Lengthy and painstaking research across the internet has at last compiled a list of the 6 most shocking things about article headlines. Here are the scandalous results:
1. Headlines are often created specifically to entice page clicks.
2. Headlines often contain alluring phrasing just to get readers to click on the article link.
3. The articles themselves often repeat the same obvious information.
4. Titillating headlines are many times crafted to obscure the fact that an article took only 2 minutes to write.
5. The underlying articles frequently fail to deliver on the promise of the headline.
Gee, I didn’t know that! 😉
So true! And the pictures can also mislead/sucker you to look at the article.
What — you’ve learned all my secrets!
Very funny.
This is so true – Writer really need to be ad copyrighters if they want anyone to take notice of their work.
But I’m guilty myself of clicking on the most sensationalistic HuffPo links!