Half the internet is not people. It is scripts clicking, scraping, and stuffing feeds like a leaf blower in a library. If half the traffic is robots, why not feed them and ride the wave? 🤖
I wanted the nasty hack too. My AI research agent dove into reports and the shady corners, hit rate limits, then found the same drumbeat everywhere: tons of bots, plenty of noise, almost no free lunch. The numbers wobble by source, but it is a lot. Nearly half.
Here is the uncomfortable truth. The bot army you think you can bait for free is mostly two tribes. Tribe one is hired muscle that someone else controls. You do not attract them. You rent them, or they ignore you. Tribe two is dumb but hungry. Crawlers, link preview fetchers, scrapers, trend sniffers, LLM indexers. They do not like your post. They harvest it.
You cannot conjure the first tribe without breaking rules and getting your account throttled. You can, however, feed the second tribe so machines carry your work farther than your follower count. Write like a billboard. Put the main claim in the first two lines. Use plain nouns humans search for. Post clean links so preview bots can grab a sharp title and a short summary. Keep your URLs stable. Add transcripts and alt text so text-only scrapers have something to chew. Use consistent names for your series so trend bots can bundle your posts instead of scattering them. Publish fast pages that do not choke on mobile data. Machines drop slow pages like hot rocks.
Will this flood you with fake likes? No. It gets you harvested, cited, and surfaced. Your work shows up in newsletters, search snippets, chat answers, and link digests because the machines had an easy meal. Humans discover you through that spillover. That is the boring win.
The catch is gravity. Platforms hate engagement bait. If you try to poke the dark side with magic words or comment farms, you trip their alarms and your reach quietly dies. Also, machine impressions do not buy your product. Humans do. So make the first human who lands stick around with a clear promise, a clean CTA, and proof you have done the work.
Takeaway - stop fantasizing about hijacking bad bots. Feed the good, dumb ones with structured clarity, and earn human trust on contact. The hack is discipline, not sorcery.
Curious if you want me to share my simple 5 line template for machine friendly intros that still read like a human wrote them?