3 Reasons Why You Should Be Wary of Listicles

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There is a lot of writing advice out there that encourages writers to use numbers in the title of their articles, creating what is called a “listicle”. For example, this piece that in Better Marketing provides 6 reasons to use numbers in your title:

1. It makes the article sound authoritative