5 Proven Headline Formats I Use For My Medium Stories To Go Viral

Want to go viral? Learn how to create headlines

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The headline makes or breaks your story.

Imagine this: You just come across an idea about why the sunset is important for health. So you sit down to write. You start typing on the keyboard. And after 3 hours, you finish writing the story.

Now it’s time for you to write the headline because you haven’t written the headline. Unfortunately, you don’t know how to write “Killer Headlines,” so you just put “Why I like sunsets.”

And because your headline sucks, all you get is crickets.

But what if you write the same headline and change it to “10 Reasons You Should Make Time for Sunset Every Single Day if You Want to Live Longer?”

Probably this headline would get thousands of clicks to your story, right?

That’s how powerful headlines are.

So today, I’m going to tell you the 5 headline types I use that help me go viral every now and then.

Let’s dive in:

1. How To → How I Did

This is by far the best headline hack I’ve come across.