What Should I Blog About? 50 Ideas to Get You Started
What’s the hardest thing about blogging? Coming up with fresh, new content! And you have to publish new posts frequently - twice a week at the very least - to keep readers interested and earn search engine love.
If you’re feeling stuck, here is a list of 50 blogging ideas that are sure to inspire you to come up with new content for your blog. Most of the ideas can be used more than once, so you won’t run out of blog posts for months to come.
(And by the way, if you’re looking for ideas AND want to make money from them, sign up for the Blogger’s Paycheck course)
1. Special events - Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.
2. News - Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.
3. Book review.
4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.
5. Blog milestone - Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment….
6. Niche heroes -Blog about a person who made a positive contribution in your niche.
7. Blog memes - Join in blog memes such as “Wordless Wednesday”. There’s at least one for every day of the week!
8. Product review - An excellent way to work in some affiliate links.
9. FAQs in your niche - Write a short Q & A based on FAQs about your niche.
10. Blog comment response - Write a long and expanded response to a comment on your blog.
11. Predict trends - What do you see happening in your niche in a year? 5 years?
12. Historical view - What was your niche in the past? Or what past event influenced your niche?
13. Top tips on a topic of interest to your readers
14. Best of… - A good year ender, make a list of your best posts for the year.
15. Contests - Organize a contest for your blog readers, or make a list of contests your readers can join.
16. What I learned from… a current event, a person you met, or an experience you had.
17. Definitions - Define terms that are commonly used in your niche but a beginner may not understand
18. New products - Not a review but simply an announcement of a new product relevant to your niche. This is another good opportunity to drop in some affiliate links.
19. Biggest problem - Ask your readers what their biggest problem is about your blog topic or niche. They post their answers in the comments section.
20. Biggest problem follow-up - Summarize the comments from #19 in another post.
21. Biggest problem follow-up series - Write a separate blog post tackling each question from #19.
22. Interview somebody knowledgeable in your niche, or has succeeded in it, or is otherwise interesting to your readers.
23. Big list - Compile a big list of various resources, just like this one. The bigger the better!
24. Reader Survey - Put up a brief survey online and blog about the results.
25. Be provocative. Challenge a common belief or widely accepted idea in your niche.
26. New idea - What new idea about your blog topic or niche have you come across lately?
27. YouTube - Embed a funny, moving or insightful video on YouTube. You can even have a “video day” once a week.
28. YouTube version 2 - Make YOUR own YouTube video. Publish it on YouTube then embed on your blog. This way, you can attract traffic from YouTube to your blog.
29. Freebie - Scour the ‘net for freebies that your readers will love. Or create a freebie of your own, such as a checklist or special report.
30. Personal story - Use a personal story to illustrate an important concept or principle in your niche.
31. Free to publish articles - Check out relevant articles in article directories such as Ezine Articles… but don’t publish them entirely on your blog. Instead, use an article or a group of articles as your take-off point for a blog post, or several.
32. Link love - This is a post with links to other blogs. Some bloggers set aside one day a week to publish a list of the best blog posts on their topic.
33. Photo - A picture is worth thousand words, right? Search Flickr for creative commons pictures that your readers will like.
34. Hot topics - Look at Digg for hot topics in your niche
35. Pros and cons - Examine what’s good and bad about something related to your blog topic
36. Respond to relevant questions you find in Ask.com
37. Guest post - Invite another blogger to write a guest post for your blog
38. Reader’s post - Invite blog subscribers to submit an article or post to be published on the blog
39. Inspirational post - Write a motivational post for your readers.
40. Update an old post with fresh ideas, new learnings and current research findings.
41. Beginner’s guide - What do beginners in your niche struggle with? Write a post to guide them through it.
42. Best list - Patterned after “best dressed lists” make a list of the best ___ in your niche.
43. Worst list - Make your version of the “worst dressed list” for your niche.
44. New uses for - Think of new ways your readers can use gadgets and other stuff.
45. Write about a live event that you attended and what you learned from it.
46. Bribe post - Bribe your readers with a freebie in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter or RSS feed.
47. Around the world - Compare how people in different countries do something related to your niche.
48. Seasonal - Relate the month or season to your blog topic.
49. Blog carnival - Join or host a blog carnival, where several publish posts about the same topic on the same day.
50. Host a virtual “conference” on your blog - Invite “speakers” to publish their post on a specified date and time. Q&A happens in the comments section.
Now that you’ve got a steady flow of fresh content, how do you actually make money from your blog? Visit Blogger’s Paycheck for a step-by-step guide on blogging for profit.
December 8, 2008
How Do I Use Photos on My Blog? - Free Q&A Download
If you’ve wanted to share photos on your blog, but you weren’t sure how or don’t feel confident in your photography skills…here’s a great guide to help you get started.
This free guide covers:
- Benefits of using photos on your blog.
- 9 ideas for adding photos to your blog.
- How to add & position photos on your Blogger Blog.
- How to add & position photos on your WordPress blog.
- Answers 20 common digital photography questions.
Some of the questions answered include (from beginner to advanced):
- How to decide on the right digital camera.
- How to decide is a picture is worth taking.
- Advantages/disadvantages of raw vs. Jpeg format photographs.
- What are the best settings for low light/nighttime conditions?
- What is hyperfocal distance?
- Time lag from the time you take a picture until it is on the memory card.
- How to avoid redeye in dim light.
- Small object close up pictures.
- How to take pictures into the sun and avoid lens flare.
…and more.
Get the answers by downloading your free 35-page guide:
Click here to get yours (PDF)
(By the way, you can brand this guide and distribute it yourself by clicking here)
How Do I Start a Blog to make money?
Q; How do I start a blog to make money?
A: It’s not too complicated, but there are a few steps to follow and choices to make. Here is a step-by-step 16-page guide to setting up and making money from your blog. It covers everything from how you can make money, setting up your blog, software to use, tracking your traffic and maximizing your results.
This one is put together by John Yeo, a part-time blogger who earns a few thousand dollars per month from his blog:
Click here to download it for free (PDF)
Free Download: How Do I Get Traffic to My Blog?
It’s a question a lot of bloggers want the answer to. How DO you get traffic to your blog?
Lynette Chandler has a free guide that gives you “18 Traffic Generating Blog Activities You Can Do Right Away“. It’s a quick 6-page guide with practical ideas to bring to your blog to attract attention and drive more traffic.
As always, another handy-dandy tool from Lynette. 
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