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分析 1 亿篇帖子:写出最佳标题的要点
100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines
导读
BuzzSumo 分析了 1 亿条帖子,找出高点击标题的常见句式,但评论者提醒:这些“最佳标题公式”在两年内就完全失效,说明它测的可能是 Facebook 算法的偏好而非人类读者的偏好。对写作者来说,这是一堂关于“数据能告诉你什么、不能告诉你什么”的课,也提醒我们别把写作完全交给机器优化。
可以直接用的写作要点
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标题公式的时效性极短:2017 年的前 20 名句式到 2019/20 已完全换血,学标题要学原理而不是抄具体句式。
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数据本身没有平稳性时,相关性不能当作因果,看到“高点击标题特征”先问是不是平台算法在起作用。
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排行榜式统计容易被基数误导(如“10”上榜可能只是因为用的人多),解读数据要区分流行度和有效性。
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写给人的标题应该保留人的直觉和语感,工具可以辅助判断,但不应替代作者的判断。
HN 评论精选
数据毫无平稳性,测到的可能只是平台算法的口味,而非标题写作规律。
文章说 2017 年和 2019/20 年的前 20 个标题句式完全不同,并归因于算法成熟、受众偏好和媒体格局变化。但另一种解释是:你测的根本不是标题写作,因为这些数据完全不平稳。文章自己也暗示了这一点——真正起作用的可能只是 Facebook 的编辑取向,经过算法包装后呈现出来。所以更有价值的文章或许是黑进 Facebook,直接看它到底在标题上偏好什么。
an_opabinia查看英文原文
> On Facebook, there is 100% difference between the top 20 headline phrases in 2017 vs 2019/20... We can attribute this stark change to a few things; algorithmic maturity, audience preference and the publisher landscape. Or that means you're measuring the completely wrong things about headline authoring, because the data have no stationarity at all. They allude to this, but it would appear that the only thing that matters is Facebook's editorial, laundered through an algorithm. So maybe a more valuable article would be hacking into Facebook and just finding out what it is they idiosyncratically value in a headline.
写给人的标题应保留人的直觉,别让机器优化取代人的判断。
这让我想起《星际迷航:下一代》的一集:企业号被困在一个古老装置里,装置会把飞船的动量放大并转化为辐射伤害船员,飞船动弹不得。有一种快速脱困的办法,但要交出控制权给计算机,成功率只有 50%,失败就是全员死亡。船员拒绝把控制权交给计算机,最后靠缓慢的推进器操作脱困——用的是老派的技巧和皮卡德的人类直觉。分析数据本身没问题,文章也没说要让机器写标题,但写给人类看的东西,应该有人味,而不是被机器优化出来的。
bigmattystyles查看英文原文
It's not even a perfect analogy but I was instantly reminded of an episode of TNG where the Enterprise is booby trapped inside an ancient device that amplifies and redirects their momentum towards them as radiation (hurting the crew) and the ship cannot move. There is a way to quickly move the ship but it means handing control over to the computer and only has a 50% success rate. Failure means death. The crew refuses to hand over control to a computer* and, add a little Deus Ex Machina, and they determine that very slow thruster maneuvers could also free them. They do it old school, with skill and human (Picard's) intuition. Tada - I honestly instantly re-experienced this episode when reading that title; there's nothing wrong with analyzing data, in fact, I probably would and the article isn't suggesting a machine write headlines, but it feels like writing for humans should feel human and not be machine optimized... I realize I've just been rambling, probably connected with no one else on the forum but I've typed all this, so I'm submitting it.
略带感慨:写作曾被当作精神追求,如今却沦为点击率优化。
我们曾经写诗,追求更高的意识状态。总之,这是一篇不错的深度文章,结果会让你吃惊,尤其是第 6 点。
ClearAndPresent查看英文原文
We used to write poetry and aspire to higher states of consciousness. Anyway, nice in-depth article. The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.
排行榜可能只反映使用频率而非效果,别把高频特征误当成高效特征。
要记住一点:最吸引受众的标题可能并没有变,变的只是包含这些高点击特征词的作品出现频率。比如用“10”的标题可能比用“4”的多,所以“10”更可能成为最热门的标题词。就像买彩票:中奖者中自选号码的比例,取决于自选号码的人本身占多少。
ghastmaster查看英文原文
One thing to remember is that the most appealing headlines to the audience may have not changed, rather the frequency of titles containing the top clicked metric may have changed over time. eg. More headlines may be using the number 10 than 4, so 10 is more likely to be the most trending headline. Similarly, in the lottery, the frequency of winners who picked their own number is dependent on the frequency of people picking their own number.
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