AdSense Adds A/B Testing Capabilities For Ad Unit Settings

Today, Google announced a new AdSense experiments feature that allows publishers to run A/B tests on ad unit settings including ad types and ad styles such as borders and font colors. The feature is available within AdSense as part of Content Experiments. The “Traffic split” option at the bottom of the set-up page is checked […]

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    Today, Google announced a new AdSense experiments feature that allows publishers to run A/B tests on ad unit settings including ad types and ad styles such as borders and font colors. The feature is available within AdSense as part of Content Experiments.

    Googe AdSense A-B experiments for ad unit settingsThe “Traffic split” option at the bottom of the set-up page is checked by default. When checked, Google will automatically optimize the traffic split between the two ad settings using a multi-armed bandit approach. The ad setting that is performing better (has a better click-through rate) will be served more often.

    Roughly 24 hours after launching a test, Google will display a confidence score indicating the statistical significance of the results. Google suggests waiting to reach 95% confidence before declaring a winner.

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    Ginny Marvin

    Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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