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My mother always said: Always judge a book by it's cover. I would have thought that if the aim was to share your thoughts with as many people as possible and g
by aarongough 17y ago
My mother always said: Always judge a book by it's cover.
I would have thought that if the aim was to share your thoughts with as many people as possible and generate traffic then you would have used a catchy title by default. That is definitely a major rule in any type of marketing:
You only get one chance to make a first impression.
- snprbob86 17y agoMy aim in writing blog posts is primarily to crystalize my own thought processes. Writing things down is really useful to me. I submit them here to hopefully receive some feedback and spark interesting discussion as a bonus. I'm not pushing an agenda. I only reposted because of the amazing gap between the number of people who expressed interest in this follow up post and number of people who actually came to view it.
- aarongough 17y agoI didn't mean to imply that you were being 'commercial' or only submitting content to gain popularity. I found both the pieces informative, so I'm hardly going to complain! I was just trying to express my surprise that you were not expecting such a large difference in traffic between the two posts. If I have a book in each hand and one is titled 'Australia' and the other is titled 'Australia: Mayhem and Sabotage' I know which one I'm going to choose...