{"id":11526,"date":"2017-09-21T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:26:42","slug":"blog-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/blog-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 10 Is Actually The Best Number To Use In Blog Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/numberheadline-blogheader.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11527\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/numberheadline-blogheader.jpg\" alt=\"blog title\" width=\"1095\" height=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone that is producing content these days knows how powerful a well written list article (or \u201clisticle\u201d) can be. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you are a Buzzfeed-type publisher pumping out thousands of blog posts a day, or a simple content marketer, the list format is definitely your friend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number in title stands out against all the other text and the reader knows exactly what they are getting themselves into. With just a few numbered sections you can take someone through a complex process or organize a bunch of ideas into a coherent point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a writer&#8217;s dream.<\/p>\n<p>However, there doesn\u2019t seem to be an agreed upon most sharable number to use for your list or in the blog title.<\/p>\n<p>Thought leaders always say you should have a number in your title but they never say which number to use!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or give vague advice that could literally apply to any number. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they all can agree on one thing, never use the number <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They think it is too common and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/m.huffpost.com\/us\/entry\/5688197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will not stand out on social media.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I took their advice blindly and never used the number <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in my blog titles until I ran this experiment.&nbsp;<\/span>And after looking at <strong>121,333 unique articles<\/strong> I found that they could not be more wrong.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like they were on the magnitude of saying the sky is red wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/infographics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11539\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd;\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blog-title-infographic-1.png\" alt=\"blog titles infographic\" width=\"2550\" height=\"10750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/infographics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br>\n<button class=\"btn-cta\">CREATE AN INFOGRAPHIC<\/button><\/a><\/center><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, let\u2019s get to busting some long held thought leaders\u2019 advice. It really is one of my favorite things to do!<\/span><p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Methodology<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To see which number performed the best in blog titles, I collected a sample of 121k different articles. I selected the numbers from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and then <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in their blog title to add to the data set. Also, I did not just look at the numeral but also the word (i.e. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vs. ten).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then, using Ahrefs, I was also able to collect social share metrics, traffic estimates and backlink data.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To collect my sample, I used 5 separate keywords to hone in on the most relevant numbered articles. These keywords were \u201dtips\u201d, \u201ctop\u201d, \u201cbest\u201d, \u201cways\u201d, \u201csteps\u201d. So the articles typically had titles like \u201c10 Tips\u201d. This was done to make sure that no random blog posts or other content made it into the database. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the ULTIMATE number to use in your blog title?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I think one of the best things that can happen when writing an article is to have your preconceived ideas blown up in your face.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that is exactly what happened with this study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actually set out to confirm what I always had thought: that numbers that are not multiples of 10 should be used in a blog title. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean, not a single one of my past articles uses a multiple of 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image18.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11529\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image18.png\" alt=\"blog title 1\" width=\"900\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually was hoping that we could show that you should NOT be using this number in your titles.<\/p>\n<p>But the data does not lie, in almost every category that we looked at showed that that the number 10 is the best number for your blog titles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I honestly had to double take when I first saw the initial findings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It didn\u2019t matter if it was the numeral or word, the number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> outperformed all the others by a solid margin in median social shares:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/charts\/bubble-chart--0681ab51-5b07-438d-aced-805628d93da1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11536\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image4.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"575\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/charts\/bubble-chart--0681ab51-5b07-438d-aced-805628d93da1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br>\n<button class=\"btn-cta\">CREATE A BUBBLE CHART<\/button><\/a><\/center><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the average article had about 5 median shares across the social sphere, those containing the number 10 had more than triple that, at 18 shares. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><p><\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the average social shares also showed that the number 10 was a gem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/charts\/editorial-column-838f307b-1689-4564-bc91-2ff99b988013\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11532\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image6.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/charts\/editorial-column-838f307b-1689-4564-bc91-2ff99b988013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br>\n<button class=\"btn-cta\">CREATE A BAR CHART<\/button><\/a><\/center><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those article also received an average of 3x more shares across Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest when compared to the study average. And almost 5x more shares on LinkedIn.<\/span><p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image7.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11533\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image7.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you look at some of the individual keywords, the winning trend continues. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With \u201cTop 10\u201d, \u201c10 Best\u201d and \u201c10 Ways\u201d leading the pack in average referring domains and median shares. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11535\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image1.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a little overwhelmed after seeing all of those graphs I do not blame you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I did this to show that after running literally all the different metrics, the number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> still came out on top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This goes against a lot of conventional wisdom from thought leaders. Many say that you should be going after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/neilpatel.com\/blog\/the-step-by-step-guide-to-writing-powerful-headlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more unconventional numbers.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It does makes sense that you should avoid a very popular and maybe even an oversaturated number in your blog titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past year there have been around <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/content-explorer\/overview\/v4\/all\/1\/score_desc?topic=%22top%2010%22&amp;field=title&amp;dateRange=2016-09-05,2017-09-05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">246,842 articles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> written using just the \u201cTop 10\u201d keyword. That is a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of that, I had made it my goal to never use the number 10 in any of my titles because it is literally everywhere. I have even told other writers to either use 9 or 11<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in their titles, but never 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But after seeing the cold hard data, I think I will change my tune. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What other numbers should you try?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What if the number 10 just does not work for your blog title?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, there are a few others that you can use to grab the attention of your audience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the previous section, I highlighted a few numbers that could be used, but now I am going to dive a bit deeper into each one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image17.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11531\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image17.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"575\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am going to use the total median and average social shares for each number.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The number 5<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second most useful number to include in your headline was another fan favorite, the number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just over the past year there were almost 150k different articles published with \u201cTop 5\u201d in their headline.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean, \u201c5 tips\u201d is easier to write than \u201c10 tips\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And number 5 clocked in at 17 median shares, only one behind our reigning champ. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the articles with number<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had more backlinks (about 11 per article)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they fell far behind those with the number 10<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in average social media activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11538\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you write about only 5 things instead of 10 you can expect Facebook users to not want to share it. But Twitter will love it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, apparently Pinterest doesn\u2019t like the number 5 because it had less than half of the amount of shares as the number 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This makes a lot of sense because long form images and content has been known to flourish on Pinterest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The number 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next on the list we have an expectedly low digit, the number<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It received exactly half of the median shares of the number 10, with 9 shares.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 33k articles written in the past year use \u201cTop 3\u201d in their titles, much lower than &nbsp;the number of articles with 5 and 10 in the titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see in the graph below, the success of the number 3 on social media was very similar to the study average. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11541\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think this means that there were not a lot of viral articles that pushed the average up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead there were many articles with the number 3 in the title&#8211;9817, actually&#8211; that received a solid number of shares on every article to keep that median number steady.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the number 3 did do great on LinkedIn, which might be surprising unless you know that concise content does well on that platform.<\/p>\n<p>But the failure of low numbers on Pinterest continued with the number 3, where it received only about a third of the sample average.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That being said, the backlinks the number 3 received on average were about half the other top numbers, at 6 backlinks per article. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The number 4 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the fourth spot on this list we have the actual number 4<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I couldn&#8217;t have planned this more perfectly if I tried!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those articles had one less median shares at 8 than its predecessor, the number 3.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again, I think that this number signifies the great content that was produced across the whole experiment instead of a few viral ones. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past year there were about 13k articles that had \u201cTop 4\u201d in their headline. This is a lot less than the other numbers on this list but it also means we got almost 10% of all those articles in our sample. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is still about half of the total articles that mentioned the number 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see below, the number 4 received slightly lower than average social shares across the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11542\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image11.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except the number 4 killed it on LinkedIn, almost doubling the sample average!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But unlike some of the other low numbers, the number 4 bucked the trend of low Pinterest shares, with those actually averaging about 49 shares per article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The number 7<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I can bet that you did not see this number coming in to close out the list. Right?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes it is true, the number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was the fifth most shared in our experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was definitely unexpected to see. But it does follow a bit of the advice you have been hearing from the thought leaders for the past few years. So I will roll with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case you were wondering, there were about 13k articles published with the number 7 in the title, which matches the number of the \u201cTop 4\u201d articles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are looking for backlinks, then the number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may not be the best choice. At 5.39 backlinks per article, the number 7 got about half the number of backlinks as the number 10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This barely puts it above the sample average of 4.07, so I would recommend looking for another number. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the number 7 had lower median shares on average, it actually beat out some of the other numbers on this list for social shares. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see in the graph below, articles with the number 7 were able to mostly get more Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest shares than articles with 3, 4, and 5 in their titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11543\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image9.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the number 7 received more social shares than average for every site! So if you want your article to get some serious traction on social media, I would pick the number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Especially on Pinterest: it is the first low number that you can get a lot of shares using, with the number 6 only receiving 33 shares on average.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What numbers should you avoid completely?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing the best numbers to use in your headline is only half the battle. We still need to cover the worst numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there were some truly awful numbers that you should honestly never use. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see from the graph below, there are a few that can spell disaster for your content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image20.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11544\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image20.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if you combined all of the average shares from the bottom five numbers, you still wouldn\u2019t even hit half of what the top numbers received.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is HUGE.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The absolute worst number is 2<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you could not guess from the graph above, the number 2 is the absolute worst number to use in your headline.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With almost 1\/20th the median shares of the top numbers, there is huge discrepancy between the top and bottom numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worst of all, if you were to just add one more idea or point to your article, the median shares would increase by almost 800%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/8be320c5-0f5d-41ca-86df-ebc552ea6824-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11545\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/8be320c5-0f5d-41ca-86df-ebc552ea6824-4.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"807\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you are thinking that your list of two things is perfect, I would reevaluate that article. Because you are leaving a ton of potential traffic and shares on the table just by quitting early. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I mean this makes sense, who really wants to read a list or article that is only tells you two things?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would never read that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can tell the author did know what they are talking about or had so little to say that they could only come up with two points. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People want a little more content than that when they are looking for advice, or even entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t skimp or it will come back to bite you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Across the board, articles with the number 2 in their titles performed terribly on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image15.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11546\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image15.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Twitter and Pinterest, they received about half the shares when compared to the sample average. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when it comes to Facebook and LinkedIn, those blog titles led to only 16% and 13% of the average shares, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Avoid using the teens<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This tip does not really cover a single number, but more a range of numbers that you should never use.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the graph below, the numbers between 13 and 19 do not do very well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/charts\/bar\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11547\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image10.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/templates\/charts\/bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br>\n<button class=\"btn-cta\">USE THIS CHART TEMPLATE<\/button><\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one trend that I noticed during both the data collection and analyzing stages of this study. It was at times hard to find articles that included 13 and 19 in their titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And with how bad those numbers performed, I can\u2019t blame the other writers for not using the teens in their blog titles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, not a single teen number made it into the top half of our median shares. Actually, all of them came in well below the median number of shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The only one actually received a significant number of shares was the number 15. This number led the pack of misfit numbers in median number of shares, only receiving about 60% of the sample average.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These articles probably did so well because it&#8217;s a factor of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 more than anything<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I use \u201cwell\u201d loosely, because 15 did not do achieve high shares across the social sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11548\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook was the only site where the number 15 was able to get more than the average number of shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>None of the other numbers received more than the average shares across each social site. As you can see in the graph below, they do not even come close!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image13.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11549\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image13.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, except that the number 19 does extremely well on Pinterest, which makes sense because those users love longer content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So other than never using the number 2 in your headline, I would also be very cautious about using any of the teen numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are looking for a quick or easy read these days and those numbers just seem a bit overwhelming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like \u201c7 Tips\u201d sounds like something you could read in line for a coffee, but \u201c17 Tips\u201d could take a whole hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This rings true until you get to large numbers like 75 or 101. Those lists stop being articles and instead turn into collections people reference or can read in chunks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Do certain numbers perform better on each social network?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After seeing that the number 19 did so well on Pinterest, I began to wonder if a number did insanely well on on certain social network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had a few ideas on why some numbers did better than others but I wanted to look at the cold hard data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I took a deep dive into all of the articles again to figure that out!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to keep things consistent, I used the same methods to determine the best numbers as I did in the past sections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>First, let\u2019s start with one of my favorite social networks: Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had to blindly guess, I think that the smaller numbers would have done best on Twitter. Solely based on the amount of mobile traffic that Twitter receives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsurprisingly, the articles that did best on Twitter also were the best numbers to use from previous sections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Twitter-Shares.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11550\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Twitter-Shares.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the top five numbers on Twitter were the exact same as those that had the most overall median shares. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One surprising finding from this exercise was that the number 20 received a high number of average Twitter shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Next we have the social behemoth known as Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Like Twitter, they receive a ton of mobile traffic so I thought more compact articles will do best.<\/p>\n<p>But I was completely mistaken. Instead, factors of 5 dominated the top of the Facebook shares chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Facebook-Shares.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11551\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Facebook-Shares.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had to guess a hundred times I would have never expected that, but that\u2019s what the data says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>But it makes sense; those are numbers that people trust and can be used to convey a sense of authority.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously the number 10<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 dominated the top spots but the other top performers were much further down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see from the graph, a few of the number who led the most median shares barely made it to the top half of shares on Facebook. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the lowly number 2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">continued to be one of the worst numbers to have in your blog titles. No matter the social site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The penultimate social site on this list is this often misunderstood LinkedIn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As someone who has never really gotten the point of LinkedIn, I was eager to see what the findings were.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I expected them to be very similar to the numbers for Facebook shares because they are so similar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I mean, LinkedIn is basically just Facebook for work but more annoying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And I was right on the nose with that prediction, with it almost being the exact same numbers as we saw in the Facebook section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LinkedIn-Shares.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11552\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LinkedIn-Shares.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only major difference was that the number 6 snuck its way into a top spot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Note: a classic Dad joke (seven, eight, nine) formed on our graph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Pinterest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pinterest rounds out my list of the best numbers to use on social media. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is fitting because I think the best numbers will be a large departure from what we have seen so far.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With lists, infographics and recipes dominating Pinterest, I expected the larger numbers to do best! &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230;well, I was kinda right, with the top numbered blog titles being a lot different from other social networks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number 11 led the others on Pinterest with the normal top dog, number 10, only receiving about half the shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pin-Shares.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11553\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pin-Shares.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large numbers like 18 and 19 moved up from the basement of the other social sites to near the top of Pinterest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the mid-teen numbers did not fare as well, dropping to the bottom of the list pretty spectacularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plus, the number 3 moved down the most dropping from one of the top spots to barely out of last place in Pinterest shares. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Do written words or numerals perform better?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The final question I would like to answer is, should you use the word or the numeral in your blog title?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like, would a title that had \u201c3 Best\u201d or \u201cThree Best\u201d perform better? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In my articles I have always stuck to the numeral because it stands out from a wall of text. Your eye is immediately drawn to it because it is different from the things around it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why I was not surprised when the articles that used the numeral outright dominated the word articles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Numeral articles received more than 400% more median shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image19.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11554\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image19.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"700\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like, it was not even close across every single metric you should care about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image16.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11555\" src=\"https:\/\/venngage-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image16.png\" alt=\"blog titles\" width=\"950\" height=\"750\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With nearly double the shares across all the social networks, I think it is clear we can crown a winner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in terms of link building, the numeral articles received almost 7x more links on average! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>So if you are thinking about using a word in your title, stop and use a numeral instead.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It honestly could be the difference between hundreds and thousands of people seeing your content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Including a number in your blog title is one of the best ways to stand out from a crowd and grab the eyes of a new potential reader.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just remember that it shouldn&#8217;t be just any random number that you like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or one that you picked because you ran out of ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead you should remember: <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wacky numbers don\u2019t really make a difference<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number 10<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is actually your best bet<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number 5 is a close second<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never use number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">like ever<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t use most teen numbers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The numbers 3, 4 and 7 are a good choice<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Always use the numeral, not the written word<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stick to those seven rules and you will maximize the potential of your wonderful article with a great blog title that will make people want to read, which is especially important if you&#8217;re hoping to <a href=\"https:\/\/venngage.com\/blog\/increase-blog-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increase blog traffic<\/a> or start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryrob.com\/make-money-blogging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earning revenue<\/a> from your blog.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use a <a href=\"https:\/\/bloghands.com\/blog\/best-free-headline-analyzer-tools-for-quickly-writing-better-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">headline analyzer tool<\/a> to help you write better titles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You might wonder what the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.constant-content.com\/content-writing-service\/2019\/01\/how-long-should-blog-posts-be-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ideal length of a blog post&nbsp;<\/a>is. 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