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How easily do you fall for linkbait?
Am I the only one who sees right through all these "Top 5 funny/greatest/cool/whatever X" posts?
It works (it gets links), but, I dunno, any book on search engine optimization lists linkbaiting of the kind that rules the Digg front page as the best way to attract people who use the Internet as a substitute for television.
- ivankirigin 19y agoYah, I'm curious how people expect to improve their blog/business beyond the immediate rush. If it's just an ad house, the business of posting pictures of funny cats and top-N lists is pretty sustainable. But who would attrack users of a real system like that? In that sense, I see the space of sites that linkbait, as you put it, as orthogonal to real services and social content.
- ivankirigin 19y agodefine: "attrack" - a combination of attack and attract. etymology: dyslexia.
- jraines 19y agoThat's interesting. Can you provide a link to more info on that theory? Because I recently switched off my cable tv in hopes of being more productive, but my answer to your question would be "pretty easily". Actually, now that I think about, the time when I was most susceptible was when I spent a lot of time surfing productivity blogs; those are rife with those kind of posts.
- euccastro 19y agoI click some of these "Top X whatever" because I know in the worst case I won't have to read the actual article; only skim the titles in bold. Most articles are not worth even that, but the few exceptions pay off the little time I waste in the lame ones.