What Users Want: Using Internal Site Search for Prioritization
No matter what you do with your visitor data — no matter how good your analyst is, no matter how advanced your segments are, no matter how customized your reports end up being — it can't tell you what users want. Oh, the data can show you patterns that come close — funnel drop-offs for this type of intent, groups of pages accessed most for that other thing — but you still have to infer rather than analyze, and you're inferring against data with a lot of noise.
Tim Ash is the author of the bestselling book Landing Page Optimization, and CEO of SiteTuners. A computer scientist and cognitive scientist by education (his PhD studies were in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence), Tim has developed an expertise in user-centered design, persuasion and understanding online behavior, and landing page testing. In the mid-1990s he became one of the early pioneers in the discipline of website conversion rate optimization. Over the past 15 years, Tim has helped a number of major US and international brands to develop successful web-based initiatives. Companies like Google, Expedia, Kodak, eHarmony, Facebook, American Express, Canon, Nestle, Symantec, Intuit, AutoDesk and many others have benefitted from Tim's deep understanding and innovative perspective.
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