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10 Examples of meaningful title-subtitle combinations

Make your subtitles more meaningful

Rukshan Pramoditha
4 min readJul 13, 2021
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The title, subtitle and cover image are the main components of a story. They should be meaningful and matched each other. I spend more than 20% of the story writing time to select and match these components. A good combination of these components always invites many readers to read my contents.

I’ll take some examples of title-subtitle combinations in my previous posts and explain their meaningfulness. More emphasis will be given to the subtitle section so that you’ll learn different uses of subtitles.

Example 1

Screenshot by the author (Cover Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash)

Subtitle usage: Here, the subtitle was used to summarize the main 4 methods of subsetting a Pandas DataFrame. The content was written and organized according to the methods given in the subtitle. You can check it by visiting:

The title includes some keywords (e.g. Subsetting, Pandas, DataFrame) for search engine optimization.

Example 2

Screenshot by the author (Cover Photo by Nika Benedictova on Unsplash)

Subtitle usage: Here, the subtitle was used to define the keywords “Dimensionality reduction” in the title. By reading the subtitle, the readers can get a clear idea of what “Dimensionality reduction” is. The content link is:

Example 3

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Rukshan Pramoditha
Rukshan Pramoditha

Written by Rukshan Pramoditha

3,000,000+ Views | BSc in Stats (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) | Top 50 Data Science, AI/ML Technical Writer on Medium

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