Pretty Interesting Newsletter

Never Follow a Blogger To a Second Location

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Clicks are currency.

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I get it.

Websites wait like little baby birds, beaks open and crying, waiting for mamma bird or daddy bird to come back to the nest and drop those sweet sweet worms into their craws. Clicks.

We need some sort of marketing Geneva Conventions to prevent maybe the most irritating click-based phenomena...

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You know the sites. You’re looking for a list of restaurants, or recipes, or chairs, or marital aids but instead you’re brought to a slideshow so you have to click that fucking next button 27 times (because it’s a twenty item list and there are -ads-).

More often than not I flip my screen the bird and smash that back button back out to Google and click the next promising entry down the page Google ranking be damned.

Websites asking to push my computer notifications are a contender to unseat the slideshow as most annoying web bullshit. No you shady asshole, you cannot have access to my notifications.

Can we all agree that giving our readers actually useful, relevant, yes, even entertaining information is better than trying to trick them?

Not sure what to write? I don’t just write this pretty interesting newsletter you know. Hit me up over at Ten Ton Typewriter and we can talk.

Til then, cheers, and leave the worms for the birds.

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