While I cannot read 100% of all articles, if the title is not matching with what I want to read I don't click it, example being that the first 10 articles where not interesting or not with technology I want to learn or already work with, so I would not click/read that.
Another example: "🎯 9 Essential React Hooks Every Developer Should Know"
I never used React, so I am not going to click on it. But your post was also somewhat of a "What is this? A I might as well check it out see what his opinion is". And I share yours there is not a lot of traffic here, but that is also the reason I don't really write anything.
Blogging doesn't make you a better programmer out of the box. It helps you, if you don't know anything about the subject to explore it, or you can help others with information that you have gathered if you already know the subject.
And some days I have reported over 25 bot accounts spamming nonsense on dev.to 😥 so I am not sure how long it's going to take before they completely spam the site. It feels like there is no bot protection at all sometimes.
Agree, spamming is the dark side of this era. It is everywhere, no platform has escaped them. On medium, there are follow for follow posts, on LinkedIn people are spamming same content right and left. One influencer post something and of it gets good engagement then 100's versions of same stories with slight changes starts floating.
It is disheartening sometimes to someone who genuinely wants to create a content but get no engagement and this copy paste post generate thousands of engagements.
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Once I read that there are a number of title types that create a lot more clicks. One of them is having a number in the title. Just like the one you gave an example. So no surprise many people will use such title. Some of them might have actually valuable content behind them.
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While I cannot read 100% of all articles, if the title is not matching with what I want to read I don't click it, example being that the first 10 articles where not interesting or not with technology I want to learn or already work with, so I would not click/read that.
Another example: "🎯 9 Essential React Hooks Every Developer Should Know"
I never used React, so I am not going to click on it. But your post was also somewhat of a "What is this? A I might as well check it out see what his opinion is". And I share yours there is not a lot of traffic here, but that is also the reason I don't really write anything.
Blogging doesn't make you a better programmer out of the box. It helps you, if you don't know anything about the subject to explore it, or you can help others with information that you have gathered if you already know the subject.
And some days I have reported over 25 bot accounts spamming nonsense on dev.to 😥 so I am not sure how long it's going to take before they completely spam the site. It feels like there is no bot protection at all sometimes.
Agree, spamming is the dark side of this era. It is everywhere, no platform has escaped them. On medium, there are follow for follow posts, on LinkedIn people are spamming same content right and left. One influencer post something and of it gets good engagement then 100's versions of same stories with slight changes starts floating.
It is disheartening sometimes to someone who genuinely wants to create a content but get no engagement and this copy paste post generate thousands of engagements.
Sigh... End of rant... 😅
Thanks. Regarding spamming, have you seen my post about it and about the tool I built to help fighting it?
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Gabor Szabo ・ Jan 11 ・ 3 min read
Once I read that there are a number of title types that create a lot more clicks. One of them is having a number in the title. Just like the one you gave an example. So no surprise many people will use such title. Some of them might have actually valuable content behind them.