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The most important thing to remember about headlines is they have one main job - to get someone to start reading the copy. That's prettymuch it.
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Agreed. A headline isn't going to sell anything, but a bad headline can keep you from selling anything as no one will read your copy.
Dan the thing about quirky headlines on a blog is they keep a lot of people from reading. We'll probably disagree on this. I think we've disagree over the same subject before.
Speaking for myself I'm subscribed to a few hundred blogs. Granted that's probably a lot more than most people. Unless I can tell what a post is about from the headline it's not getting read. Some quirky can work, but I find most don't. They usually don't give an impression of what's inside and if I can't figure it out I'm generally not clicking. Now if your quirky headline really is that interesting I may be curious enough to look.
Some headlines can be quirky and still let you know what the post is about. Dan you could likely write a headline that does both. Most people probably can't. Most people when they write quirky tend to obscure what will be in the post. And even more often that not the quirkiness only makes sense after you read the post.
There's a fine line between effective quirky and ineffective quirky. It's definitely possible to write the effective kind of quirky headline, but it doesn't take much to cross over into the ineffective kind, which is more often than not what happens.