Time and again we have been bombarded by this tip. Write a good title for your post. Yea, of course. Easier said than done. On one hand, we are being advised to write post titles which will attract Oh Mighty Darth Google’s stormtroopers robots to our blogs. On the other hand, we are being brainwashed to think of titles like a fisherman thinking of how to bait his hook for different of fishes. Can we possibly achieve both?
The most common linkbait titles are the those “lists” titles like the ever so common “top ten so and so” or “xx ways to so and so” kind of post titles. Even though thoroughly abused by every linkbaiter around, me on some occasions too, these kind of titles never fails to work for the very fact that it is very curiosity arousing. However, titling post these way sacrifices, to a certain extent search traffic unless we are very adept at coming up good keywords.
A good keyword or phrase, as explained by experts are words or phrases that matches what people type into their search bar when looking for certain information. Trying to create a linkbaiting title with keywords or phrases takes skills that I or maybe you have yet to master.
Many new bloggers has the wrong notion that they have written a first class post title when after publishing their post, do a search with the exact words of their post titles. Of course their post will appear as the number one result in Google Search. It matches a hundred percent, for heaven’s sake. Some are so happy with their “copywriting” skills that they even dedicate a post to brag about it. Did they ever take into account how many search hits they got from that title or that phrase? Most of the time it is a big fat 0.
To have a title that serves as a good linkbait and at the same time will attract search hits have been practised to good affect by many top bloggers. I too try to think of good post title each time I do a post but I’m afraid I have to admit I am sorely lacking. Take this post’s title for instance. I give the Curiosity Effect 6 points and the Search Engine Affect 5 points.
If I submit this post to all the social sites, there will definitely be some curious cats who wants to find out What A Good Post Title is. If someone is searching for information on how to write a good post title, what will be the phrase they use? I think I will type, “What Is A Good Post Title” in my search bar or at least, “A Good Post Title” So will I be getting tons of traffic for this post? NO. And Why? Because I am no Brian Clark. You guys go figure why.
Costa, I heard you can put your post title and title of your post differently. Is that true? I’ve tried it but I’ve no way of testing how efficient it is.
Eg
Post title: What is A Good Post Title
Title of post: http://www.8888.com/sexy-girls.html
Just an evil example..
yes, I believe you can by using the SEO-All-In-One plugin.
It shows Google the title you prefer, but it won’t change the URL of the post. But most of the time, I just forgo this feature.
I use the All In-One SEO Plugin and I only change the title if I am doing a review of a product or site. Not only does this assist me, but the advertiser as well. I’ve noticed a surge of traffic from searches relating to those titles I have changed. Also- any time I have used “How To” in the title, the more popular the most and it doesn’t matter the subject.
I’ve got SEO-Title-Tag instead.
But I don’t create custom post titles for mine as I’d normally think of what would be a more efficient to use at first. Unless if there’s no choice then I’d use the Title tag.
Because one thing I found is after you’ve changed it, you can’t get back the original post title.