Dear blog writer, please use an appropriate title!
Dear Blog Writer,
This week I’ve been getting annoyed and frustrated with the subject lines of your blog in my RSS feeds. (I’ve been quite tired too, so this may have affected my judgement!)
None the less, a number of my feed items this week have arrived with titles that bear slim resemblance to the content to which they link.
Look, it’s not a difficult concept, really:
1. Write your blog.
2. Write a title in about 50 – 60 characters that tells me what it’s about!
I know you’re really busy writing lots of nice free articles to help me learn and grow wise, but I’m busy too and there is just far too much information out there for me to read everything on a daily basis. So I use the subject line of your feed to decide whether it’s on a topic that would interest me. If your subject line doesn’t tell me what I’m going to get when I get there, then I’m going to end up finding posts that I’m not really interested in and missing posts that might help me become a better person.
Please, please, please can you rectify this situation at once, or I will have to take remedial action and just stop following your feed, even though you may be a prolific thinker of our generation and have a wonderful turn of phrase!
Yours faithfully,
A. Subscriber.
PS. The above does not apply to spammers! You should use the most misleading subject line possible to drive as many unwitting readers as possible to your online Viagra store!
Dear blog writer, please learn punctuation.
I wouldn’t normally say anything but as this is a post about writing…please correct the unfortunate occurrence of the apostrophe in “you’re” in your post.
What you are in fact saying is ‘Write you are blog’ when I think you mean ‘Write your blog’
kthxbai!
Unfortunate indeed. Nice spot. I will punish myself appropriately and change forthwith!