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 ...
- Ten Reasons I Love African Mission Trips
- The 5 Books I'm Reading
- 8 Takeaways from [A Conference You Attended]
- 2 Simple Things I Learned from My Quiet Time This Week
- 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
Ok, I couldn't resist, here are two more from a marketing genuis: