Titles (reviewed)
A month ago, I wrote a post about how much I despise blog titles and my boycott against the tradition of them. I challenged myself to break the status quo and only use one word in my blog titles. After one month, I have to say I still don’t like blog titles and I love this new approach. It is actually more difficult than I thought it would be, coming up with just one word, but it has allowed me more freedom with my writing and less stress about the titles.
One of the questions/comments I received when I started the plan was to look at my analytics and see how they were effected. While I noticed a small drop in searching, I noticed more people clicking on my posts to read them from twitter – which means that the one word was either more intriguing or easier for people to understand. I also had a few people comment that certain posts really could have used two or three word titles to help them to make more sense. This was a valid point, and I agree that forcing myself to use only one word was stifling my creativity a bit.
Overall, I learned that I prefer one word titles because then the content takes center stage – but that sometimes, one word is not enough. So from this point on, I am going to treat titles in the same manner that I have been in the last month – as an after thought and not as important as the content – but not worry about the number of words that I use. Will I probably try to use less words? Absolutely! But sticking to only one word for every post? Probably not.
What did you think of the one word titles?
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