Though content is king, title for that content is an important factor to be optimized to drive more visitors to your blog. It will be helpful to increase you CTR in search engine results. Having a good and killer post title will make user to click and read your article, so “title” plays an important role in driving traffic and branding factor.
As a blogger you know that first 10 results in google SERP gains 95% of clicks i.e., people get relevant information within first 10 links of their searched query in google. So you must take care of your POST title and make it which will kindle the users to click the link and also it is a reflection of your blog standard.
It’s not easy to create such titles, there are many factors included in crafting a good and lovable title. Here I mentioned some tips to create a good and unique post title to improve your traffic and CTR.
1. Use Numbers like 10+, 50+ etc.,
Having numbers in your post title will show how much information your post has, for example you had compiled a list 20 website to download softwares and you had given title like “list of site to download software“, if any user sees this title he wont be interested in clicking the link to check your article.
Rather if you had given title like “20+ site to download software“, users will surely check your article because you had given a hint to the user about how much information that your article has 
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2. Try to use Symbols
Using symbols or characters in your post will make it attractive and clean. You can use special characters like , – + | : [] @ # $ & !? in between your article to make it spicy to click.
Here I had give some examples which clearly show you the importance of using these characters in your upcoming articles.
Example – 1
Ugly title – Increase facebook fans for free and tips to get 100 fans per week.
Best title -Increase Facebook Fans for FREE: Tips to Get 100 fans/Week
Example – 2
Ugly title – Hashtags and its importance of using it in your upcoming tweets
Best title - #Hashtags – Importance of Using it in Your Upcoming Tweets
3. Be Expressive
Try to use words which express our feelings like amazing, funny, hurray, killer etc., in your blog title so that it will push the user to click your link because they love to see these kinds of article
Example – 1
Ugly title - Google banned my adsense accout
How about this – Hurray !! My Adsense Account Banned !
Example – 2
Ugly title – I got my Adsense account within 6 months
How about this – Cheers !! I’ve got Adsense account within 6 month !!
4. Use CAPS For first Letter of Every Word
I’m seeing in many blogs they use normal paragraph style for the title. Using capital letter for every starting letter of a word will improve visibility of your title in SERP and it gives your title a professional look.
Example -
Ugly title – infolinks best ad placement for high ctr and to earn 30% more income
Best title – Infolinks Best Ad Placement for High CTR – Earn 30% More Income
5. Provide Some Extra Information
Always try to include some extra information related to the article in your post title, some additional information which may be usefull for the user or what they really need.
Example -
Ugly title – 20 Tips to Increase pageviews
How about this - 20 Tips to Increase pageviews – Reduce Bounce rate
Here “reduce bounce rate” is the additional information related to the article so if any use sees this he will like to check your link than other links.
6. Think Creative
If possible try to make title unique and title or try to express in a different way. Rather creating keyword rich title by stuffing keywords within 65 character you can make your title unique.
You can see these kinds of titles in high authority blogs they won’t choose title from keywords rather they will keep the title which stand out from other blogs.
Example -
Ugly title – Digg is not suitable for bloggers so dont waste your time
How about this – Going to Submit Your article on Digg – Read this Article first
7. Personalized Title
Give a personal touch for your post title so that it will create a good authority for you it is a very much essential for personal branding. People love to read other experience so they can easily improvise themselves so having a title which like this will surely attract users to view your article.
Title – 10 tips to earn huge money from Adsense
How about this – How I made 1000$ in a Month from Adsense ?
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Hi mate,
Still some blogger not aware of title, you done a wonderful job here. Very healthy tips to make my title attractive.
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Hi Sudharsan
I think still many bloggers and writers writes for the sake of just writing. They just don’t know how just minor change in the Title can bring them lots of traffic and backlinks. I must appreciate your effort in explaining the whole thing with examples as it makes so easy to understand.
Great Job.
Here’s an irony mate: Look at your tip number 1 and the title of this post.
Naah just kidding. Nice tips. Thanks for sharing.
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lol That’s not title bro…its just heading
See the example give in my blog, I had shared which worked well for ME
There are some really great tips here! Another thing to think about would be, do you want to rank the title for SEO or for attractiveness to readers! You can do both, but that’s where it gets tricky! Using the first 3-6 words related to the topic, stray away from words at the beginning of the title like, the & and. Try to think of it this way, if you were searching for your post, how would you word it in the search bar? Then use the creativity tips you have here. Nice post!
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Thanks so much for sharing your views here
cool tips jasmine
Some great tips Sudharsan. You are right it is really important to have an attractive title for your blogs posts and you have mentioned some great ways to come up with them
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Good tips. Though I don’t recommend using CAPS for the first letter of every word. Instead use CAPS to express out certain imp words in the title.
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Loved the title of this post itself!! I concentrate on my blog posts titles very much, compelling titles encourage people to click them. Nice points Sudharsan! Cheers!
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Thanks for sharing your views pradeep
cheers..
The title does play an important role, for getting clicked in search results. Great examples. Thanks
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Thanks HUNTER
Hi,
since you have a few spelling mistakes in your article, I’d suggest running your work through Respelt.com before you publish anything. It’s nothing big, but it hurts the eyes a bit.
You could have included a point no.8 stressing the importance of the most unique and helpful information a blogger can come up with – it useless to write about Top 7 Design WP Plugins if there are already dozens of articles around the topic.
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Hereafter I’ll proof read my article before hitting publish button
Nice tips.
But the article title is linked in other pages also.
The anchor text plays a vital role in seo.
For getting in the top SERP’s you’ll have to minimize these stuffs.
I cant understand bro.
Whether my title is linked to other pages ?
Thanks 4 The Great Advice: Cheers Mate !!
you have almost covered all the points…
cool one bro…..
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