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By: trCreative Web Design

trCreative Web Design — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:34:35 +0000

People love lists, including myself, easy to read, straight to the point!

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By: Cornwallseo.com Makes Time Magazine

Cornwallseo.com Makes Time Magazine — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:51:10 +0000

[...] In the 24th of December issue of Time Magazine, flick to the back and check out the article called, The Power of 10. Jump to number 8 and you will see a quote from one of my blog posts, reasons why you should not stop posting top ten lists [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:55:33 +0000

It’s true. People do love them and link to them. There’s something about the list form that gives it a kind of gravity. Even if the items are complete crap, a list implies that that some sort of expertise or research has gone into creating it.

Sometimes I read these things and realise that much of the list was just common sense, or it was really 3 points expanded into 10.

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What ten months of blogging looks like — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:58:21 +0000

[...] Top 10 list of why you should not stop posting top ten lists [...]

By: Diego Ciconi

Diego Ciconi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:48:40 +0000

Everyone tries to hide one number of the list… Hehe..

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:23:45 +0000

Ha, great post! It’s really easy to think that stuff like this is cheesy or overdone, but people keep reading them because they’re still useful. Long Live the Top 10 List! (Have I done one yet for my blog? I have not. But I will.)

By: Dana Wallert

Dana Wallert — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:46:20 +0000

“and those who do point it out , you know to avoid them at parties.”

So true…I know those people!

Great post…you inspired me so I just put up a 10 list myself!

By: Saturday Sensations

Saturday Sensations — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:36:56 +0000

[...] Lyndon certainly knows how to produce unique posts and he was no different with his take on ‘Top 10 List on Why you Should Not Stop posting Top 10 Lists‘, check that for a [...]

By: Gary Sims

Gary Sims — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:20:47 +0000

Great list, I loved never number 5) I can count to ten. I submitted this list to Digg. I was surprised that no one else had. Thanks.

By: Lova Of BlogaDollar.com

Lova Of BlogaDollar.com — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:10:27 +0000

Lists are really easy to link to. They’re big linkbaits. Attract thousands of visitors and hundreds of backlinks sometimes.

By: Shaun Anderson SEO » Managing a small seo company in Scotland…

Shaun Anderson SEO » Managing a small seo company in Scotland… — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:48:26 +0000

[...] got time to blog. Not got time to experiment. Not got time to get better at Linkbait. Not got time to get really involved at Sphinn although 50% of my posts have went hot (3 out of 6). [...]

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10 Reasons Why I’m Attending ManchesterSEOGeekFest | Distilled blog — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:20:42 +0000

[...] top 10 lists seem to be even more in fashion than they usually are so it’s about time I did one I reckon. If you haven’t [...]

By: shazad

shazad — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:14:10 +0000

Ive got a few domains that could fit the bill of being just top ten lister sites/blogs

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:25:25 +0000

One of these days I am going to develop one of my domains

top10-lists.com

By: MB Web Design

MB Web Design — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:53:42 +0000

This gave me a good laugh – I once wrote a top 10 list that got Digg frontpaged and got equal amounts of praise and criticism; the majority of the latter coming in the form of “another top 10 list, HOW original!”

By: Jake Matthews

Jake Matthews — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:19:36 +0000

@ Andy B. – that’s too funny.

@ Lyndo – I’ve had this debate “internally”, though I’m not a fan of the lists, it seems that they still have some punch. Yahoo even uses them daily.

Top 10 Cities to live in – View Yahoo Real Estate
Top 10 Worst Cities to be a Commuter – View Yahoo Autos

They are good commercially and even for actual research / information purposes.

Thanks for the post.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:35:35 +0000

or 13

By: NY SEO

NY SEO — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:34:51 +0000

They are concise, simple, to the point and usually no bull

Most of my posts resemble top ten lists without the numbers.

And most of all they are easier to read. Especially for those who spend all day online reading.

I cant wait for really intuitive voice interaction between humans and PC’s.

But I might already be fully blind by then.

By: Tad

Tad — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:24:22 +0000

Tip: Make sure for your top ten list that it gets at least 10 comments! ;-)

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:51:11 +0000

Wow! I never thought such a throw away post would get such attention.

If only every post could get this much attention and be a breeze to write.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:17:26 +0000

I was a little pessimistic until I read number 8 :)

I’m always a little hesitant to post top 10 lists unless it’s something I’m really passionate about, but you’re right.

They also result in a nice, long post as well.

Great reminder

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:05:34 +0000

That’s awesome Andy. I’ll give a 2 thumbs up, a big smile, and a virtual pint of your favorite ale to whomever gives me a nice link in their #8 slot, which they were going to get rid of anyways.

By: Kun Dang

Kun Dang — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:48:54 +0000

What about the point of lists being the easiest to link bait with… or was that point 8?

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:06:30 +0000

Another good reason top ten lists are good is because it gives the post a sound structure. A lot of very talented SEOs aren’t that great writers, having a client list ensures punchy balanced structure.

By: Aldo

Aldo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:50:17 +0000

I love list, and as stated above they make it easy to scan and read.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:16:41 +0000

Which point is the best one to have an affiliate link on?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:28:04 +0000

Surely 8 is people never read number 7??

By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:30:55 +0000

I like Top 10 lists. Lists are easy to read and what we can know from it is that, we can understand the topic in 10(whatever number) points. List posts are especially good for new blogs to rise up. I like this Top 10 post too.

By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:59:50 +0000

Where’s number 8? :)

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:59:26 +0000

I don’t know why people don’t like them. They make their reading quick and easy