37 Awesome Headline Tools to Write Your Best Headline
"On average, 5x as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you’ve written your headline, you’ve spent eighty cents out of your dollar." -- David Ogilvy
Every writer should spend half of the entire time it takes to write a piece of persuasive content on the headline.
The reason is this:
Your headline is often the first (and only) chance you’ll get to impress a potential reader, subscriber or customer. It's your title that compels readers to click on your blog post and read it.
Without an awesome headline, even your most interesting articles can go unnoticed.
If you want to write your best headline and grab readers attention for increased blog traffic , here are the top 37 tools that can help you.
Use these awesome headline tools to optimize your posts titles for increased clicks.
These tools help analyze your headlines to identify areas for improvements.
This headline tool analyzes your headlines and provides recommendations for better engagements and improved impressions.
The Coshedule Headline Analyzer looks at the structure, grammar and readability of your headline.
It also classifies your headline type( if it's a list headline or not), looks at your word balance and breaks down your title according to:
In addition to giving you an overall score, it also gives you a preview of what your headline will look like in Google search and as an email subject line.
When you run your blog title through this analyzer, it will give you a score based on the total number of EMV (Emotional Marketing Value) words it has in relation to the total number of words it contains.
It will also tell which major emotions your headline most impacts: intellectual, empathetic, or spiritual.
Put a headline that is 20 words or less in the analyzer, choose an industry, and find out how emotionally valuable your headline is. If you score above 30, you are good to go.
Character Count Online is a free online character and word counting tool.
Just plug in your text and it will instantly display the amount of characters, words, sentences, paragraphs and whitespace in your text.
You can also check the keyword density of your text( in this case HEADLINE)
Don't know which words to capitalize in your headlines? Let these tools to the job for you.
This tool heps capitalize your headlines and also optionally, explains for each word why its case was chosen. It also alerts you to cases that are hard to decide for their ambiguity.
Use this automatic title capitalization tool to properly capitalize blog titles, email subjects, essay titles, and more.
It lets you capitalize more than one headline in one go. It also includes a tool to transform text to uppercase, lowercase, sentence case and other capitalization styles.
Choose your capitalization style (Associated Press, APA, Chicago Manual of Style, or MLA Style), and then type in your headline. It will automatically capitalize the appropriate words for you.
It has a simple interface and help capitalize your headline for you.
This tool can capitalize your headline and check your grammar.
Use this tool to automatically capitalize and count your title text snippets or blog post.
TitleCase helps you convert text to Title Case, UPPERCASE , lowercase, CamelCase, Pascal Case, Start Case, snake_case, hyphen-case and others.
With a press of a button, you can view hundreds of fantastic titles you can use for your next blog post.
The best part about this tool is that you can save headlines you like to your “notebook”. Just hit the heart button to save a headline for later. Once you’ve filled up your notebook with headline ideas, the tool can email them to you.
Just type in a few words related to your content topic, and it will come up with engaging, SEO-friendly headlines you can use.
Enter the subject you want to write about and Portent’s Content Idea Generator will give you ideas with a matching title.
Just type in 3 different topics that you cover on your blog, and it will generate a week’s worth of article headlines for you.
If you want a year’s worth of headline ideas, they’ll email those to you when you optin to the HubSpot newsletter (consequently, a great lead magnet idea!).
Just input your keyword and choose the best description for it:
Choose the best description of your keyword:
Once you fill out your keyword and relevant descriptor, SEOPressor gives you 5 headlines you can use.
Enter your topic, select whether it is a noun or a verb, and choose how you would like to capitalize words. Then hit the submit button, and you’ll get a huge list of headline ideas to choose from.
The list of headlines are organized by category: list, best, how to, questions, love, sex, celebrities, secrets, snark, business, motivation, problem and the kitchen sink. They also include a plain text version of the list that you can print or download for easy access.
Linkbait Title Generator is a quick and simple headline generator to use. Just enter your subject to get a long list of headline ideas.
Enter your name and email for a free account. Answer 18 simple questions about your products and services, and in less than one second get hundreds of headline ideas for blog posts, articles, tweets, White Papers, ebooks, videos, etc.
With up worthy generator , you don't even need a keyword as you won't be typing in anything.
Just visit the site and click away to get Upworthy-style article headlines you can tweak and use .
Click the generate another button or refresh the page to see another one.
Get content ideas + catchy headlines + ad Campaign , e-mail subject lines + emotional titles with just one click.
Just put in your main keyword and get 700 headlines.
Use these tools to discover the exact headlines and topics your audience would love.
Type in your topic and Buzzsumo will show you the most popular(most shared) headlines for that topic.
Answer The Public shows you what questions people are asking about your topic.
Enter your keyword, select your country, and then the tool will display various types of questions that people are typing into Google for that keyword.
When you type in your keyword into storybase, it will display a list of common phrases and questions that include your keyword.
You can also sort the results by search volume, and save keywords to a list for later.
Onalytica will show you the headlines of your influencers and competitors and offers analysis that show which are the most successful. This can inform what direction you should take with your own headlines.
Moz Keyword Explorer is the ideal tool to use if you are looking to write a blog post that gets ranked in Google.
This tool will analyze the current search results for the keyword you want to use in your headline, and give it a score based on the difficulty, opportunity and potential for ranking it.
These tools help split test your headlines to find the one that performed best.
You can use Optimizely to test your headlines for a specific goal, such as click-through rates, conversions, social media shares, or engagement. You can also test your headlines in combination with your overall design.
CrazyEgg enables you to take a deeper look at the headlines of your own site and how your audience is responding to them through its use of heat maps.
As you monitor your site’s performance, you’ll see which headlines receive the most engagement -- and which ones don’t -- so you can determine what kind of headlines work best for your specific website visitors.
Hotjar is also a heat mapping tool that allows you to see exactly what elements on your site capture your visitor’s attention and what causes them to click.
You can use Hotjar to see which headlines on your site are the most effective (or the least effective), and use that information to create more successful headlines.
Thrive Headline Optimizer from Thrive Themes allows you to test many headlines until you find that perfect headline for your epic content.
It’s an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that works by tracking user behavior to determine the best headline based on multiple engagement factors such as click-through rate, time spent viewing your content, and scrolling.
Here are more tools to help you get the best from your headlines.
Enter a word from your headline idea, and B-Rhymes will suggest words that (almost) rhyme with the word you’re already using that you can use in your headlines.
Like these:
Qualaroo is a tool that allows you to get feedback from your website users on which headlines (or anything else on your website) work best.
Use Qualaroo to survey your website visitors about which blog posts caught their interest, and why.
Thesaurus.com helps you get synonyms, antonyms, and a bunch of other related words you can use in your headlines and blog posts.
Magazines and newspapers with millions of readers fill every publication with killer headlines, that hijack eyeballs to survive in the headline battle.
Do a Google search for magazines like "Cosmopolitan Magazines" , "Men's Health and "Women's Health" , check their covers and find inspiration for your next headline.
34. 700+ Power Words That Will Boost Your Conversion
Download OptinMonster cheat sheet of power words, "700+ Power Words that Will Boost Your Conversions" and use them in your headlines to trigger psychological and emotional response.
Opt into Copyblogger and get ebook "How to Write Magentic Headlines".
Inside the eBook, you’ll get guidance on what goes into writing a magnetic headline that turns someone browsing your site into a reader.
52 Headline Hacks is a cheat sheet by SmartBlogger that will help you to write effective headlines.
These are 101+ headlines formula by Jeffbullas you can swipe and deploy.
With these tools and resources your headlines will produce more clicks and bring more traffic to your blog in no time.
Have you used any of these tools? Which is your favorite? What other tool deserves a spot on this list? Leave a comment below.
Every writer should spend half of the entire time it takes to write a piece of persuasive content on the headline.
The reason is this:
Your headline is often the first (and only) chance you’ll get to impress a potential reader, subscriber or customer. It's your title that compels readers to click on your blog post and read it.
Without an awesome headline, even your most interesting articles can go unnoticed.
If you want to write your best headline and grab readers attention for increased blog traffic , here are the top 37 tools that can help you.
Use these awesome headline tools to optimize your posts titles for increased clicks.
Headline Analyzers
These tools help analyze your headlines to identify areas for improvements.
1. Sharethrough
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This headline tool analyzes your headlines and provides recommendations for better engagements and improved impressions.
2. Coschedule Headline Analyzer
The Coshedule Headline Analyzer looks at the structure, grammar and readability of your headline.
It also classifies your headline type( if it's a list headline or not), looks at your word balance and breaks down your title according to:
- Common words
- Uncommon words
- Emotional words, and
- Power words
In addition to giving you an overall score, it also gives you a preview of what your headline will look like in Google search and as an email subject line.
3. Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer (EMV)
When you run your blog title through this analyzer, it will give you a score based on the total number of EMV (Emotional Marketing Value) words it has in relation to the total number of words it contains.
It will also tell which major emotions your headline most impacts: intellectual, empathetic, or spiritual.
Put a headline that is 20 words or less in the analyzer, choose an industry, and find out how emotionally valuable your headline is. If you score above 30, you are good to go.
4. Charactercounter
Character Count Online is a free online character and word counting tool.
Just plug in your text and it will instantly display the amount of characters, words, sentences, paragraphs and whitespace in your text.
You can also check the keyword density of your text( in this case HEADLINE)
Headline Capitalization Tools.
Don't know which words to capitalize in your headlines? Let these tools to the job for you.
5. Title Case Converter
This tool heps capitalize your headlines and also optionally, explains for each word why its case was chosen. It also alerts you to cases that are hard to decide for their ambiguity.
6. Capitalize My Title
Use this automatic title capitalization tool to properly capitalize blog titles, email subjects, essay titles, and more.
It lets you capitalize more than one headline in one go. It also includes a tool to transform text to uppercase, lowercase, sentence case and other capitalization styles.
7. Headline Capitalization
Choose your capitalization style (Associated Press, APA, Chicago Manual of Style, or MLA Style), and then type in your headline. It will automatically capitalize the appropriate words for you.
It has a simple interface and help capitalize your headline for you.
8. Professional Editing Title Capitalization Tool
This tool can capitalize your headline and check your grammar.
9. DoInbound Title Formatter
Use this tool to automatically capitalize and count your title text snippets or blog post.
10. Title Case
TitleCase helps you convert text to Title Case, UPPERCASE , lowercase, CamelCase, Pascal Case, Start Case, snake_case, hyphen-case and others.
Headline Generators
11. BlogAbout
With a press of a button, you can view hundreds of fantastic titles you can use for your next blog post.
The best part about this tool is that you can save headlines you like to your “notebook”. Just hit the heart button to save a headline for later. Once you’ve filled up your notebook with headline ideas, the tool can email them to you.
12. Inbound Now Blog Title Idea Generator
Just type in a few words related to your content topic, and it will come up with engaging, SEO-friendly headlines you can use.
13. Portent Content Idea Generator
Enter the subject you want to write about and Portent’s Content Idea Generator will give you ideas with a matching title.
14. Hubspot Blog Topic Generator
Just type in 3 different topics that you cover on your blog, and it will generate a week’s worth of article headlines for you.
If you want a year’s worth of headline ideas, they’ll email those to you when you optin to the HubSpot newsletter (consequently, a great lead magnet idea!).
15. Blog Title Generator By Seopressor
Just input your keyword and choose the best description for it:
Choose the best description of your keyword:
- An industry
- A generic term
- A brand/product
- A skill
- A location
- A persons name
- An event
Once you fill out your keyword and relevant descriptor, SEOPressor gives you 5 headlines you can use.
16. Tweak Your Biz Title Generator
Enter your topic, select whether it is a noun or a verb, and choose how you would like to capitalize words. Then hit the submit button, and you’ll get a huge list of headline ideas to choose from.
The list of headlines are organized by category: list, best, how to, questions, love, sex, celebrities, secrets, snark, business, motivation, problem and the kitchen sink. They also include a plain text version of the list that you can print or download for easy access.
17.LinkBait Title Generator
Linkbait Title Generator is a quick and simple headline generator to use. Just enter your subject to get a long list of headline ideas.
18. Quandary Content Idea Generator
Enter your name and email for a free account. Answer 18 simple questions about your products and services, and in less than one second get hundreds of headline ideas for blog posts, articles, tweets, White Papers, ebooks, videos, etc.
19. Upworthy Generator
With up worthy generator , you don't even need a keyword as you won't be typing in anything.
Just visit the site and click away to get Upworthy-style article headlines you can tweak and use .
Click the generate another button or refresh the page to see another one.
20. Title Generator
Get content ideas + catchy headlines + ad Campaign , e-mail subject lines + emotional titles with just one click.
Just put in your main keyword and get 700 headlines.
Headline Research Tools
Use these tools to discover the exact headlines and topics your audience would love.
21. Buzzsumo
Type in your topic and Buzzsumo will show you the most popular(most shared) headlines for that topic.
22. Answer The Public
Answer The Public shows you what questions people are asking about your topic.
Enter your keyword, select your country, and then the tool will display various types of questions that people are typing into Google for that keyword.
23. Storybase
When you type in your keyword into storybase, it will display a list of common phrases and questions that include your keyword.
You can also sort the results by search volume, and save keywords to a list for later.
24. Onalytica
Onalytica will show you the headlines of your influencers and competitors and offers analysis that show which are the most successful. This can inform what direction you should take with your own headlines.
25. Moz Keyword Explorer
Moz Keyword Explorer is the ideal tool to use if you are looking to write a blog post that gets ranked in Google.
This tool will analyze the current search results for the keyword you want to use in your headline, and give it a score based on the difficulty, opportunity and potential for ranking it.
Headline A/B Testing Tools
These tools help split test your headlines to find the one that performed best.
26. Optimizely
You can use Optimizely to test your headlines for a specific goal, such as click-through rates, conversions, social media shares, or engagement. You can also test your headlines in combination with your overall design.
27. Crazy Egg
CrazyEgg enables you to take a deeper look at the headlines of your own site and how your audience is responding to them through its use of heat maps.
As you monitor your site’s performance, you’ll see which headlines receive the most engagement -- and which ones don’t -- so you can determine what kind of headlines work best for your specific website visitors.
28. Hotjar
Hotjar is also a heat mapping tool that allows you to see exactly what elements on your site capture your visitor’s attention and what causes them to click.
You can use Hotjar to see which headlines on your site are the most effective (or the least effective), and use that information to create more successful headlines.
29. Thrive Headline Optimizer
Thrive Headline Optimizer from Thrive Themes allows you to test many headlines until you find that perfect headline for your epic content.
It’s an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that works by tracking user behavior to determine the best headline based on multiple engagement factors such as click-through rate, time spent viewing your content, and scrolling.
Other Headline Tools And Resources
Here are more tools to help you get the best from your headlines.
30. B-Rhymes
Enter a word from your headline idea, and B-Rhymes will suggest words that (almost) rhyme with the word you’re already using that you can use in your headlines.
Like these:
- 8 Tools to Cook Up a Headline before Bedtime
- Guidelines for Writing Headlines on a Deadline for an Airline.
31. Qualaroo
Qualaroo is a tool that allows you to get feedback from your website users on which headlines (or anything else on your website) work best.
Use Qualaroo to survey your website visitors about which blog posts caught their interest, and why.
32. Thesaurus
Thesaurus.com helps you get synonyms, antonyms, and a bunch of other related words you can use in your headlines and blog posts.
33. Magazine Covers
Magazines and newspapers with millions of readers fill every publication with killer headlines, that hijack eyeballs to survive in the headline battle.
Do a Google search for magazines like "Cosmopolitan Magazines" , "Men's Health and "Women's Health" , check their covers and find inspiration for your next headline.
34. 700+ Power Words That Will Boost Your Conversion
Download OptinMonster cheat sheet of power words, "700+ Power Words that Will Boost Your Conversions" and use them in your headlines to trigger psychological and emotional response.
36. How To Write Magnetic Headlines
Opt into Copyblogger and get ebook "How to Write Magentic Headlines".
Inside the eBook, you’ll get guidance on what goes into writing a magnetic headline that turns someone browsing your site into a reader.
36. 52 Headline Hacks
52 Headline Hacks is a cheat sheet by SmartBlogger that will help you to write effective headlines.
37. 101+ Blog Post Headline Formulas
These are 101+ headlines formula by Jeffbullas you can swipe and deploy.
With these tools and resources your headlines will produce more clicks and bring more traffic to your blog in no time.
Have you used any of these tools? Which is your favorite? What other tool deserves a spot on this list? Leave a comment below.
37 Awesome Headline Tools to Write Your Best Headline
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