Regarding the first paragraph, it also helps to make it something that will appear in a web search. How many times have we searched for something only to see the search engine results page show something like
link. Source: some source. Page 1 of 3 ...
Your writing advice for the first paragraph is valid and good; that paragraph also deserves to be noticed by spiders crawling the web to look for links to add to search results.
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Thank you for reading! They said first and last impression is powerful so make your blog like them!