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I've noticed two things in the last month. First, there seems to be an overwhelming number of stories in the tech world about how Google search results all look the same. Second, and ironically, how these stories themselves look all the same.

In fact, just like the Google Search Results for answers to tech questions, or reasons why git, Apple, and Node.js are so totally awesome, or ways your relatives can die in far away places and leave you fortunes, tech article headlines are beginning to all look like the same stuff, just re-hashed in various ways in a desperate attempt to try to appear new.

Since everybody else is doing it, you can too! Here's my handy-dandy "Roll Your Own Linkbait Tech Headline" generator, complete with embeddable code for your blog. Sure, you'll have to write the rest of the article, but I can't be expected to do everything now, can I?





roll your own linkbait tech headline





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Epic. Worth a roll!

The thing is, I would click on every single one of those headlines.

Rusty can of beans! Genius.

some good trolling material :)

Great technology, but I'm afraid spammers will start using this to get people to click on links in their e-mails.

Just make sure that you make a broad statement, then use the body of the article to gradually show that your broad statement only applies to a tiny set of circumstances, those of which are commonly understood.

TechCrunch could fire most of their staff tomorrow and just use this.

Am I the only one who thinks these look like the old segfault.org stories?

The thing is, I would click on every single one of those headlines.

some good trolling material :)

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