{"id":20619,"date":"2026-03-21T04:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:20:53","slug":"make-sure-to-get-lots-of-numbers-in-the-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/03\/21\/make-sure-to-get-lots-of-numbers-in-the-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Make sure to get lots of numbers in the headline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Click bait stories, like these at CNBC Make It all use numbers in the headline. For reasons unknown, having numbers in the headline attracts more clicks, as seen in these top 5 stories on March 21, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, we now have lots of &#8220;listicles&#8221; (&#8220;I&#8217;m a writer and there are 10 reasons you should have numbers in the headline, and 3 that actually work&#8221; &#8211; hah hah).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359-1024x232.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359-1024x232.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359-600x136.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359-768x174.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359-1536x348.png 1536w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359-604x137.png 604w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-359.png 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a writer and there are 10 reasons you should have numbers in the headline, and 3 that actually work&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-mill-click-bait","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20628,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}