Comments on: Impact of A/B testing on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

By: Nixan

Nixan — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:02:48 +0000

Ok, missed that.

By: Siddharth Deswal @ Wingify

Siddharth Deswal @ Wingify — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:00:13 +0000

Nixan,

We were aware of the link but forgot to update this post. A note has been added in the end.

Thanks for pointing it out.

By: Nixan

Nixan — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:44:17 +0000

@Paras: you might want to look at this:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2012/08/website-testing-google-search.html

By: Paras Chopra

Paras Chopra — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:46:09 +0000

@Modesto: thanks for pitching in. Yep, rel=”canonical” is a great option for split URL testing. Do you have any link where they suggest noindex shouldn’t be used? It is quite likely that my advice could have gotten a little stale, so I would update article if there are any wrong facts.

By: Modesto

Modesto — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:54:06 +0000

Paras,

I appreciate that you wrote the article in 2010 but I think that some of the statements you’ve made are a bit bold and need to be updated.

Google recommends adding a rel=”canonical” to all variations pointing back to the original URL. They also don’t recommend the noindex option.

You should also mention the use of 302 redirects as opposed to 301 redirects that can cause havoc.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:18:14 +0000

Great post, learned a new thing today.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:29:49 +0000

Should we worry that page load speed could be negatively affected by adding the VWO test Javascript to the page? Especially if it does not load asynchronously or requires a redirect?

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