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Nate Westheimer
geisen: innonate: 5 examples of why putting a number in the first two words of your post and creating brain-numbing lists is the key to blogging success. Each of these posts is also a pageview-generating slideshow that makes ad sales types (like me) extremely happy. Not so awesome for the content consumer who is annoyed by the developing symptoms... - http://innonate.tumblr.com/post...
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5 examples of why putting a number in the first two words of your post and creating brain-numbing lists is the key to blogging success.
  
Each of these posts is also a pageview-generating slideshow that makes ad sales types (like me) extremely happy.  Not so awesome for the content consumer who is annoyed by the developing symptoms of carpal tunnel from repeated clicking.  See also this tweet from Friday re: alleyinsider’s increasing use of slideshows and Dan Frommer’s reply.
  
Makes an ad sales person happy, but it should make the ad buyer wary, right? If I’m being sold SAI and Business Insider traffic, I’m probably being sold “executives and managers, large budget buying decision-makers, startups, etc.”
 
Well, let me tell you something: those 375k people who looked at the Google interview questions are not that demographic. Those people were just clicking on get-rich-quick ads an hour ago and just made your ad buy a stupid decision.
 
I’ve loved SAI from Day 1 — and occasionally enjoy a slideshow or two — but isn’t this the Zynga/Affiliate version for the online newspaper?