Want Ultra Visible Content? You Need This

Thank you for clicking. When you clicked you told me you wanted to know the number one ingredient that makes your content stand out from the rest. That dear reader is your headline. Bare with me a moment, you're not done yet. Why did you click on this headline and not another? I'll share with you why - you're curious. Curiosity is a very human condition and it takes you on adventures and it leads you to the heart of what you're looking for. In this case, you want to be seen, you want to be found you want to be visible. And I'm going to help you with this. There are 7 billion people on the planet, and I've met many bloggers in all niches, and not one of them has ever had 7 billion views on a blog post. Nope. Not one of them. Why are their posts not getting the views? Because to say their headlines are somewhat lacking is the understatement of the year. If you're just starting out with your blogging, one of the biggest keys to your success is getting the right people to read your blog. You need more eyeballs on your content. The only way you can do that is to captivate your audience. While you may have the world's greatest blog post, if your headline doesn't ignite their curiosity it won't matter. You're doomed to remain the world's best-kept secret. Talking of secrets, it would be more beneficial to have an average blog post with a great headline than to have a poor headline with an amazing blog post.

How to Write a Good Headline

Some of the best headlines you can write deal with numbers and tips. If it's a high number the audience can see a lot of effort has gone into the content and click to see. If it's a small number they click to either have their thoughts validated (Look! I knew this already / do this already) or to learn something. Either way, you increase your traffic. Example- 5o Tips to Losing Belly Fat and Getting 6-Pack Abs People love to read tips. They know that most of the tips they'll read will be short and concise and what they want. Also, writing about a specific number gives you an idea of how you can outline your blog post. Instead of headbutting the blank screen, you'll know that you need at least 50 tips to make your blog post complete. Another great way to create an interesting headline is to use a benefit. If you're writing about weight loss, you want your reader to see the benefit of losing weight. One thing that people who lose weight want to do is look good in a  swimsuit. They've lost their confidence over the years, and looking great on the beach is a powerful motivator: How to look great in a swimsuit. This headline is a good start, but it could be better. What if a dress size was mentioned: Size 16? How You Can Look Great in a Swimsuit Do you know what happens with that headline? The number of clicks go down... BUT your conversions increase - because the content is for a very specific audience! 15 different ways to look great in a swimsuit is a good generic headline, how will you spice it up?

Benefit+curiosity = headline that is guaranteed to be read.

Example- 3 Unwritten Rules to Losing Weight and Looking Great in a Bikini. This is a great example of a benefit+curiosity based headline. They'll want to find out what the "Unwritten Rules" are and they'll be more likely to click the headline to read the content. A headline that fills the reader with curiosity stops scanners (people who scan through content fast) dead in their tracks. They'll speak directly to your dream clients, and even send your blog posts viral bringing you heaps of traffic and causing your webserver to melt! What's not to love about a great, curiosity-clicking headline?

Can You Write Curiosity Clicking Headlines?

Of course you can! If you're just starting out on your blogging journey, one of the biggest keys to your success is actually getting people to read your content. The only way you can do that is to pique their interest and to do this you need a headline that appeals to their curiosity. This increases the reader's desire to find out what you're talking about and they click... and read. You may have the world's best blog post, if your headline doesn't get your reader to click, then what you write after won't matter. No one will even look at it. In fact, it's more beneficial to have an average blog post with a great headline than to have a meaningless headline with an amazing blog post. The good news is, you can always go back and edit the headline long after the post has gone live.

Bad Headline Day? You Can't Think of a Great Headline?

If you're having a bad headline day, you can do your best, publish and come back to the piece of content when you're able to create a better headline. This is the 3rd headline this post has had. The first time it had the word astonishing in it. Clearly I was reading something about magicians when I wrote it, who else would use the word astonishing? I knew in my heart that astonishing was a bit... weak... So I changed it again. This time to something truly appalling, but I thought it was better than astonishing... It wasn't. And then it came to me... Curiosity. That innate feeling that we all have. It's the itch that demands to be scratched. How can I work curiosity into a post? The answer is simply I don't have to because I already have the perfect post for the headline. All I have to do is edit and upgrade my existing post and make it into a much stronger post.

Remember Your Feeds!

It's also important to have an appealing headline so people looking at RSS feeds will be able to see it. RSS feeds are what share your posts to Twitter, Facebook, etc. If your headline isn't interesting to them, there is no way they're going to click on it. Great headlines are not just for blog posts, they'll also get your more social shares and attract in the right prospect to your business blog, and you'll gain more traffic, subscribers and sales!

 Top 6 Headline Creation Tools

You've created your headline but now you need to know if you've nailed it. Here are 5 headline tools and resources that will help you craft the best headlines ever!

1. Headline Analyzer by Co-Schedule
2. AM Institute Headline Analyzer measures the emotional impact of your headline. This is one of my fave headline tools.
3. Headline Idea Generator - This was the very first headline tool I used and I found it lifted a lot of the pressure to generate an idea into a headline.
4. Tweak Your Biz Title Generator gives you a different list of headline ideas. I often take one from here and run it the first two tools I mention
5. https://sumome.com/kickass-headline-generator/

What more could you want to know about headlines?

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