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!
