What Advantage a List Post Gets to You as Compared to Simple Posts?

List posts have become a trend these days. Everyone is writing their articles in numbers. I also realized its importance and wrote a post on why numbers are important in the post title. This more or less refers to why writing list posts are beneficial for your blog. Today, I will try to concentrate on this factor only- the advantages of list posts.

1. Specific- For me, this is the biggest advantage. Writing list posts make your content specific and comparatively simple to understand. The best part is that it becomes super easy for you to write the matter. Consider this, when you are writing list post, you have already in mind the sub headings for the various points and you know what you need to write in this point. This way, you can organize the length and content of your post.

2. Readers love it- My experience with list post says readers like to read these posts more than simple paragraph type articles. And the major testimony to this fact is that I have got more comments in those posts which have number with them. They have found the matter interesting to read and helpful and has therefore commented. Also, it makes easy to jump straight on the point which they want to read. In your 4-5 points, there may be some topics that they already know and they do not need to go through each of them. Lastly, reading a post just made of paragraphs do sucks at some level. I too avoid posts that do not mention any bullets or sub headings and keep on going endlessly.

3. Viral- List posts spread very fast provided the content is fresh and useful. It is not like that you have written anything and it will get popular. But if your post is worth reading, it will get its due share on sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious. And you can very easily check that some of the most popular posts on social media sites are list posts.

CONCLUSION

Just one piece of advice- DO NOT OVER DO IT. The popularity of list posts should not affect your style of writing. What will look good in simple language should be written in simple way. Avoid lists where it can be easily avoided but make sure when you include them, they are worth the inclusion.