Top Ten: Why List…How List…Top list…List List List

31 October, 2008

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“The web loves lists almost as much as it loves video” [ Seth Godin ]

“There is something about a list that bloggers and blog readers love”[ Darren Rowse ]

“It’s a blogosphere favorite for good reason — “list” content works” [ Brian Clark ]

It’s not the number that counts, It’s the list that make content special. People love lists and that’s why list are the most lovable contents on internet. They get struck on most of the top social bookmarking sites.

There are serveral reasons of Why people love list but most important of them all is because Lists are easy to read, understand and remember. A List make things simple for readers and writers too.Lists creating was started by internet marketers and bloggers but not mainstream media and newspapers are preferring listed contents due to it’s power and simplicity.

Top Internet Marketer Seth Godin placed USE LIST on Top in an article about how to get traffic to your blog. So It’s been proved that Making list is most effective step for increase in yout blog traffic.

Top Ten is the most favorite word for making list but reason is still unknown. Making good useful, Quality lists is the best way to get link backs to your website. Most favorite topics for list creation are mostly related to entertainment and glamour but you can make list of everything, you can put a number after making a list but Remember Top Ten is the most lovable and favorite list.

Technically, list are created by using HTML Tags such as <li>, <ol>,<ul>. If you dont know the meaning of these simple Html Tag, Click here. Besides this, Mailing lists are very important for online Email marketing.

Many top sites use list and they make huge list about a specific topic and people go crazy about those resources. Most famous of them all, as far as i know, is Smashing Magazine and Mashable. They make huge and comprehensive lists that gain a lot of attention. Forbes list top Richest people and companies.

I love lists and Next ten Post on FB will be all about Top ten Things, Top ten Tips or stuff like that.. Stay Tuned!!!