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> On one hand, yes, it drives traffic. On the other hand, no, because lots of people just read headlines and maybe they can do that without clicking.

Then the solution is to modify your `robots.txt` file to prohibit these snippets.

Of course, no-one actually does this because they're well aware that the headlines are what drives attention and clicks.



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