The Best Blog Posts … Are Often Lists

All the blogging experts agree … if you want readers and you want traffic to your blog, be like Santa Claus and make a list.

Plan to post lists of different things — books, movies, things you like, things you don’t like, people you admire, people you’d invite to dinner, whatever — often.

It can be as simple as the “Top Ten” of anything and everything … such as …

Lists are great for blog posts for three general reasons:

  • They are easy to link to by others — thus helping build your traffic from other sites
  • They are easy to create – come on, you can’t think of a list?

  • And they are easy to read — they’re easily scannable and digestable

Two great “must read” posts by some of the best in the blogging business are:

Ok, I couldn’t resist, here are two more from a marketing genuis:

Also, check out this list of lists to get some inspiration for your lists.

Oh, and by the way … this post is a hybrid kind of list. Get the drift? :-)


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