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Blog Post Title Grader and Headline Analyzer
Paste your headline. The AI scores it out of 100, shows what's working for clarity and search, and rewrites it three ways to earn more clicks.
How the grader works
Paste your headline
Drop in any blog post title: draft, published, or half-formed idea.
AI runs the 6-point framework
Promise, search intent, specificity, hook, length, and formatting.
Get a score + rewrites
See exactly what to fix and three sharper headlines you can steal.
How the 6-point framework actually scores your headline
Clear promise
Does the title tell the reader exactly what they’re about to get? “Some Thoughts on Productivity” promises nothing. “The 20-Minute Morning Routine That Fixed My Focus” promises a specific outcome in a specific timeframe. Readers commit to a straight offer, not a vibe.
Search intent
Does it match what someone’s actually typing into Google? “My Journey With Time Management” describes a feeling. “How to Stop Procrastinating at Work” matches the literal phrase people search. One shows up in results that convert. One doesn’t show up at all.
Specificity
Numbers and outcomes beat vague claims. “Ways to Grow Your Blog” could be about anything. “7 Ways I Grew My Blog to 10,000 Readers” tells you the exact count and the exact result before you’ve clicked. Specific titles set expectations that generic ones can’t.
Curiosity hook
A flat title gets skimmed. “SEO Tips for Bloggers” is a topic. “The SEO Mistake Costing You Half Your Traffic” is a threat you need resolved. The second one you can’t walk past. Curiosity isn’t a trick, it’s a debt: the headline owes the reader an answer, and clicking collects it.
Good length
Google cuts titles off in search results, usually somewhere past 60 characters. A title that’s still making its point at character 90 loses the back half where the actual hook usually lives. Say what matters in the first 60 characters, because that’s all some readers will ever see.
Clean formatting
Title Case With Every Word Capitalized Reads Like A Corporate Memo. A normal sentence with one well-placed number or bracket reads like a person wrote it, because a person did. Save the emphasis for the one word that actually earns it, not every word in the title.
FAQ
How long should a blog post title be?
Aim for 50 to 60 characters. Google starts truncating past that in search results, so anything past 60 is a coin flip on whether it survives the cut.
Does your title actually affect SEO ranking?
Not directly, no one outside Google knows the exact mechanics, and Google itself denies title cleverness is a ranking factor. What it clearly does affect is whether someone clicks your result over the ten others on the page, and getting clicked is the whole game before ranking even matters.
What’s a good headline score?
The higher the number, the more of the six criteria above you’re actually hitting: clear promise, search intent, specificity, curiosity hook, good length, clean formatting. A low score usually means one of those is missing outright, not that all six need work.
Should I optimize for clicks or search intent?
Both, or the title fails one way or the other. Chase curiosity alone and you’ll write a headline that gets clicked and immediately bounces because it didn’t match what the reader searched for. Chase exact-match keywords alone and you’ll write something too dry to click at all.
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