How do you create catchy blog post titles, which generate tons of shares, likes and ultimately help your posts go viral?
What makes your posts shareable is the emotions you evoke in readers. There is an interesting study of viral images conducted by Fractl. The research was based on top images from the site imgur, the objective was to understand which emotions were behind this virality effect. Here’s the final image:
The heat map hides some emotion names, but the TOP 5 emotions based on this research are:
- Curiosity
- Amazement
- Interest
- Astonishment
- Uncertainty
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Guides / Instructions
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Solving their Problems
- Need more [Problem]? Here is how to get it!
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Involve their worries
- The only right way to _____
- Think you are _____ right?
- How to avoid these stupid mistakes in _____
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Astonishing Promises
- Become an Expert _____ in a Month!
- How to Skyrocket Your _____
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- [#] Greatest _____ Hacks For _____
- [#] Proven Ways To ____
- [#] Kick-Ass Ways To _____Like A Ninja!
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Intrigue and raise their Curiosity
- What No One Tells You About
- You’re Doing It Wrong:
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- Why Are ___?
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Quick & Easy Fix
- Quick Guide:
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- How To _____ in [#] Days
- How To _____ in [#] Easy Steps
- [#] Simple Things that Will Make you ___
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- [#] Actionable and Easy Ways To _____
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If you go to my Pinterest account, you will see that the most popular posts written on my blog follow the recommendations for viral headlines and titles from this post:
- How to Start a Blog in 10 Minutes
- 10+ Work From Home Jobs for Extra $1000 a Month
- 5 Best Pinterest Tips and Tricks in 2019
- How to Make Money Blogging
HOW I USE PINTEREST FOR MY OWN ONLINE BUSINESS AND MY RESULTS
My site is just a little over 1 year old, I started with a 0 following Pinterest account and by the 10thmonth blogging, I reached 172,000 monthly pageviews to my blog, with about 90% of traffic coming from Pinterest.
I started my second blog in Feb 2018, and the new blog momshealth.co already hit 74,000 monthly pageviews in less than 90 days! And again, almost all the traffic comes from Pinterest.
I can guarantee that at least 50% of the Pinterest tips and tricks I share with you in the course, are absolutely exclusive and you will not find them in any other Pinterest course.
If you don’t need to grow fast and don’t mind working at your 9-5 job for a lot longer, you can totally keep reading my emails and posts because I also share tons of free advice. It’s just a matter of how FAST you want to grow your blog and income.
I’m Anastasia and I’m a full-time blogger, online entrepreneur, and Pinterest marketing strategist. I help digital entrepreneurs and bloggers drive targeted traffic from Pinterest either through my online courses or through Pinterest consultancy.
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Especially, I follow most of the things that you have listed here. At the starting phase of blogging journey, a user has to spend more time than standard time; I understand how it tastes while you write a quality article and there is no one without you to check your write-up. But the things will improve as long as you invest full time and energy to develop your blog. I’ve bookmarked this article to be able to check back again when I decide to write any blog posts. Thanks and keep sharing such quality pages.
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Hi, Prisha! Thank you so much for your valuable feedback, I’m happy you found my post helpful!
I was looking for the PDF to download for the 100 blog posts title ideas but didn’t have a link or anything to download it. Is it still available to get?