Tips To Writing Compelling Blog Headlines That Grab Attention

The title of a blog post or any article can be the difference between your post and another article, and can drive massive traffic and readers to your blog despite the content of the post.

There are different things you have to bear in mind while writing blog post titles of which I would be explaining to you in this article. I would guide you through tips on writing killer headlines or great blog post titles as some may call it.

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Before I run down the various tips and tricks I apply in writing great post titles that draw readers attention, I would love explain why you need a catchy headline for your blog post.
Your blog post title or headlines is usually what appears in Search Engine results, social media sites, RSS feeds and so on. It is what determines if your link is what reading or should be scrolled over in a search result. If you can master the art of writing compelling headlines, you in turn would increase your traffic and readership to your blog.

How To Write Great Blog Post Titles – 5 Tips

1. Create  A Debate Or Controversy

This really works in grabbing a huge amount of attention from other bloggers in your niche and readers if properly implemented. Controversy is usually one of the things that heightens peoples interests, try to back up your title with tangible points and you would definitely get strong reactions and people who would come over to your blog for the debate. Controversial titles are great traffic tools.

2. Personalize Your Titles

I have received a huge and massive traffic to my blog just because I personalized my blog post titles, here are some of the titles I wrote about”

Instead of Writing

• How To Make $356 in A Day Using Adsense
• 4 Adsense Alternatives to Use On Your Blog
• How To Drive Traffic to Your Blog Without Google

I changed the titles to something more personal as shown below

• How I Made $356 in One Day Using Adsense
• 4 Adsense Alternatives That Worked for Me
• How I Drive Traffic To My Blog Without Google

As you can see, the later titles are more attention grabbing and people would prefer to click on the second sets of titles than the first. Try to personalize some of your blog post titles and watch the amount of attention and new readers you would get.

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3. Use Power Words

There are some cool words which if used in your blog post title would grab and draw peoples attention to read the content. Some of such power words are

• Free
• Surefire
• Great
• Easy
• Discover
• Secrets

The list goes on. An Example on using such a word is “Discover the Secrets to Make Money Blogging“. You can even personal such a title to grab more attention such as “Discover the Secrets I Use to Make Money Blogging“. This is another aspect to get a great headline or blog post title.

4. List Article Gets Much Attention

I discovered in my cause of blogging that list articles usually get more attention than ordinary written ones. For instance, I would prefer to read an article titled “20 Ways To make Money Online” to reading an article titled “Ways To Make Money Online”. As you can see, list post really make killer headlines.

5. Use Keywords

While writing your killer blog post titles, try to add your keywords to the titles. This is necessary because your readers get to know more about your post before reading it and it’s a kind of turn on for them to read your article. Also addition of keywords helps give you a better Search Engine Rank Position (SERP).

Now Conclusively, if you can apply my 5 tips to writing your blog post titles, it would go a long way in getting you a huge amount of traffic and dedicated readers. Try as much as possible to keep your blog post titles short also. This tips would hep you achieve attention grabbing Killer headlines and blog post title.

I hope this helps.