Unique Titles

[Omenainen]

Okay, so I couldn’t use the search. Is there a way to search for stories with a title “My First Time”, exactly that, and nothing more? I just wondered what could be a common story title, and that was what I came up with.

 

[oggbashan]

Okay, so I couldn’t use the search. Is there a way to search for stories with a title “My First Time”, exactly that, and nothing more? I just wondered what could be a common story title, and that was what I came up with.

Put quotes around "my first time". That will show only stories with those three words in the title - 278 pages!

If you use advanced search and specify titles only - 8 pages.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Okay, so I couldn’t use the search. Is there a way to search for stories with a title “My First Time”, exactly that, and nothing more? I just wondered what could be a common story title, and that was what I came up with.

If you go into the search function https://search.literotica.com/ and click the little gear icon there to go into the advanced search features, you can narrow down your search parameters.

EDIT: Sorry, Ogg! Didn't know you were on the case.

 

[Omenainen]

Put quotes around "my first time". That will show only stories with those three words in the title - 278 pages!

If you use advanced search and specify titles only - 8 pages.

Okay, thanks! Still, that’s a lot.

 

[THROBBS]

Yeah, yeah, I know — "get off of your soap box, THROBBS"

"but, I'm up here already."

It would be nice, if in the Erotic Art Hub, there was a search function.
Even when one brings up the list, you cannot click on the alphabet to jump to the "M" section, for example. It is simply the list, "sorted" alpha-numerically, with special characters first — "Aadvark's adventure" would be first (WITH the quotations)... or "0-10 is how I rate them" would be before that.

Once that became apparent, some folk would name their work accordingly, to at least be on the first page. edit: I mean the TOP of the list—*it is one page that you can s-c-r-o-l-l down.

I was hoping that maybe the https://search.literotica.com/ might include images, but nope.

So, as far as naming (for Erotic Art) goes, I think that having something unique and descriptive makes sense, along with the short description. There are no categories and the tags don't help either.

 

[SimonDoom]

Yeah, yeah, I know — "get off of your soap box, THROBBS"

"but, I'm up here already."

It would be nice, if in the Erotic Art Hub, there was a search function.
Even when one brings up the list, you cannot click on the alphabet to jump to the "M" section, for example. It is simply the list, "sorted" alpha-numerically, with special characters first — "Aadvark's adventure" would be first (WITH the quotations)... or "0-10 is how I rate them" would be before that.

Once that became apparent, some folk would name their work accordingly, to at least be on the first page. edit: I mean the TOP of the list—*it is one page that you can s-c-r-o-l-l down.

I was hoping that maybe the https://search.literotica.com/ might include images, but nope.

So, as far as naming (for Erotic Art) goes, I think that having something unique and descriptive makes sense, along with the short description. There are no categories and the tags don't help either.

I didn't realize that the Site doesn't have a search page dedicated to art just like it does for stories and poems.

What you can do is, via the art hub page, pull up a complete list of all illustrations. Then click control + F and you can search for a specific title to see if it's been used.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

It doesn't seem to matter and the readers don't care whether a title is unique or has been used many times.

True, but a unique title might make it easier for a reader to find your story again.

I typically do a quick search to see if my title is unique. I have an incest naked-with-sister story pending that I titled "Naked with My Sister Tilly" - Tilly because I wanted the title to be unique.

At least any title you use will be unique within your personal catalog, so maybe it's not that important after all?

 

[SimonDoom]

True, but a unique title might make it easier for a reader to find your story again.

I typically do a quick search to see if my title is unique. I have an incest naked-with-sister story pending that I titled "Naked with My Sister Tilly" - Tilly because I wanted the title to be unique.

At least any title you use will be unique within your personal catalog, so maybe it's not that important after all?

I think uniqueness would only have very minimal impact on the ability of a reader to find a story. Assuming a reader did a search for a common story title, the reader would have a list of the stories with that name. The list probably would not be long enough, even if common, to deter a reader from scanning the list quickly to identify the correct story.

For practical purposes of connecting with readers, I think the most important qualities in a title are to be:

a) memorable
b) titillating, and
c) descriptive or suggestive of the erotic content of the story.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I try for catchy rather than unique, altho I don’t mind if I score on unique as well. I suspect if you tried for unique every time it’d end up sounding forced.

 

[KeithD]

I'm continually surprised by how often titles that pop into my head to use don't appear to be used before--even one- and two-word titles.