How To Make Sure Your Visitors Read What You Write!
How To Make Sure Your Visitors Read What You Write!
- A Lesson From Journalism 101
When most people open a newspaper, they look for the most
interesting, bold and colourful images on the page. There is no
time to read a whole newspaper from cover to cover, just as
there is no time to read every single word on a web page,
especially if it is really full of text.
Readers today are generally referred to as "scanners" because
that is what they do. They scan the page looking for the most
interesting item on the page, which often makes the contents
obsolete.
This is a great difficulty for people in the content industry
because it means that we have to write sensational, catchy and
often clich