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One small change to our Editorial Guidelines to share… we’ve ended our acceptance of *one word* article titles. Titles must now be 2 or more words to be accepted.
Reason: In many cases we were fine with it, but lately we received a lot of one word titles that were too ambiguous or unrelated to the content of the article… example: Article titles of a word like “Move” or “More” are too difficult for a reader to figure out what the article is going to be about.
As you may know, our editors read each article to make sure the article body delivers on the promise(s) made in the article title… and it’s just too difficult to know if this is true if the single word is ambiguous.
 Posted by Christopher M. Knight on October 3, 2007 at 9:41 am | Views 414 | |
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Edward Weiss writes:I guess a lot of people submitting their articles here don’t really understand that if they want people to actually read them, they had better make the title interesting. One word just won’t cut it.
Christina Sponias writes:One word in a title has no chance to stand in Google’s first page. We need at least 2 basic keywords to be in the first page and in the first paragraph, no matter what!
With only one word in the title we are throwing the article to mediocrity and to only a few readers.
Lance Winslow writes:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis
And, I thought a one word title would be viable and I am now concerned that if I try to put this into a title, I will run out of characters on submission form. So, obviously you can see what dilemma you have created in your new ruling and I am SOOO upset of course…. ;)
Lance Winslow writes:I cannot think of another possible reason to complain about this rule, unless one was merely after “Key Words” and had no intention of delivering valuable information to the reader. Without narrowing the subject it does not help anyone with a one-word title.
Although, I do have a title in one of my articles; “I Am” and that is about why using that as an answer can be somewhat misleading in the English Language.
Christina Sponias writes: Lance Winslow writes:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconeosis
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoneosis
Pneumonoultramcroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Pneumanoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
And that too is a problem. - Lance
Christopher M. Knight writes:There are 2,367 articles currently in the EzineArticles database that have single word titles.
Many of them are 2-3 words connected with a hyphen and thus ‘one word’ by a technical definition… even though they are more than one word. Example is an article title of: “knock-knock-knock”
Jeff Herring - The Article Guy writes:I understand why you would want to have a traditional book, maybe even an ebook, with a one word title.
Catchy, memorable, etc. “Blink” for instance.
What I don’t understand is this - in a world driven by keywords and benefits (the internet) why would you want to have an article with a one word title?
No room for keywords, benefits, etc.
Lance Winslow writes: Christina Sponias writes:This title has a poetic background, abstraction… provokes curiosity…
Nice!
Christina Sponias writes:You can define your document only if you give it at least a 2 words title.
This is also indispensable if you want to see your article in a very good position on Google.
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This change help serious writers who are concerned about giving their readers a clue to the content they will deliver, how can we give this clue in one word?!