A Great Title: How To Write A Blog Post That Will Get You More Traffic

In order to get a blog post to go viral, you need a title that’s interesting. We’ve all seen articles with titles that make us curious. 

So how can you write an article with a title like that? What are the steps? Here are some steps you can take to create a click-worthy title. 

Step 1: Figure out what you want your post to be about

When you’re writing a blog post, you need to have an idea of what the article is going to be about. You need to know what you’re going to write about, and how it’s going to help your readers. 

Step 2: Take that sentence and turn it into a title

It’s a trick I learned from the novelist David Foster Wallace. It works for nonfiction, too.

In fact, it works for anything you write. The key is to be specific and concrete. In my case, the sentence was “I’m a writer.” The title was “The Man Who Wrote Everything.”

Step 3: Take that title and turn it into a working subtitle

It’s also something I learned from Wallace. He used to say that if you can’t write a good subtitle, you can’t write a good book.

The title was “The Man Who Wrote Everything.” The working subtitle was “A Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Step 4: Take that subtitle and make it a tagline

I did this by writing out the subtitle in capital letters. The working tagline was “A Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Step 5: Take that tagline and turn it into a one-sentence pitch

I did this by cutting out the middle of the tagline and turning it into a one-sentence pitch. The working pitch was “A Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Step 6: Take that pitch and turn it into a logline

I did this by turning the pitch into a logline by taking out the first two words and adding an action verb to the end. The working logline was “A Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Step 7: Take that logline and turn it into a three-sentence pitch

I did this by taking out the first two words and adding an action verb to the end. The working pitch was “Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Step 8: Take that pitch and turn it into a one-sentence logline

I did this by taking out the first two words and adding an action verb to the end. The working logline was “Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.”

Step 9: Take that logline and turn it into a title

I did this by taking out the last two words and adding a colon. The working title was “Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Novel.”

Step 10: Go back to your pitch and add the one-sentence logline to the end

In my case, it became “Obsession, Madness, and the Creation of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Novel about a man who becomes obsessed with words.”

Step 11: Research the topic

The more you know about your topic, the better you’ll be able to write about it. So, before you start writing, do some research on your topic. Find out what other people have written about it. Look for similar articles on the Internet. You can also talk to people who are experts in your topic area and ask them questions.

Step 12: Start writing

When you’re ready to start writing, think about your topic and what you want to say. What is the main idea of your article? What are some supporting ideas? What information do you need to support those ideas?

Step 13: Write the introduction

The introduction is the first paragraph of your article. It should give readers a preview of what they’re going to read. Your introduction should include an attention-grabbing opening sentence and a thesis statement.

Step 14: Write the body

The body of your article is where you develop your ideas and support them with evidence. Use topic sentences to organize your thoughts, and use paragraphs to show how each idea relates to the others. Make sure to include enough detail to support your thesis.

Step 15: Write the conclusion

The conclusion is the last paragraph of your article. It should summarize what you’ve written and show how it supports your thesis. You can also use the conclusion to restate your thesis and give the reader a sense of closure.

How to Write an Essay in APA Style

APA style is a specific way of formatting research papers that’s used by many social sciences, including psychology, sociology, and political science.

It’s a fairly straightforward style that’s easy to learn if you have some basic knowledge of MLA or Chicago style. The main difference is that in APA style, you use the first letter of the first word in a sentence to indicate the end of a sentence.

For example, in MLA style, you would write:

In APA style, you would write:

This makes it easier for readers to follow along and for editors to quickly identify mistakes.

APA style also has specific rules about how you should cite sources, including:

How to format the title of a book, article, or another source (e.g. italics, quotation marks, underlining)

How to format a source’s page numbers (e.g., in parentheses or as superscript)

How to format a source’s date (e.g., month, day, year)

How to format a source’s URL (e.g., underlined or italicized)

APA style also has specific rules about how you should cite sources, including How to format the title of a source (e.g., italicized or underlined)

How to format the name of an author (e.g., underlined or italicized)

How to format a page number (e.g., in parentheses or as superscript)

How to format a date (e.g., month, day, year)

How to format a URL (e.g., underlined or italicized)

For more information on the style sheet itself, see the following pages:

CSS Tutorial (http://www.w3schools.com/css/)

The Web Developer’s Style Sheet (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/css/)

CSS Zen Garden (http://www.csszengarden.com/)

For more information on the use of CSS in HTML5, see the following pages:

The W3C CSS 2.1 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/)

The W3C CSS 3 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-roadmap/)