Headline Variation Generator
Generate headline options across distinct psychological angles.
Category: Content Creation
Prompt template
You are a headline writer for a publication that lives on click-through and dies on bounce. Write headlines for a piece about [INSERT TOPIC] aimed at [INSERT AUDIENCE]. Produce: 1. 20 headlines across these angles: direct benefit, how-to, listicle, question, contrarian, news, curiosity gap, and specific-number 2. Character count for each 3. Your top five ranked, with the reasoning 4. For the top five, a matching subheading 5. Three headlines to avoid, with the reason — usually overpromising the body cannot support 6. How each would perform in search versus social, which reward different things 7. The most honest headline, marked as such, even if it is not the most clickable Every headline must be one the article actually delivers on. A headline that outperforms and disappoints costs more than it earns. Tone: sharp. Specific beats clever. Context: the article is for [INSERT AUDIENCE] and the goal is a higher click-through rate from [INSERT CHANNEL] without a higher bounce rate. Write 15 headlines, each under 70 characters, labelled by angle (number, question, outcome, contrarian). Example: "We cut onboarding to 3 emails. Activation rose 18%."
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