Comments on: Writing effective blog headlines

By: timethief

timethief — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:38:38 +0000

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By: Nr14

Nr14 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:01:08 +0000

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By: Top 5 Informative Writing Tips for Bloggers « one cool site

Top 5 Informative Writing Tips for Bloggers « one cool site — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:46:56 +0000

[...] that delivers the most informative writing a reader will intake in a single reading. Use an effective headline that informs readers what they will learn. Place a keyword or keyword phrase as close to the start [...]

By: Gabriel...

Gabriel... — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:58:20 +0000

…I try to avoid punctuation in a headline because I’ve found some feed readers substitute them with “?”, which can make for some bizarre questions. Also, headlines should be distinct from the story body. Turning a sentence into a headline, or giving a headline the structure of a sentence, just seems lazy. Although, if it’s an interesting sentence, I don’t think I’d skip reading the post just because there was an exclamation point.

I do capitalize my headlines almost all the time, and now I’m not sure why. I think it might be a style thing… actually I might have picked it up from book titles, but you’re right, now that I look at them it does look a little… maybe aggressive. At the same time, all lower caps is just wrong.

I just checked my ten-year old copy of the Canadian Press Style Book, and — except for names and a few other examples — headline capitalization is definitely out. Yikes.

By: timethief

timethief — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:05:13 +0000

@Steven
I’m glad to hear that because this blog is meant to be a blogging school type of blog. :)

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:26:22 +0000

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