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Do you know that there is no right or wrong way when it comes to a “good title” subjective?  And there are many strategies that many successful bloggers use to get readers attention to their blog.  The ultimate goal is to get people to read the first line of your post.  In order to do that, consider the following techniques:

Keep it simple: The most effective titles are short, simple, and easy to understand.  But breaking these rules can grab attention as well as confuse, and frustrate the readers.  On top of that, short titles are good for for search engines when you keep it under 40 characters or so .

Grab attention: Good titles can draw readers to your post.  Using tactic of shock, big claims, controversy, and confusion would get the attention.  These tactics would get people in, but they can also do more damage if your title would not live up to the promises your title makes.  Just grab your readers attention, but do not trick them.

Meet a need: The effective blog title would draw people to read more of your blog because they feel you have something to say that they want to hear or know.  That is why the articles, “how to…” got to the top of the list.

Describe: The titles should tell the readers what they find if they read further.  Then should describe what readers will get in the main post.  You do not need to give away everything in the post, but being descriptive will definitely help.

Use keywords: Because the titles are a powerful part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you need to consider using the keywords that you want your post to be found with in your title in some way.  It can be done even though it is challenging when you are attempting to keep it simple and  to grab attention.  Words at the start of titles are more powerful than words at the end when it comes to SEO.

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