Are you using at.js or mbox.js for your implementation? A4T only works
with at.js 0.9.6 or later, not with mbox.js. Also, have you looked in
Target to see what numbers it is reporting? I would check Target to see
what it is reporting and see if its more accurate than A4T.If Target is
correct, then most likely this is only a reporting issue, not an issue
splitting traffic. In other words, its quite possible that your test is
running correctly and splitting traffic correctly, but its just
reportin...
We probably should have started with reporting. Where are you looking at
reporting? In A4T(Analytics) or in Target? The error you are getting is
telling you that its a reporting error and not a splitting traffic
error. So people can still get into the experience, but it will report
wrong in A4T if you are on an older version of at.js. Do you know what
version you are on? And have you checked to see what Target is
reporting?
A couple of thoughts.How much traffic are you talking about here? Can
you give us some actual numbers? Sometimes with small volumes of traffic
the split takes a bit of time to even out, even though it shouldn't.Do
you have any other audience segments set up? Sometimes audience segments
can cause strange splits.
I've noticed that sometimes I get stuck in other previews that I was
working on causing the current preview not to render correctly. So I
usually clear the preview and it often clears things up. Then go back to
the current preview. To clear it you just need the blank url parameter
?at_preview_token= with nothing after the equals sign. I also wrote some
javascript that you can bookmark in your browser that will clear if for
you. Here's a link to the code for the bookmark. How to Clear Adobe
Targe...
All of the implementations that I have seen through Angular have always
been very difficult and we have struggled to get them to work right. It
usually takes a more custom integration because of the way Angular
loads.
Yes, you are correct. Exp B will basically have two experiences in it.
One for each audience. Within visual experience composer, you can select
the audience and then create an experience specifically for them. Go
into Audiences first and set up your two audiences based on GEO. Then
add those to the test.I don't think I would use auto-allocate. That just
starts to show the new visitors the better performing exp. I would just
leave it at manual 50/50. What that will do is make it so that 50% of
yo...
On the first scenario, you are correct. This is probably your best
option.For the second, it gets a little complicated. You could run
multiple tests on the same page but to different audiences. The audience
keeps them from being in both tests. So you would have to take care to
make sure that your audiences don't overlap. It can get a little messy
if you're not careful. But it can also be effective for certain
situations.
You basically have two options to set this up.1. You can set this up
using the visual experience composer. It will be structured a little
different than what you are describing. Basically you will have two
experiences with two audiences. Since its a test, Target wants to test
each experience against the same audience. So its not possible to set it
up as an experience with an audience vs a different experience with a
different audience. It wouldn't be a fair apples to apples comparison.
It would ...
Can you give a little more info? What do you mean, "they are stuck on
this being an A/B"? What is the push back you are getting? What are
their concerns? Is there an internal debate on the validity of
personalization?A couple thoughts here.Define your goal. It doesn't
sound like everyone is on the same page as far as what they goal for
this test is. Its key to get everyone on the same page with the same
goal before testing. The goal should define the test.Personalization can
be tricky. It may be...
When comparing two different reports, its important to make sure that
you are comparing apples to apples. In other words, for the two reports
that you are looking at, make sure that you are looking at the same
segments, audience and that its a true comparison. You said Page
Reports. Are you just looking at the page report? Meaning, are you
looking at all traffic to those pages? Or are you looking at a Target
Activities report that would show the visitors in the test. My point is
that if you are ...
How in Analytics are you reporting the test? Are you using A4T? If you
are using A4T, then you have to be using the at.js implementation of
Target. Otherwise you may have problems reporting in Analytics. Have a
look at the link
below.https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/target/a4t/c_a4t-faq-redirect-offers.html
Are you running this as an A/B test? Or are you just looking for
Tracking? Also, do you have Adobe Analytics? If you do, Analytics is the
way to go, for both testing reporting and for tracking events like this.
If you have Analytics, I would look in to A4T (Analytics for Target). If
not, then let me know and I will offer some other suggestions.
I typically don't use Adobe Analytics segments for audience targeting in
Target because, as noted above, there is a latency. Analytics segments
are better for reporting and for looking at was has happened. You are
better off building audience segments in Target for your testing as they
are more real time and better for targeting incoming traffic.
I don't think it updates straight away to Target when you update a rule.
It seems like DTM has to have actual users firing the rule and reporting
back to Target. Once the rule is sending data, then Target recognizes
this new data and makes it visible as an option. So you may just have to
wait an hour or two for it to start reporting data. Then you should see
it.
To clarify, there is a difference between path and URL. URL is the full
URL including the domain. So in this case the URL is https://site.com/a.
The path however, does not include the domain. So the path here is just
/a. So it would be incorrect to use path equals http://site.com/a.I
prefer to use URL because we run Target on more than one domain and I
need to specify which domain the test is running on. Also, I don't find
the "equals" evaluator to behave exactly as I would expect it would. It
i...
I use a lot of jquery in my tests. In fact, most of my tests require
jquery in order to test out the things I want to do. I find it hard to
tests things that will cause a significant lift if I am just changing
simple things through images or html.I am not sure what you mean by a
targeted page and a regular page. Could you explain more?
One correction I wanted to add to my code. You don't want the exit pop
to pop up over and over again. So I added a variable so that it only
pops once.Here is the updated code.var mouseOut =
0;$(document).mouseleave(function () { if(mouseOut==0){ //your action
code goes here $( "#exitPop" ).show(); $( "#exitPopBackground" ).show();
mouseOut = 1; }});
There isn't a built in way in Target to do this, but you can do it
through jquery. I prefer a method that doesn't block the user from
closing the browser window. While you could try and tie the popup
directly to the click to close the window, this is spammy and not a good
practice.What I recommend is using the jquery mouseleave function. What
this function does is detect when the user's mouse has left the browser
window. We are making the assumption that they have left the window
because they ar...
Have you looked into Analytics for Target also called A4T? This allows
reporting of mbox and Target activity in Adobe Analytics. It is my
preferred method for reporting all Target data.Adobe Analytics as the
Reporting Source for Adobe Target (A4T) As far as the session goes, I am
not sure that you will be able to fire an event based on session
timeouts. Analytics sessions time out when a user has been inactive for
30 minutes, usually because their browser has been closed. Since the
browser is cl...
Yes, it is very possible. In fact it is highly likely because Target
will display the Test anywhere that matches your Audience refinement and
filtering.Did you use the Visual experience composer? Or Form based? If
you used the visual composer, then you had to put in a URL and Target
should only display the test on that URL.If you used form, then you will
need to make sure to add Audience refinements. Its right below where you
select the mbox targeting.I would recommend downloading and installing...
I never did hear back. I can't say for sure it was a bug, but Adobe did
make an update that a month ago that cleared it up. I think you posted
an update in the forum about it. Adobe Target September 14th Release
Notes
Personally, I don't' think that I would send something as specific as an
account number to target. The reason being, you might have millions of
users and account numbers and this could be very cumbersome to manage.
And Target won't be good at managing something so specific. You could
create an audience and within the audience list each account number.
Each line/return is considered an or statement, but again this isn't a
good practice and is difficult to manage with something that could have
lot...
Possible problem you may have with DTM.You can set it up in the DTM
interface so that it passes parameters from the datalayer through DTM to
the mbox. However, there can be a problem that causes the mbox parameter
to be empty. The problem with most implementations, is that Target loads
at the top of the page before the datalayer loads. Which means that when
Target loads, the datalayer isn't yet available. So even though you did
it correctly in DTM, you will get an empty value. I have written mor...
I believe it counts any pageview anywhere an mbox fires, regardless if
there is an activity running or not. For the 3rd party pixel, I would
check with your account rep and have them monitor the pageviews and see
if an additional mbox call will count against you.
I have never seen any reporting on how many page views an account has
used in a given time period directly in Target. They only way I have
seen a report like this was by contacting my account rep. Somehow they
can look it up. And really, the only time the number of page views we
had used was ever really brought up was when we went to renew our
contract. They used the previous years page views to outline the cost
for the renewal.
Have you used the Preview Experience links before? From the main list of
activities, click on your activity. On the overview tab, a little down
the page on the left side will be a blue link that says "Preview
Experiences". Click on this and it will open a popup. From the popup,
add a url to the page that you want to QA. It will then generate a link
for each experience. You will then be able to click a preview link and
do your QA. Please note that these are temporary links. If you make
changes to...
