Saturday, January 08, 2011

Is Editing Worthwhile?

At IBM a group of editors tested whether editing paid off.  You can see the report written by James Mathewson of IBM in July of 2010.

The IBM people gave unedited web pages to a random sample of users.  The pages were then revised by an expert editor from IBM marketing.  The result was shown to the remaining users in the sample.

The edited pages got 30% more clicks to desired links on the page. 

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