the getting started guide to awsome blog titles and posts
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The Getting Started GuideTo Awesome Blog Titles
And posts
By Andy Merchant, Co-founder of Bloggers Required
The Ultimate Guide To Awesome Blog Titles AndPosts
It is one thing to create engaging and informative content, but it is anotherthing to get it ranked high in search engines and read by thousands ofpeople. This is where crafting awesome blog titles and posts come in.These two are the main ingredients of a successful blog.
This post contains reliable and authoritative information on how togenerate incredible titles and posts. You will discover a wide range of tipsand tricks for creating search engine friendly content and one that willcapture your readers.
What Are Great Titles?
A great title is what sells the content that you plan to post in your bloggingsite. They represent the content in search engines, in social media and inemails. It is no surprise that one of the questions that some of my readershave been asking is around blog titles. One of the questions is, “What aregreat titles”?
Basically, a great title should be actionable, emphatic or intriguing. Hereare some few examples to elaborate what I mean:
How to Give A Good Speech… Even If You Hate Public Speaking….
This is the best example of an actionable title. It tells you that the post isgoing to explain something useful. The second part addresses a concernyou might have and persuades you to read on.
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The Stalker’s Guide to Landing Your Next Job…..
This is an example of an intriguing title. By using the word stalker’ in thistitle, the author has created a sense of strangeness in the article. Every jobseeker will want to find out what a stalker has to do with finding a job.
London Blog Club Meetup: The Exciting Experience is F***ING GREAT….
This is the best example of an emphatic title. The author has put moreemphasis on the exciting experience of the club by including the wordF***ING GREAT’ on the title. As a reader who is searching for the best blogmeetups in London, you would want to click on this title to nd out if thisbold claim is true.
How To Research Great Titles And Get Title Ideas
The best way to learn how to generate great titles for your blogging sites isnot to steal other bloggers’ titles. Instead, use titles of their blogs posts tolearn what works and what doesn’t. You can then use the same ideas togenerate your own titles.
Browsing on other people’s sites to get a rough idea and inspiration aboutcreating great titles is not an easy task. Don’t quit yet. There are severalblog title generating tools that you can use to generate you titlesuggestions, endless catchy topic headlines, and creative content ideas.
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Blog Title Generating Tools To Try
tweakyourbiz.com title generator
Generate titles for blog posts.
Blog about impactbnd.com blog title generator
Explore some common themes or just start creating interesting titles.
Link Bait Generator
Add a keyword and get lots of potential title suggestions. Simple!
Upworthy Title generator
It randomly creates Upworthy-style articles. Click the button or refresh thepage to see another one.
Inbound Now Blog title generator
Just keep clicking until you nd the style of a title you like and then add inyour own keywords.
SEOpressor blog title generator
Get endless suggestion, catchy titles, and other creative blogging topics.
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How To Create Great Titles
1. Start with a working title.
Before you get into the most important aspects of a title, start with a roughdraft. A working title should be very speci c and one that guides thecreation of your blog posts. It’s also worth noting that working titles are notperfect. After generating you’re the content, you can then work around tomake it clickable and search-friendly.
2. Stay accurate.
Accuracy is also an important aspect when creating titles. Readers will clicka title that they believe is true. For instance, “Facebook Founder RichardBranson to give away 99% of shares.” This is a good example of aninaccurate title that readers will ignore.
3) Make it sexy
Creating an accurate title doesn’t mean that it will pop up. You shouldmake your title a little sexier. You need to nd the language that resonateswith your target audience. Once you understand the persona’s preferredstyle, proceed to make your headlines a little sexier.
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For instance, let’s say you are writing a post about, “Top 5 Beautiful Modelson Instagram.” This is an accurate working title but you need to removesome boring out of it. The title may turn out to be like, “Top 5 hot and sexymodels Who Are Killing It on Instagram.”
The Ultimate Guide To Awesome Blog Titles AndPosts
4) Keep it short
If your goal is to make your posts rank well in search engines, you need tofocus on the length of the title. Basically, most search engines prefer titlesunder 70 characters. If your goal is to optimise your title for social media,titles between 8 to 12 words in length are the most preferred.
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12 Top Tips For Writing Catchy Blog Post Headlines
Check Your Title With These Tools
How Engaging Is Your Headline?
Find out how engaging your headline is.
CoSchedule.com headline-analyzer
The free blog post headline analyser will score your overall headline quality
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What Are Great Posts About: What Posts Generally Work And Why?
A good blog post is one with a good idea, decent grammar, and spelling.But if you want to generate great content that makes readers go “Wow,”you have to go further than these essentials.
Below are some of the ingredients of a great post and why how theybenefit your blog.
1. Post that has a point: Posts that have a point gives your website readerssomething memorable to latch onto.
2. Strategic images: Placing images in strategic positions enhance yourcontent and help keep your readers visually informed and entertained.
3. A good structure (headings, subheadings, paragraph breaks): Post with agood structure make it easy to skim and provide flow for the reader.
4. Unique content: There are several risks of duplicate content such asbeing penalised by search engines.
5. Internal links: Post with internal links are better in search indexing,organic traffic, conversions and social sharing.
6. Attention to proper spelling and grammar: Your target audience expectsread content that is free from grammatical errors and spellings. If they ndthat your content is full of mistakes, they will stop coming back.
7. Introduction and conclusion: These two ingredients make a post greatbecause they give the reader a point of entry to and a point of exit.
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How To Research Great Posts And Get Post Ideas
A blog post title may be great, but if the post itself is poorly written, you willmiss your loyal visitors. You can also learn how to generate great posts foryour blogging sites by getting ideas and inspiration from other bloggingsites. Visit your favorite blogging site to learn which posts works and whichdoesn’t. Just like when searching for title ideas, you can use the same ideasto generate your own blogging posts.
Blog Post Idea Generating Tools
Hubspot
The process is a simple as typing in three keywords, and in return, you’ll getyour list of topics to write about.
UberSuggest
Many don’t think of it as a topic idea generator but it’s a great tool for doingso. Just like the above mentioned, you’ll need to type in your keywords, hitreturn and a list of potential ideas will be visible from A to Z
Google trends
Great place to come up with fresh, trending blog post ideas. Type in yourkeywords and get the most recent trends via location, keyword or category.
Portents content idea generator
This is a very FUN tool to use when you have no idea about what to postabout. Just hit refresh and another idea pops up.
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How To Create Great Posts
This topic about how to create great posts has been covered extensively bymany bloggers. One of the bloggers who have covered this topicextensively is Dan Shewan. In his article, “How to Write an Awesome BlogPost in Five Steps, ” Dan walks bloggers through a variety of informationon blog writing that can make a good post great. Below are some of thepoints that he has covered.
1. Planning a Blog Post
These are things that bloggers should do before putting pen to paper.These involve researching for a great title and posts ideas which I havecovered above. Planning also involves choosing a topic that interests you.
2. Writing a Blog Post
One of the most important tips for online writing is making a postscannable, reader and search engine friendly. There are several techniquesto make a post scannable. These includes proper formatting; use ofheading and subheadings; proper spacing; getting to the point; use of lists;use of bolds and italics and much more.
To write great content, you must also determine the length of the posts.There are a number of ways of looking at it. If you want to capture yourreaders’ attention, keep the length of your posts down to a level that isreadable in a short grab. Another way to look at it is SEO. Posts withreasonable lengths are ranked well in Search Engines. My advice is to keeppage over 300 words and under 1000 words.
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Writing for websites and blogs is di erent than writing for print. Forwebsite or blogs, it is a good idea to include visual stimulation whichincludes images, graphs or charts. Images will help your blog post owmore effectively.
Selection Of Websites To Find Blog Images
Picjumbo
Picjumbo is free stock photo site created by designer & photographerViktor Hanacek in 2013. It all started when any stock photo site didn‘t wanthis photos due to ‘lack of quality’. Two years later people downloadedalmost three millions images from this site.
Lock & Stock
Free Stock Photos. Use in anyway, anywhere, anytime
Fancy Crave
Free high-resolution photos from professional photographers. Two newimages every day!
Public Domain Archive
All images on this website are free to use for all purposes. There’s no linkattribution required so you can also use them for commercial purposes.
Morgue File
Morgue le is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.” Founded byMichael Connors in the early Internet days of 1996.
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Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensedunder the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicelytagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.
Pixabay
On Pixabay you may nd and share images free of copyrights. All picturesare released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain.
Why You Should Update Your Titles And Posts With New Material And Data
Try searching for anything using any search engine. You will nd thatsearch engines display the recently published content to help usersdetermine the freshness of the post. If you update your blog titles and postwith new materials and data, the search engine will modify the publishingdate and display in the search engine results page. This makes yourcontent ranked high in search engines.
In a nutshell, these are some of the bene ts of updating your blog titlesand posts with new materials and data.
1. Getting rid of amateur blog posts
If you are a rst-time blogger, you may have created several mistakeswhen you published your blog posts. Also, you may have written shallowcontent because you knew less about the topic. Now that you havebecome older and more experienced, it is a good idea to look at your oldposts and try to clean them up.
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2. Change in your way of interpretation
As a newbie or advanced blogger, you may have a di erent mindset whenyou were generating your older blog posts. If you realise that your opinionon the topic has changed according to the current trend, updating yourolder posts may become e ective or valid in the present scenario. You,therefore, need to go through your older posts to update them with freshopinions.
3. Spark conversation
Conversation and comments add value to the content. You may havecreated a blog post that you expected people to comment it, but you ndthat nobody reacted to it. Updating the older content with new ideas mightmake it desirable for conversation. If possible, tell your audience that youhave updated the content. You can do this by either republishing the blogpost on the homepage or placing an updated label.
4. Retain visitors
Do you know that your loyal visitors will be disappointed if they nd outthat you are not updating your site? This is true. Your target audience willstop visiting your website or blogging site if they notice that your content isoutdated. They won’t bother themselves to dig up further to nd what theywant. One way of keeping your loyal readers is by updating your old blogposts with new content. This will help keep your visitors coming back formore content.
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5. Get an instant boost in search engines
As stated earlier, search engines clearly love fresh and updated content. Assoon as you continue to update your old posts and titles with insightfulmaterials and data, your site will experience an organic spike. As thesearch engines crawl your blog post next time someone types in a relevantkeyword, your site will climb faster and eventually appears on the rstpage of those search engines.
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