Google Adwords Offered to Redesign My Website & A/B Test... Thoughts?
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I received a call from the Google Adwords team today offering to redesign major pages of my website & A/B test their design against mine.
The rep said that this is not a standard service they offer and that we had been "selected".
Despite it's overt marketing overtones, I would hate to pass by the opportunity to apply Google's conversion insight to my site.
Has anyone experienced this before? Good experience? Bad experience?
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It's Google.
I've worked with the AdWords team before and they are verifying/accessing back end AdWords & Analytics data that only they would have access to.
Still curious though... has anyone ever taken them up on something like this? Did you have a good result?
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I strongly agree. These guys call me a lot.
When google calls they use the word "google" once - and without panache. When these guys call they use the word google multiple times in a way that bends the ear. Honest.
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Graham,
I would just verify that they are actually from Google. There are some firms out there that represent themselves as Google when they are not. So verify and then trust.
Ron
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Thank you for the insight Alex.
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Yup Google offers to help websites all the time. They've been known to reach out for everything from getting a publisher to help with beta test widgets or adsense to something more custom like this. I suggest you give them a try and see if it works for you.
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I do know that, occasionally, Google will be very helpful to individual webmasters.
If this is really a person from Google, I would grab the opportunity, because it might be very beneficial and lead to additional help in the future.
But, I would want to confirm that this really is google. Can you reverse look-up their number, or did they send you a follow-up message by email from a google address?
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