Sometimes it can be difficult to come up with a good title for your blog post or article.
One of the things I’ve found useful help get the juices flowing is to look at examples of good titles.
Below is a list of titles I found some years back.
Great Headline Examples
- “Here is an extra $50, Grace – I am making real money now!”
- “I Gambled With 3 Cents And Won $35,850 In 2 Years”
- “I Have Tried Em All, But This Is The Polish I Use On My Own”
- A WARNING To Men Who Want To Be Independent In The Next Five Years
- Announcing the new Ford cars for (year)
- Are You Ashamed of Smells In Your Home?
- Buy No Desk Until You Have Seen The Sensation Of The Business Show
- Can You Spot These 10 Decorating Sins?
- Can You Talk About Books With The Rest Of Them?
- Car Insurance At Low Cost – If You Are A Careful Driver
- Car Owners Save One Gallon of Gas Every Ten
- Do you make these mistakes in English?
- Don’t Read This (or the Kitty Gets It)!
- Don’t Read This!
- Double Your Money Back If This Is Not The Best Onion Soup You Ever Tasted
- Five Familiar Skin Troubles – Which Do You Want To Overcome?
- Free Book Tells You 12 Secrets Of Better Lawn Care
- Free to brides – $2 to others
- Free to high school teachers – $6 to others
- Get Rid Of Money Worries For Good
- Girls Want Quick Curls?
- Give Me 5 Days and Ill Give You a Magnetic Personality Let Me Prove It Free
- Great New Discovery Kills Kitchen Odours Quick – makes indoor air “country fresh”
- Greatest Bible News In 341 Years
- Hand Woven by the Mountain People of New Mexico
- Have You These Symptoms of Nerve Exhaustion?
- Here is a Quick Way to Break Up a Cold
- How $20 Spent May Save You $2000
- How $7 Started Me On The Road to $35,000 a Year
- How a “fool stunt” made me a star salesman
- How a Man of 40 Can Retire In 15 Years
- How a strange accident saved me from baldness
- How I Became Popular Overnight
- How I Improved My Memory In One Evening
- How I Made A Fortune With A “Fool” Idea
- How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling
- How I Retired On a Guaranteed Income for Life
- How I Started a New Life With $7
- How Investors Can Save 70% On Commissions This Year
- How The Next 90 Days Can Change Your Life
- How To Beat Tension Without Pills
- How To Collect From Social Security At Any Age
- How To Do Your Christmas Shopping in 5 Minutes
- How To Feel Fit At Any Age
- How To Get Rid of an Inferiority Complex
- How To Get Your Cooking Bragged About
- How To Have A Cool, Quiet Bedroom Even On Hot Nights
- How To Make Money Writing Short Paragraphs
- How To Stop Worrying
- How To Stretch Your Inflated Money
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
- How you Can Get a Loan of $500
- I Lost That Ugly Bulge in 2 Minutes With This Reducing Belt
- I Was Tired Of Living On Peanuts – so I started reading (publication)
- If You are Filthy Rich Don’t Read This.
- If You AreAa Careful Driver You Can Save Money On Car Insurance.
- Imagine Me Holding an Audience Spellbound for 30 minutes.
- It Cleans Your Breath While It Cleans Your
- Lose Ugly Fat – an Average of 7 Pounds a Month.
- Men who “know it all” are not invited to read this page
- Money-saving Bargain from Americas Oldest Diamond Discount House
- New A Cream Deodorant Which Safely Stops Perspiration
- New House Paint Made By (manufacturer)
- New Ways To A Mans Heart In This Fascinating New Book For Cooks
- No Time For Yale – Took College Home By Reading The Harvard Classics
- Now! Own Florida Land This Easy Way $20 Down and $20 a Month.
- One Place-setting Free For Every Three You Buy.
- Order Christmas Gifts Now – Pay After January 20.
- Owners Save 20% to 50% On Fuel With The (name) Oil Furnace
- Play Guitar in 7 Days or Money Back
- Put this Down; It’s Not For You.
- Quick Relief for Tired Eyes.
- Readers Digest Tells Why Filtered Cigarette Smoke Is Better For Your Health
- The Deaf Now Hear Wispers
- The Lazy Mans Way To Riches – Most people are too busy earning a living to make any money
- The Most Amazing Shakespeare Bargain Ever Offered
- The Most Comfortable Shoes You Have Ever Worn Or Your Money Back
- The Most Complete and Most Scholarly Dictionary in the English language $17.50 Publishers List Price: $90
- The Secret of Making People Like You
- The Tastiest Ocean Treat from Gloucester- Plump, Tender, Juicy Salt Mackerel Fillets
- They grinned when the waiter spoke to me in French – but their laughter changed to amazement at my reply.
- They laughed when I sat down at the piano – but when I started to play!
- They Thought I Was Crazy To Ship LIVE MAINE LOBSTERS as far as 1,800 miles from the ocean.
- Thousands Have This Priceless Gift – But Never Discover It
- Thousands Now Play Who Never Thought They Could
- To A $15,000 Man Who Would Like To Be Making $30,000
- To A Man Who Is 35 And Dissatisfied
- To A Mother Whose Child Is Three Years Old
- To Men Who Want To Quit Work Some Day
- To People Who Want To Write – But Can Not Get Started.
- Tonight Serve This Ready-mixed Chocolate Pudding
- Wanted – Your Services As A High-Paid Real Estate Specialist
- Wanted: Safe Men For Dangerous Times
- Ways To Beat The High Cost Of Living
- Ways To Beat The Overweight Habit
- What Makes A Woman Lovable?
- Whats New In Summer Sandwiches?
- Whats Wrong In This Picture?
- When Doctors “Feel Rotten” This Is What They Do
- Which Of These Five Skin Troubles Would You Like To End?
- Who else wants a lighter cake – in half the mixing time?
- Who else wants a screen star figure?
- Who Else Wants A Whiter Wash – With No Hard Work?
- Will Your Scalp Stand The “Fingernail Test?”
- You Do Not Have To Be Rich To Retire On a Guaranteed Income For Life
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
Interesting just how many "How To's" are in there…
This is something I hear recommended a lot for headlines.
When you are investigating nches you always should go for areas where people have questions/problems and offer them a solution.
The obvious question starts with "How to …"
Now have a look at the google keyword tool, enter the phrase 'how to' and select all countries / english and you get a list of 800 keyphrases containing the phrase 'how to'.
Quite interesting what you find there. Sometimes you could just take the keyphrase and use it as headline for an article – perfect match: problem – solution.
What i am only worried about is that although we find lousy headlines all over teh net and also quite often in print, there are only 140 monthly searches in the tool for "how to write a headline" as exact match.
Good ideas!
Maybe people are being more ambitious and looking for "How to write a great headline"? I haven't checked of course, just hoping.
Thanks Nick, amazing that since almost a year I am stumbling regularly over your website
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for sharing with us some of the most eye catching headlines, I'll surely recycle some of those
Whatever the content may be, the first thing which grabs the attention of the reader is the title of the article. Even the title of this post sounds great and just like this informative post, those who think too much of working only on the title should also concentrate on good quality content.