Have you ever felt like you were running out of new blog post ideas to write? After writing several posts for the past years, you may feel like you have written about everything that there is to write. You are not alone as a lot of bloggers feel the same way. However, there are actually several ways on how you can write fresh topics on your blog.
10. Read Comments from Your Blogs
Sometimes, you don’t have to search elsewhere to find new blog topics to write. Read the comments posted by readers on your own blog. They may have posted something that you can write about. Some readers may also post questions concerning your blog. You can answer these questions and make them as topics on your posts. This way, readers will become more engaged in reading your entries as the subjects are things that they are interested to know.
9. Check Out Forums
This is one of the best sources of information that you can go to. Find popular forums that talk about the topics that you write about on your blog. Several people join these forums and interact with each other asking questions and posting ideas, answers, information and tips on various subjects. This is like getting fresh ideas from all the people that participate on the forums. If two heads are better than one, this is certainly far better.
8. Read Other Blogs on the Same Niche
Visiting blog sites of other bloggers that write on the same topics as you will be a huge help. You may find subjects that you have not tackled before. Furthermore, you can get their views and ideas and learn various things, which can help widen your knowledge. Check their comment sections as well so you could see the conversation between the writers and the readers. As mentioned, you may get new topics to write from their suggestions, questions and answers.
7. Write New Topics from Old Blogs
After writing hundreds of blogs for the past years, it’s understandable why you might be running out of ideas to write on your blog site. You can make use of the past blogs you wrote as you can get new subjects to write from them. You may use a specific part of a post and expand it to create a new post. For instance, if you wrote about ways on how to promote your brand online and gave several tips; this time you may write about one of those specific tips like joining social media sites. If you have several posts on your archive, you will have huge source of new things to write.
6. Visit Social Bookmarking Sites
Popular social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Reddit and BuzzFeed have thousands of users that post on the said sites everyday. You’ll never run out of great ideas if you visit them as people always have something new to share on these pages. If your blog is about a specific subject, find those that fall under your niche. If you write about random stuffs, then you can get great ideas that you can incorporate on the content of you blog.
5. Share Stories
Every day is a brand new day. Something new happens and you can write about them on your blog. Share entertaining, interesting, inspirational or informative stories, in which your readers can take something from them. They do not have to be your own stories. They can be stories you heard from others or stories you read somewhere else. If you heard a story and you think it’s funny, motivational or it’s something that would be beneficial to others, post it on your blog. People love reading blogs that could make them laugh or something that would inspire them.
4. Take Note of New Topics that Come to Your Mind
It doesn’t matter if you already have new topics to write for the whole week or for the entire month. Keep a note handy, which you can use to list new ideas of topics to write about. Once you’re done writing all your topics for the whole week or month and you run out of ideas, you can use this list to work on your next blog post. There are times that it is hard to think of a certain topic to write. And there are times that your creative juices are just overflowing that you suddenly have so many ideas on what to add on your blog. Do not miss these opportunities. Take note of the ideas quickly so you will not forget them.
3. Create Lists
No, this is different from the list of ideas that you write on your note. This is a way of writing a blog post. A lot of readers love reading lists of various things. This gives them an idea on the best and worst things that fall under a specific category. For instance, you can make a list of the top 10 schools to enroll for business management students or 10 worst movies to watch on Valentine’s Day. This may require some research but this could be very informative and helpful to your readers.
2. Write Reviews
You watch TV shows or movies each day or once in a while. You read books, eat out and use various products and service every day. You can get inspiration from the day to day things you use or do by writing reviews about them and posting on your blog. When writing a review, introduce the subject to your readers. For instance, if you are writing about a specific book, talk about what it is all about including its author, genre and story in general. Next, write the things that you liked about it and things that you did not. The pros and cons should always be included so readers could determine if they would like it or not. Finally, write your verdict. Will you recommend it to your readers or not? And give an explanation why you liked or did not like the book.
1. Write on What’s Hot
Each day there is a new topic that you can write about as there’s always something new on the news. Keep your eyes on what’s trending on various fields including fashion, technology and entertainment. Check out what’s trending on social networking sites like Twitter. This is the easiest way to learn about the latest talk of the town. You may write something about it as readers would be interested to read about the latest craze.
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