What makes a blog post successful? If you’re a blogger you know by now that the most important part of a blog post is its headline. A good headline will get a lot of interest and traffic. A bad headline (even if the article is great) will ensure failure. I’m a huge fan of testing. I’ve been testing everything I do and everything we do for our clients for the last 10 years. These are 46 headline formats that worked extremely well. I re-purposed them around “Facebook Marketing”, but you can adapt them to any topic you want.
Please let me know which one is your favorite.
  • From Newbie to Facebook Superstar in Only 5 Days
  • Rethinking Facebook Marketing
  • A 3-Step System to Promote Your Business on Facebook
  • What’s Working on Facebook Marketing Right Now
  • What to Do When Your Facebook Marketing Isn’t Working
  • Is Facebook the New Yellow Pages?
  • What I Learned from Mari Smith About Facebook Marketing
  • The Inside Scoop on the New Facebook Deals Feature
  • The Best Facebook Marketing Tips of December
  • Everything You Need to Know to Get 100,000 Fans on Facebook
  • The Best Facebook Apps of 2012
  • Free Facebook Apps You’ll Love
  • The Future of Facebook Marketing
  • Facebook Marketing on a Budget
  • How I Went from Facebook Virgin to Facebook Guru in 6 Months
  • How Teenagers Use Facebook to Get Noticed
  • Stuck with Facebook Marketing? Try This
  • 7 Things Every Facebook Marketer Should Be Doing
  • 3 Things that Used to Work on Facebook Marketing and No Longer Do
  • 200 Facebook Marketing Posts Condensed Into One Article
  • 6 Unusual Facebook Marketing Ideas that Worked
  • A Day in the Life of Guy Kawasaki
  • Beware of this Masked Facebook Scam
  • Are You a Facebook Idiot?
  • Why You Shouldn’t Use Facebook for Marketing
  • Is Using Facebook for Marketing a Good Idea?
  • 7 Deadly Sins People Make on Facebook
  • The 2 Most Important Words in Facebook Marketing
  • The Mark Zuckerberg Guide to Promoting Your Business on Facebook
  • Why Nobody Is Paying Attention to You on Facebook and What to Do About It
  • A Before and After of My Facebook Page
  • The Most Underrated Facebook Marketing Tactics
  • 10 Basic Facebook Tips
  • 10 Advanced Facebook Marketing Secrets
  • Facebook vs. Twitter: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • 5 Essential Skills Every Facebook Marketer Should Have
  • 4 Steps to Create a Custom Facebook Tab
  • Weekly Recap of the Facebook Summit 2011
  • Poll: Is Facebook Helping You Get More Clients?
  • Is Facebook Marketing Dead Forever?
  • How Starbucks Got 50 Million Fans
  • Facebook Marketing for Dummies Book Review
  • Why Mike Sparks Thinks Facebook Marketing Is Underutilized
  • Interview: Jack Sparrow Reveals Why Facebook Is His Favorite Traffic Source
  • How to Set Up a Killer Facebook Page in 45 Minutes
  • Top 10 Ways to Make Money on Facebook
So, which of these headlines is your favorite?