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Why Titles Matter a Lot if You’re a Blogger

• triplesec 13y ago
  Simply useful article, embodying its own advice: Sort of intelligent SEO advice for ordinary types. It's an updated analogue of the kinds of reasonings my (hard-nosed news-editor) journalism professor used in his teaching us hard news.
• r0h1n 13y ago
  How is this new, or news? Headlines and titles have always mattered in the media. Even in the world of blogs, haven't we seen folks like Buzzfeed and Upworthy demonstrate the value (sometimes dubious, though) of catchy headlines? On a lighter note, here's a Twitter parody account of Techmeme Headline writing: https://twitter.com/nottechmeme https://twitter.com/nottechmeme
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• visakanv 13y ago
  TL;DR: Because it affects clickthrough rates. There ya go. On with your day.