138: How to Create a List Post - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

Challenge: Create a List Post
This is part 1 of our 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off in the last episode of this podcast.To recap -

Every day for the next week, I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create.Create and publish the challenge post
Share your post on This Thread in our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook, and check out other posts fellow challengers are submitting.Today’s Challenge: Write a List Post
In this episode I talk about different types of link posts that you might consider writing and given you a number of examples from my own archives to check out.Listen to it in the player above or check out episode 138 on iTunes here.

Write and publish a List postHead to the FB group (search for ProBlogger Challenge Group on FB) and look for the update I’ve done there were I call you to share your list posts. Share the link. Only new posts please.
Take a few minutes to check out, like, comment on and share other people’s lists.In Today’s Episode List Posts Can Take a Number of Forms

A Simple List Post21 Ways to Write Posts that Are Guaranteed to Grow Your Blog


Longer List PostsHow to Take Great Group Photos
Wedding Photography – 21 Tips for Amateur Wedding PhotographersLists Within Posts

Here's one Vanessa published yesterday - 50 Family Friendly Dinner Ideas - which is a longer post with a series of lists and other content around it.



Further Resources on Writing List PostsThe Ultimate Guide to Making Money with the Amazon Affiliate Program
10 Steps to the Perfect List PostUpdate: Here are the rest of the Challenges in the Blogging Groove Series

Challenge 1: Create a List Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.Challenge 2: Create a FAQ Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.
Challenge 3: Create a Review Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.Challenge 4: Create a Story Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.
Challenge 5: Create a ‘How to’ Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.Challenge 6: Create a Discussion Starter Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.
Challenge 7: Create a Link Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here.Full Transcript
Expand to view full transcriptCompress to smaller transcript viewHey there and welcome to Episode 138 of the ProBlogger Podcast. This is challenge number one of our seven days to getting your blogging groove back challenge that we kicked off in the last episode of this podcast. If you haven’t listened to that episode, I really do strongly recommend that you go back to Episode 137 which just goes for 13 minutes, and it gives you an overview of what we’re doing in this challenge.

To recap, everyday for the next week I'm going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. It can be a written piece of content, it can a video, it can be a podcast, whatever you choose to do. My challenge to you is to create and publish that piece of content and to join our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook and to share the post that you’ve written so that we can check out each other’s blog posts.

You can find all the details of the challenge and today’s transcript and show notes at problogger.com/podcast/138.Let me tell you what today’s style of blog post will be for you to create in the next 24 hours. Today, I want you to create a list post. This is the easiest type of post that I could come up with for day one to help you ease into this particular challenge. I decided a list post would be a good one for a few reasons.

Firstly, it’s something most of us are familiar with, we’ve all read them.

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