Technically Challenged Author Forced into Longer Titles for Better SEO
Wow. I’m almost out of breath just typing that title. But it has been suggested by this person that I use longer titles with more specific key-words. I have mentally kicked and hollered and thrown a fit, because I prefer cute, snappy titles. But when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), cute and snappy apparently doesn’t do much. After all, if you were searching for a biblical commentary on 1 John 3:10, would YOU click on a post titled “Who’s Your Daddy?”
Really?
Me too. heheh
The problem is, the SEARCH ENGINE is a robot, and doesn’t “get” cuteness. So it wouldn’t even make that title available for you to click on.
Man!
So this person has suggested that for two weeks, I use really long titles with lots of key words, and just see if it brings an improvement to Morning Coffee hits. If it does, well, I suppose I’ll stay with the longer titles. If not, then cute and snappy will remain. Let me know what you think!
Oh! In other news, Mark and I will celebrate 18 years of marriage on Monday.
Obviously, I was a child bride. 
Happy Weekend, dear friends!
–r
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June 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Congrats on eighteen years together, my friend!
I may try the longer titles, too… We’ll see. But MID isn’t doing too badly… I’ve had over 300 hits in not quite four weeks of counting. I mean it’s not 5000 hits in a day or anything like that, but I really didn’t expect anybody to read my stuff… Seriously. LOL That I’ve had a few thrills me to pieces. 
Have a great day!
June 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
That’s great, Bitsy! Congrats on a great launch to a great site!
The rest of you, if you haven’t visited Bitsy’s blog, click on her name above. You won’t be sorry!
June 6th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Renae,
Happy anniversary. We just celebrated our 42nd!
You can have really long titles—The First Part the Long Section with Keywords for SEO: Short, Snappy, Cute.
I’d hate to see your cute titles go away, so maybe you can combine the two.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Happy Anniversary to you, too, Lillie! Thanks for the tip; what a great idea! I will try that and see how it works.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
You’re so cute! And your titles, too.
Numbers, numbers, numbers. We must generate those numbers.
Love you,
Jean
June 7th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Hi Jean! Yes, we need numbers. Honestly, I’ve really stopped caring about the numbers, except that I want to help people better understand God’s Word. So I’ll do all I can, and leave the rest to him.
June 7th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Happy Anniversary!! And many, many more for you two! I’m trying to learn my hand at SEO, too. It’s been challenging, to say the least.
June 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Thanks, MC! Let me know if you find any great SEO tips!
June 7th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Now who IS the little cutie-pie in this blog-post? She looks like you to a T! But we ALL know you were NOT a child-bride!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Exactly what are you saying, Carol-Ann?
Never mind. Don’t answer that.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Happy Anniversary! Let me know how the SEO thing goes. I like to use titles that fit the piece in a special kind of way & woud hate to give that up. I tried one specific, longish title not long ago & when I googled a couple of words from it, I couldn’t even find my link after looking through the first few pages…