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Combo Your Headline With The Right Picture to Earn Commas

Hogan Torah’s new 2022 Sharethrough headline analyzer guide and how to find the best pictures

Hogan Torah
Write! Right? Write!
10 min readJan 6, 2022

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The biggest mistake I see new writers make on Medium is putting all their effort into their story and treating the title and pictures as an afterthought. When members scroll in the app, they see your name, the title, and a feature picture. It doesn’t matter what you spent hours writing if your title and picture don’t attract attention.

The title is a Medium stories most critical component. A good title gets the readers attention, tells you what the story is about, but leaves them wanting more so they click. The words you use and the order you put them together determines if your story will be a success or if it spends it’s time in obscurity.

It doesn’t matter how good the story is, if the title sucks no one will read it.

To get the readers attention you need an eye-catching photo that hasn’t been used a billion times. Don’t use the Unsplash widget! I’ll tell you why and show you where I go to get the best pictures that will make your story pop.

At the end I’m going to explain how to find photos that combine with your title to give your story a superman push resulting on more eyes on your work.

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Write! Right? Write!
Write! Right? Write!

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Hogan Torah
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Written by Hogan Torah

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