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Title - important or not?

 Mar 13, 2008  Syed Balkhi  For Starters  




Why is the title of this post so obscure. Thats because you will remember this title if you read it. When we are writing posts on our blog, the title can be anything. But whether it is a good title? You need to learn the tactic of attracting users to read the blog post just by reading your post title. Having said that, I have established the point that a Good title is an essential element for the blog post.

A blog which is being operated/managed by my girlfriend Amanda M. Roberts, Word Scrawl has done some amazing jobs with the title of their blog posts. I have the access to the blog’s traffic and such and I analyzed it and see each thing that was done for the blog, and I thought I should share some insights of the blog to give you guys some techniques.

Controversial Titles

A post written by Ms. Roberts called “The Dumbest Generation“. The title itself is so controversial that it started getting attention when she submitted the post to stumbleupon. For the next 7 - 10 days the traffic got 6000 UV increase daily. That sent a crazy buzzz because I was worried about adsense because they can have some serious problems with it. Not only that if you notice the post got alot of comments. 38 !!! That is a whole lot for a new blog. Now this can be something you can take and learn from. Using social bookmarks (Best one Stumbleupon), and taking the controversial title of your blog post, you can significantly increase your traffic, and subscribers because Word Scrawl saw an increase in the subscribers.

Make the title stick to your user

Now long before the post appeared on John Chow or SEO Crunch many of the smart bloggers knew this trick while others didn’t. These posts were saying how to make your title stick with your user. Steve of seocrunch used the terms of title sticking like peanut butter while the guest blogger at chow used gooey marshmallow. Now could these people have been talking crap ?? NOO… Here is a proof:

Anorexia of Technology - a post written at Word Scrawl which recieved tons of traffic just because the title was interesting as well as the people who read it returned also.

Same happened with multiple of my posts such as Your Website’s Identity, Who is your Audience, Greedy for Backlinks and many more. Most of these posts recieved tons of traffic from social bookmarks and search engines due to the keywords in the title.

Another cool little trick you can add into your title is the word free, or easy. Some sort of word that your audience really wants. We know Free is what everyone wants, but title like i used Easy way to get Backlinks … believe me when i say this the site got so much traffic, and the same day i noticed an increase in subscribers.

These are some things you can use on your blog to get better results as in traffic wise and see an increase in subscribers also. Remember to leave your comments.

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6 Comments »

Comment by Infogle
2008-04-03 11:11:54

Nice post and some really good point marked


Comment by Enkay Blog
2008-06-18 18:44:43

Great post and I like that you broke the post down by main points. It makes for an easier read.


 
 
Comment by Angad Sodhi
2008-06-17 13:49:07

Even your titles are good Syed. Even if you didn’t mention your stats, your posts do ’stick’!


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-06-17 16:45:32

hehe Sometimes I try to write titles that attracts user, but most of the times it is just natural.


 
 
Comment by Enkay Blog
2008-06-18 18:43:30

Title is definitely important as I have seen that John Cow has used the idea of controversial titles to his advantage. The title is what makes a post because nobody is going to read an entire post if the title is not tempting to them.


 
Comment by Rakhshinda
2008-06-18 22:07:05

Everybody has their own opinion, i think that with out titles their really wouldn’t be any reall attraction to the post it self.For me thats what frist catches my attention.


 
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Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke english at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.

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