Blogging: 5 Tips for Creating Ideas for Blog Posts

Some days you will have heaps of ideas for posts to your blog and other days you will feel like you are are running out of ideas on what to blog about. How do you come up with ideas for topics to blog about?

These are five tips to help you create blog post ideas.

1. Write Sequels to Your Hot Blog Posts.

These are the blog posts I consider hot. If you have posts with many comments you should have been acknowledging those comments by commenting yourself with more information on the subject and answers to any questions asked. You can gather all the information you have and create a sequel to your original post. Although it may seem like you're repeating yourself, your new post could bring in new visitors to your original post that would not have read it.

If you have posts with lots of visitors then these are also hot posts. You should consider expanding on the original post with another blog entry with more information on this hot topic.

2. Questions in Comments.

Read through all your blog comments again and see if there are any questions or comments that you could use to write a post to expand on these comments or answer any questions raised in a more comprehensive way. The fact that people have raised these issues in comments to your blog indicate that you visitors would like to know more about them. Did you find any new information recently about these topics? Write a blog post about these topics if you have.

3. Freebies.

People love freebies especially something unique or original. Gather all of your posts about www.reneejeannemignard.net a topic and make a report. Next write a post giving this report away for free to anyone who reads your blog post. Monitor the traffic to this post and if it proves to be a success then repeat the idea every few months. Do not forget to add links to your website and products in the report to generate more traffic to your site.

4. Expand on an existing post.

Have you written something that you are passionate about and have more information or updates on the topic? These are the things you can use to create a blog post. It doesn't matter how much information you have, it is likely that you will soon have a blog post that you love.

5. Ask Your Visitors for Suggestions.

It is your visitors that read your posts, so why not ask them questions or give suggestions for blog posts. Send an email to your list to ask them what topics they'd like to see on your blog. Also consider getting your readers to fill in a simple survey and to add their comments and questions. You can use this information to form the basis of future posts.