Your Title Is Everything — Get Clickbait-ey

Between 2008 and 2017 I wrote articles for Newsvine. I quickly discovered the benefit of “Clickbait-ey” titles… This is an example…

(paraphrase, I can’t find the original article, but I know this is close)

Sarah Palin reverses stance… Now approves murdering babies

This was an article about Sarah Palin’s approval of exterminating wild wolf pups.

Needless to say, the title drew a lot of traffic…

I have yet to find a way for most of my articles to gat ANY traffic on Medium.

Sigh…