STOP! Insanely Wicked Headlines Suck Bored Readers into Catatonic Click Frenzy?

That's not your take - that's the take of mature copywriters.

Trust beats hypey sales pages. Any. Freakin'. Day.

Steve,

Thanks for pointing this out to those here who might not have any experience in this yet (probably a significant number of members here) ...

That makes two of us, Steve, but I know I'm not always my client's ideal customer (not even most of the time), though:

=>> I just want to make it clear that what I was kindly asking for in my OP, if members want to share them here, are:

1. Their results in using these types of headlines so as to get clicks / views;

2. Which markets / industries (not their niches, of course) where they use or have used these; and

3. Which platforms ...

Yeah, I mentioned something that has to do with fun in my OP, because I want to make this possibly fun for those who might want to share their results, though I also had lots of fun skimming through the headlines in the WSO section ...

Well, I kindly requested for other members to share their results if they want, so those who might have significant experience in using these types of headlines could probably tell us if there's indeed some sort of correlation between headlines and conversions, especially if the copy itself mostly sticks to this style -- Many WSO threads, mostly with 5 to 6-digit views, do this ...

Note: I understand that using these types of headlines in those WSO threads doesn't necessarily affect number of views significantly, since many can probably be attributed to thread age and number of bumps among others like direct traffic campaigns and what their affiliates are doing ...

Yeah, these types of headlines are similar to those in tabloids; BUT

Many of them are still in business; SO

There might be certain markets where these types of headlines work or even work well, which is why I requested for the things that I mentioned in my OP from those who might be kind enough to share their actual results?

No, not me. This is just part of my market research (of course not just the only market research that I'm doing now) -- I'm just asking these things because I want to show actual results in my presentation for a client in certain MMO niches and also for another client in non-MMO B2C niches -- They said they want my ad agency subcontractor and our content writing team that they'll lease from me to use these types of headlines for their ads and onsite / offsite content pages; and

I just thought the insights and results that I'll be able to gather here, if any, could most likely be helpful as additional data in my presentation ...

I think you've hit the nail on the head with curiosity. If something has caught my eye enough to make me think for a second, chances are i'll give it a second look.

I think you have to tread carefully with big promises and guarantees unless there is concrete evidence to back your claims. We all know how hard it is to get that message across! Of course most of us on here are super sensitive to these sort of things....we have our BS forcefields on full power most of the time! The general public may be easier to sway!

Kevin

Whenya lay 2 iPhones touchscreen to touchscreen an' accidentally hack Hades.