subject: Lists Are A Great Way To Promote Your Music & Dance Site [print this page] How many times have you got distracted from your work when you come across a really tempting content like Top 10 Music Videos Of 2010 or 20 New Movie Trailers Of 2011?
Net surfers usually get attracted to the Top 10 lists, Famous 5 blogs or other content with self-explanatory images. So the basic responsibility of the content writer is to keep the content on their site simple without making it elaborate and complex for the readers. On the other hand there are people who dont believe in giving a glint, but crave for fact-based information irrespective of its length or complexity in its presentation. Do you want to know about the Top Emo Bands or any other Top Music List? Such data is often available on the net, and is extremely popular among those site visitors who have gotten over the eye candy gimmicks on various sites, like I recently noticed on Ranker; a site with list creation as its USP. This site surprised me with the hundreds of list in the Music category with the best music lists in almost all music categories you can think of.
To top it off, Ranker recently launched their Crowdranked list, wherein a master list is created by combining multiple lists on the same topic. Like they did with the list Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists Of All time which is already popular on the site and contributes to the large list- Best Rock Bands Of All Time. And because users can contribute their items and thereby their opinion to the list, the whole experience is personalized. However, when it comes to voting and contributing to such community forums, it is always- To each his own. To complain about bad item selection is to complain about the masses who voted for or against it. Because these community lists depend on consensus votes by the users, the credibility of the lists or content is looked upon highly.
So the next time you come across '10 Best Songs Of This Week and The Top 500 Songs Of 21st Century, for a change go for the latter.
