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We know that we shouldn’t judge something immediately when we see it. However, we can’t help our human nature and each day we must quickly judge things so that all of our time isn’t wasted. The result of this is that as a blog author, you must learn to write effective titles for your legal blog.

The content you write will not be read if you don’t make the effort to write catchy legal blog titles.

Below I’ve listed 5 ways you can increase the responses to your blog post titles:

1. Ask a Question – A provocative question creates curiosity. People want to find out the answer and feel inclined to click through to read more. This is especially true when the question addresses a specific need or concern and promises to answer a problem the reader identifies with. For instance I wrote a popular post a little while back titled: “Lawyer Marketing Definitions: What are RSS Feeds and Why Should I Care?”. People who didn’t know what RSS feeds were clicked through to find out and have the question addressed.

2. Check Out Magazine Covers for Ideas – Magazine copywriters are some of the best around. A magazine is located on a rack with hundreds of other choices surrounding it. They have just a few seconds to grab your attention with an attractive cover and create the desire to read more with headlines about the articles. Pay attention to the words they use and how they structure the headline. You can learn a lot from professionals that have been doing this for a long time.

3. Use Numbers in Your Title and Lists for Your Posts – I’ve said it before and it’s worth repeating: People on the web love lists. It creates concise, bulleted information that can be digested quickly and easily. If you are reading this post right now, you are seeing an example of using a number in the headline to capture a reader’s attention. There is a funny, comedy site called Cracked that does a nice job of using this technique with many of their posts.

4. Solve a problem – The readers of your posts often have a problem or curiosity they are trying to solve. By offering a solution to a problem that a reader identifies with, you will entice them to read your article.

5. State a Benefit or Explain How to do Something – Giving practical advice is always eye-catching. Even though things may seem routine or simple to an expert, there are plenty of people out there that don’t have the knowledge you do. This is especially applicable to lawyers. Legal issues are complex and intimidating. Offering simple how to’s (perhaps how to hire a legal professional or how to handle the aftermath of a legal incident) will make for great legal blog post titles.

Be sure to keep your titles short if possible. A good length is in the neighborhood of 7-9 words. In addition, capitalizing the first letter of each word is important.

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