Comments on: The Art of Title Bait

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By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:38:04 +0000

Sweet. Title bait is really nice when you can incorporate the keyphrase while at the same time getting in that sarcasm & cynicism that we love so much. A title bait contest would be funny here, don’t you think? We could pick a keyphrase and take submissions…exactly why The Onion is so great…

“U.S. President Applies for Cash Advance Payday Loan”
“German Prime Minister Caught Playing Online Poker”
“Michael Jacko denied Home Mortgage Loan by Sears”

By: A

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:34:30 +0000

Very original idea, giving your articles dishonest titles like tabloids have been doing for ages.

By: Christoph C. Cemper

Christoph C. Cemper — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:00:00 +0000

Thanks for this great post – I really enjoyed it cheers, Christoph

By: IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:24:08 +0000

Graywolf,

You should probably put both possible ways of spelling title bait/titlebait in this post so you rank for both – just like some people do with link bait/linkbait

By: Monday morning SEO reads, and LinkedIn. - Jim Boykin’s Internet Marketing Blog

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:15:36 +0000

[...] Linkbait, yea yea, Think about Title Bait – Gray Wolf. (see our experiment with this at #2 here) [...]

By: michael

michael — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:23:09 +0000

Nice post..
the same principle applies to adwords by the way.
Go into any competetive field and ignore all the ads from the big companies ( more money than writing skill) and you will always find bootstraping entrepeneur that will show up in the top results by sheer writing skill.. without spending a gazillion $$

By: scoreboard

scoreboard — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:00:51 +0000

As SEO’s we get very little opportunity to convey a message. Title’s are our best shot.

Speaking of titles and linkbaiting, I think I pissed off a few of the V7N guys with my “v7ndotcom elursrebmem for Matt Cutts” campaign. I won’t sully your blog with a link drop but I’m convinced there aren’t many better linkbaiting titles than that and my “Save Matt Cutts” PPC campaign to the same effect.

By: stuntdubl

stuntdubl — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:23:31 +0000

Great topic Gee-Dub…I just got done reading a pretty crappy book on creating good direct mail salesletters…the highlight was the section on titles that really worked, which gave me infinite ideas for title bait. I’ve put them up for future reference.

It’s amazing how far a good title will get you. Definitely immense value in crafting effective titles.