{"id":150,"date":"2013-07-22T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubblemedia2.wpengine.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:53:45","slug":"effective-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"What are Some Effective Headlines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Articles should have compelling headlines that attract attention, while at the same time conveying the general message of the story. Face it \u2014 a dull headline isn\u2019t going to get noticed, and in turn, your article won\u2019t get read, regardless of the quality of the content. To entice a reader to click your article, make sure you don\u2019t give away all the information in the title. You want to reveal just enough information to interest the reader, however, don\u2019t be so vague as to make them skip your article entirely.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule of thumb, headlines should not be longer than 10 words. All of the words in a headline should be capitalized except for articles (a, an, the\u2026etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Examples of good headlines include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cStruggling with Stress? Those Unhealthy Coping Skills Won&#8217;t Help You Deal\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFive Things You Need to Know About Choosing Your Teen&#8217;s First Car\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPop Into the Soda Gallery in Oak Cliff to Find Your Favorite Vintage Sodas\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI-635 Commuters Invited To LBJ\/Skillman Urban Planning Initiative Meeting\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLOST DOG: Have You Seen Angel in Allen?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles should have compelling headlines that attract attention, while at the same time conveying the general message of the story. Face it \u2014 a dull headline isn\u2019t going to get noticed, and in turn, your article won\u2019t get read, regardless of the quality of the content. To entice a reader to click your article, make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}