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04.05.06
Good Links Are Like Good Headlines
 By
Neville Hobson
Writing a blog post is not really that different to writing any other type of copy, especially when it comes to the headline of a post.
As with any text, the headline is the grabber, the text that usually first attracts someone to the content itself. To me, this is especially relevant with RSS feeds. I have a lot of feeds in my RSS reader and I tend to quickly scan the headlines in each feed channel. The ones that catch my attention tend to be the posts that I actually read.
(Here's a good article on headline-writing: Writing Headlines That Get Results. An attention-getting headline itself!)
But this post isn't specifically about headlines - it's about permalinks, the code that is the address of your post on the internet.
Choosing how the link of your post is named is as equally important as the headline you write. Usually when you write a post, what you write in the headline becomes all or part of the address, ie, the permalink. With some blog platforms, you don't have much choice in how that address is formed. With others, such as WordPress, you do.
WordPress expert Paul Stamatiou has written a concise outline of the importance of permalinks. The first half is a tech focus; then we come to the easy-to-understand bit:Permalinks encourage website browsing. From a millisecond glance at a link to your permalinked blog, the user knows how recent the post is and its title. That is a lot more than /index.php?p=102 could ever convey. What if a user follows a permalink to your site only to find that you have since removed that article or changed the post slug (the last part of the permalink with the title)? They can simply navigate your archives by manipulating your URL. Here's what that means.
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The title and the address (URL) of this post is:
http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/04/04/good-links-are-like- good-headlines/
Isn't that a lot easier to understand (get a sense of what the post about) than this:
http://www.nevillehobson.com/index.php?p=123
You can see this in action - hover your mouse over any link in this post and look in the status bar of your browser. All pretty easy to understand, right?
As Paul also says:
[…] Permalinks are vital to a successful blog. […] Also, since the actual post title is within the link itself, search engines pick up your link faster and can provide your link in higher search rankings. Tom Raftery goes more in-depth about the relationship between SEO and Permalinks.
And read Tom Raftery's post from last year as well.
All good advice for helping you make it easier for people to find your thoughts on the web.
About the Author:
Neville Hobson is the author of the popular NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.
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