101 Great Posting Ideas That Will
Make Your Blog Sizzle
Great posts are hard to do consistently on a day-to-day basis.
Probloggers really have to work at it. I thought about all the
different ways and angles a blogger can approach choosing
posting topics. Here are 101 different ideas that I think
are great to stimulate your mind and jump start
your blogging.
- Brainstorm by matching up your readers wants and needs using the Visitor Grid method of brainstorming.
- Write a post by examining the pros and cons of an issue.
- Write a tutorial.
- Do an interview with key people in your niche.
- Create a mock head-to-head competition like what Daniel did.
- Do a case study like what Read/Write Web did with the hot topics on Technorati 100.
- Take an alternate position.
- Write a long comment.
- Pick a topic by reading business book titles.
- Research a topic by doing research on Amazon.com.
- Drill down on a topic using Ask.com’s search feature.
- Do a post that answers your readers’ questions.
- Create a comprehensive list.
- Create flagship content.
- Interview controversial people in your niche.
- Post about current events in your niche.
- Invite your readers to submit articles.
- Instead of exchanging links, get together with other bloggers and review each others’ blogs.
- Connect with bloggers around your same level and share ideas.
- Do a “speedlinking” post.
- Post about posts made by others in your My Blog Log community.
- Be opinionated in your post.
- Turn off the nofollow attribute to encourage comments.
- Do a “tag” post and have other bloggers who are tagged add to a list.
- Do an “IM” PPC campaign and then post about the results.
- Be a guest blogger and share ideas with new readers.
- Review your statistics to see what keywords referred your visitors to your site and post about those.
- Answer your readers’ questions with more questions (i.e., have you thought about…?).
- Contrast two or more positions in a post.
- Make a post that solves a problem.
- Make a post that is inspirational.
- Make a satirical post.
- Write a series of posts.
- Post your research findings.
- Post an “advantages/disadvantages” post.
- Update an old post for new ideas/findings.
- Link ideas from different genres in your posts (e.g., Celebrities and the gadgets they own).
- Debunk a myth in your post.
- Make a post for beginners.
- Make a post for advanced readers.
- Invite experts to comment on your post.
- Ask your readers to Digg your best posts.
- Change up your posting style (e.g., tutorial, reviews, etc.).
- Write a funny post.
- Create a huge list of your best posts.
- Add to a list started by another blogger.
- Create a mission statement for your blog.
- Make a post simplifying a complex problem for your readers.
- Create a guide for your niche.
- Make a post turning a negative into a positive through humor ( e.g., tell a joke: “My parents tell me I’m autistic. I tell them they have an attitude problem.”).
- Browse through a thesaurus and see if synonyms help spark ideas for your posts.
- Respond to criticism in a post (e.g., respond to the Wall Street Journal’s criticism of bloggers).
- Write a post like you are telling a story.
- Spruce up your posts with pictures.
- Post about frequently asked questions in your niche.
- Pose a rhetorical question in your post.
- Post about what’s popular and why it’s beneficial ( e.g., “Twitter” for tech blogs).
- Pose a hypothesis and conclusion in your post.
- Support your post with related post links.
- Make a [blank] for dummies post.
- Post a picture that speaks a thousand words.
- Buy a how-to book from a bookstore and use some of the ideas from that book to generate ideas for posting (e.g., a book about Photoshop).
- Look at the archives of your niche competitors and see if any of their old posts can be expanded in an “update” post on your blog.
- Post with a personality (e.g., John Chow is evil).
- Write about how to do something more efficiently in your niche.
- Write about generally unknown secrets in your niche.
- Write about how to use a product in an unconventional way.
- Do a post transcribing live events (e.g., Macworld conference).
- Dissect an argument in a post.
- Make a post summarizing someone else’s post.
- Make a post about how things have changed from the past.
- Make a post that expands on someone else’s post.
- Create a post that incorporates the words, “desperate” and “futile”.
- Make a post alleging a conspiracy (e.g., Is there a Digg Bury Brigade?).
- Make a post that encourages visitors to subscribe by offering a reward.
- Make a post that involves New York City, London, San Francisco or Sydney. For example, review a local business like this one about New York movers.
- Make a post that incorporates in the title the word “crossover”.
- Create a post that utilizes a bar chart or pie chart.
- Create a post that has a cliff hanger to be answered in a later post.
- Make a post about pitfalls in your niche.
- Participate in a reciprocal guest blogging scheme where you blog on someone else’s blog and that other person blogs on your blog.
- Do a paid posting targeted to your readers.
- Profile the competition in your niche.
- Post linkbait.
- Make a post about your fellow bloggers’ top posts.
- Make a post about your most popular posts.
- Read some sports (or other genre) magazines and incorporate some of the writing styles in your posts.
- Write a post that pinpoints similarities and differences.
- Write a post giving a free recommendation.
- Write a post about something that is merely “good” but not “great”.
- Write a post about a hack for your niche.
- Make a post that constructively criticizes someone else’s post.
- Run a poll and post the results of that poll.
- Ask your loyal readers to email you links to their best resources and make a post about what you found.
- Write only about a particular theme for a week.
- Designate each day of the week as a theme day where you will always post about a particular topic on that day.
- Review your blog’s (weekly, monthly, yearly) performance and post the results.
- Write an “attack” post by setting up an argument and then shooting it down.
- Combine some of your best posts from your archives into a new series.
- Hold a conference via blog posts.
- Make a “101 ideas” post.
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