To encourage your readers to share your blogs into different social media, you have to compose a catchy title—the same goes for creating a novel or an audio book. If your blog title sparks the reader’s imagination, and excites their curiosity and interests, then you’re not far from generating a number of visitors.
In due
time, these people will be regulars in your blog. Here are proven tips that’ll
get you to write those ever so important headlines:
1. Use power words.Have you ever noticed how certain words appeal differently, even though they are synonymous in meaning? The words unlucky and unfortunate both pertain to having bad luck. However, the word unfortunate feels like it weighs more than the other. Imagine if the famous children’s novel by Daniel Handler, A Series of Unfortunate Events, had “unlucky” instead of “unfortunate,” would it be the same? Though similar in meaning, unlucky sounds like it falls short of what those Baudelaire orphans have been through.Power words bring a certain depth to what you are trying to describe. Be it an exaggeration or not, don’t be afraid to use them. Readers don’t mind the exaggerations. They usually go for the ones who are trying to offer them the best.When readers come across your blog title, they might be feeling downright bored or indifferent, so you might as well load them with enthusiasm. Play with power words to keep the blog traffic flowing.Let your blog title sparks the reader’s imagination and get positive reviews from them.2. Utilize literary devices.Literary devices aren’t just tools for the novelists and the poets. A simple blogger can take the internet by storm using literary devices.· Alliteration is a device that is identified by the usage of the same first consonant in a series of words, for instance, “Foolproof Formula.” Alliteration is widely used in business. Can you think of business names that use alliteration?· Consonance is the repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds in a series of words. One example is Think Tank.· Assonance is the repetition of the same internal vowel sounds in a series of words. An example from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight is the line, “That solitude which suits abstruser musings.”These literary devices provide soft transitions from word to word. They are not only easy to say, but are easy to remember as well. In general, literary devices clothe your words with logical framework, meaning, and creative visualization.3. Use the popular HOW-TO.When people are looking up stuff online, these “how-to” posts can definitely catch their attention first. Aside from regularly updating your blog content, search engines also favor the “HOW-TOs”.Some examples of how-to posts are the following:- How to __ in [x] Easy Steps- How to Create __ That Gets__- How to use __ to Stand Out
4. LISTICLES: numbered lists.The term “Listicles” is what the internet has coined for articles with flashy numbers and lists about tips and techniques that would supposedly lead you to where you want to be. Readers go for listicles, or list-based articles, because they sound like effective and efficient ways to get things done. Listicles entice readers with a couple of ideas that’ll get them to learn something new or to improve some of their skills.Some examples of Listicle titles are the following:- [x] Foolproof __ Tips For__- [x] Most Effective Tactics To__5. Don’t mislead your readers.You have to make sure that your title coincides with the content of your article. If it doesn’t, people will hate you for it. No matter how short an article is, if the title doesn’t match the content, people would feel like you’ve wasted their time. They would feel cheated.
The goal behind making
these attention-grabbing articles is
to get more people to frequent your blog. By misleading them, you would
ultimately lose those prospects. And when you lose those prospects, you lose the
credential as being a trusted blogger in blogosphere.
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