If you’re interested in more traffic, you should check out this top ten list of tips from Poynter.org. Since they’re focused on journalism, they know a bit about how to write good headlines:
“Omit needless words,” said Strunk and White. If you apply that guideline to only one aspect of your writing, let that be headlines. In several of its potential destinations — Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. — a headline that’s too long will have to be truncated to fit. Plus, shorter headlines are typically easier to parse.
In retrospect, we could easily have condensed the headline by changing from progressive to past tense in Berestein-Rojas’ post about Jose Antonio Vargas, referenced above. “Why a Pulitzer winner came out as undocumented” is just as good, and slightly tighter.
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Thanks for the tips!
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Helpful tips in the article
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Hey,
That post was very good. I guess titles are even more important than keyword density and others, as such. So, its better to be prudent about their usage. So, thanks for that link and keep giving us such interesting links…
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wow, useful article..
hmm, about The Daily Post on WordPress, can I post something without related in any topics, but still use the “postaday2011” or “postaweek2011”?
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If you’re posting every day or every week, then yes! Of course.
There is no obligation to use our topics – they’re purely optional or for when you get stuck.
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Great tip, thanks!
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Great article! Thanks for posting it.
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This is really helpful! Thank you for guiding us and giving us great ideas about blogging 😀
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WORDPRESS . . . Change it back!!!
https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/email-subscription-button?replies=8#post-684836
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