Title is the first thing which introduces the articles/post to a reader and if you are bad with your titles, it ain’t good. In this tut m gonna tell you some tricks on how to be a better blogger by optimizing your titles.
Stop for a moment and think what you expected from this article when you first read the title. Put yourself in the minds of your readers and think what compelled them to immediately click on the article. Titles should be short and descriptive and must contain your keywords on which the article is based.
1) Emotional Reaction
Your title should spark an emotional reaction in your reader immediately. Choose your target emotion on the basis of the content your are offering.
Target Emotions could include (but its not limited to)
- Agreement
- Amazement
- Anger
- Anticipation
- Argumentativeness
- Curiosity
- Disgust
- Displeasure
- Happiness
- Humor
- Optimism
- Sadness
- Satisfaction
- Surprise
- Trust
Your content must always deliver what your title offers. If the title is about curiosity you must provide what you have offered in your title. If it is about anger or controversy, give them a way to respond.
2) The Viral Keyword List
Certain words seem to get more clicked than other and following is a list of words which may help you achieve your goal.
Amazing / Anything with a number in it / Astonishing / Awesome / Best / Beware / Brave / Breaking / Checklist / Collection / Confession / Conspiracy / Cool / Crazy / Deception / Definitive / Easy / Effective / Efficient / Essential / Ever / Example / Explained / Explode / Exposed / Eye-popping / Fail / Favorite / Free / Guide / Hate / Hidden / How to / Interview / List / Love / Maximize / Most / Must-see / Naked / Neat / NSFW / Popular / Powerful / Released / Report / Revealed / Review / Roundup / Rules / Secret / Sex / Shocking / Simple / Steps / Study / Super / Surprising / Techniques / Tips / Top # / Tutorial / Ultimate / Unbelievable / Versus (vs.) / Viral / Warning / Ways / Why You Can/Can’t
Including above keywords in your titles will obviously increase your chances to makeyour articles go viral but keywords are not limited to this list. Have a look at the articles which go popular on the web and understand, you will learn by trial and error. Don’t be afraid to experiment a little.
3) Character Limit
Your Title’s need to be short but no compromise with the description what so ever. 65 is your limit not longer than that, Google display’s only the first 65 characters on the result page. So its really important to stick to the limit and adding more wont be of any use. Be Smart.
