Analyze Your Next Title - Compare Your's Against the Best of the Best!
Measure your title against best selling titles on Amazon.com and most clapped titles on Medium.com. This
tool takes into consideration word choices, title length, and opening words and word combination.
It will return a score between 0 and 100 percent.
Enter your title here and click the "Rate Your Title" button (Click on the links below
to get specific details on each measurement):
If we analyze enough top Amazon sales ranked books, we notice the following pattern, they start with distant words and end with distant words but are tied together by closer ones. Putting it another way, a good title starts and ends with the least synonymous words while the middle is more synonymous.
Here is an example from a top-selling children's book titled "Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods by Sandra Boynton":
The skew is calculated by taking the word embedded vector and cosine distances of each word and plotting them. Consider the "Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods" title, we see that the distance between “Hippo” and “Angry” is very large, so is the distance between “of” and “Moods”, and they sit at the extremities of the title.
To quantify the skew, we simply compare an ideal smile with the actual by using a Pearson's correlation function and the cosine distances from the inputed title.
This is easy, after taking a sample of 10,000 top titles on Medium, we find that the sweet spot is around 5 to 10 words.
Matching popular starting words and word combos from most clapped stories on Medium.com (taken from a sample of over 1 million titles):
| Single | Pairs | Triples | Quadruples |
|---|---|---|---|
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the how a why what my i 5 when 3 this is an 10 you on top day we are its 7 new introducing dont building in 4 do |
how to what is how i why i why you this is are you what i the best why we how do do you the future building a i am the power how we if you what are 5 ways how the meet the the most why do why the the art 5 things want to what to |
how to make how to get how to create how to build why you should the power of how to use how to be the future of what i learned the art of the importance of what is the 5 ways to how do you getting started with how to write an open letter how to become how to find how to buy what to do what is a how to start a letter to 3 ways to this is how an introduction to this week in |
how to build a an open letter to how to create a what i learned from how to be a how to become a a photo a day what to do when how to make a how to deal with a beginners guide to everything you need to website of the day why you need to how to make your how to write a so you want to what you need to a letter to my if you want to how to start a a brief history of how to participate in the ultimate guide to how to get your the best way to what does it mean for the love of how to create an |
A big thanks to harrisonj for collecting this data and making it available on Kaggle.
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