Here’s what search results look like on Millionaire Match: See how that headline is the first thing you see?

It’s the same on POF: Now we’re not going to make any snarky comment about these headlines (but seriously, they’re awful, don’t use them).

Writing an online dating profile comes with easy and hard steps. This may seem obvious, but a recent study posted on e Harmony, which analyzed 12,000 online dating profiles, confirmed that both men and women chose “funny” as a characteristic they are looking for in a partner, ranking it sixth out of a list of 10 enticing words. Got some Pablo Neruda quotes you’ve been keeping on your intentions board? That same e Harmony study also revealed that you should describe the kind of person you are, but only using certain “attractive” words.

Easy might include filling out your height, while hard might include coming up with a good dating profile headline. If you can be funny, it’s universally acknowledged as a good idea. Looks like women should use words like sweet, optimistic, and thoughtful, while men should use words like passionate, spontaneous, and perceptive.

So if you’re interested in optimizing your profile and beating out the competition right off the bat, a catchy dating headline is absolutely essential to piquing a woman’s interest and getting her to click on your profile instead of the other guy’s.

On POF and Millionaire Match, headlines are almost impossible to miss in her search results, so yours needs to make a good first impression.

So you’ve signed up for a dating site like Plenty Of Fish, thought long and hard about your profile, and selected just the right pictures to demonstrate what a great catch you are.

Some stereotypes hold true in the online dating sciences, namely men falling in love with what they see and women with what they hear. Paint the portrait of yourself with words that attract the opposite sex.

I scoured the internet for evidence claiming otherwise.

The best I could find was a 2015 academic study, which said "If you can get the potential date to stop and think about your headline message..will increase their liking."I couldn't think of an effective way to check if a dating profile headline was "stop & think" worthy.

Struggling to think up a catchy & funny profile headline for Po F, Seeking Arrangement, or other dating site?

This ultimate guide will help you do it better, faster, stronger. Crazy as that sounds, I've been making a living by helping people like you with stuff like this for several years now.