Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 22:54 via Delicious/martinstabe
"here’s something devilishly brilliant: The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees." Read More...
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