If you're a true writer, writing a list might seem like a cop out or an easy dumbed-down version of writing. For the most part it kind of is, but sprinkling in a few can be very valuable.
Lists are one of the most popular things on the internet, a ton more people will be inclined to read a list than a news piece or a normal article. Lists are also more likely to go viral and bring in an amount of traffic you could never even dream of.
Here's a short explanation of how one of my lists went viral awhile ago and brought in the most amount of traffic I ever witnessed.
-Submitted list to Fark.com
-Fark accepted the list, changed the headline slightly, and put it on their front page.
-Traffic is really spiking at this point, about 8k visits per hour.
-Nearly every blog in my niche picked up the article and linked to it.
-Stumbleupon users start stumbling the Fark link, which redirects to my link.
-Sites that are essentially "link farms" in my niche pick it up.
-The yahoo blog in my niche picks it up.
Yahoo really sent it into the stratosphere and there I was glued to my adsense earnings and traffic stats. Final tally? Over the next 3 days I generated over a million page views and made about $900 in adsense. This all came about from writing a list in about an hour and a half.
It was like a drinking binge, I was hungover, it was a rush. It was like watching a slot machine winning for 3 days. The exposure was invaluable as I received emails from more advertisers in the coming days and earned a little respect within my niche.
Think of a list, write it, promote it to free sites like Fark, Digg, Reddit. It happens all the time, it can be you the next time, just do it.
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