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.
We have discussed how to write attractively, 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!
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.
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 unexhaustible “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.
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. 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!
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!
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