What is it about Top Ten (or Top 10) Lists?

There is something that is inherent in human nature to want to quantify and to rank things. Whether it be sports teams, songs, movies, restaurants, or any other topic imaginable, people want to know and decide what are the best or worst. And there is something ubiquitous about ranking things in groups of Ten. Moses had the Ten Commandments and David Letterman built a career around it.
There are a number of websites dedicated to lists, but none that developed a community for people interested in lists and created a platform to interact with them. At toptentopten (http://www.toptentopten.com/) we are working to develop a platform for people to post, discuss, and vote on lists. There is no discrimination, anyone has the ability to post their own list to our site on any subject. What we do further is give the ability for users to vote on the rankings within a list if they disagree and the aggregate votes are instantly tallied and change the order of the list items. Beyond that, the ranking of the list itself changes based on users interactions with the list thus the more popular and relevant lists will bubble up to the top. This is where our name comes from, the Top Ten Top Ten lists!
Our goal is to become the largest community of list lovers and directory for Top Ten lists. We have seen that a lot of websites and bloggers who post their lists to our site are getting a lot of traffic to their site. We believe that we can be an outlet and partner in bringing users to any blog or site that publishes a top ten list. We are working hard to promote our site and hope to grow with our partner websites and bloggers, and one of our main goals is to drive traffic to our user’s sites. Sites like http://www.thecaptainsmemos.com/, http://www.swanfungus.com/, and http://cdawgsworld.blogspot.com/ have contributed many lists in order to drive traffic and we are helping to promote their lists. They are just three of the already 300+ bloggers and sites that have contributed their lists. We use Twitter, Facebook, other social networking site, and partnerships to promote their lists.
Creating a list is quite simple. Just visit our site and create an account (http://www.toptentopten.com/access/login), then click “Create a List” button to bring up the list creation screen. Once you have entered all the information, click the “Create List”. You are then asked to categorize your list and indicate if you want it to be votable or not.
You can source your list when you create it, and a link to your site appears at the bottom of the list. A lot of people click on your link because the original source is always better and they may be interested in the topics that your site covers. What we recommend you do is put your url in the description, and make the list votable, so people can change the rank of your items. Votes are really what makes your list and profile on our site more popular. The more popular your list is on our site, the more people see it, and hopefully will visit your site.
If you have any questions or need help please feel free to contact us. Your suggestions and feedback are also greatly appreciated as we want to help you and your site as much as we can.

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toptentopten