If you’re a blogger or a writer, I’m sure you want people to read your blog post or your article. Therefore, you must know a few little tricks and skills which can attract your audiences to click and read your articles. Of course, good writing skill and compelling content are very important. Nevertheless, create an eye catching headline or title does help a lot. If you want grab your audiences’ attention, then you have to combine good writing skill, compelling content and eye catching headline creation skills all together to make it perfect.
The purpose of creating an eye catching title or headline is not only to attract your readers to click on it and read the article, it’s used to attract the searches in Google search engine to click on it as well. There might be several articles which have almost similar content with yours shown in the result, then the searches will read on the title and decide which to read.
5 Effective Ways To Create Eye Catching Titles
1) “How I [achieve goal]“
This kind of headline does really attract your readers’ attention as they want to know how you achieve the goal. However, your title must be something that’s logic and achievable, or you drill your readers away.
- How I Drive 500 Unique Visitors To My Blog In An Hour?
- How I Dominate Google First Page?
- How I Make $100 A Day?
- How I Make Money Online With BuySellAds Successfully?
2) “[Number] Reason Why You Must [something]“
People likes to know why they should follow your guidelines and why they can’t do their own ways. It forces them to read your article to know why or they want to find out how they can defeat your statement and stand firm with their ways.
- 1 Reason Why You Should Have Your Own Hosting And Domain
- 5 Reasons Why You Must Have A Good Theme Design
- 2 Reasons Why You Must Check Your Blog Now
3) “[Number] Truth About [something]“
People urges to know about the truth, not the fake. So when you tell the truth which people might or might not know, then your title must be an attractive one.
- 5 Ugly Truth About Make Money Online
- 10 Truth About Getting $1000 A Day From Blogging
- 7 Truth About Making Money Online While Sleeping
4) “[Number] Mistakes That You Can’t Make In [something]“
Nobody wants to make mistake and they want to know what mistakes that you mention and to ensure that they’re not in the group.
- 10 Mistakes That You Can’t Make In Driving Traffic To Your Blog
- 7 Mistakes That You Can’t Make In Building Your Brand
- 5 Mistakes That You Can’t Make In Building Backlinks
5) “[Number] Secrets Of [something]“
You should try something new and show your readers what’s the secret of your strategy or technique in achieving something. People likes secrets because that’s something that certain category of people doesn’t know how to do or there must be something interesting.
- 8 Secrets Of Driving Traffic To To Your Blog
- 5 Secrets Of Bringing Your Blog To Next Level
- 5 Secrets Of Outranking Your Competition
Wrap Up
You must not to have brilliant content to attract your readers to click and read your article, you just need to be creative and create an eye catching title or headline to grab their attention. When they’re forced to click on the article, then for sure they will read the content, or perhaps part of it, but most probably they’ll leave a comment.
How you create an eye catching title for your blog post? Any tricks or strategies?
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Great compilation, it never failed to attract me to click on those “5) – [Number] Secrets Of [something]“.
Somehow, I manage to learnt to ignore “1) – How I [achieve goal]“, especially when the title says “How I made $14,568 in 2 days”, I’m having the impression it’s one of the most tainted sentence in the Internet marketing world – just my two cents :)
@Wilson,
Yea me too. That’s why I mentioned in the post that the title must be logic and achievable. $14,568 in 2 days seems impossible and I’ll definitely ignore it if I see similar title in this way. ;)
Yap, I guess headings like that had become ‘ad blindness’ for most IMers but should still attracts well to newbie. So depending on the niche we are targeting at, we should tailor the headline according.
Cheers
Tinman
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@Tinman,
Yes because IMers roughly know what’s the content in the article no matter how attractive is the title.
Good point about IMers knowing a little more than the average internet user. This shows how important it is to take your demographics into consideration. While a certain style of title may appeal to beginners, that same title could do horribly with experienced users.
Agreed. A lot depends on your target audience and with some crowds these titles could sound too spammy.
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Great post. Sometimes I have trouble coming up with a catchy title. I do tend to resort to numbered lists if I can’t thing of anything that jumps out at the reader. Thanks for the ideas.
@Christopher,
List post does help too if you have problem to come out an eye catching title. I only do this once in awhile, so usually you will see list post in my blog.
Nice tips!
It’s true that title is the first thing to impress the readers to get to them. Thanks a lot. Have to implement it.
Thanks, pal =D
@BloggerDaily,
Yea, title is the first thing that readers see before they get into it and read the content. If you don’t have at least one eye catching title at the main page, most probably your readers will move their mouse to “x” button.
Same goes to me too if I’m a visitor. Maybe we should imagine ourselves as a reader or visitor for this.
Sometimes we have to image ourselves as the reader and think from their sides, then you may know what’s their thoughts. Nevertheless, that may or may not help because everyone has different thought and perspective.
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You are right bro, A good title is pretty much needed both for getting traffic as well as in the sense of SEO
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@Shiva,
That’s right. In term of SEO, searches search something in the search engine and it comes out a few result, if you have an eye catching title then the searches will probably click on your link.
I agree. Your page titles are your most important onpage element. If you have lousy titles, expect a very poor click thru rate in the serps. Search engines also analyze the page titles to help determine what a page should be relevant about.
Great tips! Most of the times I am unable to publish articles with catching and creative titles. These tips really helps a lot!
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@Alvin Lim,
You may try these tips and see how they work for you. Keep us updated your result after doing so. :)
You’re right…the title of this particular post caught my attention.
I am in the process of writing a few articles; after reading this I think I should change my titles.
@Kathleen,
I do hope the title of this post attracts you too! You may try this for few of your articles, you would see the result shortly, keep us updated. :)
How-To and Lists will be #1v forever, that’s for sure.
I think “secrets” is waaaay over played though.
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@Dennis,
How-To and Lists post is always working well but it depends on what topic you write too. “Secrets” title might be bit tricky as there is no secret except hard work and effort, it’s just a little trick and strategy to catch the readers’ attention. ;)
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Hi guys,
A catchy headliner is a popular blog topic this week, because I just got through reading the same thing from another blogger.
Kind regards,
Sam
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@Samantha,
Oh really? Why not you share the link so that we can have a look too? Perhaps there is some different perspectives or ideas in the same topic, we would like to learn new thing from other bloggers. ;)
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You article is good learning lesson for me.
Thanks for your posting.
Cheers
Alwin Chuah
.-= Alwin Chuah´s last blog ..Use Apture Plugin to fascinate your blog readers =-.
Lee,
I often use the question approach:
Would you like Google to crawl your site more often?
Fear of blog writing or is it shyness?
That sort of thing – it can intrigue the reader.
Andrew
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