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📰 Misleading headline 📰 To attract clicks
to clickbait

to clickbait

6.0
Make people click by using exaggerated headlines or images
  • verb
  • /ˈklɪkˌbeɪt/
  • Literature
translation icon : sensacionalizar
  • Many content creators often clickbait their audience with outrageous titles to boost their views.

Examples

  • To increase traffic, some bloggers clickbait with exaggerated claims about their posts.

  • If I didn't clickbait a video it would do terrible.

  • We're making clickbait is when you don't deliver, but just a great title and a great thumbnail is you actually deliver that information.

  • If your article doesn't clickbait, it might not attract any readers.

Synonyms

to hype
vsto clickbait
53 4.4

To promote something with exaggerated, flashy advertising to get attention

targets online readers with sensational or misleading headlines to gain clicks
to sensationalize
vsto clickbait
  • Literature
12 6.8

To make stories seem more exciting than they are

aims specifically to mislead online readers to increase clicks

Compounds

clickbait article
  • Literature
4.1

An online article that uses exciting or false headlines to make people click

How Sensational

to sensationalize
  • Literature
12 6.8
to clickbait
  • Literature
6.0
to highlight
340 3.3
to promote
252 3.5

Surface Forms

clickbait infinitive
clickbaited past
clickbaited past participle
clickbaiting present participle
clickbaits third person singular

Etymology

Clickbait used as a verb comes from the same two parts, click and bait, and is like putting a tempting lure in front of readers so they 'click' on your link. So to clickbait is to make sensational or misleading headlines or content to get more clicks.