Multivariate Testing w/ Affiliate Offers?

[Avalanche]

Anyone know of a way to do multivariate testing on affiliate offers when you can't get a conversion code or pixel placed on the merchant's landing page?

 

[johu]

Use a different Sub ID for each different page that it's sent to.

 

[Avalanche]

Okay, so let's say I'm testing

• 3 headlines
• 3 hero shots
• 3 diff color submit buttons

That would be 27 different subids all run together like the biggest A/B/etc. test ever. That would take a long, long time.

Those multivariate tools like adwords optimizer and the others use mathematical methods (guess it's calculus - 2 years of that and I don't remember a thing) to cut down on the number of tests. Since my volume and budget are relatively low, I want to squeeze as much out of these campaigns per dollar as possible.

Anyone know how to use those types of tools w/ aff marketing? What are the big dogs using?

 

[machinecontrol]

Taguchi.

 

[dsiomtw]

It's pretty hard to test anything when your volume and budget are low. Why not put forth the same amount of time and effort into something that you can scale?

 

[m0rtal]

If your budget is low why not just do A/B split testing?