1. Trust
Your goal is to inform, help and inspire your audience. If you overplay the headline, your audience will feel misled and skeptical of your next headline. Be useful, and never waste your reader’s time.
2. Context
Tell your readers what’s in it for them. For example, saying “Things to Consider Before a Business Launch” is vague and uninspiring, but replacing it with “9 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Launched My Last Business” captivates. Another tip: place the reader into a headline. “14 Kinds of Pumpkins to Grow” offers little, but “7 Kinds of Pumpkins You Can Grow on a City Balcony” speaks to a target audience.
Read: Getting Readers to Actually “Read” Your Blog Posts Rather Than “Like” It
3. Curiosity
There’s a sweet spot in headlines: It’s called the “curiosity gap,” when you’ve made the a reader curious enough to click and read. (Consider the pumpkins on a city balcony. Don’t you want to know what they are?) But don’t toy with readers. A headline that says “This One Simple Trick Saved My Business” might as well say “I’m Desperate For You To Click.”
Read: Can’t Get Reader’s to Come Back to Your Blog?
4. Clarity
Be direct, simple and tight. Your headline should have fewer than 70 characters — half a tweet. Longer headlines may get truncated in search results and social shares. A good way to see what works: watch how your headlines do on social media and study what the best-read ones have in common.
Hiya, great post about titles I’m definitely going to have a look at making mine more specific. I’m having an issue with getting readers to subscribe to my blog, do you have any tips?
Thanks!
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I think you did very well!
good to know! keep up the good work!
Great tips! My blog has turned into more of a food blog recently and I’ve been posting mostly recipes. How do you make titles for recipe posts more engaging?
I believe descriptive words are best for food based articles
Nice and Informative..
Thanks for the tips
good post x
Loving all of your posts on how to improve your blog – I’m so new to this and basically teaching myself what to do. If you have 5 minutes to check mine out & give advice I’d be grateful. Be gentle with me…
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Hello, I am so very new to this as well. I’m not one to ask questions, I’ve learned to read first and my questions will be answered.
Now, what I’m seeing/reading, the more you blog, the better chance at getting your name and/or brand out there. Is this correct?
Awesome thank you!
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Thank you for the tips!
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Definitely good things here! Its what I Try to use on TheEvolutionaryMind.com for all of my posts
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Thank you so much for these little tips. They are very helpful and fun to consider. I will surely play around with them. -J.R. Jaldon
Great tips to adapt to! Thanks for sharing ?
Thanks for the tips! I will definitely be using them
This helps a lot 😉
Great tips! Headlines are tricky.
You forgot the most important, GOOD CONTENT! ?
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great tips!
Good tips. But for context I am struggling with “xx tips for this and that”. Personally I just close out my mind to posts such as those because there are too many of them!
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Very helpful.
great work
Insightful Tips
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Great tips here, its very true about the title thing, I have often opened a post to find I’m disappointed with the content
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Good advice. Will use it for my next post in my travel photography blog. Thanks.
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Insightful read on writing Blog Post Headlines that hooks readers.
Useful tips, re blogged this, as a relatively new blogger and will take these tips on board.
this is pretty awesome
Such a short and accurate list! Greatly appreciated!
Thanks will try this on my next post
This is really helpful.. thank you.
Wow! Helpful tips.. Thank you! ?
Great tips! Thanks for this post! 😀
Trust goes both and all ways, great points here I will be using them in the future
Interesting and very useful tip, thank you! ?
This is great advice for new bloggers! 🙂 Very useful, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, I am sure, it will really help new bloggers like me! 🙂