Why Catchy Blog Titles Drive More Traffic & How to Do it Right

Although they say, “Don’t judge a book from its cover”, they always judge a blog post or article from its headline (blog title). How magnetic your blog title is will determine how many readers actually will land on your post to read the rest.

Over 10 million blogposts are published every day. You got to stand out. Even if you’ve written the most impressive content inside, don’t expect it to gain any exposure and popularity if it has a weak blog title.

So what makes a blog title weak?

#When it is too generic to create curiosity
#When it is a basic topic with thousands of posts available online already
#When the subject isn’t clear
#When the blog headline or title doesn’t look useful

Before we get to address this weakness and discuss how to write great and catchy blog titles, here are some other reasons why it is important to give your post a perfect title:

1. It helps your post stand out in search results

Search engine users cannot read your entire article or post in search engines – all they have is a blogpost title to decide how impressive the full article is going to be. They find 10-20 search results and a strong headline will win a user’s click. Eventually, writing a good headline will translate into more traffic coming your site’s way.

2. It helps you get RSS readers’ attention

Anyone following your blog through RSS feeds will have decide if they should click the link and come to your blog to read the entire post. The quality of your blog headline is one of many deciding factors here.

3. It helps you find visibility in social bookmarking sites

A good blog title will help you get more visitors through bookmarking sites like Delicious.com and Reddit.com. A powerful and thought provoking headline attracts more eyeballs on social networks.

4. It helps you rank better in search engines

You can add a keyword to your blog title and make it one of the most powerful onsite ranking factors.

It is therefore important to avoid writing rush headlines of your posts. The best thing you can do is consider your headline as a mini advertisement for the valuable content you’re going to share in your post.

Magnetic Blog Titles Writing Rules

• Make it exclusive. People fall for rare and special things. It’s equally applicable for titles and articles.
• Make sure to keep your title short and specific. Use numbers & stats. SiegeMedia reports a 20% increase in CTR for blog post titles containing numbers. Make it no longer than 60 characters.
• Be sure to include your primary keyword in it. This is for search engines.
• Use strong action words, powerful adjectives and trigger words. Now, this is for people. Primary keyword brought your article to their visibility. This action word will get them into your site.
• Try playing with negative headlines and words. In a study done by Outbrain, they found that average click-through rate on headlines with negative superlatives (e.g. ‘never’ or ‘worst’) was 63% higher than headlines with a positive superlative (e.g. ‘always’ or ‘best’). Interestingly, fear and consequences drive us more than rewards.
• Make it goal oriented and write keeping your audience in mind. Emphasize the end result they will get.
• Don’t include any stop words when writing your headlines such as is, am, are, etc.
• Make sure the title justifies the content you are going to write/have written
• Pay attention to title caps. Say no to all caps.

These are some of the basics of writing quality headlines, but you can follow some other specific rules to make it a lot more impressive. For instance:

• Start by stating the most important benefit your readers will get by reading the post.
• Explain a discount or special offer they are going to enjoy when they do what you have mentioned in the post.
• Be sure to keep it all understandable with no ambiguity whatsoever.
• Attract your readers by using powerful advertising words such as discover, guarantee, love, health, money, safety, etc.
• Make it look great and interesting by sharing strange, intriguing adjectives in your headline.
• Don’t go with headlines that are a little on the shorter side. You need to stick something that is more than 8-word long. Give your readers a clue about what you’re going to share in the post.

Who doesn’t want headlines formulas? I love Jeff Goin’s headline formula and it has brought me huge traffic every time I used it.

Blog Title Generator Tools

When you’re out of the ideas and need some help, use these blog title generator tools to get hundreds of catchy blog titles. You may have to find the one that’s relevant because these software can return some funny and irrelevant titles. Change the title a little to make sure you have a unique headline for your blog post.

This Blog title generator returns over 700 blog titles. 

Tool by SEOpressor

Blog title generator by FatJoe

Blog Idea Generator by UseTopic 

A cool title tool by Impactbnd

Super famous title generator by Hubspot

It is important to keep these points in mind when you are brainstorming great blog titles ideas, but also ensure that you don’t write a title just to sell something with no substance in the post.

Under no circumstances should you be making outrageous statements just to pique people’s interest in your post – they will start reading and when your post doesn’t fulfill the promise you’ve made in the blog headline, you will lose credibility. So, keep these points in mind and be able to create magnetic headlines that get you loyal readers.

Would you like to share anything from your experience? Would love to hear your thoughts. Bring it on!
Or why not go over your old blogposts, change their titles and see how it improves your blog traffic and search ranking.