users interact with your website.

If a user is not sure what the purpose of your website is then you should optimise the design of your site to increase visitor attention and conversions.

The process is simple:

  1. Take a screen shot of the web page that you wish to test
  2. Go to Five Second Test and register
  3. Upload your screen shot
  4. Send out the test link or you can wait for random users to stumble upon it using the ‘random test’ link on the homepage
  5. Gather feedback on your website

Tester’s are then presented with a screen telling them they have 5 seconds to look at the screen shot and remember what they see. Then a form appears with 5 fields – all the tester has to do is fill in what they remember about the website. This can be anything that the user decides – there are no right or wrong answers!

Here you can find the test that I set up earlier today:

http://fivesecondtest.com/test/jpOVGukN

Using the information that I gather here I plan to create variations of this web page and A/B split test those different variations to increase conversions.

I am in no way affiliated with Five Second Test – if you have experiences good or bad with this service please share your thoughts in the comments below. Thank you.

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Free SEO tips for all!

June 19th, 2009

Why start a blog?

To tell the truth, I’m not new to the blogging world. I’ve ran a couple of blogs before – one under this very domain name (architectwebdesign.co.uk) but the more I learn about the fast moving constantly changing world wide web it’s that people like free stuff! (OK, I kind of new that beforehand… Don’t need to be a genius or anything…)

So instead of marketing myself and services I offer on this site it’s going to be about free SEO tips and tricks that will be useful to me and other SEO’s using the search engines. There are examples of work I have done in the past and a contact form but its mostly all good!

You can find out more about me on the About page but right now all you need to know is:

  • This blog will have useful SEO information on it
  • I’ll try and keep the posts as consise and easy to read as possible
  • Feel free to share comments on the coming posts

Thanks for reading.

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