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How Readers Create (and Can Destroy) Click Bait
First, thank you for coming to my site, and (hopefully) reading this. That is part of the whole “destroying click bait” idea that will be explained fully later.
As someone who obviously reads at least some things on the internet, you already should understand that the goal of most sites is to make money. There is an entire cottage industry full of gurus who will supposedly teach people how to get rich by posting “something” on their own webpage or blog. That’s not getting into the “digital Madison Avenue” industry that does the same thing for people who already have some money to spend on getting and promoting content.
One thing that all of these professionals have in common is that they promise to get plenty of readers – people like you – to click on links leading to the sites owned by people like me. That usually means playing on your emotions one way or another – something that advertisers have been doing f
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Source: http://roguepolitics.com/goldwater-gal-media/2016/12/16/how-readers-create-and-can-destroy-click-bait/
