How Long Do You Have To Engage Your Readers?
Caught your eye, didn’t it? Well, guess what, folks? That’s not just a rhetorical question–that’s a question so vital that you can’t afford NOT to do it.
When you’re on the internet, you have a whopping SIX SECONDS to get your reader’s attention.
That’s it. If you don’t have them committing to read your article in the first six seconds of them clicking on your post, you don’t have them.
So what can you do? You’ve got to catch the eye in just six seconds, so how do you grab that attention? Simple–with your headline.
We’ve gone over how to make an eye catching headline before that also appeas to the search engines. Don’t forget the keywords, but some of the best things you can do are to use the brick approach, in which you say something so outlandish it refocuses the attention, or ask a question, because it has the tendency to make the reader wonder what the answer is.
The point is, no matter what your post says, you’ve only got six seconds to say it. So make that first six seconds count. Time it if you have to, but make it count.
