8 Tips For Writing Attention Grabbing List Articles

If I am a reader and seeking information about some xyz topic then I would love to use my precious time of research for a listified article which is not just evergreen but also viral than any other normal article. Listified articles provide you the same kind of links at the same place and save hell lot of time.

Now when I am a writer, I understand that readers are smart and you can’t just force them to read any piece of crap, and at the same time the content has to be interesting. I understand the importance of an attention grabbing listified article and so would be interested in knowing all the trades of creating such an article.

Frankly, it is not hard but at the same time it is not a kid’s lollypop to write a good listified article. From long time, I was thinking about sharing my experiences and here I am; sharing some nice tips to write a good listified article which grabs attention and makes your writing efforts worth.

Listified articles are great way to get traffic, new readers attention and link love. More over, list articles are very popular for social media sharing and bookmarking. (Ref: Content people love sharing on Social media)Writing a listified article is an art, and it has to be done after great research. It doesn’t matter if you have an experience in particular topic or not (having experience is always a bonus), but with a detailed research, one can come up with great list article. Here I will share few tips that I usually follow to write a traffic generating list article, and it will help you to write one of your own.

Tip1: Trend is the Key; use it to create sub headings

Every minute tonnes of information is created and rolled over internet. In this digital age it is important that you cover the latest and most talked about or most searched stuff in your writings. It means you need to follow the trends and from this endless budging information, you can fetch the selective stuff by using online polling. Let’s say you get a topic and to weave a good listified article around it you can go on websites displaying votes from people related to your topic. This will help you to create your sub heads for the list of your article. You can also use Twitter, Facebook, Google trends etc. to keep yourself updated about latest trends. A good idea is to pick a topic that will last for long (evergreen topics).

Tip 2 : Deep research of your subject is the soul

Don’t write just for the sake of writing, instead collect facts and empower your article by providing in-depth knowledge and information to the reader. Read enough about your niche/topic and it will be wonderful if you can explore more about other areas as well. This can be a general tip for writing but when you apply this to a listified article it will enrich every subhead you create for the article and make it an interesting read.

Tip 3 : Know your Audience

Every article written must be written for target audiences. If not then it can’t grab attention and hence is a sheer waste of writer’s time. To write a good listified article a writer must know the taste, mood, expectations, language, and level of understanding, culture and perception of the readers. Creation of the subheadings keeping the readers in mind would definitely help. Only than a writer can successfully design his article and create an everlasting impact through his writing.

Tip 4 : Interesting matter will grab the reader

Writing is an art and nobody wants to read anything boring. You may be writing a listified article on technology but apart from the topics you are covering (which should be of your reader’s interest) your content should also be equally catchy and interesting. The beautifully written piece would attract a reader initially and only after it the authenticity and credibility are tested. If you want your reader to simply stick to your article then please hone your creative writing skills and lace your article with some skilled occupying way of writing.

Tip 5  : Attach thumbnail picture to each subheading/ use Pictures or videos

We all know a picture is louder than thousand words so it’s advisable to attach relevant thumbnail pictures to each topic if the size and template of your article permits. This will not only grab the immediate attention of the information seeker but also help him to understand the content quickly and easily. You can also use some short but informative videos which will further help your readers to understand and grasp the information provided.

Tip 6: Your own profile and reputation

If we talk about blogging, your reputation among readers to provide informative and authentic content will also help. Like if you already have a good reputation among readers that you always provide them with factual and credible contents on relevant topics then your listified article will no doubt grab attention and you will be happy with good amounts of hits for your matter. It is a give and take world so make your networking strong and authentic to earn credibility.

Tip 7: Interesting Title

The first impression is important. Sometimes Envelop grabs the attention for the letter. Similarly the title of your listified article must be catchy enough to grab the attention. Here also you can take help from latest trends and with your creativity and little smartness you can create a fabulous title served to the information seeker. A title can lure away a reader with your article even if at one point of time he is looking for something else. So a smart catchy title can actually distract and plays as attention seeker in this vast ocean we know as internet.

Tip 8: Length of the article

It is very important to understand and know about the media you are writing for. Like if you are writing for a normal blog on internet then generally 500-800 words is enough and if you are doing it for a magazine 1000-2000 words can be expected. So divide your topics fairly in length. Readers expectations are also set by the mediums they are using and hence writing accordingly will streamline your article to their expectations.

Well! This is not the end of the line but just a beginning of a beautiful journey. These were few tips from my experience in listified article writing work. As you go further on the path of writing such articles, you will yourself understand the crux of writing a listified article which grabs attention. May be one day you will be writing an article adding more tips for such writing. Best of Luck!

Writing for your blog. Where to get content from?

If it’s one thing that I learned the hard way is that blogging is much more than a simple hobby. And if you want to make money with it then you’ll have to get even more serious.

One of the difficult things about maintaining your own blog on the floating line is keeping it updated constantly. You don’t come up with something new to say, a fresh product to present an interesting topic to discuss, your blog will be forgotten within 1 week. I know it’s really unfair, but this is how it goes. The competition is high, and there will always be someone wanting to do just a little bit more to get ahead.

But writing about things can be an extremely demanding job
. At some point you just don’t know what to say anymore. And it’s not all about just writing something for the sake of it. Absolutely not.  In the world of blogging there a lot of other aspects to take into consideration. Such as: the length of your post, if it’s keyword rich, but not too much because then you’ll be penalized, if it has nicely written paragraphs, if there are no spelling errors, and most importantly is it SEO friendly and will your readers enjoy it?
If you come to think about it, there are a lot of elements that need to be taken care of when you’re writing. Of course it’s not as difficult as writing literature, but still, there are some rules. And the bad part is, that not all of us have such a gift to put words on a sheet of paper (well a post) so easily.

And that can really be damaging for your business. In the online environment, one of the most efficient ways of communicating with your potential customer is through writing. The manner that you present your business or how you describe your service will have a serious impact on your revenue. It will decide whether you will earn more, or you’ll just be on stand by.

And only if getting the right content would be the only thing to do in order to maintain a blog/website alive. It would be nice, wouldn’t it? But we all know that’s not the case. There are a bunch of things that need to be taken care of, for instance promotion. Building links in a natural way. And that is a real tough one. Then, also make sure that your readers are happy, talk to them, stay in touch. Look for new products to review, start new sites, promote those. It’s really complicated, and time is of the essence.

That is why, sometimes a little bit of help can really get you places. My plan is to develop more sites in different niches; most of them are something like my personal hobby. But even so, writing content for them it’s really overwhelming for me. Think about it. If you want to start 5 new sites for each of them you would need at least 5 pages with written text of at least 550 words.  So that’s 25 pages * 550 words. I think it’s safe to conclude that this will take time. At the end of the day, I realize I didn’t even eat properly. I mean okay, we should all work, but not kill ourselves in the process.

So, I thought to look around for someone to give me a little bit of help with my writing scheme here, and I encountered this group of professional writers and I was quite impressed with what they did. The site is called Article Writers SEO, and they have a pretty decent deal for your articles.

They provide only high quality content which is 100% SEO optimized. Also, all articles are written by native English speakers so there won’t be any weird spelling errors or sentences that don’t make sense.

Also, they are very much up to date with the latest changes from Google, and you can choose from 2 different types of articles: keyword or LSI keyword ones. I went for LSI (latent semantic indexing) keyword articles because I realized that SE like it much more when they find related searches of your main keyword. I guess it looks more natural like that.

I ordered 10 articles through them, and they were very quick with delivering them. And it really helped me a lot. I used the time for writing those articles to do other much more useful things.

It’s rare nowadays to find a service that has good report price/quality. But I think I got lucky with Article Writers SEO. If you’re interested in what they have to offer you can contact them here.

Outsourcing for content is starting to be a very “must do” thing nowadays. Google really got smarter and you can’t fool around with blog networks that have spinned content. And probably that’s why I consider Article Writers SEO to be such a gem.

I just thought I’d mention them to you in case you ever find yourself in the same situation as mine.

Happy Blogging! he aim in this article is not just to get a high Page Rank.
http://bloggerbacklinks.com/2012/08/writing-for-your-blog-where-to-get-content-from/ Marylin Newland
Spy on your competitions website backlinks if you want to create backlinks from the same sites as them
http://bloggerbacklinks.com/build-blog-backlinks/building-do-follow-blog-backlinks-where-to-start/ Suellen Locorriere
There are a number of other factors which could be turning the visitor to your site off. Things like a bad title (remember the 10 second rule), a bad intro, poor writing style, bad content etc etc.
http://bloggerbacklinks.com/bloggers-tips-tricks/how-to-use-blogger-backlinks/ Hoyt Schinker
Has anyone ever commented on your blog and have you been happy with the comment or just annoyed by the random comment and a link.
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8. Article writing is a great way to create backlinks

Drive the people to your HELPFUL article, from there – if they are captivated by what you said, then they might click on a link which would take them to your landing page or blog. Basically you are walking with the customer through the final stages of their purchase life cycle.

Writing A Successful Blog

I am sure this question was on every blogger’s mind when they thought about setting up a site.

If you have your own blog, surely you have encountered situations where you just didn’t know what to write about, not to mention writing about interesting things that would be appealing to other people as well.

Unfortunately, when you started to be active in the online environment no one told you what steps to take in order to have a successful blog, or what topics to approach that will guarantee a lot of attention from your audience.

But you expected to discover the “recipe for success” on the way. The truth is, that no one can give you a book and say “Read this, and if you follow the rules here, you will be #1”. Unless you have met the magic gold fish and it grant you a wish.

The best you can hope for, is to get inspired from other people’s road to writing a great blog and try and learn from their experiences in order to apply it to your own case. If you copy a technique or someone, your results won’t be spectacular. Why? Because the concept already exists, and you won’t be seen as a person that actually gives real value to a subject.

This doesn’t mean that you have to go out of your way and find topics to discuss that no one else approached. No. This means that you have to bring your doze of uniqueness to whatever you do.

And with that in mind, I thought that I should open a section on BloggerBacklinks.Com, called “How to write a successful blog?”. Here, you will read stories about how other people, just like me and you, started their “blogging career”, and how things went from them from the beginning until now.

Hopefully, stories like these will get you more motivated and will help you hold on no matter how difficult things may get.

The first Successful Blog Story comes from Jeremy, who was kind to answer some set of question so that we would get a better understanding of how things evolved for him.
Below you can read the mini-interview:

1. Tell me about yourself, please.

My name is Jeremy Cook, I live in South Carolina and work as a Mechanical Engineer full time.  My site is all about the engineering-type projects that I do in my spare time.

2. Can you tell me a bit about your blog? What is the main topic you approach?

I started my website, jcopro.net, late in 2010 as a free WordPress site, eventually I registered the domain name, which is short for Jeremy Cook's Projects then went to self-hosting a few months after that.  The subject matter has always been about the projects that I do in my spare time, including Robotics, CNC machining, pneumatics, and some tutorials on the software I use to create stuff with.

3. Can you give me an overview of your blog’s evolution from the beginning until now?

As mentioned, I started this blog as a free WordPress site.  It took a bit of commitment to actually write a good blog to go to self-hosting since you have to pay for it, but it turned out really well.  My blog now pays for itself with ads, and helps offset the cost of making robots and other stuff that is pretty much for my (and visitors to my site's) entertainment.

4. Was it difficult to get visitors?

It was difficult to get visitors at first.  Probably my fist big "break" was getting one of my projects on hackaday.com.  Really exciting to see your hits rocket from a general number of 50 or so to over 1000 in a day.  That doesn't last of course, but if you can get listed on a larger site be sure to do it!

5. What were the methods you approached in order to increase your blog’s popularity? Which ones would you consider to be most effective nowadays?

Getting listed by larger sites can be great, but the other thing I learned to do was list my stuff on Reddit.  There's definitely an art to doing it politely so people don't think it's spam, but that can drive a lot of traffic if done correctly.  I've also been experimenting with Twitter, but I've yet to see great results with that.  I'm honestly not sure I know that I'm doing.

6. Do you interact directly with your visitors?

Yes, I definitely reply to comments that I get.  People don't generally contact me directly that much, but my blog has opened up some opportunities that I wouldn't have been able to pursue otherwise.

7. What was your traffic at the beginning and where did it get now?

The first few months were generally under 50 hits a day or so.  My traffic varies widely now, but generally 500 hits per day is normal.  A few over 4000 hits in a day is my best so far.

8. Do you monetize your blog? Are you satisfied with the results?

Yes, I monetize it.  As with raw traffic, I'm not sure I'll ever by satisfied, but I'm generally happy with my results so far.  I use Amazon and Google Adsense.  Both work well, but are used a bit differently in my blog.

9. What would be an word of advice for people that just started blogging?

If you're going to do it, write your blog about something that you really like.  If you can make money at it, that's really cool, but I think if that's your only motivation, you probably won't do it for long.  With me it was easy, I simply love making stuff.  Writing about it came quite naturally.

10. Thank you very much for your answers Jeremy and all the very best with your blog.

You can visit Jeremy’s site here: http://www.jcopro.net

Or follow him on Twitter: @JeremySCook

If you too want to share your successful blog story, leave a comment below, or write an e-mail to contact (@) bloggerbacklinks.com, and I will get in touch with you, and we will schedule a mini interview.