How to Write Attention-Grabbing Post Titles
Blog post titles are your first–and sometimes only–chance to grab a reader and get them to click on a link to your site. Post titles should be attention getting. Effective. Lure the reader in. Motivate them to click on the link and/or read the post. Finding the right title will attract readers to your blog.
This is how your post titles show up on a Google search page. See these first two posts on “How to Write a Book”. Both of them have good, attention getting post titles.
Google a topic that interests you. See what the titles are. Which ones call to you to click on them and read the website. Skim through your RSS Feed Reader. What post titles catch your attention and entice you to read the full post? Read the cover of some magazines. Which titles of articles make you want to open the magazine and read the article. Learn to write post titles that get the reader’s attention. Here are some tips:
20 Tips for Attention Grabbing Post Titles:
1. Ask a question
Do You Know the Secret to Overcoming Writers’ Block?
2. Real truth
The Real Truth About the Publishing Industry: What Editors Don’t Want You to Know
3. Inside secrets
The Inside Secrets to Getting Published
4. Free anything
Free Writing Prompts
5. Uncovered or revealed
The Hidden Power of Query Letters Revealed
6. How to
How to Motivate Yourself to Write Everyday
7. Reasons to
Reasons to Never Give Up Trying to Sell
8. Top Ranking
Top Ranking Ways to Procrastinate
9. Easy
Easy Method for Plotting a Book
10. # of ways to
15 Ways to Get Your Characters to Talk to You
11. Easy steps, or step by step
Step by Step Guide to How I Got an Agent
12. What if
What if You Wrote a Book but Nobody Would Buy It
13. # myths about
6 Myths about Getting Published
14. Top # ways
Top 10 Ways to Drive Yourself Crazy Organizing Your Computer File
15. Get Rid of
Get Rid of Writers Block for Good
16. Quick Ways
Quick Ways to Drive Your Family Crazy
17. What you should know about
What you should about Wordpress Themes
18. Little Known Ways
Little Known Ways A Cat Helps a Blogger
19. Reasons to
Five Reasons to Buy a Mac
20. # tips
20 Tips for Writing Attention Getting Blog Posts
So, no more post titles that say “I wrote five pages today” or “Finally it’s sunny.” Write a post title that will make the reader read your full post. Do you have any other methods you use to create attention getting post titles? Have you really even thought about how writing great post titles can increase the number of readers who click through and read your blog?
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This is so true and it’s hard sometimes to come up with good blog titles.
I know, Kaye, sometimes I just want to say Blog Post # 237 …