1. We don’t have a revenue stream and you’re wondering about that.
2. You want to know how you too can get in on this lucrative idea
3. You want to know how to give us fat sacks of cash money.
4. You think this post will be funny.
5. You’re desperate for details: is it really true that Lindsey Lohan was seen exiting a motel in company with 2 chickens and a lawnmower?
6. Or was that Miley Cyrus?
7. You’re looking for something to be outraged about.
8. You think someone might be wrong on the internet and it’s your job to correct them.
9. You’re procrastinating on grading.
10. You’re looking for personal finance advice. (in all the wrong places)
11. You enjoy trolling?
12. There is no # 12.
THIS LIST GOES TO… ELEVEN
March 4, 2014 at 6:32 am
You’re doing it wrong. The items are supposed to be spread out over 12 extremely slow-loading (thanks to the mostly-irrelevant stock images they contain) pages, interspersed with at least 3 ad pages. And yes, just how far I get before saying “this is ridiculous” is usually proportional to just how badly I don’t want to do what I’m supposed to be doing.
Also: ha!
March 4, 2014 at 6:41 am
Even if the information on the pages is decent, I often lose my patience on those pages. Thirteen paragraphs (one per tip) should be one easy page unless those pictures are completely relevant.
March 4, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Ugh..this has gotta be one of my biggest internet pet peeves..especially knowing why they are doing it. I refuse to click through..just refuse. whatever it is can’t be as interesting that it’s worth my time. Actually, I do have one exception…I do go to the entertainment sites and click through the red carpet photos the day after an event if I missed it…but mostly because I like looking at the close ups of the gowns and I’d click to enlarge them anyway, so it doesn’t seem like they are stealing extra clicks from me.
March 4, 2014 at 6:39 am
Last night was so #8. Did you know that Common Core is a government conspiracy to turn us into Soviet Russia? ARGH. (Not that we can’t have a discussion about what’s good/not so good about CC, but starting with that premise is, uh, inflammatory.) I could have let it go, because I’m getting better at random people’s weird opinions and skipping them, but a friend shared the article on facebook.
March 4, 2014 at 11:25 am
In Soviet Russia, the Core Commons you!
March 4, 2014 at 7:25 am
Shouldn’t that be twelve weird reasons?
March 4, 2014 at 7:47 am
HAHAHAHAA
March 4, 2014 at 10:00 am
Or “try this one shocking secret for internet success”
LOL
March 4, 2014 at 9:44 am
I’ve also been told that prime numbers click better. So you could have stopped at 11!
March 4, 2014 at 10:27 am
WHOA. We’ve got to keep this in mind for when we monetize the heck outta this thing and become RICH BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS. Ahem. Yes.
March 4, 2014 at 10:39 am
…or at least for when your male alter ego begins a money-making blog. :)