A lot of smart writers can’t stand list posts.
What’s a list post? It’s also known as a numbered list post, or a (shudder) listicle, and it’s a post whose headline features a numbered collection of things. This post, for example, is a list post.
There are an awful lot of crummy ones out there. The celebrity sites make frequent use of them (These 17 Celebrities Used to Be Hot, etc.). In fact, all of theCRaP blogs use them liberally.
The 7 Keys to List Posts that Are Worth Writing (and Reading)
