Writing headlines for searchbots, not readers

by Michael Alexander on May 17, 2010

“Headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice.”

Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline, by David Carr, The New York Times

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