120 Viral Headline Examples to Emulate
Want to Know What All Winning Headlines Have in Common?
Did you know that headline writing is the highest-paid copywriting job?
The headline is the most important part of an article, book, video, or anything along the line.
Why?
Because all great headlines manage to do one thing successfully. Every great headline compels people to click.
The following 120 headlines are one of the best headlines on the internet. And you’ll learn exactly what a great headline needs after studying them.
I’ve also added Patterns from all the headlines at the end of this article.
Table of ContentsBest headlines from 👇
· Medium
· Men's Health
· Harvard Business Review
· TEDx
· Copyblogger
· Small Business TrendsPatterns from all the headlines
Most Viewed Medium Stories
- The power of doing nothing at all
- Don’t listen to those productivity gurus: why waking up at 6am won’t make you successful
- How Quitting My Corporate Job for My Startup Dream F*cked My Life Up
- The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment
- The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You
- Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
- 7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
- 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science
- How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist
- Laziness Does Not Exist
Viral LinkedIn Articles
- How Successful People Stay Calm
- 6 Toxic Behaviors That Push People Away: How to Recognize Them in Yourself and Change Them
- 11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader
- Caffeine: The Silent Killer of Success
- The №1 Career Mistake Capable People Make
- Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffet
- 9 Things Successful People Won’t Do
- The One Thing Successful People Never Do
- Stop Using These 16 Terms to Describe Yourself
- Affiliate Marketing: Grow Your Sales, Monetize Your Traffic
Most Popular Articles of Copyblogger
- How to Overcome Writer’s Block with Neuroscience
- 10 Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques
- The 5 Things Every (Great) Marketing Story Needs
- How to Make Money as a Freelance Writer: 15 Writing Business Essentials
- Quit Annoying Your Audience! 3 Simple Steps to Write Better Content
- How to Become a Freelance Writer: 30 Tips for Writing Business Success
- 7 Unusual Progress Signs on the Path to a Breakthrough
- Making a Living Online (or, the Internet Is Not Your ATM)
- Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?
- Do You Make These 11 Common Grammar Mistakes When You Write?
- How to Write Like Hemingway
- Most Persuasive Words and Phrases for Copywriting (and How to Use Them)
- 8 Creativity Stifling Habits and How to Overcome Them
- 10 Ways to Master Writing Damn Good Copy
- 5 Ways to Write a Damn Good Sentence
- Be a Bad Writer to Be a Great Writer
- How to Write Articles Fast: 10 Pro Tips
- One Ridiculously Easy Blogging Ingredient that Satisfies Hungry Prospects
- A ‘Big Blog’ Strategy Anyone Can Use for More (and Better) Traffic
- The Two Most Important Words in Blogging, Persuasion, and Copywriting
Most Popular Articles of Small Business Trends
- 90% of Small Businesses Prepare for Economic Downturn — But Remain Optimistic
- How Employers and Independent Contractors Remain Independent under CA AB5
- Motivational Sales Quotes to Inspire You
- 9 Best Mattresses — Top Mattress Brands Compared
- How to Work from Home
- Why was Philadelphia the Perfect Place to Launch Hospitality Tech Startup xtraCHEF?
- Distance Learning Demand Offers Opportunity for Small Education Businesses
- 105 Success Quotes to Help You Achieve Greatness
- Creativity Quotes to Inspire You
- 61 Persistence Quotes for Entrepreneurs
- Email Marketing Guide for Beginners
- Small Business Guide to Video Marketing
- Guide to How to Do Marketing Research
- Best Cost Cutting Ideas for Your Business
- 16 Survey Questions to Ask Customers
- 10 Tips to Help New Business Owners Get Off to a Solid Start
- Best Antivirus Protection for Your Business
- 7 Productivity Hacks from 7 Successful Entrepreneurs
- How to Start a Beekeeping Business
- How to Start a Business: Step by Step Guide
Most Popular Articles of Men’s Health
- Do This Drill If Pushups Hurt Your Wrists
- A Physical Therapist Shows the Proper Way to Walk
- How a Trainer Fixes Lower Back Pain in 30 Seconds
- The 9 Best Pillows For Every Type of Neck Pain
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Shares How He Has Adapted His Workouts as He Gets Older
- How to Come Back From Being a Burned-Out, Crispy Shred of Your Former Self
- Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes With This Sleep Hack
- How to Know if You Get Enough Deep Sleep
- What to Do When You Just Can’t Sleep
- 30 Sleep Essentials for Your Best Night’s Sleep
- I Lost 30 Pounds in 5 Months By Doing More Cardio
- HIIT Helped this Guy Recover From a Heart Attack
- The 10 Best Heart Healthy Foods
- The 25 Best Ways to Protect Your Heart Now
- The Best and Worst U.S. Cities for Mental Health
- The 20 Best Mental Health Books of 2022
- The Mental Health Retreat Where NFLers Go to Heal
- Make 2022 Your Healthiest Year Ever
- Men Don’t Talk Enough About Mental Health
- 18 High-Protein Meals That’ll Fill You Up
Most Popular Articles of Harvard Business Review
- Navigating Peer Relationships While Climbing the Ladder
- Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century?
- Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
- Why Microsoft Measures Employee Thriving, Not Engagement
- How Well Does Your Company Use Analytics?
- Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
- It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process
- Motivating People Starts with Building Emotional Connections
- Don’t Let Mentoring Burn You Out
- Is Corporate Venture Capital Right for Your Startup?
- How to Pace Yourself at Work While Pregnant
- Closing the Gap Between Digital Marketing Spending and Performance
- 3 Ways to Innovate in a Downturn
- The “Angry Black Woman” Stereotype at Work
- How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
- How to Stay Cool When You’re Put on the Spot
- ESG Reports Aren’t a Replacement for Real Sustainability
- 15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
- 38 Smart Questions to Ask in a Job Interview
- Coding Isn’t a Necessary Leadership Skill — But Digital Literacy Is
Most Viewed Ted Talks Ever
- Do schools kill creativity?
- How to speak so that people want to listen
- Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
- How great leaders inspire action
- The power of vulnerability
- Your body language may shape who you are
- The next outbreak? We’re not ready
- Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model.
- What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
- 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm
- How to spot a liar
- The art of misdirection
- How I held my breath for 17 minutes
- The power of introverts
- My stroke of insight
- The puzzle of motivation
- Strange answers to the psychopath test
- How to make stress your friend
- The happy secret to better work
- The danger of a single story
The Patterns
- A lot of the headlines above have numbers.
- A lot of the headlines address a problem and point out that the article/video has the solution.
- Many articles are of the “how-to” format.
- Title case is easier to read. And it’s the standard for writing headlines. So, many are written in the title case.
- All the headlines above have 8 words on average. The smallest ones have 4 words and the longest one has 14.
- Many headlines above have parenthesis (Increases click-through rate).
- They have a reading level of 5.7 on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. Meaning: They’re easy to read and a child could easily comprehend most of them.
- Those headlines include the same words as the headline’s intended audience is familiar with.
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