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There are dozens of ways to attract more readers to read our blog post and stick to our blog for days and the method of writing a blog post might affect a first time visitor to stay or leave. I’d actually participated in Darren Rowse’s 31 Days Build A Better Blog project a few days ago, I’d learned a lot from this project. At the 2nd day of the 31DBBB project, he wrote about writing a list post. I’d compiled some information and written my list post, it was “66 Professional Bloggers You Should Follow“. With this list post, I’d attracted a lot of new visitors to my blog and the list post received tonnes of page views as well.

When we talk about make money online, traffic is what we want, especially organic traffic or search engine traffic, because only organic traffic could convert well into money. Writing a list post is easy, simply write your article and list your points in point form, list post must not be a long one, a short one will be better as well. Writing more great and interesting list posts could be able to make you money online indirectly, this can be explained further.

As I told you above, organic traffic is what we want in order to make money online, in order to get more organic traffics. Of-page optimization is very important, such as number of quality backlinks that point to your blog with the relevant anchor tag. With that said, list post is what we should be practicing to get more quality backlinks. Based on my experienced on the “66 Professional Bloggers You Should Follow”, I’d added more than 66 professional bloggers into the list post, after this I’d received a few backlinks from other bloggers who wrote an article and linked my list post.

How To Write A Good List Post

1) Numbering your list
We should always be practicing this while writing a list post, numbering your list, easy for yourself and your readers to read them. Sometimes your list is long, numbering them should be good in reading.

2) At least 10 items in your list
If you’re going to write a list post, this means that you should have dozens of ideas about the topic for your list post, it’s not ideal to make your list post with less than 10 points. If you don’t have enough points, you can save your post in draft and keep adding more points into the list post day by day when you have the ideas, publish it once you have enough points in the list post.

3) Link back to your older post into the list
You can always link back to your older post into the list post. Let’s say you’re writing about “10 Tips How To Improve On-Page Optimization”, and you have an older post talks about “A Good Title Tag And Description Help Your SEO”. In this case, you can add this post into your list and insert a link back to it, you can get the list longer and make your blog sticky because they will spend more time reading your older blog post if the older post is interesting.

4) Make your long list post in series
Sometimes you have dozens of ideas and points to add into the list post, say 160 points. In this case, you can separate the 160 points into a series, let’s say 2 series, 80 points each. Try not to waste your interesting list post in only 1 post, make them 2 series. In this way, you can get backlinks from other bloggers. Besides this your readers who read the first series might be excited enough to come back and read the 2nd series, so you’ll have more and more returning visitors.

5) Ask your readers to continue adding the points into the list
Always ask your readers help to contribute or share their ideas about the list post. As you know, knowledge and ideas from 2 persons might be different, so your readers might have more different points compared with yours. You should give a backlink to your readers who contribute a new point to the list post, as a credit to them, I believe that they would be happy to contribute and share.

6) So, it’s your turn to add your points into this “non list post” and make it a list post. Kindly share your points below in the comment box.

In Conclusion

Writing a list post might have the chance of getting backlinks, but there is no guarantee. It’s the same for me, I linked to more than 66 bloggers and wrote the list post, I didn’t know whether they’ll be linking back to me, it’s all about “Give and Take”. Bear in mind, don’t be too mindful about this, just write your interesting and unique list post, people might be more than happy to link with you in future.

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