{"id":4032,"date":"2012-01-04T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rockhaq\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2018-02-15T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:15:58","slug":"blog-title-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/?p=4032","title":{"rendered":"Blog Title Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help Team Rockhaq know what you&#8217;ve written about, to get lots of hits on your work and to ensure your music reviews, blogs, interviews all stand a good chance of being found by Google searchers, it&#8217;s best to stick to the following blog post title rules.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>It&#8217;s great journalism and media practice to do this.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your blog post title becomes your link title. If you don&#8217;t use these blog title rules, nobody will know what you&#8217;ve written about without clicking on your link. If they don&#8217;t know from the link title what you&#8217;ve written about, they won&#8217;t bother clicking on it at all.<\/p>\n<p>So, here are the formats you MUST stick to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For a music video review: &#8220;video review:&#8221;, song title, artist name, release date<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For a music album or single review: &#8220;review:&#8221;, artist name, song title, release date<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For a live gig review: &#8220;live review:&#8221;, artist name, live review, city, venue name, interview date<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For a (video or audio) interview that took place at a venue: &#8220;video interview:&#8221;, artist name, interview, city, venue name, interview date<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For a written interview (if it took place at a venue, please add venue details and date, as above) otherwise: &#8220;interview:&#8221;, artist name, interview date<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For special assignments: name of assignment, artist name, venue, interview date (if it applies)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General guidelines: keep titles meaningful and use the above tips so your posts can be found by Google. Also check out our guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/tips\/written-tips\/word-counts-links\/\">word counts and links.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help Team Rockhaq know what you&#8217;ve written about, to get lots of hits on your work and to ensure your music reviews, blogs, interviews all stand a good chance &#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/?p=4032\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockhaq.com\/1546951672250\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}