Flypaper can be nasty if you’re a fly. Or a human caught in Facebook’s flypaper…or Bredemarket’s.
But let’s look at flies. Here is a description of one popular flypaper brand.
“Black Flag® Fly Paper traps houseflies, mosquitoes and other flying insects in the home, porch, patio and garden. This product provides long-lasting protection after opening.
“Catches all flying insects
“Once they land, they never leave”
Kind of has that “Hotel California” feel to it, don’t you think?
But there is virtual flypaper also, where certain websites do everything they can to keep you stuck within their ecosystem.
- Take Facebook, which now bans pages from posting more than two outbound links in a given month…unless you pay an additional fee for something called Meta Verified.
- Or just post to groups rather than pages, then repost the group post to the page.
- Or quit posting to Facebook altogether.
Which Bredemarket can’t do, because outbound links from Facebook are one of the Bredemarket website’s main sources of traffic to…the Bredemarket ecosystem.
And my own virtual flypaper.
Although mine isn’t as onerous as Marky Mark’s. But it still has the goal of keeping you within the Bredemarket ecosystem.
You see, this post, like all the other Bredemarket posts and pages, includes hyperlinks. Some of which go to other websites, while others go to other posts and pages on the Bredemarket website. These other posts and pages have their own hyperlinks. Some posts have a half dozen hyperlinks, while some pages (such as the Biometric Product Marketing Expert page) have over a hundred hyperlinks.
Now most people ignore the hyperlinks because it takes effort to click on one, and no effort to just read on and ignore it. But the curious people will click, which is good for me.
- Nothing would delight me more than to view my daily analytics and see 300 visitors and 600 views.
- Because that means that some of those visitors saw the hyperlinks and kept on clicking, and clicking, and clicking, perhaps eventually landing here or here or here or here.
At Bredemarket, we are programmed to receive.
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