The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’

The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’

Readers aren’t stupid. They know when your product is cheap.

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/05/the-pernicious-myth-that-slideshows-drive-traffic/256831/

readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. And I bet they’ll feel the same way about whatever advertiser was unlucky enough to get stuck on the page with some stupid thing that a reporter did with a little bit of hate in his heart and fingertips