A/B Test: Optimizing Read More Links

Mark Bushy
Oct 29, 2020

A few month back, a client enlisted my help in optimizing signups for a news service. The flow is pretty common: show 200 words of an article and entice users to sign up to continue reading.

The current design used a single “read more” link. Here’s how it looked:

Current design of read more/continue reading link

Content might be king but, of course, the link needed to be (1) more obvious and (2) more visually enticing. So, we a/b tested using a button.

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