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Reasons Why No One Is Reading Your Articles, And Here’s How To Fix The Problem
Use these simple steps to fix the problem for good.
Our attention span is becoming shorter and shorter. It’s weird, yet it’s a fact. I was reading an online article written by The Treetop Therapy, a portal that helps parents and professionals acquire the necessary analytic and teaching skills the other day. It says that the human attention span is at about 8.25 seconds as of today. Of course, this is subject to the person’s age, environment, and some other factors. From the Year 2000 till 2015, the rate had been deteriorating at the pace 25 per cent in that 15 years. Even goldfish have an attention span of 9 seconds, longer than what we human beings have. I find this fact really interesting.
If you are into video, the first few seconds of each video you are producing are going to be very important. That first few seconds will determine whether the viewers will continue to watch further till the end or skip everything, leave and move to the next video. The content creators call it a hook. Without having the hook early, it’s going to be tough to make them stay. Now, writing articles is facing an almost similar situation too. Making people read our written content till the end is trickier. In most cases, they come, read our stuff for a few seconds or a…