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The Secret To Catchy Headlines Using Good Keywords


catchy headlinesThis article is written by Michael James J, the publisher of The Blogger Source. What started as blogging for fun and as a hobby turned to bigger and more challenging pursuits as he created dozens of blogs and soon became webmaster of two large corporate blogs.

What’s one of the simplest ways to get better ranking posts? By researching good keywords for your catchy headlines commonly known as your post titles. We often think those clever titles we create for our posts will bring the traffic in, people will read them and then want to read the content. While this is sometimes true we need to be more concerned with how people actually reach our site to read the content in the first place.

This is usually done via a search engine and those search engines determine how relevant our content is by the keywords and what better keywords than the ones in our titles.

I’ll show you a simple way to make sure the keyword and keyword phrase you use in your titles will help towards bringing in that desired search traffic.

Steps For Catchy Headlines With Good Keywords

1. Post Idea

Brainstorm what your post will be about, mentally pick out good keywords that are relevant to it and create a title for the post. Don’t worry about creating the perfect title, we will come back to that later, you just need a title to get you started.

2. Write Your Post

Now go ahead and write your post. Since you already have an idea of what you were going to write and created a title accordingly the content and title should fit well together.

3. Keyword Research Tools

There are various tools to use both paid and free. I use and recommend the Google Keyword Tool as it’s simple and free to use. If you want a more advanced keyword research tool Wordtracker is a pay for use that has more options.

4. Research Your Title

Once your content is written and ready to be published it’s time to do some keyword research on that post title. You want to make sure that title you created will actually bring in traffic via search engines.

Go to the Google Keyword Tool or your favorite keyword tool and enter in the keyword or phrase you used in the title you created. Once the results come up where does yours fall?

You’ll want to pay attention to the Search Volume both within a 30 day period and 12 month. The higher the number the more people are searching using that keyword and keyword phrase.

5. Choose Your Keyword

If the keywords you are using in your title rank high then you are all set, however if they don’t you need to do some tweaking. Use the list to find a good keyword or phrase that will still describe your post just in a more search friendly and effective way.

Make sure the keyword or phrase you choose will work, trying to place something high ranking but irrelevant will get you no where. Be aware also that sometimes there just is no viable option, if it happens, do what you can and move on. Not every post title can be a winner.

Final Note

While it is a good idea to try and make catchy headlines that will bring in the search traffic I still like the occasional creative and possibly whimsical blog title. It adds a bit of life and fun to the structured and work side of blogging.


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    32 Responses to “The Secret To Catchy Headlines Using Good Keywords”

    1. James Says:

      Keyword research is an important part of writing great posts. The idea of is to get targeted traffic from Google.

      Great post Michael. Well done for another guest post Peter. I dunno if people are following in my foot steps. Maybe.

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    3. Marketing Business Review Says:

      Hi Michael,

      Those were very easy tips to write a good title. I try to have catchy titles and use keywords that are search engines friendly, I will use the keyword tools that I am not using it to its full potetial.

      Luis

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      Very good, reasonable tips, thank you

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    5. James Says:

      Try google adwors tool to see how many people are searching for your targeted keywords. Google adwords will give you an idea of how many people search for those keywords each month.

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    6. bathroom shower Says:

      Amazing tips! “Make sure the keyword or phrase you choose will work” – I think this is what we should take care of about the keyword. I liked the 5th tip where you described well about choosing the right keyword.

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    7. khaled Says:

      Wordtracker is a great tool for doing your keyword research although its a paid tool I highly recommend it as it has some great features for selecting keywords that are both competitive and finding some more niche ones that are easier to target.

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    8. Kikolani Says:

      One way to make sure you get good keywords/title is to research other articles on similar subjects. Do Google searches, see which articles come to the top, and check out their keywords/meta tags.

      ~ Kristi

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    9. Luca Di Nicola Says:

      Great post. I think that many people (myself included) don’t spend enough time on keyword research. We just want to get our post published.
      The other thing to consider is the keyword competition, it may be a keyword with a lot of searches but if there’s heavy competition it will be hard to get a good Google page. Sometimes using logtail keywords also works to get targeted traffic

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    10. Dennis Edell Says:

      Up to this point I’ve been more focused on “social promotion” then search engines….although I do all the basic SEO at least, and fitting in the main keyword(s).

      Posing the title as a question is one FANTASTIC way to bring in the activity; especially when followed up by the much needed call to action at the end.

      Dennis Edells last blog post..3 Secrets to Writing for the Search Engines

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    11. JWRmedia Says:

      I agree… I always do some keyword research before deciding the title of my articles. Its not really worth going through all the trouble of writing really nice, quality and original content if you’re just going to make up the title and keywords off the top of your head.

      Thanks for this article.

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    12. Pest Control Dyer Says:

      great post, those are really good tips to creating headlines that are good for people and headlines. i never put much effort into titles, but i think this way could really make a difference.

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    13. Petra Weiss Says:

      Peter Lee – when choosing your keyword for your title, shouldn't you at least perform a Google search in quotation marks for that keyword/keyword phrase as well, not just look for a good lot of searches? Just to find out how many sites on Google there are competing for the same keyword/keyword phrase. At least that's what I do. If I have a good keyword that gets a lot of searches, but has i.e. 3.080.500 competing websites, I might look into another keyword with a few less searches but a lot less competition. What's your view on that?

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    14. peterlee Says:

      @Petra Weiss: “when choosing your keyword for your title, shouldn't you at least perform a Google search in quotation marks for that keyword/keyword phrase as well, not just look for a good lot of searches?”…yes this is what I personally do as well to gauge the competition. Thanks for highlighting this.

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