My 50 Blogging Ideas

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Willie Plasencia in Blogging

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50 blogging ideas.

Coming up with fresh, new content and publishing new posts frequently – twice a week at the very least – just to keep your readers interest along with  earning some search engine love is no easy task.

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 want to make more money from your blog, Blogger’s Paycheck shows you how to make passive income from your blog without spending all day at it.

50 blogging ideas.

1. Special events

Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day, or holiday.

2. News

Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.

3. Book review

Write about a book that inspired y0u or relates to your blog’s theme.

4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.

Leave comments and add additional value onto other blogs.

5. Blog about milestones

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 any 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. Interviews

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.

Dedicated to your success!

Willie Plasencia

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