Fantastic post, and I totally agree. Thanks for linking to my marketing post, and I'd like to point out that I've written about headlines many times in the 3 months I've been here, including:

• Do Your Hive Headlines Need Help? - in this post I offered a free clinic to upgrade commenters headlines for a week. Only two Hivers took me up on the free offer.
• Are Your Sentences Costing You Crypto? - here I gave examples of compelling sentences, as well as showing an example of how I build a headline up from scratch through 10+ drafts.
• Want Upvotes? Be A Hooker - this post takes a look at 'clickbait', and as you said there is both 'good' and 'bad' clickbait.

Your post here is great because it puts more of an SEO spin on things than I did, and I love how you go back to pre-internet years to show just how deeply a headline can touch human beings. That headless body, topless bar line is pure genius, and I'd love to write headlines that good. Hopefully others who are reading this will be inspired to do similar.

Reblogging because Hivers needs this. Thank you so much for writing this, and wishing you a great day. (Also thanks to @taskmaster4450le , as it seems he funneled my marketing post to you?)

Anyway, wishing you and all involved a great day! 🙏