will using number in the post title really works?!

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by life.rocks, Jul 4, 2008.

  1. #1
    well i have read a blog post in a random blog that numbers will be good way of getting decent number of traffic but i still wonder how search engines consider numbers :rolleyes:
     
    life.rocks, Jul 4, 2008 IP
  2. mnvamsi

    mnvamsi Active Member

    Messages:
    206
    Likes Received:
    2
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    53
    #2
    No i don think so.
    search engines cannot respond to the numbers.
    as far as i know
     
    mnvamsi, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  3. UseShots

    UseShots Peon

    Messages:
    244
    Likes Received:
    16
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    Do you mean titles like "7 ways to ..." or "10 most beautiful ..."?

    Yes, people like lists. Such a title can catch attention.
    And search engines don't care whether you are using numbers or not.
    Just try these searches

    "7 ways to" - more than a million of results
    "10+most+beautiful" - thousands of results
     
    UseShots, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  4. Swamy

    Swamy Peon

    Messages:
    11
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    List based queries like "Top ten wordpress plugins" or "Top 10 wordpress plugins" are common in the search engines these days. Google actually don't care if its a number or not but the human mind always works to get the results faster. So 10 is used more than ten.

    These are the google results :
    Top 10 wordpress plugins (there are 81,600,000 results available)
    Top Ten wordpress plugins (there are only 9,290,000 results available)

    So you get the point now :)

    Swamy
     
    Swamy, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  5. UseShots

    UseShots Peon

    Messages:
    244
    Likes Received:
    16
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    I don't think there are 81 million pages about top 10 WordPress plugins. ;-) If you add quotes ("top 10 wordpress plugin"), the number of results will be less impressive.

    However the idea is correct: search engines don't care and and it's easier for people to read numbers rather than word representation of numbers (especially long numbers).
     
    UseShots, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  6. just-4-teens

    just-4-teens Peon

    Messages:
    3,967
    Likes Received:
    168
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #6
    Results 1 - 10 of about 85,500,000 for Top 10 wordpress plugins. (0.29 seconds)

    i see more than the person above stated
     
    just-4-teens, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  7. pipes

    pipes Prominent Member

    Messages:
    12,766
    Likes Received:
    958
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    360
    #7
    Checking my stats on a forum i have (small forum) people search for top 10 more than top ten, i found.
     
    pipes, Jul 9, 2008 IP
    jackass2007 likes this.
  8. UseShots

    UseShots Peon

    Messages:
    244
    Likes Received:
    16
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #8
    There must be an automated Wordpress plugin writing posts about top 10 wordpress plugins and submitting them to Google. I wonder what number we can see in a day? Billions of search results about top 10 wordpress plugins ;) :D :D
     
    UseShots, Jul 9, 2008 IP
  9. Swamy

    Swamy Peon

    Messages:
    11
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #9
    Wordpress plugins are used by tons and tons of webmasters. Infact I myself want to spend a lot of time on creating such useful plugins. I'll definitely get my hands dirty one day :) But i'll make sure that the plugin is not a dirty one LOL

    Swamy
     
    Swamy, Jul 9, 2008 IP