出版与作家生涯2019washingtonpost.com
因为 SEO,书籍副标题越来越长
Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO
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这篇报道讲的是图书副标题在电商与搜索时代越拉越长,因为它们要承担“被搜到”的功能,而不只是文学表达。对写作者来说,这是一次提醒:标题与副标题正在被平台算法重塑,理解这套逻辑,才能既被读者找到,又不牺牲自己的表达。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把标题分成两层用:主标题负责气质与辨识度,副标题负责说清“写什么、给谁看”,不要指望一个标题同时完成两件事。
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副标题里适度放入读者真正会搜索的词(主题、人群、问题),但要控制长度,一般不超过一行,否则会稀释记忆点。
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警惕“关键词堆砌”的副作用:当所有同类书都用同一套词,你的标题就失去了区分度,读者反而记不住你是谁。
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观察应用商店、亚马逊等平台的命名惯例,能反推目标读者的搜索语言,这对选题和标题打磨都有直接帮助。
HN 评论精选
SEO 命名已从图书蔓延到应用,甚至平台自家产品,代价是用户辨识困难。
这种情况在应用名称上同样存在。比如 Spotify 在 Google Play 上的正式名字是“Spotify: Discover music, podcasts, and playlists”,SoundHound 叫“SoundHound - Music Discovery & Hands-Free Player”。谷歌不但没纠正这种被搜索行为 incentivized 的做法,自己也加入了:Google Maps 实际叫“Maps - Navigate & Explore”,Google Keep 叫“Google Keep - Notes and Lists”。我最近换新手机时感到非常混乱,得反复确认自己没在误装钓鱼应用。好在 Twitter、Facebook、YouTube 目前还用着本名。
JoeSmithson查看英文原文
This is seems to be true of apps names as well. For example, to pick a few random examples; - Spotify's actual name on Google Play is "Spotify: Discover music, podcasts, and playlists" (so catchy!) - SoundHound's actual name is "SoundHound - Music Discovery & Hands-Free Player" Rather than fixing whatever search behaviour incentivised this, Google seem to have just joined in; - Google Maps is actually called "Maps - Navigate & Explore" - Google Keep is actually called "Google Keep - Notes and Lists" When I got a new phone recently I actually found it really confusing and had to check I wasn't installing phishing apps by mistake. Thankfully Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are currently named with their actual names!
当人人都能发布作品时,标题会膨胀成“内容提要”,这是竞争环境下的必然反应。
如果要跟日本轻小说标题比,图书副标题还差得远。比如《我以样样通样样松的身份来到异世界,靠敏捷边赶路边旅行》,或者《勇者队伍里有可爱女孩,于是我试着告白了》,以及相对克制的《我不是说过下辈子要把能力值平均一下吗?》。在谁都能在网上写小说、在亚马逊出书的时代,看大家为了让标题脱颖而出都做了什么,挺有意思。
falcolas查看英文原文
They have a ways to go, if they want to compete with some of the Japanese Light Novel titles. I Came to Another World as a Jack of All Trades and a Master of None to Journey while Relying on Quickness or There was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party so I tried Confessing or the rather tame Didn't I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life? It's kind of interesting to see what is done to make titles stand out in an age where anyone can write a novel on the web (or publish a book on Amazon).
为了被搜索到,品牌名被换成“地名+品类”的关键词组合,创意被牺牲。
SEO 正在让所有标题和描述变得更没创意、更堆关键词。比如威斯康星州的跳伞基地:Skyknights 改成了 Skydive Milwaukee;AtmosphAIR 改成了 Wisconsin Skydiving Center;Green Bay Skydivers 改成了 Skydive Freefall Adventure。
aeharding查看英文原文
SEO is making all titles/descriptions be less creative and use more targeted keywords. For example, Skydiving dropzones. Some in Wisconsin: 1. Skyknights -> Skydive Milwaukee 2. AtmosphAIR -> Wisconsin Skydiving Center 3. Green Bay Skydivers -> Skydive Freefall Adventure
连数据库字段都为 SEO 扩容,副标题的膨胀是系统性的,而不是个别作者的选择。
我可以确认网络文章也一样。我们文章表里有 kicker、headline、sub_headline、teaser 等字段,sub_headline 以前和 headline 一样是 varchar(255),几年前我处理过一个工单,把它改成了 text 类型(65 KiB),动机就是 SEO。要是哪天有人要求改成 longtext(4 GiB),我可能会哭。
hirundo查看英文原文
I can confirm it's also true for web articles: mysql> desc articles; +--------------+---------------+ | Field | Type | +--------------+---------------+ | id | int(11) | | kicker | varchar(255) | | body | longtext | | headline | varchar(255) | | sub_headline | text | | teaser | text | We used to have varchar(255) for sub_headline as with headline. A few years ago I caught a ticket to turn it into a text type (65 KiB). SEO was the motive. If we ever get a request to make it longtext (4 GiB) I may cry.
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