How to Get Rich Using Clever Blog Post Titles

Hey, I just write the text; some guy in editing writes the headlines. There are 435 posts from 63 LDS blogs in my Google Reader. Since I don't have 18 hours to invest at the moment, I'm going to pick the post titles I like best. Titles really matter in this business. Be clever.

The best of the batch: We kill because we care at BCC. Awesome title; okay post.

Other titles that should have caught your eye:

• Delusions of Candor.
• A Drunken Weekend. Money quote: "As the weekend rolled on, the children must have figured out that we weren’t drinking, so they followed us everywhere we went."
• Content analysis of a Deseret Book catalog. How can you not follow this link?
• Living in a Convection Oven.
• Mountain Meadows documents lost, suppressed or destroyed. If the story is good enough, you don't need to be clever.
• Closing Time. Damn.
• As Long as They're Changing Things at CES ...
• Dramatic, Eerie, Violent, Erotic. Yes, most people will click on a title with the word "eerie" in it.

Comments

[BHodges]

Unless the title says something about the eerie canal. (With the exception of an "eerie" post about said canal.)

[BHodges]

PS- How on earth did you not note my "Implicit Confidence in God: Part 5"?

Part FIVE, for Pete's sake, Dave.

[John C.]

Ah, Dave. Free advertising overcomes the revelation of the mediocrity of my writing. Besides, anyone familiar with me knew about that anyway.

[kenjebz]

haha! yea! true! but hey dave i join you in mybloglog. and you forgot to mention my post "My Other Girl."

[April Durham]

LOL, thanks for the reference. I like to make my blog title interesting, otherwise no one will read them.

However, it hasn't made me rich. I've earned 4 whole dollars on Google AdSense, so I'm not about to retire.

[Joseph Antley]

Perhaps you should write a how-to guide on creating clever blog post titles.

[fifthgen]

Dave: Are you ever coming back?

[Dave]

Yes, I'm still around. Real life and T&S have been siphoning off my regularly scheduled blog time for the moment.