See How Easily You Can Write Dazzling Headlines

Today seems to be “Inspirational Reading Day” for me!

You see I love Twitter and I do use Twitter to drive a fair amount of traffic to this blog. I use the excellent WP to Twitter plug-in to do that and it’s working great so far. However, due to the special nature of Twitter I have recently been wondering if there is a way for me to attract even more attention to my blog update tweets.

As you know, Twitter only allows you 140 characters per tweet!

There are only so many words you can get into 140 characters. Sort of reminds me of something…

Yeah you guessed it! Headlines!

What’s the difference between a tweet and a headline? Really, when it comes down to it is there a difference?

The more I think about it I come to believe that the difference is minuscule. So doesn’t that mean that there is potentially a lot to gain by thinking of your tweets in terms of headlines? That’s my theory anyway.

So I did a Digg search to see what came up when I searched for the term “writing headlines” and one article in particular caught my attention. This is a CopyBlogger post called “7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work.” This blog post has a companion article, as the title suggests, and I highly recommend that you check it out as well.

In fact, take a close look and see if you can guess what headline template I’m using for this blog post. There won’t be a prize for guessing, but I will congratulate you

The main point of this post though is the following. The power of headlines have intrigued me for a long, long time so this is something I will definitely do some research on in the near future. The fact is that the headline is what draws the reader in. So, the question is can you use a template to harness that power or do you have to get creative?

My guess is that the truth lies somewhere in between, but without proper research I can’t be sure. However, whether you decide to use the templates described on CopyBlogger or not take the time to read the article (and it’s companion) I found them well worth the read.