Top 5 easy tips to get more views 😎🕵️‍♂️

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Obviously:

1. make it a "top 5" post
2. make it a "top 10" post
3. make it a "top 20" post
4. make it a "top 50" post
5. make it a "top [whatever]" post

But seriously

Just out of curiosity: what makes them so popular?
I really like dev.to and the content is great. I'm also totally not against top [whatever] posts, I just don't get the immense popularity of them. So since I'm a very curious developer I thought, why not ask 😊 Please let me know in the comments!

Comments

[Arkadeep Nag]

Hey devs check my latest post , may help you in python dev.to/arkadeepnag/creating-a-gui-...

[Pawan Pawar]

fascinating

[Shaquil Maria]

Thank you for the post. I learned a lot about how to get more views on my articles, 10 /10 I will read another post.

But seriously, this seems to be a trend lately for everything development-related, and when you open them it's about web dev. I think it can be summarized into these top 3 points:

• Most people want a long article
• Most wants a simple list of steps to follow to achieve greatness
• The path of least resistance. The easiest something is portrayed to be, the more attention it gets

[Axel Yaguana]

I think:

• Good content.
• Having a posting routine. (Each Monday, for instance).
• Writing to an specific niche.
• Testing. What works best?

[Let's Code]

dev.to or other blogging viewers like a summary not a book.

TLDR - give me the details in bullet points and few lines to go with it perhaps

[🐤🥇 Jasper de Jager]

and the road to get there is at least as important as the result. I think a developer that really loves programming is more interested in the why than the how, but that's me 😁

[Let's Code]

I can speak with my experience on youtube so far. The main reason is audience retention. As a content creator, we want viewers to stick around until the last number of the TOP as the video doesn't get promoted to viewers if the content doesn't get watched more than 50% I think at least.

I just published a youtube video a couple of days ago that has the word TOP look at the title 😊 I am quite not very sure now if you are talking about me LOL.

[🐤🥇 Jasper de Jager]

Thanks for sharing! Just talking about post here in general 😊

[Let's Code]

ok definitely. some people are lazy to read and losing their interest too quickly

they want something quick but concise

[Jesus The Hun]

Top 3 of reasons these posts work :

• They are expected to be short
• They are expected to do some curation for you
• They are expected to give you crowd wisdom

[🐤🥇 Jasper de Jager]

The last one is dangerous because it usually isn't crowd wisdom. Please keep thinking on your own! 😊

[Jesus The Hun]

Well we've just found a new reason : controversy :D

[Ismael Garcia]

dev.to/leamsigc/top-10-monkey-past...
Hey i fallow your steps let see how it goes :D

[SnowCode]

According to me the reason is because those posts are very easy to produce and easy to read. There isn't a great amount of text on those pages, you can easily skim through the headlines.

Also they are well known marketing strategies people reproduce without always noticing.

[🐤🥇 Jasper de Jager]

you have to be a genius to become a developer 😉
(think I read it somewhere.. 🕵️‍♂️)

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