Starting a Blog from Scratch | Part Two
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Powerful Lessons on Starting a Blog!
Starting a blog is fairly simple, but keeping your blog interesting and fresh is a whole different ball game.
While many internet marketers have no trouble starting a niche blog, the number of abandoned blogs around the internet speaks to the fact that many internet marketers don’t know what to do to keep a blog going.
According to the blogging experts, the key to keeping a blog going is to post content frequently. This means that you’re going to need a stream of content coming into your blog.
You may be frightened by the thought of having to come up with lots of topic ideas. But brainstorming topic ideas for your blog posts are easy if you follow my ideas when starting a blog.
Starting a Blog Content Ideas
Current News in Your Niche
Your blog should be timely and there’s no better way to attract attention to your blog than by tapping into some ongoing news. No matter what your niche is, you can find news stories and breaking information that will help you with blog posts.
Sign up for Google Alerts (it’s free) and set up alerts on important keywords in your niche. This way you’ll be able to see the news in your niche and blog about current topics.
Your Blogs Comments Section
The comments section in your blog can be a great source of writing inspiration. Let’s say you have a post on your marketing blog about keyword research. Within the comments section, a few people start asking about how to use keywords in articles for article marketing.
BAM! You have your next blog post. Look through your comments section to identify topics that you can write about or questions you can answer in the form of a blog post.
Resource Lists
Are there some websites or other resources that your niche needs to know about? Write a few resource list posts. Resource lists posts are very easy to write and they provide maximum value to your readers because they can get the information that they need easily. When you can’t think of anything else to write about you can pull together a helpful list for your readers.
Other Blogs in Your Niche
Keep your finger on the pulse of your niche. Watch other blogs in your niche and see what they are writing about. You can take a different angle on the same topic, or cover an area of the topic that the original author missed. If you disagree with the author, feel free to go ahead and express your opinion on your blog.
Other bloggers can be a great source of information so be sure to get involved in the community.
Quick Tips
Start collecting a list of quick tips you’d like to share with your niche. These can be inspired by your personal experience with the niche, from other blog posts you’ve read or from other products in your niche. When you find yourself stuck for blog post ideas, you can write a quick tips post.
Starting a Blog
These starting a blog content tips just scratch the surface of where you can find topic ideas for your blog posts. I keep a notepad file with blog post ideas and I never am at a loss for material. I suggest you do the same as it is a big help when your stuck about what to write about.
That’s it for today’s part two to starting a blog. In my next blog post “Starting a Blog from Scratch | Part Three, I will talk about the different types of blog posts that you can use on your blog.