5 Examples of Eye-Catching Titles
I recently read an article about the importance of using numbers in your online headlines or titles. The author Brandon Cox suggests you can get 10% to 20% more readers by using this approach. This could apply to blog posts, email subject lines, advertisements, articles, sales proposals, and reports, as well as many other types of writing. I don't know if that's true or not but I decided to try it.
Notice the title of this blog post. Not just "Examples of Eye-Catching Titles" but "5 Examples." So as promised by the title, here are 5 examples of eye-catching titles with numbers in them.
- 10 Ideas for Freeing Up More Time
- 5 Ways to Advertise Your Business for Free
- 7 Tips for Improving Your Website
- 8 Signs the Economy Is Recovering
- 12 Little-Known Niche Markets on eBay
Alternately, these could be written without numbers (most as "How To's"):
- How to Free Up More Time
- How to Advertise Your Business for Free
- How to Improve Your Website
- How to Tell If the Economy Is Recovering
- Little-Known Niche Markets on eBay
Secret to eye-catching titles
I think there might really be something to this. The numbered titles are a lot more specific. They give the potential reader something to grab on to and something definitive they can expect. By contrast, the non-numbered titles tend to fall flat. I tend to think the ones with numbers are more interesting and are more likely to make someone want to click the link. What do you think?
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