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Re:What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages by atatatat on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:38PM (#27146377)
> You do the reader a favor if you get to the 'why do you care' part immediately, because in fact it may turn out that they don't.

Here's why the web is a mess:

We've turned it over to Google, through search, and Google penalizes sites' rankings in search results for having Chrome users leave if they read the first line and realize the site or service isn't for them.

After all — your site is less engaging than the site that most users ended up on — right?!

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Re:What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages by hinkley on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:00PM (#27146648)
Perverse incentives.

Also I don't know about you, but when I'm researching something I open a new window, and I middle click all the reasonable looking links on the search page.

My time with that tab open has nothing to do with that tab. It's mostly to do with the tabs chronologically before them, and whether I see something shiny that distracts me.

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