Comments on: Connecting People

By: Vivien

Vivien — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:45:58 +0000

oh, I’m so glad that you’ll be exploring more of Inspiration Bit. I look forward to more comments from you Thank you.

By: damiende

damiende — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:59:21 +0000

You are welcome Vivien. It was a well written piece and I am looking forward to dive deeper into your blog.

By: Vivien

Vivien — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:32:32 +0000

Thanks a lot, Damiende. It’s really nice of you for dropping by and personally congratulating me. That’s what I call “connecting people”…

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damiende — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:18:45 +0000

Congratulations on winning the contest.

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By: Vivien

Vivien — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:15:58 +0000

Thanks to everyone. Glad to see that no rocks have been thrown at me yet
Johno, I think that we credit Titles’s contribution to SEO more than they actually deserve. After all, there is more to a search engine, especially the one called Google, than ranking and fetching an article based on its title, or the keywords found in it. Sometimes my Google search results return the sites whose titles didn’t include any of my searched keywords, and those sites appear at the top of the list. And how many of us will be using these particular keywords in our search - “Surefire Headline Formulas”, rather than simply asking - How to write a great headline?

“We could all learn a lot from some of the headlines found in good newspapers and magazines.” - I absolutely agree with you here. Though “good” is the important key here.

Aaron, we could definitely learn from the headlines in daily’s, but we could also learn a lot from great writers and the way they’ve titled their stories and novels. Wouldn’t you agree? Of course, those two areas of writing are very contrasting with each other, but it would do us good to learn and do something different for a change.

Simonne, you’re right - one can write a novel based on those six words by Hemingway, and I bet everyone would come up with a different plot.

As for the people, the day would come when they will realize and stop going after Digg and others. It’s just for some that day would come sooner than to others.

Rhett, you’re definitely not alone. As you can see three people above you belong to the same club as well, and the absence of negative comments here hints that there are hundreds of others that hangout at the same club as us
Pleased to know that you felt better after this post.

By: Rhett Soveran - Epiblogger

Rhett Soveran - Epiblogger — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:47:11 +0000

Hey Vivien,

Great post. Some times I feel alone in this big world and some times, after posts like this, I feel a little better. Thanks.

By: Simonne

Simonne — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:16:28 +0000

I didn’t know Hemingway’s shortest story. It’s incredible how a few words put together in a certain order can trigger a whole drama in the reader’s mind.

Regarding those “web 2.0 titles”, I don’t think they are really useful for their writers - they have to be supported by a story in order to attract the crowds. But those thousands of people who use them every day don’t seem to realise that’s not enough to make it to the front page of digg or whatever else networking site.

By: Aaron :: miLienzo.com

Aaron :: miLienzo.com — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:16:59 +0000

What an excellent read - well said Vivien. I think we’ve all fallen in to the trap of stuffing our article titles with keywords and asking questions that don’t really need to be answered.

Johno’s right that we could all elarn a bit from picking up the daily’s and seeing how they write their headlines.