10 Items Chick List for Exquisite Article Titles

• Muhamad Rawi
• 06/03/2018
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Whenever it comes to online writing, you will be needing to generate frequent unique content of high quality. Many bloggers go on with writing good and relevant content but they mostly forget about one important thing, the Title. Writing a good title could be as important as the content itself due to the fact that titles are the first thing we see whenever we check a blog or a website. 

Editors at Fox News stated that they can go through selection process among at least 3-5 titles to finally choose the title that shows on their content headers and could catch their readers attention. You should do the same, creating an article title could be problematic and a hard to manage especially when you don't have much experience at blogging and you want to start a new career or a new blog. 

In this article we are going to introduce you to the fundamental aspects of how to create a good article title that would make users want to read your article or at least click the link and also how to make your title SEO friendly, meaning how to write down a title that google and other search engines will like:

1- Relevancy:

You article title should be relevant to your content and explaining what is really inside your article not just an attractive title with irrelevant content. The more your title is relevant to your content the more you will get organic search clicks to your blog. Search engines have evolved way beyond old and cheap tricks of catching users attention through your title without good content and in case you were wondering how they do so I will make it simple for you. 

Let's suppose you made a title like this: World will end in 5 days and here is why believe so. Now when users freak out and check your article they find it talking about something else like chicken recipes, google will measure the time users spend on your website after they click the link and if the time they spend was very low (1 or 2 seconds) this means they didn't find what they were looking for on your blog and so google will rank you down for poor content relevancy, also search engines will crawl through your links and check for relevancy of content inside that title you shared. They will catch the scam even sooner than poor users who checked your link hoping for something but they didn't. You will be punished and you will lose ranking and organic traffic to your blog.

2- Shorter is better:

The shorter and more specific your title is, the better results and views you get. My personal advice is that you re-check your title again and again before publishing your content. If anything could go shorter than it must be done, for example look at this title: Amazing ways to cook delicious chicken meals. The previous title could be shortened easily to: Delicious chicken recipes. Shorter titles catch users attention better than longer ones and you have to consider the fact that online users are impatient, they could be surfing your website during work or waiting for a meal at some restaurant. You need to get them to read and decide to click your link as fast as you could.

3- Ideal title length:

Search engines are your premium target and you should help them display your titles properly and hence we got the expression of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEO friendly titles can't go too long or too short. To display your title properly on search engines it needs to be 50-60 characters. If too long you will lose relevant keywords and traffic and if too short you could lose relevancy to your content. Keep it short with average length in between these limits to have best results on search engines.

4- Use numbers:

People get attracted to numbers, for example: 13 reasons you should get married. The previous title catches attention better than this one: Reasons you should get married. Using numbers raises people's expectations and makes them prefer to visit your link rather than another link with no specific measures of the inside content. Consider it as if you are selling something, you tell your customers that your item has 13 unique features while someone else is just telling them his item is just good, who would sell better?. And don't overuse numbers too, some titles don't need numbers because they are just too good or even using numbers could be irrelevant sometimes, and also don't use very little or very large numbers. 10-20 items per article are good enough, 3 items only is too little and 100 items is too many and exhausting for any users to read while also stating that your article could be very broad and non specific.

5- Asking questions:

This could be a two bladed weapon. Whenever you decide to make your title as a question it should be an interesting question that now many people know the answer to it. Don't make silly and easy questions in the form of titles like: How to buy pizza at good price?, everyone knows how to buy their pizza at good price and instead you can make this title: What are the cheapest pizza restaurants at USA?. The least one would make the user interested in knowing the brands and restaurants that serve cheap and good pizza.

6- Use competitive keywords:

Let's imagine the internet as a big market with many people selling billions of items under some titles. What is your chance of using the word (Clever) for selling your item in a world wide competition with big news agencies and famous bloggers?, that's a zero chance and instead you should try to use a more unique and different word to advertise your article: for example you can use (shrewd, slick, deft), they all have the same meaning of clever with less competition. 

7- Creativeness:

This is more related to your content rather than your title itself. Creative content and figuring out something new to write about is more important that writing a perfect article and title for regular non creative content. You could write about your personal experience or biography, things that happen only in your country or your field of specialty, or even your own unique prospective of a movie or a book. People will like to read other's experiences and no one will compete you at this experience as it is completely personal.

8- Don't start with the title:

Some bloggers start with the title then go on for the content, you can start with a primary title for your own use to guide you through your article but the final title should come at the end when you finish writing. This will give you a chance for a more relevant title and the chance to review it for your check list of items of good article title. 

9- Don't go formal:

People of the internet are totally different from people of the real world, they like catchy titles and they hate formal newspapers titles. Unless you write your articles for a formal newspaper or magazine, you should go wacky and funny, online users will like it as they are escaping the real world to read your blog. 

10- Funny stuff catches people:

People would rather read funny stuff and check funny images, it is always a good idea to have a funny article about animals who look like celebrities or cars that look sad. The bad thing here is whenever you use more photo content and less text content you will get less conversions from search engines plus you may fall a victim for copyrighting of these photos belonging to other people. 

To sum up the whole article, you should re check your article title again and again or even test it with your friends before going online. Keep it short but relevant, but also don't go too short or too long. Write down a relevant title to your content and get ready to publish.

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