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Getting Views: 5 Tips on How to Get Readers Attention

It's all about the hook

Tommy Ueland
3 min readJul 20, 2020
Photo by Alan Bishop on Unsplash

Warning: I really hate this article. No lie. It’s one of the very first articles I wrote back in January before I started posting in February. I had read all there was about how to get people to read articles, on how to get those sweet views, and this article is the epiphany of all that’s wrong with that. That’s why it has been laying in my draft folder for 6 months.

But I am closing in on my experiment with posting each day for a month, and I haven’t got time to write new articles. I really considered not posting this at all, but as you know, I will do everything to give you the sweet data:)

I give you the Tl;dr right here, so you don’t have to read the whole article:

Use lists (5 is good), Keep it short (3–4 minutes), use good pictures (duh), short paragraph, and the hack is: Target keyphrase + colon + number or trigger word + promise (see my title)

You are welcome to leave now and never come back. If you want to read on, go ahead, but don’t say you…

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Tommy Ueland
Tommy Ueland

Written by Tommy Ueland

Father, writer, aspiring blogger, connoisseur of everyday joy and professional procrastinator.

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