If you were to ask a professional blogger about how they get so much traffic despite writing occasionally, the most obvious answer would be a great title.
The title is the first thing observed by readers, and within those 30 seconds, you’ve to entice them on clicking & reading the complete article. However, many bloggers still struggle to write catchy blog titles which can attract more traffic.
One common reason is the lack of use of exciting or catchy words.
See, there’s a limit on how many words you can use on the title. You can’t write 100 words explaining what the reader will get out of it and how great it is. More specifically, there’s a limit of only 70 characters for Google SERP results. If you fluff it and use ordinary words, it’ll become harder to get a good CTR.
So, how to get over it and write eye-grabbing blog titles?
Simple solution – use more catchy words.
What are Catchy Words?
You might be wondering, how do I define a catchy word? It’s quite simple. Just make sure the word triggers at least one of the below situations in the reader’s mind.
- Sense of emergency
- Anger
- Happiness
- Curiosity
- Other emotions
By using such emotional-triggering words, your titles will get more attention and hence a better Click-Through-Rate (CTR)
How Important is it to use Catchy Words?
As per Neil Patel – a famous internet marketer – Headlines are worth 90% of advertising dollars and even a single word can affect the campaign drastically.
Headlines are worth 90% of advertising dollar and every word counts - Neil PatelClick To TweetAnother study published on CopyBlogger, reveals the power of a single word where social psychologist Ellen Langer asked to cut in line at a copy machine.
The three sentences she used and their results were:
“Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine?” 60% said OK.
“Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I’m in a rush?” 94% said OK.
“Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make some copies?” 93% said OK.
As you can observe, by adding the single word “because” and a reason to it, the results were changed entirely.
Similarly, if you don’t hit the right emotional string and give a reason to readers, it’ll be challenging to get clicks or conversion. You can watch more about the importance of using “power words” in below video by Neil Patel.
700+ Catchy Words List to Write Attention-Grabbing Titles
To make your search more comfortable, I’ve collected over 700 power words that can be used when writing a new title. You can use one or multiple catchy words in a title.
I’m almost sure that by using these power words, you can improve your product sales, email open rates, affiliate commission, and more. And if your CTR is good, your Google rankings will automatically boost up.
Additionally, I’ve divided the power words list alphabetically. If you want to download the complete list of words, scroll down to the end of the page and enter your email address to get instant access.
Let’s get started.
Catchy Words that start with A
| Absolutely Lowest | Anticipate |
| Abuse | Apocalypse |
| Accommodate | Apply |
| Accomplish | Approach |
| Accordingly | Approve |
| Acquire | Approved |
| Act | Armageddon |
| Act Now | Arrogant |
| Admit | As a result |
| Adorable | Ask |
| Advice | Ass kicking |
| Affirm | Assault |
| Agony | Assert |
| Agree | Assess |
| Alert Famous | Assure |
| Amazing | Astonishing |
| Analyze | Attractive |
| Anniversary | Audacity |
| Announce | Authentic |
| Announcing | Authorize |
| Anonymous | Awe Inspiring |
| Answer |
Catchy Words that start with B
| Backbone | Blissful |
| Backdoor | Blog Post |
| Backed | Blood |
| Backlash | Bloodbath |
| Backstabbing | Bloodcurdling |
| Balance | Bloody |
| Banned | Bomb |
| Bargain | Bonanza |
| Basic | Bonus |
| Beat down | Booklet |
| Beating | Boost |
| Beautiful | Bootleg |
| Because | Bottom Line |
| Behind the Scenes | Bravery |
| Belief | Brazen |
| Best | Breakthrough |
| Best-selling | Breath-taking |
| Better | Bridge |
| Beware | Buffoon |
| Big | Build |
| Billion | Bullshit |
| Black Market | Bully |
| Blacklisted | Bumbling |
| Blinded | Buy One Get One |
Catchy Words that start with C
| Cadaver | Concede |
| Cancel Anytime | Conclude |
| Cash | Confessions |
| Catastrophe | Confident |
| Catechize | Confidential |
| Caused by | Confront |
| Caution | Conquer |
| Censored | Consequently |
| Certified | Contemplate |
| Challenge | Contend |
| Charge | Content |
| Cheap | Control |
| Cheer | Controversial |
| Claim | Convert |
| Coach | Corpse |
| Collapse | Courage |
| Colorful | Covert |
| Colossal | Cover-up |
| Colourful | Coward |
| Come along | Crammed |
| Comfortable | Crave |
| Command | Crazy |
| Comment | Create |
| Communicate | Cripple |
| Compare | Crisis |
| Competitive | Critical |
| Complete | Crooked |
| Comprehensive | Crush |
| Compromise | Customer |
| Concealed |
Catchy Words that start with D
| Danger | Determined |
| Daring | Devastating |
| Deadly | Devote |
| Death | Devoted |
| Decide | Direct |
| Deduce | Dirty |
| Deep | Disapprove |
| Defeat | Disastrous |
| Defiance | Discount |
| Delight | Discover |
| Delighted | Disgusting |
| Deliver | Do It Yourself (DIY) |
| Delivered | Dollar |
| Deluxe | Double |
| Demand | Download |
| Demonstrate | Dream |
| Depraved | Drowning |
| Destiny | Due to |
| Destroy | Dumb |
| Determine |
Catchy Words that start with E
| Eagerly | Establish |
| Earn | Evaluate |
| Easily | Everything Included |
| Easy | Everything You Need |
| Easy To Use | Evil |
| Economical | Excellent |
| Edge | Excited |
| Elite | Excited |
| Embarrass | Exciting |
| Emerging | Exclusive |
| Empower | Expert |
| Endorsed | Explode |
| Energized | Exploit |
| Energy | Exposed |
| Enhanced | Express |
| Enjoy | Extra |
| Enormous | Extraordinary |
| Enthusiastic | Eye-opening |
Catchy Words that start with F
| Facilitate | Force-fed |
| Fail | Forgotten |
| Faith | Fortunate |
| Fantastic | Fortune |
| Fascinating | Foul |
| Fast | Found |
| Fearless | Frame |
| Feast | Frantic |
| Feeble | Free |
| Figure | Freebie |
| Fine | Frenzy |
| Fired | Frightening |
| First | Frugal |
| First Class | Fulfill |
| Focus | Full |
| FoolFooled | Fundamentals |
| Forbidden | Future |
Catchy Words that start with G
| Gain | Grit |
| Gambling | Grow |
| Genuine | Growth |
| Get | Guarantee |
| Gift | Guaranteed |
| Gigantic | Guaranteed Results |
| Grateful | Gullible |
| Great | Guts |
| Greatest |
Catchy Words that start with H
| Hack | High tech |
| Hacks | Highest |
| Handle | History |
| Happy | Hoax |
| Harness | Holocaust |
| Hate | Hope |
| Hazardous | Horrific |
| Health | Hot |
| Heart | Hot Special |
| Heavy | How To |
| Help | Huge |
| Helpful | Huge Gift |
| Hero | Hurricane |
| Hidden | Hurry |
| High | Hypnotic |
Catchy Words that start with I
| Identify | Inform |
| Illegal | Informative |
| Imagination | Innovative |
| Immediately | Insider |
| Implement | Insidious |
| Implore | Inspires |
| Important | Instant |
| Improve | Instantly |
| Improved | Instructive |
| Improvement | Interesting |
| Includes | Interrogate |
| Income | Introducing |
| Increase | Invasion |
| Inexpensive | Involve |
| Influence | Ironclad |
| It’s Here |
Catchy Words that start with J-K
| Jackpot | Kick-Ass |
| Jail | Keen |
| Jaw-dropping | Know |
| Jeopardy | Know it all |
| Job | |
| Join | |
| Jubilant | |
| Just Arrived |
Catchy Words that start with L
| Largest | Limited Edition |
| Lascivious | Loathsome |
| Last Chance | Lonely |
| Last Minute | Looming |
| Latest | Loser |
| Launching | Lost |
| Lavishly | Loudly |
| Lawsuit | Love |
| Learn | Lovingly |
| Leverage | Lunatic |
| Liberal | Lurking |
| Lick | Lust |
| Lies | Luxurious |
| Lifetime | Luxury |
| Limited | Lying |
Catchy Words that start with M
| Magic | Mistake |
| Mainstream | Model |
| Maintain | Money |
| Make | Money back |
| Manage | Moneyback |
| Many | Money-grubbing |
| Map | Monumental |
| Marked down | More |
| Massive | Most |
| Master | Motivate |
| Maul | Motivated |
| Meltdown | Move |
| Mind-blowing | Multiple |
| Miracle | Murder |
| Mired |
Catchy Words that start with N
| Naked | Nightmare |
| Natural | No Good |
| Naughty | No Obligation |
| Nazi | No Questions Asked |
| Need | No Risk |
| Negotiate | No Strings Attached |
| Nest egg | Noted |
| Never | Notice |
| New | Now |
Catchy Words that start with O
| Obnoxious | Opportunity |
| Obsession | Order Today |
| Odd | Organize |
| Offer | Outlawed |
| Official | Outstanding |
| Off-limits | Over My Shoulder |
| Opportunities | Overnight Success |
Catchy Words that start with P
| Painful | Powerfull |
| Pale | Practical |
| Panic | Praise |
| Pay zero | Premiere |
| Payback | Premium |
| Peril | Prepare |
| Personal | Preposterous |
| Perspective | Present |
| Persuade | Prioritize |
| Pinpoint | Priority |
| Pioneering | Prison |
| Piranha | Privacy |
| Pitfall | Private |
| Plague | Prize |
| Plan | Proclaim |
| Played | Professional |
| Pluck | Profit |
| Plummet | Profitable |
| Plunge | Promising |
| Plus | Promote |
| Plus! | Proof |
| Poison | Protect |
| Polish | Protected |
| Poor | Protest |
| Popular | Proven |
| Portfolio | Provocative |
| Pound | Pumped |
| Power | Punish |
| Powerful |
Catchy Words that start with Q-R
| Quadruple | Remarkable |
| Quality | Research |
| Quick | Resolve |
| Quickly | Resourceful |
| Rare | Resourcefull |
| Read | Results |
| Real | Reveal |
| Real Results | Revealing |
| Receive | Revenge |
| Recession-proof | Revisited |
| Reckoning | Revolting |
| Reduce | Revolutionary |
| Reduced | Reward |
| Refugee | Rich |
| Refund | Right Now |
| Refundable | Risky |
| Reliable | Ruthless |
Catchy Words that start with S
| Safe and Effective | Smart |
| Safety | Smash |
| Sale | Smooth |
| Sample | Smug |
| Satisfied | Smuggled |
| Save | Sniveling |
| Savings | Snob |
| Scandalous | Snooty |
| Scare | Snotty |
| Scary | Soar |
| Science | Soaring |
| Scream | Softly |
| Searing | Soothe |
| Secret | Soothingly |
| Secrets | Spank |
| Secure | Special |
| Security | Special Offer |
| See | Spectacular |
| Segment | Spine |
| Select | Spirit |
| Selected | Spotlight |
| Sensational | Staggering |
| Sensual | Startling |
| Sex | Steamy |
| Shameless | Stimulated |
| Shape | Strange |
| Sharpen | Strangle |
| Shatter | Streamline |
| Shellacking | Strengthen |
| Show | Strong |
| Shrewd | Stuck up |
| Sick and Tired | Stunning |
| Silly | Stupid |
| Simple | Sturdy |
| Simplified | Success |
| Simplistic | Successful |
| Since | Suck |
| Sinful | Suddenly |
| Situate | Superior |
| Six-figure | Surefire |
| Sizable | Surge |
| Skill | Surging |
| Skyrocket | Surprise |
| Slaughter | Surprised |
| Slave | Surprising |
| Sleazy | Survival |
| Sleeping | Sustain |
| Sweaty |
Catchy Words that start with T
| Tackle | Thrilling |
| Tailspin | Thrive |
| Tank | Timely |
| Tantalizing | Tips |
| Targeted | Today |
| Tawdry | Toxic |
| Technology | Trap |
| Teetering | Treasure |
| Terrific | Tremendous |
| Terror | Tricks |
| Terrorist | Triple |
| Tested | Triumph |
| The | Trust |
| This | Try Before You Buy |
Catchy Words that start with U
| Ultimate | Unlimited |
| Unauthorized | Unlock |
| Uncensored | Unmatched |
| Unconditional | Unparalleled |
| Under Priced | Unsurpassed |
| Underhanded | Unusual |
| Understand | Uplifting |
| Unforgettable | Urgent |
| Unique | Useful |
Catchy Words that start with V-W
| Valid | Wealth |
| Valor | Wealth |
| Valuable | Weird |
| Value | Whip |
| Vaporize | Whopping |
| Venture | Why |
| Verify | Willpower |
| Victim | Win |
| Victory | Withheld |
| Volatile | Wonderful |
| Vulnerable | Wondrous |
| Wanted | Worry |
| Wanton | Wounded |
| Warning |
Catchy Words that start with Y-Z
| Yearn | Zeal |
| Yell | Zero-in-on |
| Yes-man | Zest |
| You | Zombie |
| Yummy |
Final Words
It took me hours of research to compile this list and various dictionary rounds. However, if you have some words which can be added to the list, just comment down.
Again, if you want to download the complete list of 700+ power words, just enter your email address below.
Share your experience with writing blog titles, how effective your strategies have been, and what words get the best conversion? Also, socialize this post with other bloggers and writers and spread happiness.
Shafi Khan
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Hey Shafi,
This reflects your work and shows how much effort you have put into this post.
Great article and I would try to incorporate these suggestions in my future posts.
Have a good one 🙂
Glad you enjoyed reading it, Bhawna 🙂
hey amazing compilation… i will definitely start it using from today…
Thanks, Vipin. Don’t forget to download the spreadsheet by entering your email.