{"id":3015,"date":"2008-03-31T22:09:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T16:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/bloggers-play-pranks-on-april-fools-day\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:40:29","slug":"bloggers-play-pranks-on-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/bloggers-play-pranks-on-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers Play Pranks on April Fools Day: Will You Get Tricked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_Fool%27s_Day\" rel=\"noopener\">April Fools Day<\/a> again and like every year, bloggers are planning <strong>new pranks to fool and surprise their readers<\/strong> once again. You will hear lots of <em>very believable<\/em> stories, press releases and new web 2.0 services launching on April 1, but hey! its April fools day, do not get tricked.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger the blogger, the bigger the website, the bigger and more believable the April Fool Joke they play. Its a <strong>great linkbait<\/strong> as hundreds of bloggers link to the &#8216;breaking story&#8217; only to find out later that it was a hoax and you ended up confusing your readers with updates and how you got tricked. Remember some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/april-fools-day-top-bloggers-bluff-readers\/\">top bluffs of 2007<\/a>. Even Google plays tricks every year, remember Google gulp and Gmail paper, I wonder what they come up with this year. Shoemoney has announced weeks earlier that he will do a April Fool prank and is sure many will still fall for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you get tricked this year, or will you trick your readers? <\/em>Oh! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/problogger-launches-paypertweet\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet<\/a>, the fun has already begun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for April Fools Day again and like every year, bloggers are planning new pranks to fool and surprise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}