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Catchy titles are always recommended to attract attention of your readers. The article with the most attractive title on this blog will be My Traffic Is Gone! My Blog Is Dying!. People will feel like clicking on the link if you have a catchy title.

Many people have this creativity to produce an attractive and interesting title to sabotage social media or to get attention for their articles. However, you must make sure that your title is not way too catchy to the extent that it does not match your content any more.

What will happen if your title is too catchy and your articles just don’t match it? Can’t think of it? Let me tell you.

• High First Time, No Return Visits
  If you have the routine to market every posts of yours, an over-catchy title will surely bring you a lot of traffic but most of them will be passing traffic, which means they will come and go. These readers might return, but the chances are low. This is because your title “tricked” them into your site which offers something way below their expectations.
• Sarcastic and Negative Comments

  

  Try browsing through the comments section of the front page of Digg. If you read them one-by-one or you have had a Digg effect before, you will know how aggressive and stern the users of social media are. They come, they don’t like it and a thumbs down will be shown right in front of you. Don’t trick them, the consequences are really bad.

• Decreased Subscriber Base
  Your readers subscribe to you because of your contents, not because you have all the catchy words in your title that makes their readers look good. Some subscribers have over 100 titles in their feed reader a day, appealing for their attention. If your posts is chosen because of the catchy title and what you actually offer is crap, you deserved it if your blog gets unsubscribed from the reader.

Are these consequences bad enough for you to focus on what I will be writing after this about how you can overcome over-creativeness of post titles? Let’s move on then.

• Content First, Title Follows
  When you want to write an article and thought of using a catchy title, write the article first although the title bar appears first in your blog post editor. When you write an article, you tend to think about the points and at the same time read it over and over again. This process will remind you what you are writing of and what is the keywords most commonly used. Writing the catchy title first might make you go completely off-tangent with what you are writing in your contents.
• Repeat the Title by Mouth

  

  After you have write out the attractive title, read it a few times by mouth. Do you find it odd? Do you find your tongue got stuck? If it is not, then post it. The reason for this last check is for you to make sure that the title is attractive enough but at the same time, it is relevant and makes sense.

• Keywords in Title
  It is always important for your keywords which are related to your articles to appear in your title. This reaps benefits for you, search engine optimization-wise and readers’ usability-wise. Also, having keywords in your title will not make your title goes too irrelevant with what you plan to write.

I hope all the above simple guides will help you out in planning your next article with a catchy title. Have you tried using a catchy title for your articles before? Mind to share the permalink of the articles? What have you done before a catchy title is being written as the title of your article? Do you have something to say about my tips above?

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