If you’ve read anything about increasing your blog traffic, there’s no doubt you’ve heard at least one piece of tried-and-true advice:
People love lists.
In fact, I bet you’ve heard it so much that you don’t want to hear it anymore. I bet you want to hear something new. I bet you want to challenge the status quo.
But before you do …
I noticed sidebar of Copyblogger.com the other day, where it lists the most popular posts on the site. It’s a list of what I would assume are the top 30 posts on the site.
Everyone believes they are unique. Different. Not the status quo. A contradiction to the statistics. Everyone believes they have problems, issues and obstacles that have never been experienced by anyone. Ever. Everyone believes everyone else is normal. Of course, both statements are right and wrong. The only thing that’s normal is that we’re all different. [...]
