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Everytime when we sit down and blog, the most challenging issues will be what topic shall we blog about to make the best out of it.
Choosing a good topic is like having a good headstart in race. Once you have a good headstart, there will be no stopping and most likely to win the race. Thus having a good topic to start with, it will establish your main niche/branding in your blog and attract targetted readers easily.
I’ve come up with some ideas on how you can choose a topic for your blog posts:
- Get ideas from hot selling magazines
- Think of problems you are facing and write a “how-to” post to help your readers
- Be creative – Your readers not only want to read about your successes but they also want to read about how you did it and the ups & downs in it
- Ask your readers – Setup a poll asking them what they wish to read
- Read up your old posts and derive ideas from them
- Check out other blogs and see what popular posts topics are
- Pictures – Sometimes you can find a nice picture and related a good topic with it
- Don’t post just for the sake of posting – A killer
- Be unique – Don’t fully copy other blogs ideas and go with it, add some twists with your unique style
A blog post with no good topic is as good as not having good content with a good topic.
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Looking back at the comments of your readers is also a good way to come up with a blog topic. Bloggers usually faced this problem after 6 months of blogging since there is a limitation to our knowledge and experiences.
Wei Liang
Good post Erwin.
For me the best topic ideas come up when I am doing totally something different. For example I get the best article or blog ideas when I am out drinking beer with my friends or watching Baywatch. But when I am really dedicating my time for brainstorming – nothing good comes up, really weird. I guess we just can’t understand how our mind works.
Happy holidays,
The Moneyac
An RSS Reader full of blogs in your similiar niche can also spark ideas
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too – keep up the great work!
Nice post. It’s also important to make note of all the ideas you get from different sources and have a plan to write posts about all of the different ideas over a period. The best is to have a schedule, write and publish posts based on the schedule.