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The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines — Copyblogger
http://www.copyblogger.com/twitter-headlines/

Twitter has become the place for sharing content links. If your content catches attention on Twitter and spreads, suddenly you’re getting significant traffic from people who may have never visited your site before.
Artículo con consejos acerca de escribir entradas en Twitter con valor añadido.
Yes! This will be covered in @TheBook.
World's Best Headlines: BBC News (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/headlines-bbc.html
The gold standard in web headline concision
BBC News may be a good place to point to as an example of good writing for the web.
how short headlines explain a lot of info. Great for sci. articles
9 Proven Headline Formulas That Sell Like Crazy | Copyblogger
http://www.copyblogger.com/proven-headline-formulas/
You can write a headline in an infinite number of ways. However, certain types of headlines have proven themselves repeatedly ...
The following 9 headline formulas are some of the easiest to write and the most powerful. When it comes time to write a headline, try one of these first. At the very least, this can give you a creative jumping off point to write a headline that works.
60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines | tripwire magazine
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/design/design/60-free-fonts-for-big-bold-and-beautiful-headlines.html
Seleção de fontes escandalosas, mas, legais.
Typography is a key element of design and communicating a message. This is especially true when it comes to Headlines that must attract immediate attention and wake an interest to investigate further. This articles provides a large collection of Font
Don’t Do These 12 Things When Writing Headlines | Copyblogger
http://www.copyblogger.com/writing-headlines-wrong/
Don't miss these guys at Copyblogger. It's a gold mine!
from Copyblogger
Interesting article with links to related info
August 19, 2009: Copyblogger writing a great blog post is like running a relay race. Your headline starts the race, but then it passes the baton to your opening paragraph, and its job is done. Sure, it’s important to start the race well, but if the next guy falls on his face, then how well the first guy did doesn’t much matter, does it? Every piece has to do its part.
how to write headlines that get attention
How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines » Nieman Journalism Lab
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/how-the-huffington-post-uses-real-time-testing-to-write-better-headlines/
The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees. When I talked to him afterwards, Berry said the system was created inhouse, but he wouldn’t disclose much else about how or how often it’s done. He did say Huffington Post editors have found that placing the author’s name above a headline almost always leads to more clicks than omitting it.
From direct mail to web design, A/B testing is considered a gold standard of user research: Show one version to half your audience and another version to
So here’s something devilishly brilliant: The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees.
he Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees.
3 Great Marketing Strategies for Bloggers With Limited Time : Performancing
http://performancing.com/marketing-strategies-for-bloggers-with-limited-time/
COPY-WRITING: They average about 1200 words per post and they routinely go over the 1600 word mark. Each post has relevant pictures and they use formatting wisely with headings and paragraphs so the posts look organized and are attractive to the eye. Their posts are so meaty that they only show 2 posts on their front page.
A journalist’s guide to SEO | Blog | Econsultancy
http://econsultancy.com/blog/5034-a-journalists-guide-to-seo
Last week the BBC announced it was to start optimising its headlines in an attempt to gain greater visibility in the search engine results pages, so I thought I’d take a look at journalism and the web. Over recent years, many online news providers have had to adopt search engine optimisation (SEO) best practice into their articles in order to maintain their audience figures. Yet I often see journalists and even some bloggers bemoaning the need to optimise their work, as though it means all the quality has been drained out of the article and replaced with Google-appeasing nonsense. That’s why the first of my points is perhaps the most important. As long as it’s done well, SEO will not make your articles unreadable. SEO is not the enemy of good writing Believe it or not, the purpose of SEO is not to destroy your writing’s artistic integrity, it’s to make sure people can actually find your work to appreciate its genius. I think that SEO is often misunderstood by profe
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That’s why the first of my points is perhaps the most important. As long as it’s done well, SEO will not make your articles unreadable.
How to get your online stuff noticed
Making Light: The true history of the Bush years
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010952.html#010952
in hyperlinks
all articles from "the onion" relating to bush & bush administration.
In a Herculean feat of linkage, Teresa Nielsen Hayden offers us the Bush years through the watering eyes of Onion readers. As she says "Other histories of the Bush years will doubtless be more factual, but none will ever be truer."