Comments on: 5 Reasons Why List Posts Are For Dummies

By: 7 Tips To Overcome Writers Block - eXtra For Every Publisher

7 Tips To Overcome Writers Block - eXtra For Every Publisher — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:01:34 +0000

[...] List Posts - List posts are some of the most popular and widely read posts that you can find on the Internet. People absolutely LOVE them. I would challenge you that if you are going to resort to a list post that you make sure you put a spin on it that will entertain and be unique. [...]

By: JustChris

JustChris — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:51:31 +0000

I don’t find list posts to be a bad thing as long as you don’t do them in excess. A list is a way to organize things. Hence it’s an easy way to pad out some content if you’re having difficulty organizing your thoughts and have been running dry on posts recently.

By: svakanda

svakanda — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:38:12 +0000

I like to chop my lists up on a mirror before I snort them….much better assimilation that way!

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By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:10:19 +0000

@Ditto - Sorry but they are definitely for dummies.

If the information that has to be passed is so shallow and weak that it can be presented in a list then it’s not worth reading.

I still challenge anyone to show me a list that isn’t common sense OR hasn’t been passed around from blog to blog like a football.

So far…No takers.

Dosh Dosh and Copyblogger are the worst kind of “listers” because they write some crappy list post and then every schmohead that reads their site rehashes the same list. So we have to read that post on 10k different blogs for the next 6 months.

It’s a fact.

By: Ditto Rahmat

Ditto Rahmat — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:02:04 +0000

I don’t think you should equally judge that all list type blog post are crap. There are some list type post on blogs which I find highly informative and I don’t think are rehashed or scrapped from other content. Such blog that I personally read and often visit includes DoshDosh’s blog @ http://www.doshdosh.com/ and Copyblogger’s blog @ http://www.copyblogger.com/.

While the quality of my post blog post is way subpar comparing to those blogs (yes, I’m new to blogging, 1 month to be exact, and yes I do use list type blog post since I tend to write things to the point), I still don’t agree to your point that list post are for dummies.

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By: shanker bakshi

shanker bakshi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:21:08 +0000

I do use list post on my blog , why i write list post, there is very simple reason behind it, i found then very easy in writing….straight…bullseyes…..no story strings attached.

By: webDiggin

webDiggin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:35:39 +0000

You hooked me on some discussion in BlogCatalog. Well, the title of the post hooked me - it’s opinionated and that made me want to read it.

Just starting, and just discovered BlogCatalog and all it’s discussion and I’m starting to think that serial bloggers are a different breed from your average surfer. They go to blogs, they subscribe to feeds, and they recognize when they’ve seen a list 12K times…

But your average web surfer doing a natural search on Google? Isn’t it going to be news for them? I mean, everyone has to start somewhere.

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By: Futon-Matt

Futon-Matt — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:42:46 +0000

Very nice, a list bashing lists.

Generally I stay away from lists in my blog.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:00:24 +0000

@Crystal - Nah…it’s a list post….you didn’t miss a thing.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:49:12 +0000

I love the irony from this post. Well done. When I’m reading list, I don’t usually read past the first sentence (often bolded) in each section. So I hope I missed nothing important up there XP

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