You can definitely authentically make the front page, but it's going to be hit or miss just because the audience fluctuates. There's numerous reasons why your a

You can definitely authentically make the front page, but it's going to be hit or miss just because the audience fluctuates. There's numerous reasons why your article didn't hit the front page. For example, the kiboit.com article is far more minimal than your article. It's possible that readers at that time were in the mood for more minimalism. If targeted content marketing was easy then it wouldn't be a professional field. It's going to be hard. Just because you manufactured an article for an audience and it didn't work, that doesn't mean you have to start blaming the audience. EDIT: One other note, the audience you've been a part of for 8 years has changed a lot. The audience 8 years ago is very different from the audience today is very different from the audience 2 years from now