Publicity, You can’t have bad publicity. Well actually that’s not entirely accurate but by creating a shocking title or controversial topic, the publicity that it will generate (as long as its not offensive) far surpasses that of social networking or SEO ranking, and that’s word of mouth or viral.

Take this post title for example, wether your celebrity mad, or interested in the news this title catches your eye, and is worth a quick click. Once reading the post, it may generate enough interest for the reader to continue and see what your about, see a link for your other posts and you’ve cracked it. So what other shocking titles or ‘grab titles’ could I have used?…

Is Obama really Canadian?  Everyone knows who Obama is, Everyone knows he is the President of the USA, Everyone knows he is American….. Could he really be Canadian?, What implications would that have, could it really be true? Oh my god….. CLICK

Government conspiracy uncovered! – People love scandal, and they always suspect something is going on, God damn I knew it, those suits are always trying to hide something …. – CLICK

 

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A grab line is massively important, If I called this post, ‘titles for you to use to increase your exposure’ it would recieve hits of course it would, but no way near the amount it deserves.

Post Image Having a luring picture that catches the eye, related to your post. Take the image I used on this post for instance, related to the post title and boosts the grab line.

Viral Having one post on your site that goes truely viral will transform your site overnight, blinking on everyones screens around the world constantly, and its the click factor thats going to make that happen, Users tweeting, re-tweeting, digging, facebooking and sometimes even email (do people ever email these days!)

How far to push your title? You want to grab headlines and draw traffic in, but you don’t to to push it too far, So don’t write anything offensive, It could destroy you before you have even started.

What titles are you using?

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