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by samlinnfer 141 days ago
Blog posts like this are for SEO. If the text isn't long enough, Google disregards it. Google has shown a strong preference for long articles.

That's why the search results for "how to X" all starts with "what is X", "why do X", "why is doing X important" for 5 paragraphs before getting to the topic of "how to X".