Are you a hooker? If you aren't, you need to be! What? What am I talking about??? I'm talking about hooking, of course! Hooking your readers with an attention-getting headline or title.
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Well, it got you in here to read this post, didn't it? That's actually my first example. Here's a few ideas and reasons why I feel this is what it takes to make killer article headlines:

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One of the best, easiest and FREE methods to advertise and/or promote your website is through Article Marketing. This has re-purposed the art of writing. Folks who never thought they would ever write anything serious are finding themselves turning to their keyboards and pounding away at it to create literal works of advertising art. And the place to post them (after posting to your own site first, of course) is the good, old Article Directory.