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Shocking! I Used This Headline Tool to Evaluate My Top 7 Most Read Stories

Here’s what I discovered that left me scratching my head…

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I recently discovered I’m a manifesting generator in human design and something I learned about our type is that we skip steps.

We like to do a lot of things all at once (very quickly!) and we skip over things we don’t feel are important.

And maaaannnn is this true for me.

Perfect example? I never run my headlines through a headline analyzer tool. We’re “supposed” to do it to make sure our headlines are good, but I just can’t.

Until today.

(And wow it was hard because that site is slow!)

Now I’m going to give you the (shocking!) results of what I found.

I hope the headline for this article isn’t too click-baity. I really was shocked at what I found, especially with a headline that got a 100% score. (For no good reason!)

I took my top 7 most-read articles and put the headlines into this tool. This is the tool I have seen several writers recommend.

Check out these scores…

1. Why Mini Newsletters Are All The Rage (And Why You Should Start One)

I’m happy about this score because I like all the 3’s. What can I say? I’m a sucker for aligned numbers.

Otherwise, I’m not surprised this score is low. This is not an enticing headline.

But, this is my most popular article.

2. How to Start Your Own Mini Newsletter (A Step-By-Step Guide)

I’m surprised this headline was better than the first because it’s also bad. But it’s probably because of the “how to” and the “guide” portion.

(I could look, but I’m too lazy. I skip steps as part of my nature, remember.)

3. The Road to $5k Per Month Challenge

This does not surprise me at all. The Road to 5k Per Month Challenge doesn’t mean anything until you read the article.

It’s the next article that caused the shock…

4. Discovery: I’m the Eve Arnold Opposite

100%? What? Why? How does the headline analyzer know what an “Eve Arnold” is?

This time I did go and read why this got such a high score, and here’s the gobbledygook I got:

Screenshot taken by the author from this website.

Huh??

5. I Was Poking Around Medium and Saw These 7 Mistakes

I actually liked this headline, but I guess the analyzer disagreed. Whatever!

6. How You Can Send Out a Mini Newsletter In Under 10 Minutes

I thought this one would do better since it has a “how to” in there, but nope.

7. My First Angry Commenter — And My Responses to Him

I also looked up the explanation for this score, and I got the same gobbledygook blurb as the Eve Arnold headline.

One more issue…

I went back and plugged in “I Was Poking Around Medium and Saw These 7 Mistakes” to see what would happen, and I got a different result:

It was 30% above.

It’s not a huge difference, but I wonder what the results would be if I tried each headline again.

I’m not about to find out!

Final Thoughts

I 100% agree that headlines are important. They draw people into your article. You (and I) should work to continuously improve them.

Whether you use a headline tool or not is up to you.

I think I’ll continue to go with my human design of skipping that step.

P.S. Here’s the score for this article’s headline:

About the Author

Hey! I’m Christina, an introverted book nerd on the outside, and a raging metalhead on the inside. 🤘 I’m a married mom to two teenagers (and 3 cats and a dog). I love Vegas 🎰, the band Chevelle 🎸, and murder mysteries 📖.

Come on over and join the 470+ other smart creators to receive a daily email with a short list of valuable resources to help you boost your online income.