How to Choose Blog Topics for Your Next Post
Blogging has grown from the weblog of a person looking to journal regularly to an income opportunity and a how-to resource for families all over the world. With all that change comes a lot of work, for instance you want to decide where you are hosted, do you go with free or do you pay? Should you look into professional web design? Since blogging has become wildly popular, the average blogger may struggle on how to choose their next blog tropic to write about. Brainstorming creative content to get your audience to be engaged can be overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be with these tips on how to choose blog topics for your next blog post.
- Know your Audience – plugins for self-hosted WordPress such as Jetpack are full of useful tools to analyse what your audience is doing. Jetpack helps you see what is bringing readers to your blog, what they are clicking on when during their visit and where you are getting the most return on effort with promotion on social media. Learn to use Jetpack to your benefit – analyse data, figure out what readers are clicking on, start writing blog topics based on what readers are clicking on.
- Research Trending Topics – using tools like SocialMention help you to analyse what topics are trending in social media. Learning to choose blog topics for your next post using data from trending topics on social media will boost your traffic and in turn add value to your blog. Additional tools to use: Reddit, Keyhole and Google Trends.
- Solve a Problem – think about your audience and what they are clicking when on your blog, what topics are popular with your audience from past posts? Can you add more value to the current content? Can you continue to solve a problem or answer how to for a reader? Determine what relevant content you can write that solves a problem for the average consumer and you will have your next blog post idea ready.
- Create Lists – lists are super popular because adults seem to have a short attention span, sadly they don’t want to read a long winded blog post. Your audience is coming to you to read, learn something new and move on. Think about life hacks, popular products or something you can teach your readers using a list format.
Coming up with new blog post ideas can be difficult, especially if you run multiple blogs, but it doesn’t have to be impossible. When you learn to use the tips laid out in this article regularly and efficiently you will start to have your next blog post idea in no time.
What is your top tip on coming up with blog topics?
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Great blog, I think it’s important to know your audience so you can put together blogs that will interest your audience and create more interest in your blogs 🙂
no doubt content is the most important part of blog. so you showed the best way. thanks
I think choosing the next blog topic is always going to be a huge task ahead every time and these are some great ideas to get the best out of it. To me knowing your audience and reacting accordingly will help the most.
This is such a brilliant post filled with tons of nuggets and wisdom. Content, content, content its what drives any successful blog.
I am so thankful I don’t get writers block very often! I do carry a notepad with me every where so I can make notes as things come to me for blog post ideas!
Definitely great tips here! I struggle find things to write about sometimes, and usually it just leaves me with lack of posts!
It can be so hard sometimes, I’ve just popped a notebook by the sofa which I’m hoping will help me. x
Great advice! It’s crazy how if you pay attention to trending topics then write about one… yournpost sill do so well!!!
It is amazing isn’t it – sometimes you just need to write what everyone else is 😉 x
Great tips, I got in and out of feeling I had nothing to blog about. I will use these tips the next time around, for sure.
I really hope it helps you next time you are a bit stuck! x
Thanks for the tips! It really takes a good measuring stick to judge your audience. You can really alienate your readers with something that is way off topic or not interesting.
I think sometimes it is hard working out exactly what you should be writing -sometimes I am amazed by what posts do the best. x
I really struggle with writers block sometimes. But like you say, writing a post that solves a problem is key.
It is awful when it is hits isn’t it – it is often like nothing will get rid of it. x
It’s not always easy to come up with topics to post especially if you post often. I think these are definitely going to help. It’s good to find out what’s trending, it’s a great way to practice SEO.
Great tips, thank you 😀 I’ll take these on board. I wonder if theres any plug ins for blogger xxx
Sadly I don’t think there is – it’s one reason I like wordpress so much, so many things you can do with plugins. x