Writing article titles is an art and science in and of itself. The purpose of your title is to make people want to read more, so writing titles is something that you will want to focus on today if you want to have the most success with your article writing efforts. I would know, because I write articles everyday.
You can consider writing titles along to writing headlines. Headlines are the most important part of an article because it will tell the reader whether or not they should continue reading more. When writing titles, be sure to lead with your biggest benefit first. This is the benefit that will compel people to continue reading more.
If you're intending on writing an article for a newspaper, you may want to study a lot of the articles for the newspaper that you're writing for. This will give you a good indication on the style that their looking for. For example, in my local newspaper, a lot of the article titles aren't that long. The max number of words in an article title may be about 5 words, and that's it.
Can you see yourself writing a 5 word title? Many people can, and it is what it is. It all depends on what you're writing about and the relevance that it has to the news story. Writing titles doesn't have to be hard - you just need some background knowledge of what to write about and you will be good to go.
Hopefully you're able to use these tips when writing titles to produce something good.
Good luck with writing article titles.
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