27 Bloggers Talk about Writing Better Headlines

One of the most oft-mentioned topics on blogs about blogging is how to write a great headline. The right headline makes your post more likely to be shared on social media, attracts more links, optimize your website for search engines, and end world hunger. There are so many resources out there, yet people still ask me for tips all the time. You all have said things that are much smarter and more interesting than I could ever hope to say – so here’s a round up of what the best bloggers out there are saying about writing awesome headlines:

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1. 65 Exciting Words to Spice up Your Blog Headlines at Blogussion by Alex, @afrais
2. All You Need To know About Good Headline Creation that Work at 1st Web Designer by Rean John Uehara, @ueharataichou
3. Blog Content Tip – Titles are Everything at Problogger by Darren Rowse, @problogger
4. Do Your Readers Trust You? On Headline Trickery at For Bloggers, By Bloggers by Judy Dunn, @CatsEyeWriter
5. Down with Deb Ng! Headline Writing 101 at Freelance Writing Jobs by Terreece M. Clarke, @Terreece
6. Everything You Need To Know About Writing Blog Headlines at DavidRisley.com by David Risley, @davidrisley
7. Headline Writing for PPC Ads: Dos and Don’ts at Word Stream by by Elisa Gabbert
8. Headline v. Content: Does the Carpet Match the Drapes? at Kommein by Deb Ng, @debng
9. How Important Are Blog Headlines? at Digital Marketing Content Agents by Greg Taylor, @grt2studios
10. How to Write Kickass Blog Post Titles at Netchunks by Shiva Chettri, @netchunks
11. How to Write Magnetic Headlines (11-part series) at Copyblogger by Brian Clark, @Copyblogger
12. How to Write Quality Query Letters: Write a Great Headline at PoeWar by John Hewitt, @poewar
13. Movie Titles Can Teach You to Write Better Title Tags and Headlines at PaperStreet by Pete Boyd, @peteboyd
14. Please, Please, Please Write Informative Headlines at Poynter by Steffen Fjaervik
15. Presure was Just too Great to Write a Good Headline About Good Headlines at Poynter by David Michelmore
16. Secrets to Writing Good Headlines Guaranteed to Increase Traffic at Little Books with a Big Message by Julia M Lindsey, @ourlittlebooks
17. The Key To Attention-Getting Headlines at Empowered Online Entrepreneurs byElmar Sandyck, @ElmarSandyck
18. The Secret To Driving Blog Traffic at Social Media Explorer by Jason Falls, @jasonfalls
19. The Secret to Writing Effective Headlines That Will Get Your Blog Posts Read at Meet Freddy Rodriguez by Freddy Rodriguez, @imcoachfreddy
20. The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines that Kill at Freelance Switch by Leo Babauta @zen_habits
21. Three SEO Healting Writing Tips at Freelance Writing Jobs by Terreece M. Clarke, @Terreece
22. Using Numbers in Headlines: Is the Game Changing? at The Blog Herald by Andrew G.R., @jobacle
23. What’s Even More Important Than a Well Written Headline? at Chrisg.com by Chris Garrett, @chrisgarrett
24. Writing Headlines for Social Media or Search Engines at DavidRisley.com by David Risley, @davidrisley
25. Writing killer home page headlines at The Writer’s Bloc by Dave Kramer, @TheWritersBloc
26. Writing Website Content Headlines at Men with Pens by James Chartrand, @menwithpens

Ok, Ok…I wrote one too: Headlines Mean Nothing If Your Don’t Deliver – so that brings our total to 27 posts about blog headlines. Each have a few tips, so that’s easily over 100 opinions about writing better headlines. Whew. I’m going to file this one under the category “New Media News & Education” because if that isn’t enough education to keep you busy for the rest of the week, i don’t know what is!

(For the record, I listed posts in alphabetical order, not in some kind of ranking order.)

Over to you: link us to your post about headlines or give us your best headline tip.

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