{"id":890,"date":"2014-02-27T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2014-02-28T05:24:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T05:24:41","slug":"this-guy-read-about-clickbait-and-you-wont-believe-what-he-did-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/this-guy-read-about-clickbait-and-you-wont-believe-what-he-did-next\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Read About ClickBait and You Wont Believe What He Did Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously marketers come up with one trick after the other and the unsuspecting users fall prey to it. I have been observing the irresistibly click-able articles on my time line for last couple weeks and spending some good time on sites like Viral Nova and Upworthy. I knew about optimizing content for clicks, however it is only after reading this <a href=\"https:\/\/econsultancy.com\/blog\/64399-the-dirty-secrets-of-clickbait-this-post-will-blow-your-mind\" target=\"_blank\">Econsultancy<\/a> report on Click Bait and few other I realized the elaborate plan that goes behind it<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what did I do ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_891\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-891\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-891  \" alt=\"Why this image ? Because I liked it and I felt the apparent mismatch between the headline and the photo might make readers even more curious to click.\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/clickbait-image.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/clickbait-image.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/clickbait-image-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why this image ? Because I liked it and I felt the apparent mismatch between the headline and the photo might make readers even more curious to click.The image has been taken from runawayjuno.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though most of the time I like to post quality content on my blog, I just thought of trying out the clickbait trick here on this post and see how many people actually clicks. Does clickbait work for marketing blogs ? Well, will know after a week! You can bookmark this post as I plan to update the post after a week and again after a month with the number of visits it received in all.<\/p>\n<p>If you are feeling bad about reading this post ( feeling tricked?), consider that this is just an experiment and your participation is appreciated. Also, there&#8217;s plenty of good quality articles in this blog on different subjects like <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/category\/seo\/\">SEO<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/category\/ppc\/\">Adwords<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/category\/email-marketing\/\">Email Marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/category\/social-media\/\">Social Media<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously marketers come up with one trick after the other and the unsuspecting users fall prey to it. I have been observing the irresistibly click-able articles on my time line for last couple weeks and spending some good time on sites like Viral Nova and Upworthy. I knew about optimizing content for clicks, however it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalsrc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}