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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Fuel Your Blogging Why Bullet Points Are Still Going Strong December 11, 2009 at 10:30 am In blogging, many a fad has come and gone. List posts used to be extremely popular, for example – 10 Ways to Make a Milkshake, 7 New Potato Varieties You Must Try, 26 Reasons to Keep Eating Meat. But list posts aren't that popular anymore. Neither are really short posts, updated every two hours. Neither are posts about your personal life integrated into your business blog. But you know what's still popular, and will remain so forever? Bullet points. Speeding Bullets One of the reasons bullet points are still a great blogging technique to use is that they help your readers get through your post faster. Even if the piece has the exact same number of words, readers actually read faster if you break up a post into lots of little bits. Bullet points draw the eye quickly to that place in the post. Bullet points seem shorter because they're not surrounded by other sentences. Bullet points communicate one statement quickly and effectively. What's really fun is that those three bullet points could easily have been a paragraph, with only a little tweaking so that the words "bullet points" didn't head up every sentence. And here's a dandy little fact for you: When you first started reading this post, you probably read the title first, and then, right after that, the bullet points. Even though there were several sentences in between. Even though some of those sentences were short and on a single line, like this one. Even though those sentences were extremely easy to read. You still read the bullet points first. Why Are Bullet Points Good for Blog Posts? When people read an entire post thoroughly, they're more likely to think about it and comment on their reactions. If they see huge paragraphs, they might just skip whole sections or skip the post completely because it seems like too much effort to read it. Bullet points make reading the post seem simpler. The whole point of other paragraphs is summed up in nice, neat bullets The bullets make it really easy to get the information fast You'll finish the post feeling like you got something out of it with no effort That last point is key. When people finish your posts and feel like they got something out of it, they're more inclined to comment and pass it on, and commenting and passing on your posts to others increases your blog's popularity. All those good reasons to include bullet points are good for your readers. Why are they good for you? Why Bullet Points Make Writing Simpler If you can sum up the main point of your post in bullet points, you've done an excellent job of creating a concise, well-thought-out post. Allow me to demonstrate: Bullet points are still a powerful blogging tool after years because they are effective Bullet points are effective because they make the process of reading a post seem easier When people think reading a post is easier, they're more likely to read and pass on your posts Commenting and passing on posts increases your blog's popularity Bullet points are easy on you, the writer, because they organize your thoughts Look at that. That's my entire post, summed up in neat little bullet points. If you're like most people, you skipped right to that – and in fact, you finished the post. I’m sure you have some opinions on what I’ve said, and you'd like to comment. Be my guest. But after you do, go try some bullet points on your own blog. I think you'll like the results. Another great article from: Fuel Your Blogging Advertise on Fuel Your Blogging. © Fuel Your Blogging 2009 Why Bullet Points Are Still Going Strong   This email was sent to asif2bd+wpnewspost@gmail.com.  Manage Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.