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Crystal Beasley . @skinny
a.k.a. “How To Improve Your
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Where am I?
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Where am I?
What content is related?
HOME
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bookmarks
HOME




bookmarks   crashes
HOME




bookmarks   crashes   privacy
making the buckets
determine top user tasks
What did users look for?
internal search analytics
What did they find?
incoming google terms
top visited pages
incoming google terms
top visited pages
group terms into clusters
the mismatches are gold
deep links
Is google finding
poor-quality pages?
Treejack testing
can users find the answer
do a baseline
improved wording
improved categories
improved wording
improved categories
test again
use exact same tasks and
wording each time
getting recruits
intercept visitors with Ethnio
direct traffic to any provider
pay incentives through
Ethnio
gotcha: allow 1+ dev cycle
to ship JS to prod

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