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I'm not going to follow my standard way of writing for this article, I'm just going to write it based on what I have to say. I was talking to another Factoidz writer on Facebook, and she said that even though she had only published five articles here, (compared to my 220), she was making more from daily views than I was.
One article in particular was doing very well, and I won't link to it, but you can google it if you want, it's called: 61 tips for getting fair and glowing skin at home naturally - home remedies for smooth and glowing complexion.
She doesn't use any of the traditional SEO techniques that are supposed to work like making back links to the article, or choosing an exact match keyword phrase with a certain worldwide monthly search volume.
She just writes a really long title, and then writes a really long article, and mentions the keywords a couple of times, and that's it. She's making more from that one article in views than I'm making from all of mine put together, by capturing a number of broad match Google searches at once.
It seems that a really long title does increase your chances of competing on Google for broad match keyword phrases if you get lucky enough to find a niche that has low competition, and lots of broad match searches.
This article is about SEO, and competing on Google, which obviously isn't a niche with low competition for any broad match keyword phrases, but I wouldn't be surprised if it picked up some traffic for really long searches like does a long title increase your chances of competing for broad match keywords?
I've seen many different webmasters give a title to their home page that was really long, and that mentioned every keyword phrase they could think of related to their product.
I used to think that was a bad idea, but it may in fact be a good idea, you just have to do it in the right way. For example, you should probably have a list of broad match keyword phrases that you want to compete for, construct the title from them, (while staying under 120 characters), and then make back links to the site from the link text of all of those different keyword phrases.
The thing about back links is that it tells Google exactly what your site is about, so you pretty much have to make back links from all of the different broad match keyword phrases in order to compete on Google for all of them, otherwise it will lean towards the ones you give it.
I'm starting to wonder if making low quality back links to a page like this is even worth it at all, because it doesn't really help the rankings to digg it, and all it does is tell Google that it should classify the page as related to the link text that you linked to it from, when you actually want it to recognize it as broadly as possible.
My most successful article so far was: What are the most googled words on Google? The actual phrase has no exact match monthly worldwide search volume on the Google Adwords keyword tool, so I don't even know how it sometimes gets 1,000 hits a day.
The only way it could is because it's getting traffic from broad match searches, which also don't have much competition. For example, somebody could type in googled words, or they could type in, what are the most googled words, and if nobody else had beaten me for that particular search, mine would come up at the top.
That's why it's probably a good idea to write articles with a really long title, because it does seem to increase your chances of competing on Google for a whole bunch of broad match keyword phrases, and I think I will give this a good try, not just one test article, to see if I can get it to work for me.
Interesting theory Rowan, it's hard to know what to do really, I've tried both methods. Thing is when something is hot - trending - it's hot, and in the end I don't think it really matters.I tend to not write topical aticles preferring to write more broad spectrum articles, that way they become plodders, they will always get views and will fluctuate between high and low ranking throughout their life, as long as they are regularly updated.
I do not think long titles click every time ,but long and detailed articles perform well in search engine all I can say.
Hope you write again if this really works. Voted.
Good one here Rowan. I discovered that this works like magic.......long article titles and a handful of backlinks or none at all. Most of my articles, both in my site and factoidz are like that. This article rocks!