This post is part 3 of how to set up a blog series. In part 1, we looked at how to set up a blog for free, in Part 2 of the series, we looked at how to start thinking about blog content. In this part 3, we will look at how to brain storm on what to write on your blog. Check out: Start Blogging: Step by Step Guide
See previous post of the series: How to start Blogging Part 2: Content
Part 3 – What To Write
Face the fact – your blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership! Hence, you must always find fresh topics to write about, and we’re going to discuss how to do just that in this article. I know this from an experience that when I regularly update my blog, my readership increases, when I get busy and stop writing my visitors slows down too, as everyone wants to read new materials right?
We have discussed how to write attractively or at least that people may have interest in Part 2 of the series, so now we are going to discuss what we are going to write on. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as your mundane job! I tried to write once about “getting your ex back”, as it seems to be very lucrative niche subject, but I clearly did not believe in nor I had a passion for as I really believe that real love does not require tricks and ebooks to sell. I rather stick to things I know a little about and have passion for. Blogging and sustaining my financial life working from home is something I believe in, and share my learning here in blog.
Choose you niche or subject:
The other reason I ask you to write about something you’re passionate about is because your feelings and emotion shows through your writings! If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it. Remember the advice about writing with a personality? Forcing yourself to write will not establish a welcoming style at all.
Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and make it a habit to post at least once every day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!
However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm for content for your blog.
What To Write On Your Blog:
1) The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com. There are other decent search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog!
2) Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite an inexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com.
3) You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join forums related to your niche, but don’t join every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.
How Often To Write:
Remember to keep up your momentum of posting at least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content everyday. Now, Ideally, that does not work for someone who works full time or has kids like me, so I try to write 2-3 times a week or as often as I can on the blog. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence gaining you extra traffic.
Don’t worry about the paragraph above about generating traffic and search engines, because we’re going to talk about that in more detail later. For now, remember to keep a consistent effort everyday and build up momentum like that of a locomotive!
Stay Tuned for next part 4 of How to start a blog series. How to Set Up Blog:Part 4:On Page SEO
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