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SEO Page and Site Optimization with Wordpress – Part Two
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Well I’m continuing my three Part series on Page and Site Optimization with Wordpress. Today I’ll discuss a few more Wordpress plugins that can help your SEO but are little known.
SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress plugin that will automatically update your new images with the correct ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have (ALT and TITLE) already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them based on the options you set in the settings. This will also make the post W3C/xHTML valid.
ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.
TITLE attribute will have a lessor role but is important for visitors as this text will appear in the tooltip when mouse is moved over the image. It can actually be quite verbose if so chosen. In fact as an example, check out the image I have in the upper right hand corner of this post.
SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links searches for keyword phrases that match the titles of your posts and pages and these phrases are then turned into the links. You also have the option of creating links for your tags and categories. The matching is case insensitive and the original case is preserved. There are examples in the first paragraph of this post. The words Site Optimization and Wordpress plugins are also links to tags of this blog.
Everything happens transparently and you can be edited in the options from the administration settings panel.
SEO Super Comments
The complet concept behind this plugin is presented in Presenting SEO Super Comments Concept which explains it in much more detail.
For each user comment that gets created a new dynamic page on the blog, holding the actual comment information will be generated. This page will not actually exist in the database, but will be created dynamically using this WordPress plugin.
This then makes the site’s comments visible to search engines. This is possible because blog comments are crawlable, indexable and rankable content! So by just implementing this plugin, your comments will get crawled and indexed.
All three of these plugins are written by Vladimir Prelovac. You can check out his site at www.PRELOVAC.com
I will finish up with the plugins I now use for SEO within the next couple of days. Till then, have a remarkable day!
SEO Page and Site Optimization with Wordpress – Part One
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I had promised that I was going to provide you with some Wordpress plugins I use for page and site optimization. Instead of having a huge list I thought I’d give a few of the 6-7 plugins that I use for SEO purposes each of the next few days or so. While most of these are no-brainers and will never have to worry about again, some will have to work in conjunction with a few minutes of extra time per post. I will explain each in detail. These plugins are for on-page and on-site SEO Optimization. Because the nature of SEO is always evolving, the use of these plugins sometimes go obsolete because they get incorporated into other plugins and sometimes into the Wordpress base product itself. So feast your eyes on these first two:
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer The ability to PING is what makes blog software highly favorable to static sites. So what is the definition of the word PING?
What Wordpress does is it PINGS or notifys various web servers/sites that you have published a new blog post. These PING sites then do a variety of things. Some add your blog to their directory. Some notify the search engines to come and index your new content. Some add and update blog directories. Basically pinging notifies sites that there is new content. By default, Wordpress give you ONE site that does the pinging. That is http://rpc.pingomatic.com . To be honest this site then notifies several other sites, but I prefer a more comprehensive list. I use 147! Here’s the list. (Do a right click Save As)
So if your like me, right after you figure you’ve got your post completed and hit the Publish button, you go to look at what it looks like. Firstly you should be using preview to see what it looks like, but I know we still forget something, discover a mis-spelling, want to add boldness to a phrase, create space between a paragraph, you name it. So when you hit publish, you are pinging to the list. Then when you bold some text and click update, you are pinging your list. When you add an image and updating you are pinging your list. In fact every time you publish or update you are pinging. This tends to create several pings within a very short time. What can end up happening is the ping sites can BAN you for excessive pinging. Not if you install MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. With the plugin you can limit excessive pinging and control how many times you can ping in a given duration. I have mine set at 1 every 15 minutes is the maximum. You do have to register to get the plugin. You can find it here.
SEO Slugs
Wordpress has come a long way since it early versions with the use of permalinks and url structures. As great as using %postname% is, there is still something that you can do to even further optimize your urls. Enter SEO slugs. What does SEO slugs do? This plugin strips several of the common words like “what”, “you” or “can” out of your post slug to make it more search engine friendly. With SEO Slugs plugin activated, the slugs appear optimized for SEO. As an example, a post titled “What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings” will become http://www.chriskilber.com/immediately-higher-rankings/. You still have the ability to override it by editing your url slug.
I’ll be back tomorrow with a few more.
Enjoy and have a remarkable day.
Psychology of Personal Branding
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Personal Branding
We’ve all heard about Personal Branding. It is your unique selling proposition that will differentiate you from all others. The great thing about Personal Branding is that you don’t have to pretend to be someone your not. In fact, it doesn’t have to perfect either. You will attract people as long as you are genuine in your message.
Psychology
There are a lot of psychological factors in play that cause people to be “Attracted” to you. I don’t mean strictly physical appearance here, though that can have a factor. If you can figure out what these psychological factors are and feature or accent your strong points and identify where you can improve in the others, you will be able to separate yourself from all the others. This may take a bit of introspection on your part. The number one reason people are attracted to someone else is that they feel that they are just like them for a host of reasons. They are looking to try to identify themselves with others.
Characteristics
What makes people identify themselves with others is different for everyone. It can be a combination of many things. It can be, and not limited to, age, gender, physical characteristics, experience, vocabulary, exuberance, and presence. It can differ from day to day as well. It depends on each person’s frame of mind. So no matter what your brand or what your strengths or weakness are, there will be someone who will connect with you, start following you, and start studying what you are doing. In a nutshell, you can’t be everything to everybody, nor should you try. You just need to be YOU. However, there are things that you should try to do though that will attract more than just a narrow band of people.
Your Voice
In your writing, your video, and communications you need to sound confident and sure of yourself. People are attracted to confidence, plain and simple. You need to be honest. If you need to write about a concept that you are not totally unsure of, let your readers know. By being honest and admitting some of your shortcomings people will feel an attraction because they know they are not perfect as well. You can divulge these with a pact to learn more about them and a promise then to write about what you learned. This will provide your readers with a sense of belonging while you discover together.
Where To Go From Here
Personal branding isn’t something that occurs right from the get go. It is something that evolves. You will need to take the time to learn to write better. We all do. What’s the best way? By writing of course. You also will need to read the writing of others, especially successful writers and bloggers. Try and see how they frame their ideas and concepts. Try and isolate how they involve their readers and try to start incorporating those concepts into your own writing. I know I tend to write more in an expository manner and it can become a little dry at times. So these little tips, which actually aren’t so little, will provide you with the means to create a Personal Brand that will shine above the rest.
48 Wordpress Plugins I Can’t Live Without
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Down below I have the forty eight or so plugins that I use on this blog. I have a little blurb about what they do. Because wordpress is so customizable and most of the themes are different, there may be reasons to include one that are missing here and reasons I have some others don’t. But for the most part these are essential. I am almost positive there are new one’s out there that I should have but these have been serving me well. Feel free to suggest others.
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”
All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. As a fan of SEO, I think it’s like putting together a three dimensional puzzle, I like this plugin and it is one of the mainstays of SEO for wordpress. Of special interest is the “Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page:” option. The plugin even has it’s own forum if you’d like to learn more.
(http://semperfiwebdesign.com/forum/)
CommentLuv
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.
Comment Relish
Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘Thank You’ message to users when they first comment on your site.
Contact Form with Captcha
Simple Contact Form with Captcha Enabled
Custom Field Redirect
This plugin will do a 301 redirect on any page where you set the “redirect” key in a custom field. The value you set will be the URL to where the plugin will redirect you. In the dashboard when you create a post you have the ability to enter a custom field. If you create a “redirect” key is will go to the location designated.
Dewplayer
Insert Dewplayer (Flash Mp3 Player) in posts & comments. There are a lot mp3 players. This happens to be the one I’m currently using.
Disable Revisions
Disable revision functions in WordPress and delete all entries of revisions in database. It is extremely important to back up your database before install this plugin. I always hate when there ends up being 8 revisions of the same post. This should be a custom option built into wordpress to begin with.
Exclude Pages from Navigation
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.
Facebook Sharecount
The Facebook Sharecount plugin shows the number of shares on Facebook your posts get and allows users to share it themselves.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
FeedBurner Widget
Adds a sidebar widget to easy customize and display your FeedBurner subscribers stats RSS button.
Get Recent Comments
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.
Make sure you configure this plugin after activation.
Google Friend Connect Integration
Easily integrate Google Friend Connect with Wordpress. To get started, please enter your Google Friend Connect Site Id number in the GFC Integration admin page and choose whether to turn on the social bar or not. You can add Google Friend Connect gadgets to your sidebars by visiting the widgets page. For help and support see the official Google Friend Connect integration for WordPress page.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
Homepage Excerpts
Homepage Excerpts are great when your theme doesn’t provide this functionality.
LinkWithin
Displays recommended stories and associated thumbnails from your blog. This is at the bottom of all my single posts. It provides nice pictures you see below.
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin. The reasoning behind this is your blog will ping technorati and many other ping services. If you edit your blog, let’s say a typo or misspelling or indentation etc, every time you hit publish you are pinging the services. You may be banned and didn’t even know it. When this goes, so does your SEO. Visit plugin site
One Click Plugin Updater
Upgrade plugins with a single click, install new plugins or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plugins have update notifications enabled, control how often WordPress checks for updates, and more.
ONW Simple Contact Form
This Plugin creates a simple contact form.
Popularity Contest
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Widgets and Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.
Random Pages widget
This is a widget that displays a list of random pages/posts on your widgetized sidebar.
Recent Posts
Returns a list of the most recent posts.
Robots Meta
This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
RSS Shortcode
Makes it easy to display an RSS feed on a page
SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
SEO Super Comments
Use your blog comments to get more traffic.
SexyBookmarks
SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.
SimplePie Core
Does little else but load the core SimplePie API library for any extension that wants to utilize it. It is needed for the Single RSS Colleague plugin found below.
Simple Tags
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags !
Single RSS Colleague
A plugin to feature a colleague or tribe member for syndication. You will find it under by social badges on the right hand side bar labeled “Visit My Colleagues”. I will be making this available to everyone sometime next week.
Subscribe To Comments
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
Translate
Adds a sidebar widget to display languages into which you can translate your blog.
TweetMeme Retweet Button
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
Ultimate Google Analytics
Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.
What Would Seth Godin Do
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.
wp-cache
Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. One note of caution. TURN this off anytime you are changing anything. Then when you are done, turn it back on.
WP-Cumulus
Flash based Tag Cloud for WordPress
WP-DBManager
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
WP-PageNavi
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
WP-Print
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
WP-Sticky
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog. Modified from Adhesive by Owen Winkler.
WP-UserOnline
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).
WP Security Scan
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.
We Are The Future
Posted by: | Comments10 Things Maybe You Didn’t Know About Me
Posted by: | CommentsHey, everyone. Thought I’d give you a little bit of myself here. If I have a self confessed fault. It seems like I’m all business all the time. Everyone knows that all work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. But those that know me know different. So other than an old stale About Me page I thought I’d do one of those “Whatever you call it’s”, and answer some questions so you can learn what makes me tick. In this case I get to make up the questions too, so you’ll have some insight into my thoughts and maybe you’ll even read something that is shockingly funny or avant-garde.
1. What kind of music do you like?
Well, I like all kinds of music. There’s also a lot I don’t. I love jazz guitar but when it gets brassy, I hate it. I play guitar but didn’t take it up till after I graduated from high school. In college I used to play for beer and broads. I’m still very partial to improvising blues, especially in the key of E. There is some new music I like but I would prefer to listen to something I already know I like. Same with going out to eat. When I find something that I like at a restaurant I order the next 50 times I eat there. There are several restaurants where the staff already knows exactly what I want. I even know exactly what the bill will end up being including tip. I digress. I like the guitar playing of Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Methany, BB King, Luther Alison, Carlos Santana, Richie Blackmore, Jimi Page, Pete Townshend, Steve Howe, and Frank Zappa. So there’s a lot of 70’s influence there and boy bands need not apply.
2. Do you like sports?
Today, I like watching sports that I’ve participated in. I’ve always been a fan of the underdog. As a kid I remember watching the Midwest brand of All Star Wrestling. It was a group started by Olympian wrestler Vern Gagne. Of course my grandfather, Adam was a Minnesota Twins fan, even though we grew up in North Dakota. So as a kid as far back as I can remember, the only toys I ever needed was a bat, ball, and glove. There was a group of 8-10 of us who had a vacant lot in our neighborhood. We played from sun up to sun down. As I approached middle school there were organized sports at school so I played football and wrestled. I wrestled for over 8 years through high school. I was pretty good to. I ended up winning around 80% of my matches throughout my career. Then after I got married I had a son, Andrew, who finally reached the age of 8, and he wanted to participate in some kind of martial arts. So he started taking Tae-Kwon Do lessons. I eventually joined. I had my knee reconstructed 15 years prior so I said I’d do it till my knee couldn’t do it any more. My knee never did give out and I became a black belt at the age of 40 around 4 years later. I even did competitive Olympic sparring and was Minnesota state champ one year. I’ve had some health issues, mostly orthopedic in nature and haven’t practiced in about 8 years or so. I would love to start up again. So now I’m vicariously living my life through another 40 something name Brett Farve. Didn’t I say I like to pull for the underdog. Doing what he is at age 40 is something! I just love that it bothers some of the Packer fans as well.
3. If you could do anything you want?
I really like going to visit places that no one else in their right mind would think of going. I would love to go through Europe on roads where the speed limit is not faster than 30 mph. I’d like to stop at every little town and village and meet with the people. I’ve spent a lot of time in eastern Europe in places there are no tourists. I got to sample the culture, the people, and experience things most tourist don’t. I remember one morning I was staying at a flat in Kishinev Moldova and thought I’d get up early to go to the market. All the bread is cooked fresh every day and I just love the bread over there. Anyways, it was not even 6:00 am yet and I went to the bazaar market to the kiosk where I could get bread. I sat there for a while and another gentlemen sat down and nodded to me and spoke to me in Russian. It was small talk so I understood it so I just answered, “Da”, yes. Well we were there for 10-15 minutes and he started talking up a storm. I understood a few words here and there so I could get the gist of what he was talking about. I just didn’t know how to answer. All of a sudden he squinted his eyes and looked at me funny as if expecting me to answer a question. All I could say, and I do say this very well in Russian, is “I do not understand the Russian language very well. I am an American tourist.” He looked at me, slapped his forehead with his palm and we just laughed. Those types of moments are priceless. The bakery did open. I then realized that I had no idea how much something would cost and they had no prices on any of their stuff. I didn’t want to be taken advantage of. I had to wait till someone got up who could help me at the market. It ended up being a 7 year old who knew how much bread cost. She also knew how much a quart of Chisinau beer costs as well. I could go on about my experiences in foreign countries, Amsterdam, Bucharest, and Prague. That’s what I’d like to do.
4. Do you like to fly?
It depends on what your definition of what the word “fly” is. My mother used to teach flying. She was the first female flight instructor in the state of North Dakota. My father used to build and rebuild aircraft. He would disassemble every nut and washer from aircraft, recondition them, including rebuilding the engines, or powerhouses as they call them. Needless to say, I got to spend quite a bit of time in the air. That’s real flying. Sitting in an old Piper Cub or Tri-pacer following the river barely above the river was a blast. Those small aircraft were at the mercy of any winds. I remember coming in for landings with a strong cross wind. It felt like you were flying sideways to land and at the last second pushing the rudder pedal hard down to straighten out so your wheels were facing in the same direction you were moving. I also got to ride in some small aircraft literally falling out of the sky on the back of the plane upside down. There’s no amusement ride that can match that. As to flying in a modern passenger jet, you can have it. I’ve felt much safer in a small aircraft.
5. What is your favorite color and why?
I like blue and I’m not sure why.
6. Why are man hole covers round?
I was once asked this in a job interview. Another question in the same interview was if you could be an ingredient on a pizza, what would it be and why? Strange interview. I never did get the job either. Well the reason man hole covers are round is because you never wanted them to fall in because it could hit someone and they would be hard to get out. You see the edges of a manhole cover have a lip on them that is always wider than the opening it had to cover. It could fit on the hole but never fall into.
7. Do you know who Illya Kuryakin is?
Now, I’m dating myself. There used to be this show on NBC called Man From UNCLE. One of the characters in the show was played by David McCallum. He was supposedly from Russia and his name was Illya Kuryakin. I liked his character, well actually the show. It was at a time when where there was espionage, spies, and international intrigue surrounding these really cool characters, so I thought. You can read more about him here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illya_Kuryakin
8. What is your favorite cartoon?
Well it comes down to two. I watched cartoons religiously every Saturday morning starting at 7:00 till 10:30 or so. My favorite cartoons today, were not ones I watched back then. I like Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn. Both of these characters had a penchant for mischief. I still do. I may one day do a Youtube video of my impression of Daffy duck. You’ll be rolling on the floor.
9. What kind of movies do you like?
I like movies that are historically based. Some of my favorites are Empire of the Sun, The Patriot, The Last Emperor, 300, Apocalypto, Braveheart, and some older ones, and Hercules Meets the Three Stooges. I also like any movie dealing with time travel. It so intrigues me. So those movies would be The Time Machine and any of the Back to the Future series. Those will be forever classics in my mind. Another movie based on going back in time I could watch over and over and over is Ground Hog day with Bill Murray. Wouldn’t that be cool if you could live a day of your life over and over like he did. He had time to become a piano player, ice sculptor, he knew everything about everybody. There’s a teaching moment here that I can’t pass up. We can do those things because it’s never too late to learn something. Like sports, I like characters that are underdogs and prevail over something. So those are the kinds of movies I like.
10. What’s your favorite food?
It starts with a P and has 2 Z’s in it. Yes Pizza! I don’t mean pizza that you buy. No Dominos or Papa Murphy’s for me. I like pizza that I make. I remember as a kid I always hated having to wait for my mother to get home to cook something to eat. I learned at an early age how to cook. My mother would teach me how to make things or I’d figure it out myself and I would start preparing many days prior to here getting home so we could eat soon after she arrived home. So my mother used to cook a lot of things from scratch. So I remember always having pizza. Over the years I have refined and modified slightly the recipes she taught me but today there is nothing like a home made pizza made by me. My wife loves it and anyone who has it does as well. I use flour, water, eggs, salt, tomato paste, tomatoes, chives, onions, garlic, green peppers, hot spicy Italian sausage, pepperoni, dried hot peppers, mozzarella cheese, and sometimes mushrooms. My mouth is watering writing about it. Hmmm
So… I’d like to hear a little quip from you answering one of these questions. I’m not going to send this around or put anyone on the spot or anything. But if you have an answer or maybe even your own question, I’d love to hear it.
I’d also appreciate a click of the Facebook or Tweetmeme button above. Time to go. I have to run to the market and get some pepperoni.
101 Daily Traffic Strategies
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I’ve been on a campaign of sorts to get people to sign up for my “Daily 101 FREE Traffic Generating Strategies”. Over 100 of you have. I appreciate it very much. I’m going to give you a link to one of them as a sample below. I think you’ll find that these are much more than simple 2 or 3 sentence tips.
Some of the Traffic Generating Strategies use video and even audio in addition to in depth analysis of various topics whose central theme is to get more traffic to your blog. Each of the Strategies are worthy of posting or creating an E-book from. Some of the titles are, “Acknowledge and Engage”, “Commenting”, “Making Your Blog Exceptional”, “Making Your Opt In Go Viral”, “Personal Branding”, and “3 Essential Things You HAVE To Have on Your Blog”.
Here is a link to just one of the them. 101 Traffic Tips | #11 | Commenting. This is an example of only part of one. I also have ideas, commentary, and strategies contained in the Daily notification email as well. They are not simply an email pointing to the link. There is content there as well. As you can see, it is almost like having a blog behind the blog. There’s no reason you shouldn’t sign up.
You can sign up on the right hand side or at Daily 101 FREE Traffic Generating Strategies.
I have an ongoing CONTEST as well. I am giving away a copy of Jonathan Budd’s “Top Producer Mastermind Formula” valued at $500. When following the strategies of mine in conjunction with Jonathan’s you will have a winning combination and will become a Top Producer.
Let your friends know as well.
Have a remarkable day!
Discover How To Create Irresistible and Tempting Titles
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What’s in a title?
How you title things make a tremendous impact on whether people will read or consider reading content. In this context, content is in the form of emails, blog posts, tweets, Ezine articles, and other forms of communication that you want others to read. In all cases the main goal is to get people to open, click, or otherwise save or bookmark for reading later. Let’s examine some of the forms of communication.
Email Subjects
The title is contained as what in email parlance as the subject. Subjects are treated a little bit differently based on who the email is coming from. The difference is based on one thing. That is trust. If the email is coming from someone they trust, friends and family for sure, they will open. But there is also information that was requested and comes in the form of newsletters, RSS feeds, and other aggregations of information. If someone doesn’t recognize the senders name they are typically going to look at the subject and make a determination as to what they are going to do. What the subject contains will determine the reader’s next actions. If it’s from you, you want to have as an inviting subject as possible.
Blog Post Titles
A blog post title works in the same way as a subject line in an email. Your objective is to get people to read your post. Hopefully, when your blog post is syndicated throughout the Internet via Twitter tweets, Facebook notes, blog backlinks, email bodies, and other forms of electronic communication it will compel people to open and read it. Another factor that has to be considered in blog post titles is the SEO factor. Your title should both contain a keyword or two and also be relevant to the content that is contained in it. If you have a title about cars, your content better not be about plants. I’ll talk about some of the psychological factors below.
Ezine Articles
Titles should work the same way as blog post titles but should probably have more of an emphasis on keywords than actions or questions contained in the title. Most people simply do not search Ezines. They use Google and Google recommends the Ezine articles to them. The more SEO friendly the title, the better the ranking and higher it’s possibility to be towards the top of the search. I also recommend your resource box contain a link to your blog.
Twitter Tweets
Now tweets per se don’t have the concept of a title but it should be contained some where in the 140 characters. Having important attention grabbing phrases that are contained in the actual article with the title in your tweets will help people feel compelled to click them and follow the link over to the source. Using certain psychological keywords will raise the probability of the tweet being opened. They will grab the attention of the readers.
In all these examples, if you understand underlying psychological impulses and urges you can use them to your advantage. So if we ask the question, what do people want?, what do people respond to?, what do people have an interest in?, and are people interested in?, this should provide us with some clues to help formulate a title. Here are some different types of titles that you should strive for?
Types of Titles
- Tell them something true about them and then tell them to take action.
- Create compelling curiosity.
- Make claims that are almost unbelievable. (Be able to back them up)
- Create something of high interest to target direct interests.
- Use humor. If you can make them laugh they will click.
- Inspire and motivate them. If they feel good about themselves and they will act.
- Make them mysterious. People like mysteries.
- Appeal to their logic. Restate something they believe strongly.
So these are the categories or types of possible titles or subjects that can be used. Now that we know what it is we need to formulate what words can we use that will compel people to act. We need to use words that influence, persuade, and motivate people to act, (click, read, signup, etc…). This can be accomplished by using words that can help people image something. They are words that describe things in ways that make them bigger than life. They are words that evoke emotion. Here are some words that will practically compel people to their natural predispositions to investigate things that are curious, humorous, mysterious, logical, interesting, and bold. This of course is not an exhaustible list. They contain:
Words to Use
| irresistible | untold | boggle | double |
| triple | quadruple | unstoppable | potent |
| banned | phenomenal | willing | calculated |
| psychological | seduce | spell binding | unable |
| magnet | effortless | insatiable | secret |
| record-breaking | amazing | cutting edge | incalculable |
| absolute | thrilled | legendary | boost |
| enhance | improve | benefits | enjoy |
| reduce | release | loosen | combat |
| discover | achieve | counter | increase |
| how-to | discover | master | create |
| generate | optimize | enliven | improve |
| advanced | cultivate | progress | revamp |
| refine | upgrade | align | balance |
| cheerful | enthusiastic | inclined | zealous |
| attract | allure | induce | invite |
| tempting | follow | substitute | uncomplicated |
| simple | agile | knowing | powerful |
| able | clever | straightforward | intricate |
Conclusion
The list could go on and on. Using these words in your titles and subjects along with a keyword will work wonders for your traffic. Take the time to craft titles that will draw people into your world, get them to click it, and then read it. Spend more time on this aspect of your writing and you will be guaranteed to see results.
What other words do you like to use?
What are some titles that you’ve used that have worked for you?
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