{"id":19492,"date":"2025-09-09T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19492"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:26:26","slug":"using-click-bait-tricks-to-get-more-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/09\/09\/using-click-bait-tricks-to-get-more-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Using click-bait tricks to get more readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Head shot of the author &#8211; in the travel genre, almost 100% of the time it is a young woman freelance writer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use numbers in the title &#8211; research indicates people are more likely to click on titles that have numbers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/author\/jenna-de-laurentis\">She uses numbers in almost all of her personal essay stories.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Next time, I&#8217;d do 3 things differently&#8221; &#8211; a common trick in travel writing &#8211; <em>what I&#8217;d do differently<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Traveling solo&#8221; &#8211; much travel writing has to show a uniqueness &#8211; a young woman &#8220;traveling solo&#8221; is a hook<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Much of her travel may have been for free as she notes &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennadelaurentis.com\/about\">fortunate enough to participate in press trips around the world<\/a>&#8220;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jenna-delaurentis-244688159\/\">She <\/a>also did multiple semester study abroad programs (seems like 3 of them) and <a href=\"https:\/\/thejambar.com\/around-world-jenna-delaurentis\/\">explains how she funded it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"893\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-252.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-252.png 893w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-252-600x117.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-252-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-252-604x118.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every Business Insider story and title &#8211; photo of the young author, numbers in the title. Business Insider is a parody of the travel genre &#8211; and they don&#8217;t even realize it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The travel sector is filled with narcissists &#8211; and so says many of the people who write these articles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-253.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-253.png 873w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-253-600x409.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-253-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-253-396x270.png 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"431\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-259.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-259.png 431w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-259-280x270.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-261.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19573\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"892\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262.png 892w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-600x171.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-768x219.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-262-604x172.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-263.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-263.png 890w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-263-600x177.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-263-768x226.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-263-604x178.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-264.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-264.png 880w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-264-600x358.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-264-768x458.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-264-453x270.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heh &#8211; numbers in the headlines, &#8220;mistakes&#8221; and the head shot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"895\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265.png 895w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265-600x165.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265-768x211.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-265-604x166.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of headline click-bait tricks in this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-mill-click-bait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}