{"id":10253,"date":"2017-09-12T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=10253"},"modified":"2017-11-16T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:11:07","slug":"seo-guidelines-headlines-vs-page-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/seo-guidelines-headlines-vs-page-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines or Page Titles? The Best Way to Optimize Your Blog for Search"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a blogger, sometimes you may be caught between a seemingly impossible choice of catering to readers or search engines. You want to please your readers with a witty headline because they are the whole reason your blog is able to be successful\u2026yet search engines are the biggest traffic driver in the world. So who do you try to please?<\/p>\n

Good news\u2014choosing between humans and search engines doesn\u2019t have to be an impossible choice. By effectively using both<\/em> a creative headline and an optimized page title, you\u2019ll attract other humans and robots alike in no time. Let\u2019s examine the differences between the two to see why they work better together.<\/p>\n

Headlines: For Humans<\/h3>\n

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In only .2 seconds<\/a>, readers will make a decision about whether to read your blog–you need to hook your readers immediately with a great headline. Taking a page out of\u00a0Copyblogger<\/a>‘s book,\u00a0great headlines are:<\/p>\n