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By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:46:27 +0000

Pay attention to title writing. Your page titles are probably the most important words you’ll write on any page. Read through the Magnetic Headlines series Brian Clark wrote.

I’m subscribed to at least 100 feeds. Those feeds produce a lot more information than I can reasonably take in and I have to make decisions about which posts to read and which ones to skip. Fair or not I’ll make decisions based only on the title of a post. It’s the same for most people.

Your page title is also what will show as the link in search results and will be among the most important words on the page in determining where in the results your post appears.

You don’t have to make them dry. In fact you want to make them interesting enough so that people will want to click. At the same time you don’t want to make them too mysterious. Have them tell people what’s inside in a way that makes them want to click for more.

By: Kristine Shreve

Kristine Shreve — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:54:19 +0000

I do read tips on how to make my blogs better. I have to confess that the ones I almost always ignore have to do with titles. Maybe it is because I worked with newspapers when I was younger, but I really dislike headline type titles. I know they’re better for search engines, but I just don’t like them. I always try, and probably rarely succeed, to be witty or funny in my titles. I suppose I should probably make them more factual, but I keep resisting it.