21 Facts about writing Great Listicle everyone Thinks are true.

21 Facts about writing  Great Listicle everyone Thinks are true.

What is Listicle Blog ?

Listicles, which are articles presented in list form, are a popular way to share information in the digital age. They’re a flexible way to present ideas, whether you’re writing a lighthearted blog post or an information-packed news article. To write an effective listicle, start by narrowing your topic and choosing the best format. Then, you can draft the body of your listicle, using popular strategies for creating good content.

Listicle is an informal term for an article made up of a series of facts, tips, quotations, or examples organized around a particular theme.

Listicles, which may be numbered or bulleted, are particularly common in blogs and other online articles.

Listicle is a blend (or portmanteau) of the words list and article.

Starting a Listicle Blog

A really simple idea that would only take up to 1 hour of your time a week and about $20 in costs. Over time it could make you quite a bit of money.

Sites like Viralnova.com and Fukarf.com create compelling content by finding funny, emotional and inspirational stories on Reddit, Facebook and Imgur, rewriting the content, adding some more detail and publishing the content on their own site.

Just to give you an idea on how successful these types of sites are, ViralNova was set up buy one guy who hired a couple of writers to rewrite successful content that was published on other sites around the web. This site sold for $100 MILLION!!! Before that, ViralNova was making $400k+ per month in ad revenue.

With a bit of promotion on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Stumbleupon and eventually organic traffic, within a couple of months you should be pulling in 30K to 50K unique vistits a month. Monetize the site with adsense to get some revenue in to cover costs of your hosting and domain name costs.

You can get your hands on ViralNova type themes from MyThemeShop 

 21 Tips for Writing a Great Listicle

Everybody likes to read a list. They’re easy to read, straight to the point, and actionable. These are just some of the reasons why you should write listicles on your blog to increase your blog traffic.

If you’re planning on writing one for your blog, then take some of the tips mentioned below in mind to help you publish the best possible listicle content your blog can ever have.

Developing the headline

1. Feature the “best” in your list– Qualifiers like “greatest,” “best,” “most excellent,” and the link will help attract more eyeballs to your post. After all, your audience will
2. You can go the opposite road– If the “best of” list in your niche is already saturated, you can go with “worst,” “most annoying,” “grossest,” or something similar.
3. Make your list a primary number– Studies show that the click-through rate for lists with odd and indivisible numbers are higher number compared to even numbers.
4. Explain the benefit of the list– On the header; explain the actual advantage of the list for your audience. As an example, this post will help your audience drive more traffic to their blog if they take some of the applicable tips here in writing their listicle content.
5. Use a blog title generator – If you’re having trouble coming up with angles and ideas for your blog post, then some of the ones featured here should give you a head start.
6. Use CoSchedule Headline Analyzer– To ensure that your blog post headline is optimized, use the CoSchedule tool to test and edit it until you get the highest score possible.
7. Make it big– The more you include in the list, the larger it becomes, the more chances people will click on it. For example, this post from Colorlib contains the most number of free WordPress themes compared to anything else on search results.
8. Use Buzzsumo– If you are curating content relevant to your niche, then you might as well use Buzzsumo to help you identify the most trending and shared posts within a period. The tool can also reveal to you competitors that you are up against for your target keyword or niche.

Writing the content

9. Break down the list into categories– If your list is too big, then it would be ideal if you can group the lists in your post into categories. This will make it easier for readers to browse the list and find the ones they are looking for. An example of this can be seen in a Nichehacks postI wrote about email marketing tools. Since each tool does a particular task, I grouped together the similar ones to help segregate and organize the content.
10. Create a table of content– For bigger listicles, create a table of content that will appear on top of your post. Therefore, instead of your visitors scrolling down the page, they can simply click on the TOC so that they will be brought to that particular part of the page. For WordPress users, I recommend the TOC+ plugin.
11. Enumerate your post– Since people came to your post for the list, you need to keep count of each. Aside from making it easier for visitors to browse your article, you deliver on the promise of the headline by showing the exact number you mentioned in the title of your content.
12. Provide a detailed explanation of each item in your list– to provide value; you need to be thorough and exhaustive for all items. It depends on the purpose of your post, but you are normally asked to explain why you included the item in your list. Make a compelling case for their inclusion and appeal to your readers why you are correct.
13. Add images– By piling up in your list, your readers will see nothing but a wall of text. You need to break the walls down and give readers some space to breathe by including images from free stock photo sites like Pixabayor screenshots of the item you may be featuring.
14. Create Tweetable quotes– To increase Twitter shares of your post, you can take some of the best quotes you mentioned and create a link that allows your audience to share them on Twitter. For WordPress plugins, you can go with Click to Tweet by CoSchedule, or you can manually create your tweetable quotes by reading up here.
15. Feature influencers in your post– Piggybacking on influencers by showcasing them in your post is a great way to increase its authority. You can grab a quote them mentioned in one of their articles that are relevant to your post, link back to their article, and create a tweetable link for it so your audience can share it on Twitter.
16. Use Grammarly– Wordy content is prone to grammatical errors and erroneous sentence constructions. If your list is bristling with words, then you should use Grammarlyto help to edit your post easier. The premium version of the tool will help you find errors that you would miss so you can improve your post even more.
17. Craft a call to action– To end the article, you want your readers to do something for you in return after reading your value-loaded post. You can ask them to share the post on Facebook, Twitter, and others to increase its social shares or tell them to sign up to your email list to receive more awesome stuff straight to their inbox.

Make your Blog Convincing

18. Top, Best, Most

When people are looking for information, they are looking for the best of the best. You want your listicle to surface the top, best, or most important pieces of information about the topic at hand. Some ideas of this concept might be as follows.

• 11 Top Reasons Why It Rocks To Design Web Sites.
• 21 Mistakes Most Bloggers Make.
• 13 Best Birthday Gifts For Photographers.
• 31 Top Bloggers To Follow.

19. Mention Famous People In Your Listicle

As bizarre as that sounds, mentioning famous people in your Listicle can draw more attention and traffic to it! How might this work? We can think about it like this. If you want to write an article about the best way to throw a football, you might consider something like this: 10 Reasons Tom Brady Can Throw Better Than You. Now, you can go and Google 10 things about Tom Brady, write your awesome list, and you’re good to go. You don’t need permission to write about Tom Brady, but you do get the benefit of associating his name with your blog and what that means to the information it contains. As a Monday morning quarterback, no one is going to want to hear your opinion on how to throw a football. If you research the blueprint of how to do it right according to Tom Brady however, you have a shot at getting noticed.

20. Write A Great Title

Writing a Great title for your listicle or blog post is crucial to it’s success. This doesn’t mean to create the most click bait worthy piece of text you can come up with. People are so sick of click bait, services exist to save you a click. (You need to follow this guy btw!!) Use a title that most accurately describes the content on the page, not one filled with a string of ridiculous adjectives in a sales pitch. Super blogger Amit Agarwal has some great tips about this in his post on how to write a successful blog.

21. Motivate, Teach, and Inspire.

Writing a post that makes people exited and want to take action is a motivational type post. It turns out, blog posts that motivate people are the best performing and most valuable type of content you can create. Many people have the skills they need to make great things happen, but lack the motivation. Help them with this by writing a great motivational listicle. In addition to getting motivated, people have a love for and thirst for learning. What are you good at? Share it with the world in your blog. Finally, inspirational articles also tend to perform well in listicle format.