Have you put any thought into your article title?
Well have you? I know Ive been guilty of this in the past as well. Ive written the article and just copied and pasted a line for the title and left it at that. But how many readers have you lost out on by choosing a bad title?
When you look at most article directories their jam packed with articles so if you put yourself in your readers shoes, whats the first thing do they do? Thats right; they do a quick scan of the article titles and then choose the ones that draw them in. This mightnt happen to you if youre in a very uncompetitive niche and very few people write about it so people will read your article if thats all that there but what if you not. What can you do'
If youve done any marketing at all on the internet youll have heard all the stories of how a change to a headline on a sales letter made all the difference, so if you look at it whats your article title saying about you.
Heres some tips you can use for guidance. Take some time now and go through a list of articles it doesnt matter on what subject but try to find a subject thats been written about a lot. Now grab a piece of paper and scan down through your list off article titles, which ones stand out from the crowd? What makes it so good? Is it because of a particular word? Like free ..easy..secrets.. tips. Is the title a question to the reader that cant be answered unless the reader opens the article or is it an opinion maybe one that you disagree with but you want to open it just to see why theyre saying it'
Remember you can have written the best article in the world and it really could generate a lot of traffic but if its got a poor or bad title it mightnt get open at all? So today spend some time on your headline and put yourself in your readers shoes what they would be looking for? And please; dont put a title to an article thats not relevant or misleading thatll just irritate people and youll find less will read your other articles. |
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