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I feel like these click-baity titles have finally reached a state in which they work inversely for me. I have recently noticed that I would never click on somet
by carschno 4y ago
I feel like these click-baity titles have finally reached a state in which they work inversely for me. I have recently noticed that I would never click on something that promises "X things you must know" because I have finally internalized that the article behind will be superficial and useless at best. The impulse of "let's at least skim it in case it includes something useful", that used to be triggered by the clickbait has disappeared almost entirely.
For this particular example, I wonder how it was upvoted. But I am not going to click on it for reasons stated above.
- JonathanBeuys 4y agoYes, the title signals low quality content. Scanning the text, I think it is the typical SEO fluff that a whole industry has evolved around in the last decades. Corporate blogs can be a wonderful thing. When they are written by actual employees of a company and describing how they did something. But they are a bane of the internet when they are written by "SEO content writers" who's job it is to take a bunch of keywords and prop them up to a multiple pages long article that looks and feels authoritative but is just a potpourri of information taken from other sites.
- josipmrden 4y agoIf you look the article as a single piece of content, it may look like a clickbait. If combined into a Solutions page where several blog posts are outlined about how to solve particular problems, it actually makes sense.
- JonathanBeuys 4y agoMaybe. Maybe my reaction was to harsh.
- drewcoo 4y agoThe enumerated listicle, you mean? Those seem so oldie oughties! Surprising they still work. I skipped the article and came here for the comments in case there was anything useful to learn.