Are You Drying Up On Ideas?

by Steve Remington

If so… here is a list of ideas for your next blog post…. Just pick one and go with it…

Interviews – Contact someone and ask them a few questions.

How-to – Tell others how to do something.

Tell a personal story – People always love a personal touch. Tell others how that big buck got away.

Report News – Report on some current events happening and provide some commentary.

Cover Pros and Cons of an Issue – Pick a controversial issue and make a list of the pros and cons.

Do a Case Study – Choose an issue and provide all sides. This might be good to do in a series of posts.

Take An Alternative Position – Play devil’s advocate.

Write a Long Follow Up Comment in the form of a new post – Answer a commenter’s question from a previous post by creating a new post. Make sure to link back to it.

Research a topic – Become an expert on a specific topic. Do some research and report your findings.

Create a Top 10 List – Provide a list of the top 10 ways to do something.

Create a List – Create a list… not necessarily 10 of them.

Invite Readers to Guest Post – Declare a week in the near future where you will be posting only guest posts. This will give you some time off from writing but will allow your blog to be updated with new content during that time.

Speedlinking/Roundup – Link to several other blogs in the blogosphere.

Talk about statistics and highlight your visitors – Clue others in on some of your site statistics if you wish to share. Highlight and link to your top referring sites.

Ask a question – Ask your readers what they think.

Solve a problem – Find a problem and provide a solution on how to fix it.

Inspirational post/Uplifting – Talk about an inspirational story. Maybe you took a child hunting for the first time. People like to read about uplifting things.

Poetry – Write a song or poetry.

Create an Image – Play around in photoshop and create images that are unique. Make sure to embed your blog’s link in the bottom corner in case the image goes viral all over the Internet.

Tell a joke – Take time to write out something funny… Feel free to leave off the cutline for 24 hours.

Post a Recipe – People like to cook. Post up a recipe you have tried in the past.

Write a series – Write a series of posts over the next few days. Have at least 3 parts to it.

Update an old post with new news – Find an old post and update it with current news in the form of a new post. Make sure to link from the old to the new and from the new to the old.

Add to a list started by another blogger – Maybe another blogger made a list. Link to it and add 10 new things that could be added to it.

Respond to criticism – Have you been criticized? Respond to it.

Write a FAQ about your niche – Provide your blog with a FAQ page.

Post a picture that speaks a thousand words – Post an image.

Write about a book you are reading – Are you reading a book? Spend time talking about your book.

Run a contest/Offer Award – Run a contest of some sort. Feel free to offer an award.

Highlight your most popular posts – Go back through your old posts and pick out the ones you feel are the most popular ones and create a new post linking back to them.

Run a poll and post the results of that poll – Run a poll.

Write only about a particular theme for a week – Pick a theme and stick to it all week.

Do you have an other ideas?