I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Thanks for the list of article sites.
Article a day keeps the creditor away!

Will try testing your suggestion - let you know what happens after a decent trial period.
Many thanks

That’s a perfect example - you really need to think about what the reader wants and use that to create a benefit filled title, just like you would with any other ad headline.

One thing I’ve found works well is using numbers e.g. to use yours as an example:

“Thrash your playing partner using these 5 killer tennis techniques”

You can also study some of the popular articles in the directories and see if you can find out what makes them get so many views, then use those techniques in your own marketing.

Richard

Yes I do agree so much with your title comments. Last year I submitted the same article with two titles, one the boring ‘Improve your tennis techniques’ and the slightly better, but still not perfect ‘Thrash your playing partner using these tennis techniques’
The click through rates were astronomical for the second title.