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Gayla – I also have a love/hate relationship with lists. If they are really good and really useful, then I love them. Otherwise, I hate them – especially if they are being written just to follow a trend or to test if your server is Digg-proof.
But I still find myself using them as a technique for writing.
Depends on the list. Just like most posts, good ones are good – bad ones are bad.
They do seem a little easier to write. Maybe it is the built in outline they provide.
I’ll probably end up writing a few once the baby is born. Or maybe I should crank out a few in advance for when she is born.
Some top 10 lists are useful and some are just obvious linkbait.
What I really don’t like are big lists – like 99 resources for resizing a photo or something like that.
Instead – tell me the best one or the top 3 – I don’t want to have to look through them all to figure out which ones are good.
Or do a review of a resource and show me how to use it. Save me some time.
But I think the lists are really attractive to new bloggers and readers.
Having said all that, I do publish a list of quotes by bloggers in a certain niche each week. but the writing has to be superb and the number of quotes varies each week.
I HATE them!! I can’t stand them!! If you want people to click to the next blog without even bothering to read the first sentence then all you have to do is put up a sequential post OR a 31 day serious of SOMETHING… not only will it turn me off but I will delete your blog from my newsreader FOREVER!!
Some top 10 are corny already and that includes David Letterman’s. Well not most of the time.. only a few times. I don’t like this trend of top 10.
Angela, that’s a little overboard, but I know what you mean. I don’t like the top ten lists either unless it’s a topic I really like and am interested in. It doesn’t attract me because if it is something I really like, I’ll read it no matter if it’s a top 10 list or not.
Maybe we can start the anti-top 10 movement.
I get more annoyed when I find myself writing them . I feel like I write in lists and any prose is out the window!
Numbered lists are nothing new, not even for Letterman. More than likely you’re always going to keep seeing them, so I don’t really see any reason to join the ongoing trend if you hate them too. Why care so much about getting onto Digg’s front page? I don’t see the worth of the 15 seconds of fame, and the task is just too daunting to accomplish unless you want to spend hundreds of hours wading through the junk on there. I think you’re better off sticking to your regular format because your readers will spend more time on your site than just skimming through top 10 lists.
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Hi Erica,
I’m known for my “over-the-board” ways… LOL
Don’t worry, Angela, my husband says I go overboard as well. Especially when something gets my goat.
Well, my channel has done lists with good success and so I like them. Still I don’t like lists just for the sake of a list — there has to be a theme or a reason behind it. Which sounds obvious but I see lists that don’t mesh with the rest of the blog and it makes me nuts. Lists, like regular posts have a place but unless you have an actual list blog than it should never be all you do.
You have a point, Jennifer, but just because something is successful doesn’t mean people like it. I don’t know how many people still dance the Macarena or wear a mullet.
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