
A digression on trust: Slop blogs and the accomplished UX strategist who doesn't exist
Are attractive websites more likely to trick experienced content strategists?
Are attractive websites more likely to trick experienced content strategists?
Perpetuated primarily by startups hungry for users and the entrepreneurial agencies and thought leaders who serve them, bad data begets worse expectations. Rapid rocketship visibility graphs imply that business results will follow—almost never the case long-term.
Before you choose a platform for yourself or your company, think seriously about what how you want to create, manage, distribute, maintain and monetize your content.
ke it or not, it's up to us, the people who enjoy making things, to advocate for what we value and to value what we create. We must, on a base level, understand our numbers.
Everyone else's numbers are inflated, but your own data is your gold. Learn to trust your owned data and make decisions with verifiable performance metrics.
Should I, as a website publisher, be angry that an AI summary engine includes my content in its index? Or should I not be so precious about my intellectual property? Here's how I'm making that data-driven decision.