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My new post for @Mashable: How to Optimize Your

Headlines for Google and Humans - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

Done right, a #headline will stop a mouse-moving, page-

scrolling, attention-deprived user in his pixels -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

In addition to writing for eternity, or for one’s mother, today’s

writer must also write for Google - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

With this foundation, you’ll be able to pull off one of the

web’s hardest acts: you’ll be able to make Google laugh -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

New Blog Post: How to Make Google Laugh: SEO Your

Headlines - http://j.mp/K9HGOK

RT @Mashable: How to Optimize Your #Headlines for

Google and Humans - http://j.mp/Jes1ZZ #SEO

Algorithms don’t appreciate wit, irony, humor, or style -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

The secret of stellar #SEO is that you can have your cake

and eat it, too - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

Why bother with a meta description? - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

Google, SEO and Writing a Great Headline -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

How the Mainstream Media Are Optimizing Their Headlines

for Google - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

3 Ways to Make Your Headlines Catnip for Search Engines

- http://j.mp/JWfPAv #SEO

Shout-outs

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@DeadlineDiaries Your post, “Google Doesn’t Laugh,”

inspired me to write this for @Mashable -

http://j.mp/K9HGOK

@SteveLohr Remember when you wrote, “This Boring

Headline Is Written for Google”? At @Mashable, I offer a

solution - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

@yoast Today on @Mashable, I praise your WordPress plug-

in for SEO - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

@SEOmoz @RandFish In a just-published post for

Mashable, I quote heavily from your guidance on meta

descriptions - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

@GeneWeingarten Remember “Gene Weingarten Column

Mentions Lady Gaga”? In fact, you can have your cake and

eat it too - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

Thank

yous

@PardonMyFrench Thanks for helping me take this from an

idea in an email to a 1,000-word post for @Mashable -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

@lyontef Thanks for helping me take this from an idea in an

email to a 1,000-word post for @Mashable -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

@ChuckDefeo Thanks for helping me take this from an idea

in an email to a 1,000-word post for @Mashable -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

FYIs

@JackShafer Some news organizations

are optimizing their headlines for Google.

Others are not. Curious? -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@HowardKurtz This may interest you: How

News Outlets Are Optimizing Their

Headlines for Both Google and Humans -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@poynter @abeaujon @juliemmoos Here’s

an easy way that editors of news websites

can SEO their headlines -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@NiemanLab Which news organizations

are optimizing their headlines for Google?

The results may surprise you -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@zseward If you have a minute, I’d love

your thoughts on this: How News Outlets

Are SEO-ing Their Headlines -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@JeremyStahl @KGeee This may interest

you: How News Outlets Are Optimizing

Their Headlines for Both Google and

Humans - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@AntDeRosa Any thoughts on this? How

News Outlets Are Optimizing Their

Headlines for Both Google and Humans -

http://on.mash.to/JdigwG

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@nxthompson Over at @Mashable, I

suggest how the @NewYorker can better

SEO its headlines - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@pilhofer @sashak @lexinyt I laud the

@NYTimes’s SEO strategy in Mashable

today - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@lheron Over at @Mashable, I suggest

how @WSJ and @NYTimes can better

SEO their headlines. Whaddya think? -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@Ckanal The @HuffingtonPost’s SEO

program was recently featured on

Mashable - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@rajunarisetti Over at @Mashable, I

commend the @WSJ’s SEO strategy -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@ethanklapper No doubt, you could have

written this in your sleep: How News

Outlets Are SEO-ing Their Headlines -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@JenNedeau I recently knocked @TIME’s

SEO strategy—or lack thereof. Any

thoughts? - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@JaredBKeller Do your @TheAtlanticWire

responsibilities include SEO? If so, here’s

some unsolicited advice -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@MattCutts I’d love to know what you think

of this: How to Optimize Your Headlines for

Google and Humans - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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Hey @SEOSteve Is this Mashable post on

SEO accurate? - http://on.mash.to/JdigwG

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@Plain_Language Where do plain

languagers come down on the issue of

writing for Google vs. writing for humans? -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@JesseSheidlower Are you as troubled as

others by the need today to write for Google

rather than humans? - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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@laureni @1bobcohn Here’s the counterargument on why

writing to attract Google’s algorithms still matters -

http://j.mp/JWfPAv

@cmoffett Why they should - http://j.mp/JWfPAv

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