Running a campaign on multiple pages

You can run A/B or MVT campaigns across multiple pages of your website. You may want to run a multi-page test if the objects you wish to change appear across multiple pages, such as menus, navigation panels, and headers or footers.

To configure a campaign element to run across multiple pages you would need to update your element's shared pages or URLs.

Shared pages

Shared pages in Campaign Designer (CD) allow you to simplify campaign setup and management.

You can use shared pages if:

• You find yourself adding the same set of URLs or URL masks when configuring elements, actions, or scripts in CD campaigns.
• Your site has a logical structure which supports multiple URL schemas. For example, the site has a registration page which can be reached by different URLs such as the following:
  • http://demo-doc-site.com/register
  • http://demo-doc-site.com/register.php
  • http://demo-doc-site.com/new-user/register
• Your site URL schema changes frequently and when this happens you need to update URLs or URL masks in all active or implementing CD campaigns.

Shared pages can help resolve such problems by defining a small set of URL rule sets (shared pages) and then reusing them in all CD campaigns on site.

To test a global change using shared pages:

1. First you will need to create shared pages in Maxymiser UI, by navigating to Site Settings and then Site Pages. For detailed instructions, see Adding a site page.
2. Now you can map shared pages to campaign elements, actions, or scripts.
3. When you are in Campaign Designer's Content tab, you can add URLs to elements, actions, or scripts using one of the following ways:
   • For elements, click the URLs button beside the address bar.

   

   • For actions and scripts, click the Actions button. Under the URLs tab, click the Add URLs icon.

   

4. On the right panel, click the + icon, and select Insert Pages.



A list of shared pages will appear.

Tip: If you have many pages, you can filter them by name.



5. Click to expand and see the preview URL and URL masks that have been defined for the shared page.



6. Select the shared page name that you want to map and click Done.



7. Once the shared page has been mapped, you can also set it as the preview URL by hovering over the added page and clicking Set as Preview URL.

URLs

To test a global change using URLs:

1. Select the element or one of its variants.
2. Navigate to the URLs tab.
3. Include or Exclude URLs for this element using the URL pattern.

Wildcard matching

If your test runs across a common set of pages, such as the following:

• http://example.com/products/1.html
• http://example.com/products/2.html
• http://example.com/products/3.html

You can use an asterisk (*) to wildcard match URLs:

• http://example.com/products/*.html

Query string parameters

To support query string parameters, wildcards are automatically added to URLs after you make visual changes. If you would like to manually edit these URLs, you can customize URLs in the list. For example: http*://example.com/products/*.html?* matches HTTP and HTTPS, as well as https://example.com/products/1.html?utm_campaign=paid. You also need http*://example.com/products/*.html to include URLs which do not contain a query string.