Behavioral Targeting

Behavioral targeting enables you to sense your visitors’ online behavior and instantly change your website, automatically delivering customized content designed to engage them.

• Create rules that define which content is displayed for which visitor segment
• Use our Visual Wizard to easily establish these rules by clicking on the relevant parts of a page and setting alternative content
• Pause and restart personalization rules whenever you like

Behavioral targeting main user interface

Note - Do not use more than one rule for the same UI element on a certain page (for example, use it in behavioral targeting rules and in a multivariate test).
If a specific UI element has more than one rule, it will apply the first one it finds. If it has one rule for a simple segment and another one for an advanced segment (based on personal information), it will always use the simple one,  since the personal information is always loaded last from our servers.

The following examples are taken from a demonstration environment:

• Pages - The page you wish to personalize.
  
  
  Behavioral Targeting Pages dialog
  
   
• UI Elements - A UI element is actually a UX (User Experience) action, meaning you can create a personalization rule for any kind of user experience element. It can be a real UI element such as the welcome banner, the footer or even a different user experience like a popup.
  
  
  Behavioral Targeting UI Elements dialog
   
• Segments - A segment is built from one or more conditions: Traffic source, Visitor Type, Goals, Visits, Last seen, Browser and OS, User agent, Country, URL, Referrer, Cookie, AB or MVT Test.
  
   
  Behavioral Targeting Segments dialog

Let's look at two simple examples:

• You would like to show an alternate welcome banner and a call for action text for visitors from a specific traffic source. This is a simple personalization rule where you choose the page, the UI elements (in this case, the welcome banner and the call for action button) and the values for each UI element (for the welcome banner, you will specify a different image path, and for the call for action you will simply enter the text you would like to show).
• You would like to show a popup message with a special promotion for visitors who never converted (never completed a goal before) from England. In this case, instead of selecting a UI element, you will choose to create a custom JavaScript code that opens up the popup with the relevant text (it is all done through our JavaScript agent).

The necessary changes to the page are done through our JavaScript agent that receives the relevant sets of rules from our server (based on the page the user is currently viewing) and decides (after identifying and categorizing the user to the relevant segments), which UI elements to change.

Before personalizing content on the page, you must define the UI elements to personalize (done only once). 
This can be performed by providing the unique id of each UI element on the page. If your UI elements do not have the HTML id attribute, you can define them by providing the HTML path. It is important to mention that you do not have to know HTML to define UI elements. It's done by selecting the element through our back office.

How to Create Personalized Content

1. Click Add Personalized Content.
2. In the popup dialog, fill in the Page parameter by opening the object explorer and selecting an item.
3. Choose or Create new UI Element.
4. Choose the visitors Segment.
5. Give it a title.
6. Click Save.
   
    
   Add Personalized Content dialog
   
   
   

How to create a new UI element