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Do you know how effective is your title? Is your title attractive enough to catch your readers eye? Sometime I just flip through over 1000 titles in Google reader. I only click and read those articles with good title.

Its a must for blogger to write a good title before the contents. Sometime we just think how to make our title SEO friendly, but never think of how attractive is it.

7 Formulas to Write Attractive Title

There 7 formulas that I think is effective enough to attract a person’s attention on the title itself. Try it and see the results yourself:

1. [thing] vs [thing]

When compare between 2 things, readers understand it once at a glance.

• Windows Live VS Google Pack

• HD DVD vs Blu-ray

2. Are you [anything]

A good question structure that make your readers think.

• Are you better than ProBlogger ?

3. The Secret of [action]

Use the word “secret” to catch your readers eyes.

• The Secret of iPod Touch

• The Secret of Private Advertising

4. How [action] Made Me [positive result]

This formula is suitable for “how to” articles. Best for tutorial contents:

• How Permalinks Format Made Me Increase Traffic
• How Feedburner made me some Money
• How rssHugger Increase my RSS readers

5. [number] ways to [action]

A must use formula when write for some blog tips.

• 7 ways to Get more comments

6. [action] like [positive result]

This formula emphasize the important of the action, and make the action stand out!

• Own Magazine Covers like Stars

7.Warning: [serious msg]

This method is definitely get readers high attention. Suitable for important news or announcement:

• Warning: Don’t Spam your Twitter

• Warning: Protect Your Computer from Worm!

• Warning: Download at your Own Risk !

Which formula you think is the most attractive?

[tips: CopyBlogger]

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