#adverbs of frequency for beginners

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Adverbs of Frequency in English: Usage, Rules, and Examples

Introduction Adverbs of frequency are an essential part of English grammar, helping us express how often an action occurs. They answer the question “How often?” and provide clarity in both spoken and written communication. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced learner, mastering these adverbs will enhance your fluency and precision in English. In this blog post, we will explore common…

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A Closer Look at Arabic Adverbs

Arabic is a rich and intricate language, full of various parts of speech that contribute to its unique structure and meaning. One such part of speech that plays a crucial role in sentence construction is the adverb. Adverbs in Arabic help to clarify or modify verbs, adjectives, or even other adverbs. These small words can significantly change the meaning of a sentence, providing important context for the action or description.

Arabic Adverbs are an essential element of the Arabic language, adding depth and nuance to everyday speech. They tell us when, where, how, or to what extent something happens. For learners of Arabic, understanding how adverbs work can greatly enhance their ability to communicate effectively.

What Are Adverbs in Arabic?

Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They can describe the manner in which an action is performed, the frequency of an event, or the degree of an adjective. In Arabic, adverbs usually come after the verb or adjective they modify, though this can vary depending on the sentence structure.

For example:

هو يقرأ بسرعة ("He reads quickly"). In this sentence, "بسرعة" (quickly) is an adverb that modifies the verb "يقرأ" (reads), indicating how the action is performed.

Types of Arabic Adverbs

Arabic adverbs can be categorized into several types based on the function they serve in a sentence. Here are a few of the most common categories:

Adverbs of Manner (كيفية): These adverbs describe the manner in which an action occurs. They answer the question "How?"

Example: بسرعة (quickly), بطريقة جيدة (in a good way).

Adverbs of Time (زمانية): These adverbs specify when an action takes place. They answer the question "When?"

Example: اليوم (today), غداً (tomorrow), الآن (now).

Adverbs of Place (مكانية): These adverbs tell us where an action occurs. They answer the question "Where?"

Example: هنا (here), هناك (there), في الخارج (outside).

Adverbs of Frequency (تواترية): These adverbs describe how often an action occurs. They answer the question "How often?"

Example: دائماً (always), أحياناً (sometimes), نادراً (rarely).

Adverbs of Degree (درجة): These adverbs modify adjectives or other adverbs to indicate the intensity or degree of the action or description. They answer the question "To what extent?"

Example: جداً (very), قليلاً (a little), تماماً (completely).

Word Formation of Arabic Adverbs

Many Arabic adverbs are formed by adding specific suffixes or prefixes to adjectives or verbs. For example:

The adjective سريع (fast) becomes بسرعة (quickly) by adding the prefix "بـ" and the noun-forming suffix "-ة".

The adjective جيد (good) becomes بجودة (well, in a good way) when transformed into an adverb.

Placement of Adverbs in Arabic Sentences

The placement of adverbs in Arabic sentences follows a pattern, though it is somewhat flexible. In most cases, adverbs appear after the verb or adjective they modify, but they can sometimes appear at the beginning of the sentence for emphasis.

For example:

هو يدرس بجد (He studies diligently) – The adverb "بجد" (diligently) follows the verb "يدرس" (studies).

بجد هو يدرس (Diligently, he studies) – In this structure, the adverb "بجد" is placed at the beginning for emphasis.

Common Arabic Adverbs in Everyday Speech

Here are a few commonly used Arabic adverbs that are helpful for beginners and advanced learners alike:

دائماً (always)

أحياناً (sometimes)

اليوم (today)

غداً (tomorrow)

قليلاً (a little)

جداً (very)

أبداً (never)

حسناً (well)

كثيراً (a lot)

Adverbs in Negative Sentences

In negative sentences, Arabic adverbs follow specific rules for placement. For example, when negating a verb, the adverb usually remains in its regular position relative to the verb or adjective. However, negative sentences may require a specific adverb to reinforce the negation.

أنا لا أعمل بسرعة (I don't work quickly). Here, the adverb "بسرعة" (quickly) comes after the verb "أعمل" (work), and the negation "لا" (don’t) appears before the verb.

Conclusion

Arabic Adverbs are vital in expressing how, when, or to what extent something occurs. They add clarity and meaning to sentences, enhancing communication and making the language more precise. Whether you're learning Arabic as a second language or looking to refine your skills, paying attention to the role and usage of adverbs will significantly improve your ability to convey nuanced meanings.

By mastering the different types of adverbs and their placement in sentences, you can enhance your fluency in Arabic and better understand how native speakers construct their thoughts. So, whether you're talking about how fast someone runs, when an event happens, or how often something occurs, Arabic adverbs will always be there to add that important detail.

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単語 (たんご) Frequency Adverbs

not much 余り (あまり)

not at all 全然 (ぜんぜん)

usually 大抵 (たいてい)

sometimes 時々 (ときどき)

often; much よく (良く)

at about... ぐらい

Frequency Adverb Grammar

Frequency adverbs are added to a sentence to describe how often you do something.

I sometimes go to a coffee shop.

私はときどききっさてんに行きます。

Negative frequency adverbs anticipate a negative verb form at the end of the sentence. Therefore, you cannot use ぜんぜん or あまり with a positive verb form such as ます to communicate their meanings here. They would have to be used with ません!!

Ie. 私は全然テレビを見ません。

I do not watch TV at all.

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Masterlist

I decided to create a master list of all my blog posts. I only included the ones I wrote myself, you won’t find any reblogged posts here :)

GETTING STARTED

# How To Start Studying Korean

# Study Technique (Ask)

# Study Notebook (Ask)

MISCELLANEOUS

# Introduction  

# The Issue With Calling People Koreaboo - A Short Essay

# Life Update (October 2019)

# 5 Things That Make Me Happy

# Where I have been (2022)

GRAMMAR

# Important Grammar - Ending Consonants - 받침

# Beginner Grammar - To Have To Do Sth./Should Do Sth. -~아/어/여야 하다/되다

# Beginner Grammar - Nominalisation -는 것 & -기 & -(으)ㅁ

# Beginner Grammar - About Sth./Concerning Sth. -에 대해(서) & -에 관해(서)

# Beginner Grammar - If/When -(으)면 & -(으)ㄹ 때

# Intermediate Grammar - Speaker’s Assumption -(으)ㄹ 텐데

# Confusing Grammar 1 - Shall We...?/Doubts/Asking Oneself/Wondering -(으)ㄹ까(요)?

# Confusing Grammar 2 - Some-(one/time/where) -ㄴ가

# Confusing Grammar - If/When -(으)면 & - (으)ㄹ 때

# Confusing Grammar - Usage of 보다 in BTS and TXT song (Ask)

VOCABULARY

# Adverbs of Frequency

# Vocabulary - Nature

# Vocabulary - Halloween

# Random Vocabulary 1

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Language Learning Log 2021 Week 11 (08.03 - 14.03)

Norwegian

45-minute online lesson

Read 2x articles

Watched 1x Distriktsnyheter broadcast (Nordnytt)

Watched 11x Exit episodes

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 grammar (read aloud)

Chatted with Amanda

Japanese

Read 1 story from Japanese Short Stories for Beginners

Duolingo: Vacation 1 + refreshed various skills

Norwegian

My teacher recommended the show Exit to me, so I’ve been watching that this week. At first I was like wow these guys really are all cunts not sure I’m gonna get on with this but actually? I got pretty hooked on it (even if they are all cunts). And there’s a fair bit of Swedish in it too, so I get to practice my Swedish comprehension (it’s so shit I had to turn on subtitles a few times). I’m almost tempted to dabble in a little Swedish on Duolingo just to get the basics down.

What I have realised though is that I really need to practise listening to natural conversation more. There were times when the characters were talking quite fast and I could only really get the gist of the conversation or I felt like I’d missed something key and had to rewind and watch with subtitles on. Watching the news is useful but the presenters tend to speak slowly and clearly and not in a natural way, so I’m gonna make more of an effort to watch TV series. It’s not like there aren’t several I enjoy!

I’ve been slacking on writing practice this week, so I’m going to try and do more of that this coming week. I need to do more reading too... maybe I should start that Harry Potter book. I’ve been struggling to get back into reading in general lately, so maybe shaking it up with a Norwegian book will help.

Last week’s goals

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 grammar ✅

Watch 4x TV shows/news broadcasts [12/4] ✅

Read 3x articles [2/3] ❌

Write 150+ words fiction [0/150] ❌

This week’s goals

Finish watching Exit season 2

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 exercises

1x written task

Read a chapter of Harry Potter og Føniksordenen

Japanese

I’ve spent most of this week reading the first short story from one of my books. I’m pretty sure these books are aimed at people who are already at least N5/N4 but I’m still learning lots! And it’s also given me ideas for vocabulary I need to look up. For example, I learned the word for always, so now I need to learn never and sometimes. I also learned summer and morning, so now I should learn autumn, winter and spring, as well as evening and night. So that’s my plan for this week!

I didn’t really get much else done, but that’s okay. I think this week’s going to be all about revising vocab. Hopefully by learning some more key vocabulary I’ll reduce the amount of time it takes me to read a single 3-page short story, which will mean I won’t have to spend an entire week on it. I also need to get some listening in, as I didn’t do much of that last week. I’ve reached the point in Final Fantasy where the story’s almost done and I’m mostly doing side quests, which means fewer cutscenes and therefore less listening practice. So maybe I’ll mute the game and put on NHK while I play instead haha.

Last week’s goals

Read 1 short story [1/1] ✅

Duolingo: start Hobby 1 skill ❌

Kanji drills on at least 3 days [0/3] ❌

Continue playing Final Fantasy ✅

Review JFZ ch 8 ❌

This week’s goals

Learn seasons, times of day and adverbs of frequency

Recap other vocabulary from story + make a vocab list

Duolingo: start Hobby 1 skill

Listening practice on at least 3 days

Kanji drills on at least 2 days

Other

Exercise has been better this week, although I would’ve liked to have done more yoga. I really need to get out of the habit of putting it off until it’s too late. I’m not sure why I do it - I really enjoy it! And I feel so good after I’ve done it and don’t regret doing it for a moment! So why do I put it off?? I’m definitely gonna talk to my therapist about my executive dysfunction when he gets back from holiday.

I’m not sure how much I’ll actually get done this week as my bf has the week off and we’re planning to use it to sort out the spare bedroom. Plus obviously I’ll want to spend time just being with him, playing Mario Party and watching Buffy. So I may not reach all my goals this week, but I don’t mind. Relationship time is important!

Last week’s goals

Do a little reading on at least 2 days [1/2] ❌

Stretch on at least 3 days [3/3] ✅

Train pole/hoop on at least 2 days [2/2] ✅

Do something creative ✅

This week’s goals

Stretch on at least 3 days

Train pole/hoop on at least 2 days

Train at home on at least 2 days

Practice with fans

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Hi sootbird :) I was wondering how you study Japanese, like, what materials or books do you use, do you attend a class or are a disciplined self-study person? I've tried several methods and apps and such and so far, nothing really turned into a routine for me...

Hello!! To answer your question about my own personal Japanese study, I took five years of Japanese classes at my university and have a bachelor’s degree in it. Right now, I’m self-studying, because I’m still not where I want to be in terms of fluency. It takes a fair bit of discipline, but I think it’s fun and I’m a big nerd so I like to study it every day. ;;

I’m so excited you’re interested in learning Japanese!! It’s such a neat language. I’m not entirely sure how to advise self-study straight from the beginning, but I can try! I’m sure there are lots of resources online for learning Japanese (it’s a fairly popular language to learn these days), but I also have a slew of books that I can recommend to you. Some are books that I used at school in my classes, and others are books that I acquired on my own over the years. The textbooks tend to be more expensive bc they have a lot of material, but I do think they’d be useful for beginning self-study, because you do need some sort of foundation before you can branch out on your own. I do think that having materials made me feel like I was properly studying it and I think has encouraged me to keep up with my self-study!

Textbooks:

Nakama books

These are the textbooks I used in my beginning classes. Nakama 1 was for first year, and Nakama 2 was for the second year. I think they’re pretty good books, and you can rent them for a semester on Amazon it looks like.

Genki books

I haven’t used these textbooks, but I have friends who did use them in their Japanese classes, and I’ve heard good things about them. I recommend checking the reviews and seeing which book series (Nakama or Genki) you wanna go with. Of course, if you feel like splurging, you can always get both and cross-reference them.

Other books: These are other books that I use to supplement my study. AKA you don’t need them right away.

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar -- Makino/Tsutsui

A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar -- Makino/Tsutsui

The Handbook of Japanese Verbs -- Kamiya

A Dictionary of Japanese Particles -- Kawashima

All About Particles -- Chino

The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs -- Kamiya

Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication -- Kamiya

The first step you wanna take before anything else is learning how to read and write the Japanese syllabaries. Japanese doesn’t use an alphabet like English does. Instead of the written characters representing individual sounds, they represent syllables. Let me illustrate this with an example: the Japanese word for “heart” is こころ. As you can see, there are three characters there. When written in Roman letters, it is spelled “kokoro.” Six letters in our alphabet, but only three Japanese characters. The syllables in that word are “ko,” “ko,” and “ro.” You can see how the writing system is syllable-based.

Japanese has two syllabaries. The first is called hiragana. The second is called katakana. The syllables represented by these two systems are exactly the same, but the syllabaries are used differently. Hiragana tends to be used more, and katakana tends to be used for loan words (words from other languages that have been integrated into Japanese). I’ll use “kokoro” as an example again.

Here is “kokoro” in hiragana: こころ

Here is “kokoro” in katakana: ココロ

The use of hiragana versus katakana is something you’ll get used to with experience, but it’s important to know BOTH syllabaries. I didn’t learn katakana well enough at the beginning and it haunts me to this day. Don’t rely too heavily on romaji (the writing of Japanese words in Roman letters) because the Japanese don’t use it. Only use it as a pronunciation tool at the beginning. I do use romaji on a romaji-to-Japanese keyboard I have on my phone, but that’s really just a matter of convenience and for quicker typing.

Learn both of the syllabaries and practice writing the letters as you go. I recommend using a fun pen! After that, the textbooks can tell you what to do next. (The textbooks do tell you how to learn hiragana and katakana as well at the start, if you need more guidance than the internet gives you.)

Here are some other important resources that will be a big help to you:

Dictionary app: A Japanese dictionary is gonna be really important and I find that it’s handy to have one on your phone. I don’t know about Android, but the App Store has a few of them. I use one that’s just called “Japanese Dictionary” and it’s got a red icon.

Online dictionary: If you can’t get your hands on a dictionary app or if you’re on the computer, you can use this great online Japanese dictionary called Jisho. I use it frequently when I’m on my computer.

Flashcard app: Flashcards are gonna be your best friend. I recommend getting a good flashcard app. The one I use is Anki, and I have it on my phone and on my computer. You can download it for free on your computer and I think it’s free for Android. I have an iPhone and I had to pay 25 bucks for the app but I’ve heard that there’s a free version on the App Store too? It might just have ads, but I’m not sure. Anyway, Anki is great because it will make note of the flashcards you’re having trouble with and give them to you with more frequency. There are also a lot of decks that people have uploaded to the Anki website, so you can find all sorts of community-made Japanese decks that you can import (I think you have to import a deck on the desktop version, but then you can sync it up to your phone). 

And finally, some things to keep in mind before starting Japanese. 

Japanese is generally agreed upon to be a pretty difficult language to learn (for English speakers at least). As a native English speaker, I would agree that it is kinda hard. The general sentence structure of English is subject-verb-object. In Japanese, that structure is subject-object-verb. Since the verb is at the end of the sentence, it can be tricky to switch your brain around to the order.

A lot of people will also tell you that kanji is a nightmare. Kanji are the third element of the Japanese writing system, and are characters borrowed from Chinese. In fact, Japanese did not have a written form until the 5th century, and all of it came from Chinese. Kanji characters however, have mostly retained their resemblance to Chinese characters. They more closely resemble traditional Chinese characters, and visually look like a step between traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.

Anyway, they may look quite complicated and there are a lot of them. But you will learn to love them, and they’re so fun to write. This is a kanji-positive zone so if you ever get stressed about kanji come chat with me and I will reassure you.

Here is a book I am currently using to effectively memorize kanji, and I highly recommend it. It’s beginner-friendly.

So, you may get stressed out by Japanese and maybe by all the information I just gave you, but don’t worry!! It’s a very fun language to learn and anyone can learn it if they put their mind to it! I believe in you! Come back and ask me if you have any questions.

Thank you for the ask and I hope this helps!!

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Czech Dictionary

Buy Czech Frequency Dictionary That Contains Ipa Phonetic Spelling of Czech Words

Learning a new language is always exciting. But how will you make sure that you'll focus on learning relevant vocabulary? 

You will waste a lot of time and energy, if you start learning random words that you will probably never, or very rarely, use. Do you know how many words you use per day in the English language?

Out of the 400.000 words in the English language, you only use the same 1000 most common words, 80% of all time!

You should learn the most common words first, and then learn relevant vocabulary relevant to your own situation. When it comes to learning new vocabulary in a foreign language, you want to grab a frequency dictionary. 

A frequency dictionary is a book with the most common words of a particular language, listed by how often you use them. Learn these, and you will gain a base understanding of the language in just a few months. 

Do you want to learn the Czech language? Buy a Czech frequency dictionary now.

What is a Czech frequency dictionary?

In simple words, a Czech frequency dictionary contains the most common words in the Czech language. The MostUsedWords frequency dictionaries divided the word list between a

general frequency list.

Frequency as part of speech

An alphabetical list, for easy lookup.

You can learn the Czech language effortlessly, if you learn just 10 new words per day. In addition, the dictionary is going to improve your language skills by providing reading practice. The IPA phonetic spelling of Czech words helps you get your pronunciation right every time!

Why should you buy a Czech frequency dictionary?

If you want to learn a particular language, it is crucial to go through the right vocabulary. One can say that knowing the right vocabulary is the secret to become fluent and fast in a language. People use some words more than other words, and it is vital to know them. A frequency dictionary of Czech provides you with a reliable word list, so you can learn Czech vocabulary fast! 

What will you find inside a Czech frequency dictionary?

You will find a Czech vocabulary list based on an analysis of an extensive collection of Czech subtitles. The 2500 words in the book are there in frequency order, in frequency order as their part of speech (A list of the most common adjectives, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, and verbs) and in alphabetical order. The structured learning approach will make your language study effortless.

How can you learn Czech pronunciation?

Learning pronunciation for a completely new language is not a piece of cake. But do not worry, when you are learning the language using this Czech dictionary. The dictionary has a phonetic transcription of Czech words. The standard International Phonetic Alphabet was used for phonetic spelling in this book. The MostUsedWords' frequency dictionary series is the only frequency dictionary publisher that includes IPA phonetic spelling. 

Benefits of using a frequency dictionary to learn the Czech language:

Let’s explore the benefits of using a frequency Czech dictionary, have a look at the below-mentioned points:

The dictionary has high-frequency Czech vocabulary, so you can learn the most used words in the Czech language. When you know the most frequent Czech words, you can understand more Czech, while studying less.

Learning becomes as easy as ABC when there are relevant examples available. This Czech frequency dictionary has a Czech to English sample sentence with every entry. You learn the words quickly when reading the English examples. The examples will give you an idea about using a particular word in context. 

It is not easy to learn the pronunciation of Czech words. No worries; the book contains IPA phonetic spelling to help you understand the correct pronunciation every time.

This Czech dictionary with the most common Czech words helps you gain a base vocabulary in Czech. Don’t you think it is fantastic? You can say that these high-frequency words are an excellent tool for both beginners and intermediate students. 

Having rave reviews on Amazon, a lot of people found this book helpful and learned the Czech language in no time thanks to this series.

So, what are you waiting for? Buy this book, start your journey to learn the Czech language. Amaze your family & friends. Invest in this book, and see how fast you can learn the Czech language!

Visit our website to get more information related to the Czech Frequency Dictionary now!

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this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Catalan. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

info

about world languages

fun facts

getting to know catalonia: an introduction to the catalan language, culture and society [mooc]

glottolog

how to sign up for free catalan courses in catalunya

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

omniglot

orbis latinus

overview of the history of catalan

playlist of samples

the catalan language [video]

wikipedia

world atlas of language structures

alphabet

accents

overview of catalan orthography

apps

flewent [chrome]

courses

bliubliu

book2

curs de catala

parla.cat [mooc]

routledge - colloquial catalan: the complete course for beginners [pdf]

teach yourself (1993) [pdf]

wikibook [in catalan]

cultural & historical info

acultura’s culture tag

/r/catalonia

/r/catalunya

dictionaries

cambridge

catalandictionary [meta search]

diccionari.cat

diccionari invers de la llengua catalana

diccionarios.com

diec2

enciclopèdia.cat

freelang

institvt d’estvdis catalans

lexicool

lexilogos

majstro

openthesaurus-ca

termcat [thematic dictionary]

wiktionary

wordreference

flashcards

cram

forums

quora

/r/catalan

unilang

grammar books & guides

descriptive grammar of the catalan language

overview of catalan grammar

grammar points

adjective number

anar vs. anar-se’n

articles

demonstrative adjectives

indefinite pronouns & adjectives

interrogative pronouns

nouns / overview of nouns

personal pronouns / overview of personal pronouns

plurals

possessive pronouns

quantitative adjectives & adverbs

weak personal pronouns

listening practice

librivox [audiobook library]

lyrikline [poetry library]

literature

children’s songs and rhymes

la illustracio poetica [poetry library]

list of poets

list of writers

logoslibrary [virtual library]

overview of catalan literature

overview of la decadència

overview of modernisme

overview of noucentisime

overview of renaixença

project gutenberg [virtual library]

Quran [scans]

/r/cificat [science fiction forum]

rosary prayers

universal declaration of human rights [pdf]

universitat oberta de catalunya [poetry library]

media

ted talks

movie & tv recommendations

letterboxd

movie recommendations by @elnas-studies

tv show recommendations by @elnas-studies

music recommendations

catalan feminist songs by @useless-catalanfacts

disney songs masterpost

folk music recommendations by @guillemelgat

música en català 2018 [spotify]

music recommendations by @useless-catalanfacts

news

ara.cat

el diari

el món

el pais [catalan version]

el periodico

el puntavui

newspaper map

vila web

phrasebooks & travel guides

at hand - basic communication in the catalan language

bbc quick fix

loecsen [audio]

omniglot

taxi language

wikivoyage

podcasts

one minute catalan

podcast recommendations by @useless-catalanfacts

pronunciation

el sons del català

forvo [pronunciation dictionary]

ipa key

overview of catalan phonology

overview of the phonological history

quizzes & exercises

clozemaster

digital dialects [vocabulary games]

iteslj [vocabulary quizzes]

tongue twisters

radio

catalunya ràdio

rac1

ràdio arrels

ràdio flaixbac

radio in andorra la vella

radio in barcelona

social media

@rodamots [twitter]

catalunya [discord]

catalan-english language exchange [discord]

wikipedia

speaking tips

proverbs

special topics

biblography for catalan studies

short overview of anti-catalanism

timeline of names used for catalan

tumblrs

@learncatalan

@mercigracies

@useless-catalanfacts

verbs

common verbs / 50 common verbs

conjugation chart [pdf]

conjugator - catalandictionary.org

conjugator - logosconjugator

conjugator - verbix

overview of catalan conjugation

overview of catalan verbs

vocabulary

adverbs

agreement

babadada [vocabulary tool]

breakfast

cognates - neapolitan

days of the week

exonyms

fairytales & legends

family

fiber arts

football

frequency lists

fruits

greetings

hanukkah

harry potter

language learning

market

medicine [dictionary]

months

numbers / counting / numbers

prepositions

rodmots [word a day tool]

school

spring

swadesh list

tea & infusions

time adverbs

telling the time

travel

winter solstice

writing tips

spelling and grammar checker - language tool

youtube

learn catalan from barcelona

llengua catalana

tel_caramel

in spanish / en español

catalán [wikibook]

duolingo

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Reading Comprehension - Beginner to Elementary (Verb to be/Daily Routines/Adverbs of Frequency) #aprenderingles #follow #motivation #englishonline #englishcourse #like #instagood #england #inglesonline #school #quotes #india #words #spanish #online #vocab #music #languages #y #languagelearning #art #fun #hindi #englishlesson #writing #french #bhfyp #teaching #london #easyenglish #english worksheets

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5 TIPS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO BEGINNERS

Teaching novices can be intimidating, especially if the group is monolingual and you don’t speak their language, or if the group is multilingual and the sole common language is the English you’ve been assigned to teach them. Nonetheless, teaching novices solely in English is not only viable, but it can also be one of the most satisfying levels to teach. Here are seven guidelines for teaching English to beginners that will help you succeed in getting your students on the right track.

1.Make instructions as clear and concise as possible.

When speaking to a group of students, especially those you’ve recently met, it’s easy to fall into the trap of explaining things in the most courteous manner possible. After all, nobody enjoys being unpleasant. “OK, so now what I’d like you all to do, if you don’t mind, is just stand up for a moment and come to the front of the class,” “OK, so now what I’d like you all to do, if you don’t mind,” “OK, so now what I’d like you all to do if you don’t mind,” “OK, so now what I’d like you all to do, if you don’t mind,” “OK, so Oh, and don’t forget to bring your book. Couldn’t we just do it?

2. Allow them to first listen.

Your students will almost certainly want to begin practicing speaking very immediately. However, it takes time for one’s ear to adjust to the sounds of a new language, and not everyone will be enthusiastic; don’t force students to speak before they’ve had plenty of opportunities to listen to you speak it (which doesn’t mean you should just ramble on at the front of the classroom – with beginners, more so than with other levels, you need to think about what you say and grade your language accordingly).

3. Drill, repeat, drill, repeat, drill…

Beginners require a lot of repetition and drilling, especially as they learn their new language’s sounds. It may seem tedious to repeat the same sentences again and over, but it is necessary. Back-drilling, or breaking a sentence down into manageable components and then building it back up, working backward from the conclusion of the sentence to the beginning, is a good way to ensure that your intonation is natural and that you get associated speech elements right while practicing a new sentence.

4. Establish a classroom language from the start.

Language in the classroom – Is it possible for you to talk more slowly? What are our options? I’m not sure what you’re talking about. What exactly does… imply? – How do you say… in English? – is most commonly connected with educating youngsters, but it is also quite useful for adult novices. Even if your classroom is friendly and calm, learning a new language can be intimidating, especially if you feel like you’re not following what’s going on or that you might be called on to speak something you don’t feel ready to express. It’s better to start teaching pupils classroom language early on so that they can get the most out of the session.

5. Stay away from metalanguage.

It’s useless for students to know concepts like a past simple, irregular verb, and adverb of frequency if they can’t use the structures or words they refer to. Show them instead of telling them how to say something. Provide as much context as possible (visual prompts work well). Furthermore, make sure they comprehend by asking questions that test their comprehension rather than asking “Do you understand?” since a) many individuals are hesitant to admit they don’t understand and will pretend that they do, and b) a student may believe they have understood when they haven’t.

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Key Tips for Teaching English to Beginners

Teaching beginners can be a tough proposition, specifically, when it is a monolingual group and you are not related to their language, or it is a multilingual group and the only common language is the English you have been tasked with teaching them. Nevertheless, not only this is possible to teach beginners only through English, but it could also be one of the most rewarding levels to teach.

In this blog, Ms. Sonu Goel, Founder of Café Converse which is Delhi’s leading English language institute is sharing some tips for you to succeed in setting your learners strongly on the path to achieve proficiency. Here are some tips for teaching English to beginners.

Keep Instructions Simple and Clear

It will be tempting when addressing a class of students, particularly ones that you have only just met, to explain activities in your affable language. After all, you want to strike the right chord. However, a student who only knows a few words of English, if any at all, will not appreciate or understand all the difficult words of communication you choose.

For example, avoid instructions like these: So now what I would like you all to do if you do not mind is simply to stand up for a moment and come to the front of the class. And, kindly bring your book with you. Could we all simply do that?”

Instead, make instructions quite clear by using limited words as required and by gesturing whenever possible, and breaking down the sequence of instructions into smaller units. If you wish to be polite, “please” and “thank you” will work.  For example, the above instruction can be better said as: “Everyone, take your book, please. Stand up. Now, come here, please. Thank you!

Let them First Listen

More than possibly, your students would want to begin practicing speaking very much from the get-go. However, it takes some time for one’s ears to get accustomed to the sounds of a new language, and not each one will be so keen; Don’t force students into speaking. First let them have plenty of opportunities to listen to you using the language. (Which does not mean you merely just be rambling on at the front of the classroom, with beginners more so than with other levels.)  You truly have to consider what you say and grade your language as per it.

Form Classroom Language Early On

Classroom language, can you speak more slowly? What do we need to do? I do not understand. What does it mean? How do you say, in English? All these instructions and questions are normally associated with teaching children, but it really assists with adult beginners as well. No way how friendly and relaxed you make your classroom environment, learning a new language can still be difficult, particularly, when you feel you’re not totally following what’s going on, or that you could be called on to say something that you don’t feel ready with. It is a lot better to equip students early on with the classroom language that will support them navigate the lessons efficiently.

Refrain Metalanguage

There is no logic in making the students know the terms like past simple, irregular verb or adverb of frequency, if they cannot use the actual structures or words they refer to. Do not tell them how to say something: show them. Provide as much context as you can. Visual prompts will work well. Further, make sure you check they have understood it well by asking questions that test their....

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How to Write an Incredible Title Tag

The humble title tag. Probably the single most important 50-60 characters of that piece of content you’ve written. 

Perhaps you’ve found this post because you’ve spent hours pouring your soul into a piece of writing and now you’ve realised people will only read it if you write a good 50-60 characters. Or maybe it’s just that your boss told you that he needs quick wins for your product pages and so you’re turning in desperation to the ol’ title tag. Writing a good title tag is part art, part science.  How do you do it?

We’ll start with some quick basics for beginners. If you’re looking for the split test results, fun processes & all the more advanced things, scroll down two sections. Nothing to see here.

Contents

What is a title tag?

How long should a title tag be?

What do we want a title tag to do?

How to write a title tag for a single article

How to write hundreds of title tags for a template

What are the chances you write a good title tag?

How much impact do title tag changes have?

7 learnings from title tag split tests

How long does it take to see the impact of a title tag change?

Summary

What is a title tag?

The title tag of a page is the HTML tag which is used to summarise the content of your webpage. It’ll be used by search engines as the title in search:

Yes, I’m using my own post as an example...

In your browser tab:

And even as a fallback in social sharing posts:

It isn’t the same thing as the on-page title! An on-page title could be written as a variation of your title tag, or something completely different. If we take a look at the article I’m using as an example we can see that the brand isn’t on the on-page title.

Title tag: A Complete Guide to Log Analysis with Big Query | Distilled

On-page title: A Complete Guide to Log Analysis with Big Query

If you want a more severe example take a look at this Redbull article.

How long should a title tag be?

A title tag should typically be 50-60 characters. Technically Google's maximum size is 600px. This usually works out at about 50-60 characters.

What do we want a title tag to do?

Welcome back, experienced people. What do we want our title tags to do?

Summarise our page: Our title should summarise the general thrust of our page. Google is going to use it to understand what our page is about.

Get people to click: It’s what users are going to see in the SERP. We need to convince people to pick us.

And if we just do one, you usually don’t get the best results. For example, using the title from the blog post above:

Totally factual: A Guide on Log Analysis.

All click: 6 Easy Steps to Log Analysis They Don’t Want You To Know.

We want to maximise how clicky our titles are without… you know… lying, mentioning that one trick dentists hate and crucially without compromising on summarising the page.

The title is primarily for people arriving on your site from Google. We’re not trying to pull people in who are idling. Those people are on Facebook, TikTok, Youtube, Instagram etc. (I know we did mention above that the title can sometimes be for social, but you can overwrite that if you’d like!)

The audience for your title is someone searching with an intent & that always comes first.

The process is quite different now depending on if you’re writing for a single article, or a template. 

How to write a title tag for a single article

Step 1 - Write the article

Write the article. It’s far easier to write a title when you know what you’ve written about. (This is assuming you know what you’re writing about, otherwise, sometimes headline writing can be a good way to generate ideas.)

Step 2 - Summarise the primary purpose/point of the article

Pull out the primary purpose/point of the article. No clickiness yet, just the factual summary.

Example

Example post 1- A guide to log analysis

Example post 2: There is an industry backlash against Flybe’s government bailout

Step 3 - Find the factual, commonly searched keywords needed to describe the topic

Try to summarise what someone might search to find your article. Aim for the simplest most basic version of it. Search that term, take the top 5-10 articles which rank for it, plug them into a tool like Ahrefs, SEMRush, Searchmetrics, Brightedge etc. and download all the keywords those articles rank for.

If the top 5-10 articles look nothing like yours either:

You’re first to a topic (unlikely, but possible)

Or your phrase is wrong, try again.

Once you’re happy with the phrase, take that big list of keywords and look for any other commonly occurring phrases you’re missing and take note.

Example

We’re going to continue using my old article on log analysis as an example. Because it doesn’t have a great title...

First search phrase pick: “log analysis” 

If we look up this keyword these are the top articles (only 3 shown below). Clearly we can see here that none of these articles are about search log analysis, I probably need to change my keyword:

Second search phrase pick: “seo log analysis”

Yep, that search result looks far better. We’ve still got a short phrase, but now the articles are now on topic with my own:

Excellent. Now:

Let’s take all the URLs that rank in the top 5-10.

Download the keywords they rank  for. (Ahrefs, SEMRush, Sistrix etc.)

And then get the most common keywords from that list. This ngrams tool is a nice way to do it. We get:

word frequency log 164 analysis 65 file 56 analyzer 41 server 40 logs 29 grep 13 analyze 13 access 12 excel 11

If we pull out the big generic words which would also apply to my article we get:

Log

Analysis

File

And possibly also:

Server

Step 4 - Writing lots of titles

Process

Now we’ve got all the factual words we’ll want in our title and brand.

What inspiration can we get for the clicky part? Lets quickly blast through a couple:

Writing an emotional headline:

Fear

Surprise

Anger

Disgust

Affirmation

Adding numbers:

Number of items in a list

Price

Date

Shameless clickbait inspiration:

Adding in mindblowing adverbs

The word “actually”

Being unreasonably specific

Then we try to write as many headlines as we can, but without trading away our relevance and factual keywords. 

When I started I worked with Hannah Smith on several projects. I remember her beating into us - “Write 20 titles. 20 is really hard.” Most of them will suck, but you’ll force yourself to be creative and somewhere there might be gold.

Example

Back to our previous example.

We’ve got our important factual words. We also know we want SEO as without that the intent of results shown wasn’t correct. Together those 4 words (without server) take up 18 characters. Which gives us roughly 32 characters left to play with. Let's also look at our current title and see what we’re working with:

A Complete Guide to Log Analysis with BigQuery | Distilled

Making it clicky 

Factual description 

Brand 

We can see I’ve used “Complete Guide” to try and make it clicky and that I’ve also put the method of analysis “BigQuery” into the title. Both of these we could definitely play around with. Now we just try to write as many titles as we can.

“A Guide to SEO Log File Analysis | Distilled”

“What is a log file and why is it helpful for SEO? | Distilled”

“6 Stage SEO Log File Analysis - A Complete Guide | Distilled”

“How to do an SEO log file analysis | Distilled”

“SEO Log File Analysis - The most important technical analysis | Distilled”

“5 Ways to Analyse Log Files for SEO You Didn’t Know | Distilled”

“Logging in the SEO jungles of the internet | Distilled”

“Log analysis is the technical audit you should be doing | Distilled”

“Stop wasting your time crawling and look at the logs | Distilled”

“Log analysis for SEO in 2020 | Distilled”

“Server Log Analysis Guide - SEO For Large Websites | Distilled”

I started with the restrictions and gradually just ignored them in my attempt to get to 20 titles. I didn’t get there. Sorry Hannah.

Step 5 - Picking one

How do we decide which is best? 

Honestly, it’s savagely hard to pick the right title by yourself. Of all the title tag tests we’ve run at Distilled, only one in five is typically positive. When I first started in search, I thought titles were the easy win. About a year and a half of running endless title tag split tests and I’m no longer convinced.

If you can test it. The two easiest ways for a single article are:

Paying for it: If you’ve got the budget, you could run paid social media campaigns and see which title performs best.

Friends & Colleagues: Make a poll for your friends & colleagues and get them to vote.

How to write hundreds of title tags for a template

The above process works great if all you need to write is a single title.

But if you’ve got a template with hundreds of thousands of pages, then you can’t really do that. Well, you could, but it would be exhausting. Instead, we’re going to need a format for a title that we can apply to all our pages, to make our template shine. That previous process won’t cut it.

Step 1 - Summarise the primary purpose/point of the page

We’re going to start by trying to summarise the attributes of the page in as much detail as possible. This will give us an idea of what pieces of detail we can pull into our titles across our template.

Example

I’ve pulled two page templates from rightmove.co.uk (this isn’t every page template but we’re keeping it simple):

Properties for sale - Page: 

URL: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Manchester.html

Location: Manchester

Properties types: Houses & flats

Number of properties: 3,940

Price range: £190,000 - £3.5 million

Numbers of property types:

269 detached

851 semi detached

690 terraced

Properties to rent - Page: 

URL: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/Manchester.html

Location: Manchester

Properties types: Flats

Number of properties: 7,155

Price range: £75 - £34,667 per month

Numbers of property types:

238 detached

864 semi detached

1,770 terraced

Step 2 - Figure out what searches should return our template

Our templated page matches a specific intent. We need to figure out how to represent that in a title tag. 

Two things make this hard:

We might have multiple templates with similar intents.

The pages in our template may be similar.

We need to try and make a title which:

Differentiates our template from other templates.

Differentiates pages in our template from each other.

If we’re really struggling perhaps these pages shouldn’t even exist. But that’s a conversation for another day.

Example

We have two templates:

For sale

To rent

In this case, it’s pretty simple. For sale & to rent are clearly the important keywords we need to keep each template different. We can see that by looking at the SERPs. Changing those keywords, changes the results from for sale to rent.

Within our template, we have lots of different locations.

Properties for sale in Manchester

Properties for sale in Ipswich

 In order to keep the pages in our template different, we’re going to need the location in the title.

Step 3 - Accept that it’s messy

But anytime you work with titles it’s going to get messy.

Take our previous example. Rightmove actually has pages for Manchester & Greater Manchester. One ranks for properties and the other for flats. Something is clearly going on there. Uh oh.

Should that change what we do?

When we’re working at scale, patterns are going to breakdown. There hopefully is an underlying pattern, but look long enough and you’ll find exceptions. All we can do is do our best. Make a reasonable guess at what is going on and spoiler for stage 6. Test.

Step 4 - Are there any common phrases we’re missing?

This is exactly the same as step 3 for articles. 

Take your phrase which summarises the page.

Search for it. Download all the keywords the top 5-10 results rank for.

Find the most common words.

Example

To keep it brief, we’re going to just stick with the properties for sale template for the rest of these steps! Running this example with the top phrases for “properties for sale in manchester” we get:

Keyword Frequency manchester 211 sale 122 for 107 for sale 96 houses 59 house 45 buy 42 sale manchester 40 houses for 36 property 32

Words to note here are all fairly self-explanatory:

Property

Houses

Buy

Step 5 - What can we add to make it more attractive?

We know what we need to include to make the intent of our page clear.

Property/houses

For sale/To rent

Location

Now let's use that as a base and write as many titles as possible.  

We want to:

Make them as clicky as possible.

Use extra attributes.

Get creative.

Avoid using words which might change search intent.

A general difference between this and individual articles: If you end up with an entirely factual template title that is far more acceptable here than with an individual article.

Generic ideas for things you can put in titles

Adding prices into the title.

Adding some sort of quantity into the title. 

Adding year into the title. 

Put in the obvious e.g. “online” in an online shop.

Popular synonyms.

Words to watch out for that can change an intent

Comparison style words - best, compare etc. 

Deal seeking words: cheapest, cheap, deal, affordable

Example

Let’s have a go at writing titles for our category pages

Our base is:

Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Let’s make variants:

Properties & Houses for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Buy Properties & Houses for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Buy Houses & Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

3,940 Houses & Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

3,000+ Houses & Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Properties for Sale - Houses for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

3,940 Houses & Properties for Sale Across Manchester | Rightmove

3,940 Houses for Sale in Manchester - Get there first | Rightmove

3,940 Properties for Sale in Manchester - Find your Happy | Rightmove

That’s a lot of variations. We even managed to fit in their tag line at the end.

Step 5 - Pick a title

Process

Just like with articles we’re going to end up with a list of titles and unsure which one will be best. Far more than with individual title tags, it’s really really important to split test.

Template level title tags are messy. We’ve already seen that in our example. You can make educated guesses from performing some large scale analysis, but there are going to be effects you miss. 

What works on one site won’t work on another & we’ve found only 1 in 5 title tags ends up being positive.

The stakes are often higher. We’re not changing one page, we’re changing a group of pages which is often a non-trivial amount of your search traffic.

If you can test at all I’d highly recommend it. We’ve got plenty of resources to help you get started. The two most useful should be:

What is SEO split testing 

DIY SEO split testing tool

If you can’t test, you can at least lean on our tests, I’ve got results from those in the next section.

Important context for our title tag split tests

We’re lucky enough at Distilled to have access to SEO split testing software we built. It lets us test different titles & accurately measure the impact on organic traffic. We’re about to talk about the different results we’ve learned, so it’s important to briefly talk about the assumptions implicit in these results.

You can only run SEO split tests on large groups of similar pages (e.g. all category pages, all listing pages etc.) and that means our results are from certain types of websites:

The websites are mostly large and authoritative. 

They tend to be in competitive SERPs.

The companies usually have SEO teams who have done the basics. There usually isn’t anything glaringly awful like product pages without titles that we can fix.

They are more typically tests applied to template pages like category, product & listing pages rather than blog pages. (Although that’s not everything, we run split tests on the Moz blog for example!)

I think you can learn a huge amount from these tests, but it’s still important to bear those assumptions in mind.

What are the chances you write a good title tag?

Writing titles is really hard. We mentioned this above, but let's look at our numbers in slightly more detail. We’ve run many title tag tests across different industries. Our results break down as follows:

Successes: 22%

Null: 38%

Failures: 40%

Oof. 78% of the time title tag tests fall flat or actually harm the website. That makes testing super important. It’s not impossible you could work on a website where you never have a positive title tag test. Nothing you try will ever work. Without testing, you’d probably still roll out those titles. Just spotting the failures and not rolling them out will save you a huge amount of traffic.

With a single article, this isn’t so worrying, you’ve got a far larger creative space to play in and if it does go wrong, it’s a far smaller proportion of your traffic.

If you’re changing titles on big page templates, please make sure you test them!

How much impact do title tag changes have?

Broadly most title tag tests have an impact between 4-15% in either direction.

You can see a distribution of our title tag tests below.

7 learnings from title tag split tests

Most title tag changes are unique to a website, changing words and phrases which don't generalise well from website to website. However, there are some more common patterns we’ve been able to test.

Putting in prices

50% of our title tag tests involving adding the price into the title have been positive. Not only do we get to put a number into the title, but it also provides more information.

Why was it null or negative the rest of the time? 

Our consultant Emily Potter thinks this is down to whether or not Google can find the price you put in the title on the rest of your page - i.e. are you being honest about price. We also think it may make a difference depending on how competitive you are on price.

Putting in year numbers

We haven’t had the chance to test this a huge number of times, but so far this change has been positive in the niches where we’ve done it. The shameless putting 2019, 2020 in the title has helped.

Shortening title tags hasn’t actually been that helpful

When you have lots of automatically generated titles, it’s common to end up with titles that are too long.

We’ve run a number of tests about shortening these titles and nearly all of them have been null (~80%). They’ve also never been positive. Our best current theory is that the templates which often end up with long title tags are typically attracting long tail traffic. When they are truncated, they’re still the only relevant result and so continue to rank, perhaps for long tail queries, keyword stuffing isn’t a problem.

Having said that I’d still say it’s worth trying to shorten your titles. If you manage to cut 4-5 characters from your title with no effect, you could use that space to add price or something else which may have an effect.

Emojis didn’t work

We’ve run several tests to put emojis into title tags and so far it hasn’t helped. Sorry folks :(

I mean c’mon. Marketers can barely be trusted with FAQ schema, can you imagine what we’d do to Emojis.

Eye-grabbing on category/listing pages

We’ve tried some title tags for category/listing pages which were very different, actively calling out to the user in the SERPs.

Standard: Ford for Sale | CarShop

Example of our type of test: You there! Fords for Sale at the CarShop

These did not work. 

Localising language

We tested using localised versions of phrases. This wasn’t single letter changes (like s for z in UK vs US), but entire words e.g. pants instead of trousers.

This was notably positive (~20-25%).

Removing implied words from the title

We’ve seen mixed results from this. We ran a split test & found removing “online” from title tags had no effect on one particular client. Outside of our split-testing platform for a different client, we removed the word “online” from the title of an online store.

Our rankings for the terms including "online", dropped and we quickly put it back in.

More detail on the split tests

If you want to hear more detail about some of these tests, or just love video and you’re signed up to DistilledU, you can see Emily Potter's video on split testing from last year. If you’re not subscribed, you can see my slightly older talk here.

How long does it take to see the impact of a title tag change?

We usually see the impact of a title tag in 3-5 days.  We’ve had a couple which has taken longer, but this is the majority. The previous caveats are of course important here, we typically work on larger websites, which are heavily crawled.

Summary

I genuinely thought when I started I’d be able to get this post done in 1000 words. Even now, I can see all the little bits of context & other things that go into writing a good title, which I just couldn’t fit into this post. We didn’t even start talking about internal politics :)

But hopefully, this has got you on your way. Now let's hear some stories.

What title tag tests have you found effective? What’s the worst title tag you’ve ever tried?

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How to Write an Incredible Title Tag

The humble title tag. Probably the single most important 50-60 characters of that piece of content you’ve written. 

Perhaps you’ve found this post because you’ve spent hours pouring your soul into a piece of writing and now you’ve realised people will only read it if you write a good 50-60 characters. Or maybe it’s just that your boss told you that he needs quick wins for your product pages and so you’re turning in desperation to the ol’ title tag. Writing a good title tag is part art, part science.  How do you do it?

We’ll start with some quick basics for beginners. If you’re looking for the split test results, fun processes & all the more advanced things, scroll down two sections. Nothing to see here.

Contents

What is a title tag?

How long should a title tag be?

What do we want a title tag to do?

How to write a title tag for a single article

How to write hundreds of title tags for a template

What are the chances you write a good title tag?

How much impact do title tag changes have?

7 learnings from title tag split tests

How long does it take to see the impact of a title tag change?

Summary

What is a title tag?

The title tag of a page is the HTML tag which is used to summarise the content of your webpage. It’ll be used by search engines as the title in search:

Yes, I’m using my own post as an example...

In your browser tab:

And even as a fallback in social sharing posts:

It isn’t the same thing as the on-page title! An on-page title could be written as a variation of your title tag, or something completely different. If we take a look at the article I’m using as an example we can see that the brand isn’t on the on-page title.

Title tag: A Complete Guide to Log Analysis with Big Query | Distilled

On-page title: A Complete Guide to Log Analysis with Big Query

If you want a more severe example take a look at this Redbull article.

How long should a title tag be?

A title tag should typically be 50-60 characters. Technically Google's maximum size is 600px. This usually works out at about 50-60 characters.

What do we want a title tag to do?

Welcome back, experienced people. What do we want our title tags to do?

Summarise our page: Our title should summarise the general thrust of our page. Google is going to use it to understand what our page is about.

Get people to click: It’s what users are going to see in the SERP. We need to convince people to pick us.

And if we just do one, you usually don’t get the best results. For example, using the title from the blog post above:

Totally factual: A Guide on Log Analysis.

All click: 6 Easy Steps to Log Analysis They Don’t Want You To Know.

We want to maximise how clicky our titles are without… you know… lying, mentioning that one trick dentists hate and crucially without compromising on summarising the page.

The title is primarily for people arriving on your site from Google. We’re not trying to pull people in who are idling. Those people are on Facebook, TikTok, Youtube, Instagram etc. (I know we did mention above that the title can sometimes be for social, but you can overwrite that if you’d like!)

The audience for your title is someone searching with an intent & that always comes first.

The process is quite different now depending on if you’re writing for a single article, or a template. 

How to write a title tag for a single article

Step 1 - Write the article

Write the article. It’s far easier to write a title when you know what you’ve written about. (This is assuming you know what you’re writing about, otherwise, sometimes headline writing can be a good way to generate ideas.)

Step 2 - Summarise the primary purpose/point of the article

Pull out the primary purpose/point of the article. No clickiness yet, just the factual summary.

Example

Example post 1- A guide to log analysis

Example post 2: There is an industry backlash against Flybe’s government bailout

Step 3 - Find the factual, commonly searched keywords needed to describe the topic

Try to summarise what someone might search to find your article. Aim for the simplest most basic version of it. Search that term, take the top 5-10 articles which rank for it, plug them into a tool like Ahrefs, SEMRush, Searchmetrics, Brightedge etc. and download all the keywords those articles rank for.

If the top 5-10 articles look nothing like yours either:

You’re first to a topic (unlikely, but possible)

Or your phrase is wrong, try again.

Once you’re happy with the phrase, take that big list of keywords and look for any other commonly occurring phrases you’re missing and take note.

Example

We’re going to continue using my old article on log analysis as an example. Because it doesn’t have a great title...

First search phrase pick: “log analysis” 

If we look up this keyword these are the top articles (only 3 shown below). Clearly we can see here that none of these articles are about search log analysis, I probably need to change my keyword:

Second search phrase pick: “seo log analysis”

Yep, that search result looks far better. We’ve still got a short phrase, but now the articles are now on topic with my own:

Excellent. Now:

Let’s take all the URLs that rank in the top 5-10.

Download the keywords they rank  for. (Ahrefs, SEMRush, Sistrix etc.)

And then get the most common keywords from that list. This ngrams tool is a nice way to do it. We get:

word frequency log 164 analysis 65 file 56 analyzer 41 server 40 logs 29 grep 13 analyze 13 access 12 excel 11

If we pull out the big generic words which would also apply to my article we get:

Log

Analysis

File

And possibly also:

Server

Step 4 - Writing lots of titles

Process

Now we’ve got all the factual words we’ll want in our title and brand.

What inspiration can we get for the clicky part? Lets quickly blast through a couple:

Writing an emotional headline:

Fear

Surprise

Anger

Disgust

Affirmation

Adding numbers:

Number of items in a list

Price

Date

Shameless clickbait inspiration:

Adding in mindblowing adverbs

The word “actually”

Being unreasonably specific

Then we try to write as many headlines as we can, but without trading away our relevance and factual keywords. 

When I started I worked with Hannah Smith on several projects. I remember her beating into us - “Write 20 titles. 20 is really hard.” Most of them will suck, but you’ll force yourself to be creative and somewhere there might be gold.

Example

Back to our previous example.

We’ve got our important factual words. We also know we want SEO as without that the intent of results shown wasn’t correct. Together those 4 words (without server) take up 18 characters. Which gives us roughly 32 characters left to play with. Let's also look at our current title and see what we’re working with:

A Complete Guide to Log Analysis with BigQuery | Distilled

Making it clicky 

Factual description 

Brand 

We can see I’ve used “Complete Guide” to try and make it clicky and that I’ve also put the method of analysis “BigQuery” into the title. Both of these we could definitely play around with. Now we just try to write as many titles as we can.

“A Guide to SEO Log File Analysis | Distilled”

“What is a log file and why is it helpful for SEO? | Distilled”

“6 Stage SEO Log File Analysis - A Complete Guide | Distilled”

“How to do an SEO log file analysis | Distilled”

“SEO Log File Analysis - The most important technical analysis | Distilled”

“5 Ways to Analyse Log Files for SEO You Didn’t Know | Distilled”

“Logging in the SEO jungles of the internet | Distilled”

“Log analysis is the technical audit you should be doing | Distilled”

“Stop wasting your time crawling and look at the logs | Distilled”

“Log analysis for SEO in 2020 | Distilled”

“Server Log Analysis Guide - SEO For Large Websites | Distilled”

I started with the restrictions and gradually just ignored them in my attempt to get to 20 titles. I didn’t get there. Sorry Hannah.

Step 5 - Picking one

How do we decide which is best? 

Honestly, it’s savagely hard to pick the right title by yourself. Of all the title tag tests we’ve run at Distilled, only one in five is typically positive. When I first started in search, I thought titles were the easy win. About a year and a half of running endless title tag split tests and I’m no longer convinced.

If you can test it. The two easiest ways for a single article are:

Paying for it: If you’ve got the budget, you could run paid social media campaigns and see which title performs best.

Friends & Colleagues: Make a poll for your friends & colleagues and get them to vote.

How to write hundreds of title tags for a template

The above process works great if all you need to write is a single title.

But if you’ve got a template with hundreds of thousands of pages, then you can’t really do that. Well, you could, but it would be exhausting. Instead, we’re going to need a format for a title that we can apply to all our pages, to make our template shine. That previous process won’t cut it.

Step 1 - Summarise the primary purpose/point of the page

We’re going to start by trying to summarise the attributes of the page in as much detail as possible. This will give us an idea of what pieces of detail we can pull into our titles across our template.

Example

I’ve pulled two page templates from rightmove.co.uk (this isn’t every page template but we’re keeping it simple):

Properties for sale - Page: 

URL: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/Manchester.html

Location: Manchester

Properties types: Houses & flats

Number of properties: 3,940

Price range: £190,000 - £3.5 million

Numbers of property types:

269 detached

851 semi detached

690 terraced

Properties to rent - Page: 

URL: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/Manchester.html

Location: Manchester

Properties types: Flats

Number of properties: 7,155

Price range: £75 - £34,667 per month

Numbers of property types:

238 detached

864 semi detached

1,770 terraced

Step 2 - Figure out what searches should return our template

Our templated page matches a specific intent. We need to figure out how to represent that in a title tag. 

Two things make this hard:

We might have multiple templates with similar intents.

The pages in our template may be similar.

We need to try and make a title which:

Differentiates our template from other templates.

Differentiates pages in our template from each other.

If we’re really struggling perhaps these pages shouldn’t even exist. But that’s a conversation for another day.

Example

We have two templates:

For sale

To rent

In this case, it’s pretty simple. For sale & to rent are clearly the important keywords we need to keep each template different. We can see that by looking at the SERPs. Changing those keywords, changes the results from for sale to rent.

Within our template, we have lots of different locations.

Properties for sale in Manchester

Properties for sale in Ipswich

 In order to keep the pages in our template different, we’re going to need the location in the title.

Step 3 - Accept that it’s messy

But anytime you work with titles it’s going to get messy.

Take our previous example. Rightmove actually has pages for Manchester & Greater Manchester. One ranks for properties and the other for flats. Something is clearly going on there. Uh oh.

Should that change what we do?

When we’re working at scale, patterns are going to breakdown. There hopefully is an underlying pattern, but look long enough and you’ll find exceptions. All we can do is do our best. Make a reasonable guess at what is going on and spoiler for stage 6. Test.

Step 4 - Are there any common phrases we’re missing?

This is exactly the same as step 3 for articles. 

Take your phrase which summarises the page.

Search for it. Download all the keywords the top 5-10 results rank for.

Find the most common words.

Example

To keep it brief, we’re going to just stick with the properties for sale template for the rest of these steps! Running this example with the top phrases for “properties for sale in manchester” we get:

Keyword Frequency manchester 211 sale 122 for 107 for sale 96 houses 59 house 45 buy 42 sale manchester 40 houses for 36 property 32

Words to note here are all fairly self-explanatory:

Property

Houses

Buy

Step 5 - What can we add to make it more attractive?

We know what we need to include to make the intent of our page clear.

Property/houses

For sale/To rent

Location

Now let's use that as a base and write as many titles as possible.  

We want to:

Make them as clicky as possible.

Use extra attributes.

Get creative.

Avoid using words which might change search intent.

A general difference between this and individual articles: If you end up with an entirely factual template title that is far more acceptable here than with an individual article.

Generic ideas for things you can put in titles

Adding prices into the title.

Adding some sort of quantity into the title. 

Adding year into the title. 

Put in the obvious e.g. “online” in an online shop.

Popular synonyms.

Words to watch out for that can change an intent

Comparison style words - best, compare etc. 

Deal seeking words: cheapest, cheap, deal, affordable

Example

Let’s have a go at writing titles for our category pages

Our base is:

Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Let’s make variants:

Properties & Houses for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Buy Properties & Houses for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Buy Houses & Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

3,940 Houses & Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

3,000+ Houses & Properties for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

Properties for Sale - Houses for Sale in Manchester | Rightmove

3,940 Houses & Properties for Sale Across Manchester | Rightmove

3,940 Houses for Sale in Manchester - Get there first | Rightmove

3,940 Properties for Sale in Manchester - Find your Happy | Rightmove

That’s a lot of variations. We even managed to fit in their tag line at the end.

Step 5 - Pick a title

Process

Just like with articles we’re going to end up with a list of titles and unsure which one will be best. Far more than with individual title tags, it’s really really important to split test.

Template level title tags are messy. We’ve already seen that in our example. You can make educated guesses from performing some large scale analysis, but there are going to be effects you miss. 

What works on one site won’t work on another & we’ve found only 1 in 5 title tags ends up being positive.

The stakes are often higher. We’re not changing one page, we’re changing a group of pages which is often a non-trivial amount of your search traffic.

If you can test at all I’d highly recommend it. We’ve got plenty of resources to help you get started. The two most useful should be:

What is SEO split testing 

DIY SEO split testing tool

If you can’t test, you can at least lean on our tests, I’ve got results from those in the next section.

Important context for our title tag split tests

We’re lucky enough at Distilled to have access to SEO split testing software we built. It lets us test different titles & accurately measure the impact on organic traffic. We’re about to talk about the different results we’ve learned, so it’s important to briefly talk about the assumptions implicit in these results.

You can only run SEO split tests on large groups of similar pages (e.g. all category pages, all listing pages etc.) and that means our results are from certain types of websites:

The websites are mostly large and authoritative. 

They tend to be in competitive SERPs.

The companies usually have SEO teams who have done the basics. There usually isn’t anything glaringly awful like product pages without titles that we can fix.

They are more typically tests applied to template pages like category, product & listing pages rather than blog pages. (Although that’s not everything, we run split tests on the Moz blog for example!)

I think you can learn a huge amount from these tests, but it’s still important to bear those assumptions in mind.

What are the chances you write a good title tag?

Writing titles is really hard. We mentioned this above, but let's look at our numbers in slightly more detail. We’ve run many title tag tests across different industries. Our results break down as follows:

Successes: 22%

Null: 38%

Failures: 40%

Oof. 78% of the time title tag tests fall flat or actually harm the website. That makes testing super important. It’s not impossible you could work on a website where you never have a positive title tag test. Nothing you try will ever work. Without testing, you’d probably still roll out those titles. Just spotting the failures and not rolling them out will save you a huge amount of traffic.

With a single article, this isn’t so worrying, you’ve got a far larger creative space to play in and if it does go wrong, it’s a far smaller proportion of your traffic.

If you’re changing titles on big page templates, please make sure you test them!

How much impact do title tag changes have?

Broadly most title tag tests have an impact between 4-15% in either direction.

You can see a distribution of our title tag tests below.

7 learnings from title tag split tests

Most title tag changes are unique to a website, changing words and phrases which don't generalise well from website to website. However, there are some more common patterns we’ve been able to test.

Putting in prices

50% of our title tag tests involving adding the price into the title have been positive. Not only do we get to put a number into the title, but it also provides more information.

Why was it null or negative the rest of the time? 

Our consultant Emily Potter thinks this is down to whether or not Google can find the price you put in the title on the rest of your page - i.e. are you being honest about price. We also think it may make a difference depending on how competitive you are on price.

Putting in year numbers

We haven’t had the chance to test this a huge number of times, but so far this change has been positive in the niches where we’ve done it. The shameless putting 2019, 2020 in the title has helped.

Shortening title tags hasn’t actually been that helpful

When you have lots of automatically generated titles, it’s common to end up with titles that are too long.

We’ve run a number of tests about shortening these titles and nearly all of them have been null (~80%). They’ve also never been positive. Our best current theory is that the templates which often end up with long title tags are typically attracting long tail traffic. When they are truncated, they’re still the only relevant result and so continue to rank, perhaps for long tail queries, keyword stuffing isn’t a problem.

Having said that I’d still say it’s worth trying to shorten your titles. If you manage to cut 4-5 characters from your title with no effect, you could use that space to add price or something else which may have an effect.

Emojis didn’t work

We’ve run several tests to put emojis into title tags and so far it hasn’t helped. Sorry folks :(

I mean c’mon. Marketers can barely be trusted with FAQ schema, can you imagine what we’d do to Emojis.

Eye-grabbing on category/listing pages

We’ve tried some title tags for category/listing pages which were very different, actively calling out to the user in the SERPs.

Standard: Ford for Sale | CarShop

Example of our type of test: You there! Fords for Sale at the CarShop

These did not work. 

Localising language

We tested using localised versions of phrases. This wasn’t single letter changes (like s for z in UK vs US), but entire words e.g. pants instead of trousers.

This was notably positive (~20-25%).

Removing implied words from the title

We’ve seen mixed results from this. We ran a split test & found removing “online” from title tags had no effect on one particular client. Outside of our split-testing platform for a different client, we removed the word “online” from the title of an online store.

Our rankings for the terms including "online", dropped and we quickly put it back in.

More detail on the split tests

If you want to hear more detail about some of these tests, or just love video and you’re signed up to DistilledU, you can see Emily Potter's video on split testing from last year. If you’re not subscribed, you can see my slightly older talk here.

How long does it take to see the impact of a title tag change?

We usually see the impact of a title tag in 3-5 days.  We’ve had a couple which has taken longer, but this is the majority. The previous caveats are of course important here, we typically work on larger websites, which are heavily crawled.

Summary

I genuinely thought when I started I’d be able to get this post done in 1000 words. Even now, I can see all the little bits of context & other things that go into writing a good title, which I just couldn’t fit into this post. We didn’t even start talking about internal politics :)

But hopefully, this has got you on your way. Now let's hear some stories.

What title tag tests have you found effective? What’s the worst title tag you’ve ever tried?

from Marketing https://www.distilled.net/resources/how-to-write-an-incredible-title-tag/ via http://www.rssmix.com/