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It’s all about the Title!

January 22nd, 2008

Having read many posts by Lyndon on the topic of getting the right title for your posts / articles, I found the recent post on SEO2.0 challenging Lyndon’s skills both interesting and amusing. Then I came across this article in the Guardian about the actress Leslie Ash and her recent compensation award. This post screamed out for a better headline than

Actor Ash gets £5m payout over hospital superbug

or the headline that was used when the story was submitted to DIGG

£5m Hospital Bug Payout For Leslie Ash

So based on the article, I thought I’d give it a go:

How falling out of bed during sex can net you $10 million

Get paid 5 million quid for sex with your spouse” (do colloquialisms such as ‘quid’ work?)

Sex, pain, bugs and $10 million

Sex, Bugs and lots of dough

Superbug sexcapade victim gets $10 million

Rough sex leads to $10 million payout

5 million reasons to stay out of NHS hospitals

Leslie Ash becomes Leslie Ca$h after superbug infection

Can you think of some better ones? I’m sure you can.

N.B. Obviously this exercise is not meant to trivialize the problems that this woman is going to have to deal with for the rest of her life, which are terrible.

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One Response to “It’s all about the Title!”

  1. John Hunter

    The other great (not really) think is look at the lame link text the paper uses. These sites that have million dollar budgets and can’t follow simple 10 year old usability advice (and I don’t know exactly 8 year old SEO advice?) must have pointy haired bosses.

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