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| God help me! Not another top ten tips article! |
The “Top Tips About” or “Best Ways To” article format is so common that everyone is sick to death of it. That doesn’t stop dozens of new versions appearing every day. Now that there are so many of them on the Internet you don’t even have to rehash your own boring, predictable tips. Just Google "Top Tips" for your niche and copy someone else’s feeble ideas!
Here are my top five tips for writing depressingly unoriginal top tips articles that make your readers want to cover themselves in mince and throw themselves into a tiger pit.
1) Never just write five tips if you do an article titled Top Five Tips. Always include a really irritating sixth tip. That way when the reader thinks that the pain is finally over they get a final slap in the face.
2) Spend no time thinking of original tips for your niche as your readers are not looking for interesting content. They will actually thank you for rehashing other people’s bad ideas and claiming them as your own.
3) Never include any detail in your top tips articles. Readers want them to be short and superficial with no content of genuine interest. You hardly have to bother about the last two as nobody reads that far anyway.
4) Be really original and witty and clever by reinventing the format and using letters instead of numbers.
5) This tip is rubbish because it is the last one and I am tired now and bored and don’t want to write any more.
6) Tip number six: IN YOUR FACE!!
