Category: Blogging

Regardless how good your blog content is, all your efforts would have gone to waste if nobody reads it. So it’s really important to get your headline right when publishing your article. Ideally, you would need a catchy blog headline to draw your readers to click through to read your blog article.

The main thing to creating an amazing headline is to know your target audience well. Your headline must appeal to them, highlight their pain points and let them know how they will benefit from reading your article.

Below are some examples of catchy headlines that work:-

Tips to Creating Attention-Grabbing Blog Headlines 

1. Use the Word ‘Best’

Everyone wants to be the top of the pack. Nobody wants to be second best. So whenever someone searches a solution or advice on anything, they would most probably key in the word ‘best’ in the internet search engine. 

Examples of the word ‘Best’ in headlines are below:

The Best Guide to Buying Clothes Online

Best Financial Advice You Need to Get Out of Debt

The Best Ways to Lose Weight in a Week

The Best Places to Visit in Europe

2. ‘Making Life Easier’ Headlines

In our face-paced society, everybody wants to solve things fast. So if your headline has the words ‘fastest’, ‘quickest’ or ‘easiest’, then your readers will be inclined to read your article as it will benefit them.

Examples of the word ‘fastest’ in headlines are below:

The Fastest Way to Cooking Beef Casserole

Learn the Fastest Technique to Closing a Sale

Examples of the word ‘quickest’ in headlines are below:

The Quickest Way to Touch Typing

The Quickest Method to Peeling Apples

Examples of the word ‘easiest’ in headlines are below:

Discover the Easiest Way to Become a Freelance Writer

The Easiest Way to Party Planning

3. Adding the Word ‘Simple’ in Headlines

People often fear that they cannot solve certain things if the steps are too complicated. Adding the word ‘simple’ helps to let them know that it will be possible for them to solve their challenges and only minimal effort and time would be required. 

Examples of the word ‘simple’ in headlines are below:

Simple Steps to Prepare Picnic Food

Simple Tips to Learn Piano

4. Create Curiosity with ‘Why do people do certain things’ Headlines

Your readers will admire certain people or groups of people. So if your article content is about revealing why these people do certain things, then your headline should let them know – ‘Why do these peoples or groups do certain things’.

Examples of the word ‘why’ in headlines are below:

Why Rich People Think Before Buying

Why Successful People Never Give Up

5. Let Your Readers Learn from the Experience of Others

Nobody likes to make mistakes. So your readers would like to learn from the mistakes of others so that they can avoid doing things wrongly.

Examples of headlines that talks about mistakes are below:

What I Learned From Summer Camp Changed My Life

Common Mistakes Made by Internet Newbies

6. List to Certain Things

People also like list posts. I guess many like to have solutions and ideas listed so that the brain can easily digest these information.

Examples of headlines that list things are below:

The Ultimate List to Solving Your Monthly Budgeting

Guidelines to Get a Good Sales Result

Top Trends to Buying Shoes Online

7. Headlines That Make Readers Feel Stupid If They Don’t Know Things

Some headlines make the readers feel stupid if they don’t know things. So when viewers read that headline, they would automatically feel that they should read the article so that they won’t look stupid.

Examples of the ‘don’t look stupid’ headlines are below:

Common Mistakes That Would Make You Fail at Your Exam

9 Mistakes That Could Destroy Your Career

Top Facial Cleansing Mistakes That You Must Avoid

8. Headlines That Make Readers Wonder If They Are Doing The Right Thing

This headline often plays on readers’ minds. It makes them feel in doubt whether they are doing certain things right. This will make them want to read your content.

Examples of headlines with this concept are:-

Are You Using The Right Cooking Oil?

Are You Exercising The Right Way?

Do You Have the Right Eating Diet for Your Age?

9. Two Competing Words or Concepts

Whenever your potential readers are uncertain about two competing words or concepts, they would most likely  type ‘word/concept A’ vs ‘word/concept B’ into the internet search engine. So there would be a high chance that your article will be picked up by them.

Examples of headlines with this concept are:-

Wooden vs Aluminium Blinds: Which is Best?

Desktop vs Laptop: Which is Better?

10. Headline That Drives Curiosity

If you have a story that creates curiosity, then there’s an even higher chance that your potential readers will click through to your article.

If you have a story that creates curiosity, then there’s an even higher chance that your potential readers will click through to your article.

Examples of headlines that create curiosity:-

This Guy Taught His Dog How to Talk: Methods Revealed!

Secret Formula to Winning Lottery by Mathematics Student

11. Using Numbers in Headlines

People will be more likely to click through to your articles if you include numbers in your headlines. This is especially the case if you use odd number as opposed to even numbers.

Examples of headlines that create curiosity:-

19 Ways to Feeling Great in the Morning

27 Furniture Ideas for Your Home

12. Headlines That Create Urgency

You can also create urgency to make your readers click through to your content. This can be done by including words such as ‘now’.

Examples of headlines that create urgency:-

12 Money Saving Tips You Should Know Right Now

15 Methods That Will Grow Your Blog Now

13. Stating Things That Readers Didn’t Know About

If you created content that your readers didn’t know about, then there’s a high chance that they will want to read your article.

Examples of headlines state things that readers didn’t know about:-

Secret Power Writing Tips That You Didn’t Know

Newly Released Audio Equipment That You Never Seen

14. Letting People Know That Certain Things Are Myths

People will be eager to read your article if it involves letting them know that certain things that they thought were true were actually myths.

Examples of headlines state things that readers didn’t know about:-

Alien Spaceship Found in Lake Just a Myth

Mermaid Found at the Bottom of the Ocean Was a Myth

15. How to Do Things Like a Pro

As everyone wants to be the best in everything they do, headlines that help them achieve this will be popular.

Examples of headlines lets readers do things like a pro:-

How to Do Video Editing Like a Pro

How to Sing Like a Pro

16. Top Must-Haves

This will make your readers feel as if they are missing out on something if they do not read your article.

Examples of headlines that feature top must-haves:-

Top 10 Great Blog Widgets That You Must Have

11 Most Powerful Kitchen Gadgets That You Must Have

17. Rules That You Should Break

Everybody has a cheeky side. So when your headline gives them ‘permission’ to break certain rules, then they gladly read your content.

Examples of headlines that let you know about rules that you should break:-

17 Crazy Study Habits That You Should Break

Business Writing Rules That Everyone Should Break

Have you tried these catchy blog headlines before and gotten great results? Do you have any other tips to share?

References:
https://theblogpress.com/blog/10-blog-headlines/
https://neilpatel.com/blog/the-step-by-step-guide-to-writing-powerful-headlines/
https://goinswriter.com/catchy-headlines/

Whether you’re an experienced or new blogger, I’m sure that there would be a time when you have struggled to engaging blog content ideas for your viewers.

Writing a blog post can be really challenging especially if you run out of topics to write about.  The worst thing you would want to do is write an article for the sake of publishing it.

To help you in your future blog posts, I’ve prepared a simple guide that you can follow to determine future article for your website that would engage your readers.

How to Generate Engaging Blog Posts

Forum

To help you in your future blog posts, I’ve prepared a simple guide that you can follow to determine future article for your website that would engage your readers.

A really great place to find blog topics that would engage your readers is to visit forums related to your blog niche.

For instance, if you have a website on gardening, you would visit the Gardening-Forums website below to search for topics.

An important tip is to look out for the latest forum posts and see how many readers engage with the post.

Buzzsumo.com

You can also go to Buzzsumo.com to search on a topic related to your niche to get ideas on what to write about.

For this exercise, I will type in ‘dancing’ in the search bar of Buzzsumo.com to see what happens.

And as you can see below, below are the articles that have social media engagements based the topic you have searched. You can view the exact number of social media engagements that were generated by each article too.

Google Trends

Another tool that you can use for blog content is Google Trends. With this tool, you will be able to search for trending topics related to a certain topic of your interest. You will also be able to find related topics to the topic that you have searched.

You can narrow down the search based on country.  For this exercise, I have chosen ‘United States’ as the country and ‘music’ as the search term.

Google News

Besides Google Trends, you can also search for breaking news on Google News. What I like about it is that this webpage lets you search by categories and provides you a list of top stories.

Social media shares

The best way to do this is to sign up for social media accounts with popular social media channels such as YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest Twitter and Instagram.

If you actively search for topics related to your blog niche and follow influencers in your field through these channels, you will receive social media shares to see which topics resonate well with readers within your niche.

A good tip is to see which posts have generated a lot of user engagements before attempting to write an article on that specific topic.

Other blogs in your industry

It is also beneficial to visit other blogs that write articles on topics related to your industry or niche. By reading the content produced by other bloggers, you may get more blog ideas on what to write for your next post.

Quora

A really cool website that can also help you to get ideas for your blog is Quora.com. All you need to do is let them know what topic you want to search and you will be able to see what questions are posted in the community. You can use these questions for inspiration to write your upcoming article.

Comments from blogs

Besides reading industry related blog posts, you can also get ideas from the comments from each blog post.

For an example, I would type ‘how to make a coffee table + blog’ to find a related blog post in Google Search once I’ve decided on the topic I’d like to write about after searching several other industry related blog posts.

Then I found this really great website called A Beautiful Mess, which teaches me how to create my own coffee table.

After this, I went to the comment section to search for more ideas, and found this comment from Morgan who suggested to make a plant stand.

This could be potentially another blog post for me!

Magazines

If you have a local bookstore where you live, then you can head to their magazine rack and search for magazines related to your niche. Budget permitting, you can subscribe to several industry related magazines so that you get a continuous flow of ideas for your blog development.

Television shows

Depending on your blog niche, you may be able to find television shows that are directly related to your website. This is especially the case if you own a cooking, home improvement / interior design, financial advice, property, food or travel blogs. 

Conference or event topics

Another really useful tip is to find out conferences and events related to your blog niche. Most often, in the conference or event official website, you will be able to download their event itinerary.  Read through their itinerary and you will be able to see some trending topics that you can write about in your blog. This would definitely be engaging to your audience as these topics have been hand-picked by professionals in the field.

Solutions to your own challenges

Another way to find ideas for your blog post is to write articles that offer solutions to your own challenges. This is of course provided the challenges that you solve are related to your blog niche. In the internet, people are often finding solutions to problems. So if your article can help them to solve their challenges, then you’ll have readers who will appreciate and engage with your post.

And that’s it. I hope you’ll be able to generate some awesome blog content ideas that engage your readers.

Tried any of these tips and managed to produce a great article? Share your successes in the comment section below.

References:
https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/finding-blog-post-ideas/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2015/04/01/10-ways-to-get-content-for-your-blog/#6e434a0d7d04
https://www.quora.com/How-do-bloggers-find-content-for-their-blog
https://www.hartzer.com/how-to-find-content-for-your-blog/