As a digital media agency, we hold ourselves accountable for the performance of our client’s digital marketing campaigns. Doing so involves adequately managing investments towards the best channels, audiences, creatives, bidding, and more from a campaign management perspective. One item commonly overlooked or underappreciated within digital campaigns is the role in which the destination of these campaigns plays.
What Exactly is Google Optimize?
Google Optimize is a free and excellent tool for landing page testing. Just as you can create and test the effectiveness of multiple ads within Google Ads, Google Optimize enables you to create multiple landing page variations to rotate.
Experiments or tests point visitors to different landing page variations you can either create within Optimize or your website’s CMS system.
How to Take Advantage of Google Optimize
Optimize acts somewhat like a mini CMS system in that you’re able to create copies of your landing pages and then alter them (edit headlines, body copy, form colors, button colors, move page elements up/down) for testing.
Regardless of how you create the test page, Optimize enables you to split traffic to these new iterations of your landing pages however you’d like (50/50, 60/40, 70/30). Optimize code typically resides in the header of your landing page code, acting as a traffic officer directing traffic however you would like.

How to Setup Google Optimize Landing Pages
Installation involves a minor code update to the header of your website code or via Google Tag Manager. After installation, you set up a test by choosing a control URL to test and then modifying that URL to create a test page or point to a different landing page URL.
Usually, tests come with hypotheses, such as We believe that by changing the button color of the “Add to Cart” button to green, we will draw more attention to this area and increase conversions.
After creating your test page(s), you can then activate the experiment and see how each page performs in terms of KPIs. When a visitor requests a page, Optimize code will direct visitors randomly to each page as set up within your test. You can also isolate tests to specific visitors, such as mobile devices only.
Google Optimize displays data on how the control and test page performs against KPIs while also adding statistically significant indications for tests. For example, Test Landing Page (B) converted 10% higher than the Control Landing Page (A) with 95% statistical significance or confidence level.
Depending on the level of traffic, experiments or tests can last anywhere from 2 weeks (high traffic) to 2 months (low traffic).
If a test page outperforms an existing website/landing page, the site owner will typically modify the control page to match the winning experience.
Optimize allows you to point 100% of traffic to the winning variation to maximize campaign/landing page performance until the control page is modified by a developer or updated to the winning version.
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Regardless of what you’re selling, Google Optimize is worth a test run to see how the tool can improve your landing page conversion rate and experience. If nothing else, it’s free to use!
If your team is interested in learning more about how Optimize can fit within your existing digital marketing initiatives, you can reach out to us at sales@leverinteractive.com. We’re more than happy to help you with your digital marketing needs.
Here’s additional info on how to get started:
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