By gst
via ajaxninja.com
Published: Sep 15 2007 / 14:19
The headline is not an exaggeration. I went from about 100 unique visits a day to 2000+ unique visits a day as a result of changing the way I wrote my headlines and it’s only been a week or two since I started improving them.
The first thing that my new headlines did was make it remarkably easy for AjaxNinja to make it to the front pages of DZone, DotNetKicks. Want to know why it was so easy? Take a look at the top 3 headlines on DZone as of writing this.
Comments
bulgroz replied ago:
Not a link for developers.
GuyPascarella replied ago:
Agreed
rick replied ago:
The "first 3" stories listed on DZone's homepage at any given time are not the "top 3" in the sense that this author implies. Instead, they are merely the three stories most recently promoted, so naturally they have fewer views and clicks than stories that have been promoted for longer and have run their course.
I'd love for people to learn to write better headlines. IMO, there are a lot of fine stories that don't get promoted here because they have poor headlines. It usually only takes a moment to think up something with a little juice, and it goes a long way.
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