5 Tips for Choosing the Right Article Title

Timothy Kelly
3 min readMar 16, 2022

Determining the best title to improve your reach and results

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Writing your content shouldn’t be a guessing game of what you think will resonate with you audience. When it comes to getting your articles read, nothing is more important than the title. This is your first and best chance to grab the attention of your readers and convince them that they need to continue reading.

The most frequent feedback I see from readers (and writers!) is that they sometimes find it hard to come up with a good title for their article, especially when they’re under time pressure. They often have an idea of what they want to write about but aren’t sure how to express it in a way that will get people interested.

You can think of your title as the headline on a billboard. It’s got a few seconds to grab someone’s attention and make them want to learn more. If you can’t do that, you might as well not write the article at all — because no one will ever know it exists!

To help you create compelling titles for your post, I’ve compiled five tips that will help you win over readers, and search engines- with great headlines.

1 — Research

The first step in your title creation process is to do some keyword research. You want to select keywords that will attract traffic to your…

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Timothy Kelly

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