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This One Thing Made People Skip Your Article Even After Opening

5-second reading time hurts.

2 min readAug 5, 2025
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You have come up with the best hook, and people even opened your article.

But still no likes and comments. People are skipping it after 5 seconds.

Is that algorithm playing with you?

Maybe not. Maybe you're making this classic mistake every other new writer makes.

Let's talk about it.

If you're facing this problem.

There is only one reason for your low engagement.

The bad structure of your articles.

Structure matters more than you think.

The structure made reading easy. A neat and clean post allows people to read your article point by point.

While a messy post definitely turns off readers in the second.

When I just started as a writer, I used to write on LinkedIn. I was posting consistently. But got no one engaging with my post.

One day, I posted something good. As always, it didn't get any engagement. But the very next day a another creator who had a good amount of followers posted the same thing, and she was getting a huge…

Poonam Sharma
Poonam Sharma

Written by Poonam Sharma

Writer. Solopreneur. Artist. Curating a slow life for myself & teaching you the same. Stories about personal growth, alignment and career.