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If you’ve been on the blogosphere for a while, chances are you’ve heard the term “The Long Tail.” I won’t give you a dissertation-length explanation because other people already have, so here’s the gist of The Long Tail: Keywords. The longer your search term, the narrower the niche, the longer the tail; the shorter you search term, the broader your niche, the shorter the tail.

What does that mean for you?

We’ve been blogging with lists for the last few weeks, and we’ve already learned how to determine when it’s appropriate to use a list and how to write a list; we learned those week one. Last week, we learned how to use, code, and style ordered and unordered lists. This week, we’re discussing definition and nested lists.

Last week, we established that lists are a great tool for bloggers because they can make your content more readable by grouping related ideas and simplifying complex processes. We also learned when to use a list and how to write a list, but we didn’t cover the specifics of using the different kinds of lists. In this post, we’ll get to the nitty gritty of ordered and unordered lists, and next week, we’ll wrap up with definition and nested lists.

Are you a list writer? Can you go a day without writing a list? If you’re like me, lists keep you sane by making life easier. To-do lists, grocery lists, packing lists, idea lists—you get the idea. Lists are a great tool in our everyday lives, but they can also be a great tool in your writing and on your blog, for they can make your writing more readable by grouping related ideas and simplifying complex processes. In the coming weeks, we’ll look at the basics of writing a list and how to write, style, and code the four kinds of lists HTML allows for: ordered, unordered, definition, and nested.