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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
Don't you just hate it when you miss out on a great
opportunity. You know like the million dollar home page. Well this idea is not
quite as good as that, but I'm impressed all the same. I've been thinking
recently about the increase in the number of headlines on the web that promise
10 of this, 7 of that.
As a professional journalist, you notice headlines a little more than the
average punter and the rapid increase in "list" headlining is no
doubt due to the SEO advice doing the rounds at the moment. I think I first saw
it on SitePro News, but I don't actually recall.
The idea is that list headlines sell and are a great way for amateur writers to
attract attention even if the content is mediocre [oops! That's a little harsh.
Actually I'm just jealous of all that traffic].
You know headlines like; Ten
Questions To Consider Before Selecting An IP Phone, or Three
things You Didn't Know About Journalism, or The Top One Way To Show You're An
Amateur, that sort of thing.
Naturally once word got around that list headlines sell, they've exploded into
cyberspace. Keep an eye out and I bet you will start seeing them everywhere.
Seriously, I wouldn't stoop to such tactics, well not often. Actually, if I was
half as smart as Garrett Smith, author of the Smith
on VoIP blog I would have come up with his idea and if I had I would have
done it.
You see Garreth put together a list of the top 30 VoIP blogs and published them
on his own blog.
Well talk about link bait! Talk about smart!
Struck by pride and vanity, he was immediately linked by a whole heap of the
premier VoIP bloggers world wide. His Google backlink ratings would have been
heroically improved.
The story was Dugg, Del.icio.us'ed burned and borrowed until the huge traffic
spike finally caused the company that host's Smith's Blog to take it off the
air.
He's back on air intermittently now but, Garreth, that was Genius, Pure Genius.
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