Are We Still Laughing At Our Mistakes?
Hi everyone. I want to share with you about a learning experience I have recently gone through here at WA.
First, I want to thank all of you for your blog posts. They are most helpful and some contain tools we all need or will in the near future. Ok, here we go!
One of members in my network posted about a Headline Analyser to get a better responses from our websites. As I'm trying to improve my Quality Content and support SEO and being new to interent marketing, this is something I thought I would try.
I get over to the page, add it to Favs and read the page. I thought I got it so; I typed in my first headlline, hit the go button and in less than a minute boom...I got the results.
I got a decent score but it could be better. I'd try another. Then another. Then another.
After about the third one I noticed a section which read: Headline Type. It kept saying "Headline to Generic" and if I changed it I could boost my score. So far the next few minutes I looked for ways to change the headline type, but gave up in frustration for nothing was to be found.
I continued to better that headline score by punching away for the next 10 or 15 minutes and finally wrote a headline scoring an A+ .
I was elated and while examining the results I noticed under the section Headline Type it said now my headline was in a "How to" category.
A light went off as I suddenly realized I thought it was talking about font type for the headline. Duh!
Go ahead and laugh. You ever do this? I broke into a 'laugh out loud moment' and almost spilled my coffee. Oh, the joy in the journey, right?
While writing this I also recognized a need to take a break. So here I go for some digest time.
All the Best!
~Gaylon
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Yes, I do know that experience! Sometimes we can't see the forest because of a huge tree we've got our forehead to......:-)
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I have been dabbling with this same tool, the problem I encountered is that it rearranges my keywords. For example, I find a good phrase in the WA keyword tool, then head on over to the headline tool and it rates it low.
When I finally do get it scoring higher, it also raises the competition in the keyword search. I personally prefer to go by the keyword tool, it's all well and good having a title sounding all fancy, but if you're competing with 5000 people for page 5, is it worth it?
Hi Jay, 'Is it worth it?' is an excellent point. Being new to this it's hard to determine what's the best tool to use, when to use which tool, etc. It's all a learning experience I savor, but sometimes after spending an hour at what should be an easy task turns out counter-productive because of the differences in the results of other tools we are using.
But we keep going and growing. Thanks for the comment. ~Gaylon