This was fascinating for me to read Nola, because a lot of my job is coming up with titles for web content and blog posts. It is a tricky balance between choosing what people are looking for in the search engines, and something that will really pique their interest so they click through! For this reason double meanings may not work - but questions are still a good strategy :-)
That's a good point, Janet. In next week's post, I'm going to look at some caveats, and that's one of the things I was going to mention. When writing nonfiction, you want people to know what it's about so that it comes up in search engines. I guess that's where subtitles can be helpful, though they may sometimes be too long for a blog title. I think it's also important not to misrepresent the content of the blog (e.g. sticking the word 'Kardashian' in there just so people will stumble across it). I think you come up with great titles for your blogs. I loved 'My Real-Life Footloose Story' (title and blog). Don't you miss those 80s fashions?
Tim also thought it was ironic that I chose fairly standard titles for my blog series on interesting titles (LOL), but I wanted people to be able to look down the list of posts and see what they were about. Always a conundrum though. Thanks for stopping by :)
This was fascinating for me to read Nola, because a lot of my job is coming up with titles for web content and blog posts. It is a tricky balance between choosing what people are looking for in the search engines, and something that will really pique their interest so they click through! For this reason double meanings may not work - but questions are still a good strategy :-)
That's a good point, Janet. In next week's post, I'm going to look at some caveats, and that's one of the things I was going to mention. When writing nonfiction, you want people to know what it's about so that it comes up in search engines. I guess that's where subtitles can be helpful, though they may sometimes be too long for a blog title. I think it's also important not to misrepresent the content of the blog (e.g. sticking the word 'Kardashian' in there just so people will stumble across it). I think you come up with great titles for your blogs. I loved 'My Real-Life Footloose Story' (title and blog). Don't you miss those 80s fashions?
Tim also thought it was ironic that I chose fairly standard titles for my blog series on interesting titles (LOL), but I wanted people to be able to look down the list of posts and see what they were about. Always a conundrum though. Thanks for stopping by :)