Get Dugg with five words


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I have been looking at the articles that got Dugg to the front page of Digg and some headlines from other sites and am seeing a pattern.  It looks like most of the successful article’s headlines are five words.  It may seem hard get your point across in five words but maybe thats not the idea.  

Five words can make for a vague title but by being vague an article can be about several other things and thus be more interesting to the reader.  Also since most people are hard pressed for time five words can sum up the article quickly to know whether or not they want to Digg an item or not.  If you look at the Latest News section of CNN or any other site you will see that most of the articles headlines are 5 to 7 words length. 

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July 27, 2007 | Filed Under General 

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6 Responses to “Get Dugg with five words”

  1. Matt on MyAvatars 0.2 July 27th, 2007 4:14 pm

    Especially if those five words are iPhone Ron Paul Linux Digg

  2. wiseassoffice on MyAvatars 0.2 July 27th, 2007 4:15 pm

    LOL Ron Paul, how could we ever forget about him. He won’t let us.

  3. Jane on MyAvatars 0.2 July 27th, 2007 4:16 pm

    Thanks. I’ll give it a shot.

  4. marenda on MyAvatars 0.2 July 27th, 2007 7:38 pm

    I will keep this in mind great info :)

  5. Dani on MyAvatars 0.2 July 27th, 2007 8:29 pm

    So funny, before I read your article the short titles you put as examples caught my eye so much that I was trying to read the tiny print. I guess it works. Best of luck with the Blogger’s Choice Awards! That’s where I found you :)

  6. chaosgone on MyAvatars 0.2 August 2nd, 2007 5:28 pm

    I will have to give that a try! By the way, I found you from your 15blogs.com

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