Stuck for Blogging Headlines? Help is at hand!
(Thanks to Suzan St Maur for mentioning this nifty little gadget in her newsletter – nip over to http://www.howtowritebetter.net to sign up)
One of the hardest parts of blogging is deciding on a headline. It needs to be catchy enough to be clicked on, needs towork in the search engines, and needs to make sense. It’s not all that easy to find one that fits all three criteria!
And sometimes, just finding a catchy headline can trigger ideas in yourhead of blog posts you can write.
Although not to be taken too seriously, The Catchy Headline Generator may give you some ideas for blog posts you could write.
All you need to do is enter a subject or keyword into the application, and it generates random headlines. Some are a little, shall we say, ‘strange’ but there are some good suggestions too.
I played around with it for a little while with various industries and here are some of the better headlines it came up with:
BLOGGING
– Why Blogging is the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
– How to Stay Popular in the Blogging World
– 11 BS Facts About Blogging Everyone Thinks Are True
WORDPRESS
– The 7 Best Resources for WordPress
– Why the Next 10 Years of WordPress Will Smash the Last 10
– 9 Great Articles About WordPress
TELEMARKETING
– How to Stay Popular in the Telemarketing World
– Why Telemarketing Should be 1 of the 7 Deadly Sins
– The Unconventional Guide to Telemarketing
SOCIAL MEDIA
– Why Social Media Will Make You Question Everything
– Social Media in 14 Easy Steps
– 9 Amazing Social Media Infographics
CRAFTING
– 10 Reasons You Should be Talking About Crafting
– The 20 Best Crafting YouTube Videos
– Why Crafting is the 51st Shade of Grey
– The Simplest Ways to Make the Best of Google
– 11 Facts About Google That’ll Keep You Up at Night
– 12 Reasons Google is the Weakest Link
CHILDREN
– The 9 Worst Children in History
– What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About Children
– Will Children Ever Rule the World?
Of course, I came across a few shockers in my play session:
– Save Your Marriage Using Only Horror Films
– Why Shoes are Worse than Not Getting a Rose
– How Virtual Reality Could Make Betty Draper a Better Mother
– Why Twitter is Lamer than James Franco
– 10 Unexpected Ways Facebook Can Give You Better Hair
– 12 Ways Knowing About Children Will Land You in Jail
In closing,I think that although this application is a bit of a giggle at times, it could throw up some useful ideas for those of you with bloggers’ block.
Give it a go and post the weirdest headline you generate in the comments below!