According to an Aol & Neilson study 27,000,000 pieces of content are shared online every day. This means that writing blog titles that catch the eye has become an important skill. It’s not easy to craft a blog title that captures the imagination, encourages clicks and is still honest about where it’s leading you. This weeks cool tool could help.
‘Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator’ doesn’t just help you come up with inspiration for your blog, it also helps you create good blog titles.
Here’s how it works:
Visit the Hubspot Blog Topic Generator page
Choose up to three nouns and input them into the boxes.
The generator will come up with 5 blog titles for the nouns you chose.
If you are concentrating on a specific theme for your blog it is better to either enter just one noun that describes it. In the example you will see the results I got from ‘storytelling’.
Or you could add three words associated with your theme. See the results for ‘storytelling’ ‘blogging’ ‘narrative’ below.
Not all the headlines work perfectly (as they admit themselves) but you will get some good ideas to play with.
This is a quick and easy tool and it will give you blogging inspiration if you are stuck. It is not just the headlines that it comes up with that make this a good tool, it helps you think around your topic. The five options that it has given me have inspired me to think about different angles I can take on my theme.
**Update – There have been some quite amusing results from non business type blog topics see the comments below**
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I agree, it’s a really handy tool especially for starter bloggers who are working on short snappy titles that will attract some attention. As you say, it’s not perfect but it’s great for helping you think of it from a diff perspective too.
Ah now I have to try this! Titles aren’t my strong point so looking forward to reading what they come up with. I think it’s partly because I’m not sure about the difference between an SEO title and the actual one. My plugin always reminds me to change my title to include the keyword. Perhaps I should just ignore it?
Just tried it out based on my last post using the term spring, buds and photography and think it’s more geared towards business blogs as it came back with the following: 😀
Apologies, there should have been a photo attached with that comment but it vanished!
I was actually thinking of you when I wrote it Dee. But…yes it might take a few goes to get some suitable for less hardcore business terms!
I’m beginning to think we’ll see lots of generic headlines popping up in the future…
That’s the thing – List posts are becoming increasingly popular for example. They do work and they do suggest the blog post will ‘do what it says on the tin’. More focused titles are good though 🙂
I think it may be geared more towards business, this is my result when I entered pollinating insects 1How To Solve The Biggest Problems With Pollinating Insects
2The History Of Pollinating Insects
310 Signs You Should Invest In Pollinating Insects
4What Will Pollinating Insects Be Like In 100 Years?
515 Best Blogs To Follow About Pollinating Insects. (Ignore the numbers) though they’re probably right about a couple of them. If I read the title “signs you should invest in …” I’d be wondering what on earth it was about!
List posts are fine when they deliver. I think the problem people have with them is that they often contain ‘obvious’ info in order to be a list post. I’m swinging more towards magazine type headlines at the mo myself 🙂
Ha! Would be interested to read those posts Dee 🙂
Have just used this for an article I am writing – didn’t bring up anything I could use but got my creativity primed which is another advantage of using these tools.
I agree, not sure I’d use the headlines it gave me but it did inspire me to think a bit differently.