Very true, and I may have slightly missed that one here. Lesson learned for the future 😉

No, not at all — and apologies if that’s how it came across. I think I covered in the post that this by no means applies to all sites, but I can see some situations where this sort of thing does apply, and certainly if you look at some of the blogs I linked, there are certain “techniques” they’re using, which, once you start noticing them, crop up across many of the popular sites you read.

I look forward to reading it! I’m well aware Facebook has changed a lot with EdgeRank, and that blogs aren’t Facebook, but the point I was trying to make was — sadly — I think there are similarities between the two and one has to start being concious of how these factors are going to affect the success of a blog post.

Blog sites are much different than Facebook. Bloggers can share their material to other sites and have more credence in the search engine individually. With Facebook, the link juice posts shared within are horded like kept in a tight bottle with nothing to return except for relying on people to like of share if they see it on Facebook, or directly from your website.

I’ve got a blog post brewing on two things you brought up with this post…stay tuned.

Apparently the ideal outcome of the pairing of technology and language in the 21st century will be a human species too dumbed down to breathe or eat without first catching glimpses iStock photos of air or food. Why create any new blog posts at all from here on? Why don’t we simply post and repost screen shots of random old posts, ad infinitum?

So just as a warning (IMHO): Only use controversial titles when you can back them up completely — or you better have a very satisfying substitution for your reader.