Lists. The latest HOT niche.

Web has been evolving continuously over the years and seems to do that in an increased pace, recently. We saw many niches arising and many getting ditched, but there are some which still shines. Add to this, the niche of lists or compilations. This essentially means, writing out posts that will be like “X Hottest Y”, “The Best Z in the world” and so on. Though, it might seem easy, as the content isn’t to be uniquely created, truth be told, it’s challenging than that. Think of publishing a 15/25 item compilation every couple of days !!

The practice or ART of compilation has been around for sometime now, though. But, these were limited to tech items. Called as list-posts by bloggers, these have proved to be killer resources of traffic. Posts like these, easily climbs up social media rankings.
We saw a deviation from the regular tech-list-posts, when two of the world’s best compilers, Smashing Magazine and Hongkiat started showcasing/compiling frequent posts featuring great designs, free design downloads and design examples. The scintillating success of these and those like these, prompted the web to explore interesting-other categories and to present them as professional compilations for their readers.

With that said, let me talk about a promising and exciting new entry to this niche : Damn Good Lists by Keith Dsouza of Techie-Buzz. Damn Good Lists have been launched just this week, and have already proved to be an immense success (which was very well expected). DGL features posts like 15-weirdest-fear-factor-dares and hot and sensational stuff, too. Damn Good Lists will clearly get ahead of any competition. with it’s excellent selection of domain name. The domain in intself, is a much-searched-keyword, which will put it up in first page (98% chance of being the first result) in Search Results. That said and counting in the social media sites, Keith could be sure of another shining success with DGL, as he’ve done with Techie-Buzz. I suggest that you subscribe to their feed so as not to miss anything sweet and hot.

P.S. Saad Hamid of Sizlopedia.com have recently launched ListPhobia, a portal dedicated to cool & hot lists.