Google Adwords Offered to Redesign My Website & A/B Test... Thoughts?

[Glathrop]

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?

[Glathrop]

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?

[EGOL]

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.

[Ron_McCabe]

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

[Glathrop]

Thank you for the insight Alex.

[Anti-Alex]

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.

[EGOL]

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?