It’s one thing to write great content, but it’s another challenge to get it read and ranked. If your blog titles are boring your blog post will fail no matter how good your article has been written. Enticing titles are what sells your content. To make your headline work, you have to really understand what drives readers to click on, read, share, or interact with your content’s titles or headlines. Find lots of possible headline starters here:
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The Science behind _________
Everything You Know about _________ is Wrong
Amazing ________ Videos
The Truth about _________
Inspiring Quotes on _________
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_______ Rules You Should Follow
How I Increased My _________ Success by 200%
What _________ can Teach You about _______
Money/Time Saving Tips for ______
Are _____ Worth the Money?
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Everything You Need to Know About Getting _____
Top Tips For Hassle Free ______
Ways to Boost Your ________ Without Spending More _____
Ways to ________ on a Budget
Who Else Wants to ____?
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Now You Can ____ for Free!
How to Get _____ in Half the Time
Stars and their ____
_________ Life Styles of the Rich and Famous
Get More and Better ____ With Less Effort
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______ like a Movie Star
Have a ________You Can Be Proud Of
Top _____ Conversation Tips
Finding Your Perfect _______
Plan a Perfect ______
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The Modern Rules of ______
________ Lessons from History
How to Beat the Fear of _____
__________ Scams and How to Avoid Them
How Secure Are Your __________?
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Beware of ______ and How to Spot them
Good Ways NOT to ______
______ Do’s and Don’ts
___ Ways to Screw Up _____
___ things _________ Should Never Do
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What Everyone Ought to Know about ______
_____ Facts and Myths
_____Secrets the _____ Experts Don’t Want You to Know
Most Popular _____ Myths
______ Facts You Need to Know
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The Secret of Successful _____
Little Known Ways to _____
All You Need to Know about _______
Revealed: Why _____
How to Spot a Fake ______
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Little Known Ways to ________
Reasons it’s Better to ______
How to Plan the Ultimate _____
___ Jobs You Can Do Yourself
Creative Ways to ______
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How to be a _______
____ Surprising Things You Can _____
_____ Like an Expert in 10 Easy Steps
# Reasons You Should ______
The World’s Most Unusual _____
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Funniest ______ Stories
Sexiest _______ in the World
The Top _____ Best and Worst _____ in the World
The Worlds Top _____ Most Important ______
Fast Fixes for ______
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The Worst ______ Mistakes Ever
Beginner’s Guide To ______
What Everybody Ought to Know About ___________
Get Rid of __________ Once and For All
Little Known Ways to ____________
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The Secret of ___________
Who else wants to know how to ________________
How to promote your ____________ for maximum response
___ Ways To ____________ For Guaranteed Success
The Complete Guide to _________________
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The most important rule of titles is to respect the reader experience. If you set high expectations in your title that you can’t fulfill in the content, you will lose readers’ trust. Just because you have to be accurate doesn’t mean you can’t find ways to make your title pop.
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Focus on the word “who”: Headlines including the word “who” generated a 22% higher click-through rate than headlines without it. And headlines with eight words had a 21% higher click-through rate than the average title. Keep it short and sweet. Your blog post title will be used as the title tag that appears in the search results. It’s a good idea to keep it below Google’s display limit of 70 characters so that it will appear in its full glory in the search engine results.
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How to Create Curated Content for Your Blog
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In an upcoming book, I listed content that bloggers can use without even writing much, such as info-graphics, videos, images and also “curated content”. It prompted a question what curated content means.
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News aggregation websites, for example, have been curating content from other news websites and from the wire since online news reporting began, and even before that, at newspapers and TV media. Almost every non-fiction guidebook, how-to-guide, and self-help title is an accumulation of curated content.
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What is Content Curation?
Content curation is finding information relevant to your audience from a variety of sources and then sharing it via your blog, website, social media and other communication channels. You write a post based on a given subject and within that post you add snippets from other bloggers posts written on the same subject. In layman’s words: You write about what others write, you comment and you create a summary of their articles.
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Important: Linking
However, you have to give full accreditation in the form of one or more links back to their blog post and other important sites of these authors, e.g. “about”, “bio” or other posts they have written about similar topics. Whether you’re recommending a blog post, article, video, social media update or another online resource, always use the permalink (permanent link) for the specific item, rather than the general website address.
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Any Content can be Curated
As long as you include a link to the author, you can curate any kind of content, for example, you can curate written content, any video material which is shareable and can be embedded, such as YouTube and Vimeo videos, any video images, news from aggregation sites. However, always be aware of copyright issues and check if you are not sure. If you want to engage your visitors you need to find specific and relevant content, whether it is text or images, video or audio.
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Content curation doesn’t include creating totally new content – it’s more about discovering, compiling, and sharing existing content with your online followers (from your blog or social media).
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Blog Post Planning
Set the scene for your subject with a couple of paragraphs and try to include quotes or mention other authoritative bloggers or experts in that field, and introduce other relevant content. There are even tools, such as Zemanta a free WordPress plugin which scans your page as you type and suggests images and content for you to use.
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An example of curated blog content is my former post from Monday this week: “Amazon Book Reviews Worldwide?”
https://www.savvybookwriters.com/amazon-book-reviews-worldwide/
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Accreditation
Keep your quotes brief – one or two sentences – to adhere to fair use guidelines. Simply by placing a link to the original article and a mention of the author will suffice. Images are more mostly covered by copyright, so use your own ones or get them at free photo sites.
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Commentary
Without an engaging commentary, content curation will be no more than taking someone’s content and placing it on your blog page. Give the reader quality content which is relevant to their search, if you can give your own take on the subject and then inject the curated snippets and content into your own thread then you are getting the reader to engage with you on your own ideas.
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Find Great New Content
List the best posts before moving on to the curation process, and check the page rank of the post. A higher page rank will help your own page to rank higher. Choose a part which is interesting to build the story you are writing, copy and paste it into your article and link back to the article that you are taking the snippet from.
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Add a Commentary
In an article ContentMasteryGuide.com suggests:
This is your opportunity to demonstrate your expertise by drawing on great work others have published. Explain why the content you are sharing is relevant to your audience. You could for example start with an introduction to the subject, followed by a snippet taken from another blog, followed by more of your own words, then insert a video from YouTube or an image from your own files. The great thing about curation is that you can use anything as long as it doesn’t affect the copyright, you even could use some text from Twitter or explanations from Wikipedia.
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By designing new interfaces, and making information more accessible, innovative companies have just begun creating the “Curated Web”. With Google recently stating that it favors sharing news and information, it can only enhance your web presence.
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Read More About Curated Content:
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/content-curation-tools
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-collis/6-powerful-tips-to-effect_b_5901856.html
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