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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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What Are You Blogging About Today?
- Write reviews of physical products
- Review infoproducts
- Review software
- Review books
- Review magazines
- Review (and critique) other blogs in your niche
- Review websites (that aren’t blogs) in your niche
- List things learned from a book
- Write out things learned from a magazine
- Make a list of your favorite niche-related quotes
- Create specific, step-by-step how-to posts (like how to install WordPress)
- Create more general how-to posts (like how to make it through college)
- Explain the best way to buy things in your niche (like buying new vs. used, things to keep in mind when buying X, etc.)
- Share where to buy things in your niche (recommended online stores that have the best prices)
- Create a beginner’s guide to something
- Rant about something that really rubs you the wrong way
- Write a post elucidating the pros and cons of something
- Create an infographic (my infographic course should be good to go by the end of February, btw)
- Make charts and graphs
- Shoot your own videos
- Embed other people’s videos from YouTube or Vimeo
- Write about case studies that other people have done
- Conduct your own research or case study
- Link to your favorite blogs or websites
- Compile a list of online tools that people in your niche can use
- List related and relevant forums
- Write a Things You Don’t Know About Me post
- Write about how to improve a skill that people want to improve
- Write about some appropriate goals to set in your particular niche
- Release your own free ebooks
- Create a list of other people’s free ebooks
- Make a huge list of something (like this one)
- Have someone write a guest post for your blog
- Explain things you wish you had known or done differently
- Make a note to your future self
- Let your readers know how to make money doing whatever you’re blogging about
- Research some little-known facts relating to something or someone in your niche
- Unveil features of software that most people aren’t aware of
- Write about the history of _____
- Express your opinion about a recent news event or practice
- Predict the future of something (a blog, a company, etc.) or someone (a blogger, a celebrity, an authority in your niche, etc.)
- Interview leaders and influencers in your niche
- Interview Average Joes in your niche
- Write about common misconceptions that people outside of your niche community have
- Write about common misconceptions that exist within your niche community
- Create profiles of companies in your niche
- Profile famous people in your niche (do your research and write a short biography)
- Email someone a list of questions and post the questions along with the answers
- Ask your readers a specific question about something
- Ask your readers for general feedback about your blog
- Conduct polls
- Play the devil’s advocate on a particular issue
- Write about your own journey in your particular niche (how you got started, etc.)
- Write about where your blog was or what you posted 1, 2, or X number of years ago.
- Write about where you’d like your blog to be in the future
- Write about where you were (with regards to your niche) 1, 2, or X number of years ago
- Write about where you’d like to be (with regards to your niche) in the future
- Write about where you see your niche in the future
- Share your specific goals and how you plan to achieve them
- Pick a problem that you see and postulate how it could be fixed
- Do a collaborative post where you ask a few (or several?) other bloggers their take on something
- Write about a movie that is related to your niche (maybe including what they got wrong in the movie or what you learned from it)
- Use analogies to tie your topic to something seemingly unrelated
- Ask your significant other to write for your blog
- Write about the challenges of blogging in your particular area of expertise or niche
- Share some tips for blogging in your particular area of expertise or niche
- Make a list of your favorite blogs
- Explain what NOT to do in your niche
- Write about great podcasts to listen to that relate to your niche
- Run a contest on your blog
- Write about how to use Twitter and Facebook, but apply it to people in your niche. If you blog about rock climbing for example, you could write about how you can find climbing partners through Twitter or Facebook.
- Write a parody or satire post
- Compile a list of the best niche-related jokes
- Draw a picture or comic
- Write a best-of posts for a certain period of time (like the best social media blogs of the past week or of 2010, etc.)
- Break some news
- Links to other recent or especially relevant blog posts
- Write a poem
- Conduct a survey
- Write about your favorite books in your niche (and link to them on Amazon so you can get a commission)
- Showcase the best comments that you receive
- Write a post around a particularly good or controversial comment
- Create a post of your favorite images. They could be funny, inspiring, odd, etc.
- Create a comprehensive list of the best blog posts or articles around a certain topic
- Write about a hypothetical situation and what would happen or how you’d react if that occurred (like if Twitter died or if you broke your leg and couldn’t go mountain biking)
- Write out your guest post guidelines
- Make a list of great people to follow on Twitter
- Compile a list of frequently asked questions
- Write about how NOT to do something
- Explain how to do something in your niche faster
- Talk about your personal experiences as far as they relate to your blog and niche (like how having a baby made you a more responsible whitewater kayaker)
- Write a 10 commandments of or 7 deadly sins of or 5 pillars of post (or something else that’s similar)
- Write a manifesto
- Provide templates of some kind (like sample Excel spreadsheet budgets if you’ve got a personal finance blog or road trip planner if you’ve got a travel blog)
- List your best blog posts
- List your worst blog posts
- Link to interesting patents related to your niche (check out Google Patents for that)
- Take someone else’s blog post title and, without reading the post, write your own post. Feel free to change the title once you’re done.
- Write an article in response to someone else’s post
- Talk about the ideal skillset to have in your niche
- Write about what you’d do with $1000 (or some other amount) if you HAD to spend it on something related to your niche.
Several more ideas were suggested by some people in the comments:
102. Write about how much money you made from doing whatever it is you’re doing in your niche (Thanks James!)
103. Show how much traffic your blog has been getting and analyze why that’s been the case (Thanks James!)
104. Talk about a problem you’ve experienced recently and how you overcame it (Thanks Jens!)
105. Deconstruct a video or article and explain why it works or why it doesn’t (Thanks Paul!)
106. Write some fiction! (Thanks Mon!)
107. Write what your life would be like if you lived in a different time period/country/reality (Thanks Nechama!)
108. Focus on the negative aspects of a particular niche (Thanks Jason!)
103. Show how much traffic your blog has been getting and analyze why that’s been the case (Thanks James!)
104. Talk about a problem you’ve experienced recently and how you overcame it (Thanks Jens!)
105. Deconstruct a video or article and explain why it works or why it doesn’t (Thanks Paul!)
106. Write some fiction! (Thanks Mon!)
107. Write what your life would be like if you lived in a different time period/country/reality (Thanks Nechama!)
108. Focus on the negative aspects of a particular niche (Thanks Jason!)
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