🎨 Ancient Clickbait: How Cave Paintings Can Teach Us to Write Irresistible Blog Headlines

Our ancestors, prehistoric animation, and better marketing

Christopher Kokoski

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7 min readMar 24

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Caveman standing in a cave and holding a torch — Ancient Clickbait: How Cave Paintings Can Teach Us to Write Irresistible Blog Headlines — Image by the Author using DALL-E and Canva

As it turns out, clickbait has been around for thousands of years.

Are you tired of crafting headlines that fall flat? Do you struggle to grab your readers’ attention and keep them engaged…

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