How to Brainstorm Blog Post Topics in Minutes!
One of the most common problems that bloggers deal with is having to come up with fresh ideas for their blog posts.
Initially, when a blog is new, there are tons of topics you can cover.
However, over time, once you’ve covered most of the pertinent issues related to your niche, you may experience a lack of ideas.
You may feel like you’ve said it all and done it all as far as your blog is concerned.
The truth of the matter is that coming up with new blog post ideas doesn’t need to be a chore.
You can generate ideas in minutes just by applying the tips below.
Let’s get started.
Use an “ideas generator.”
Just go to Google.com and search for “blog ideas generator.”
You’ll be presented with search results pointing to several idea generators you can use.
For example, a quick search revealed WebFX’s Blog Ideas Generator.
For example, if you are in the back pain niche, then put “back pain” in there.
Here are some results that came up for me:
- Everything I Learned About Back Pain, I Learned From…
- 32 Common Myths About Back Pain
- When Back Pain Goes Wrong
- Ultimate guide to Back Pain
- 35 Harsh Realities of Back Pain
While not every suggestion will be suitable, many of them will be useful.
Then it’s just a matter of slanting and writing an article based on these ideas.
Save money, time and energy
Write a blog post showing your readers how to save time, money, or energy.
Most niches will have opportunities for you to do this.
If you’re in the survival niche, you can show your readers how to save money and get inexpensive survival supplies in bulk (save money).
If you’re in the parenting niche, you can share tips on how parents can put their infants to sleep faster (save time).
If you’re in the online marketing niche, you can explain to your audience how to be more productive and increase sales with less effort (save energy).
Think of ways you can help your reader in these three areas, and you’ll always have ideas for new blog posts.
Create a checklist
People love checklists because they simplify processes and are easy to follow.
Whichever niche you’re in, ask yourself what the people in your niche normally do.
Now create a checklist that they can easily follow to get the job done in record time without missing anything.
For example, if you’re in the weight loss niche, a checklist of compound exercises to do for each workout or a checklist of foods to avoid will be incredibly useful for your readers.
Highlight a problem and show how to overcome it
People often go online to find information that helps them solve their problems.
Use AnswerThePublic to discover what questions people in your niche are asking.
Do you see any common problems there?
If you don’t, you can always use an awesome keyword research tool like SEMrush to do some keyword research and look for popular search terms that indicate problems your niche audience has.
Once you’ve made a list of problems to cover, it’s time to create detailed blog posts showing your readers how to solve these problematic issues.
There will always be a myriad of problems in most niches.
As long as you can keep finding out what these are, you’ll never run short of ideas.
Product reviews and product comparisons
Most bloggers want their blogs to be popular and make money.
One of the best ways to do this will be to review and promote affiliate products.
Amazon and other marketplaces such as ClickBank, Commission Junction, SellHealth, Zazzle, Rakuten, etc. have thousands of products you can promote.
As long as the products are relevant to your niche, you can review them.
Be informative, entertaining, and honest in your reviews.
Avoid being salesy, or you’ll put off your readers.
Since there are constantly new products being released, you can have new posts on your blog reviewing and comparing the latest and hottest products in your niche.
And even make affiliate sales from your posts.
Focus on what’s trending
Look for the latest news articles relevant to your niche and write a blog post with your take on the topics.
Sharing your insights will not only position you as an authority, but if a topic is new, your blog posts may also rank in the search engines for the related trending search terms.
This can cause an avalanche of traffic to your site.
Google loves a site that gets lots of traffic and will reward you with better search results, provided you have a low bounce rate.
Controversial issues make for excellent discussions, and you can even ask your readers to leave their comments.
By engaging them in discussion, they’ll not only be more “loyal” to your blog, but they’ll keep returning to it to monitor the discussion.
Whatever the case, you’ll have lots of up-to-date ideas for your blog posts.
What would you do?
A very common and popular type of social media post is this statement:
“If I had to start from scratch, this is what I’d do!”
This type of post works very well for niches such as weight loss, dating, business, etc.
Anytime there’s a goal and a journey involved, you can bet mistakes will be made by those who are trying to find a way to succeed.
Most people want to avoid the common pitfalls so that they can achieve their goals faster and without disappointment.
If you can show them what you’d do based on your experience now, your post will be warmly received.
Talk about the mistakes you made in the past and how you’d do things better now.
For example, if you’re in the weight loss niche, you may mention how doing steady-state cardio for hours every week is pointless.
And you got better results by doing short, high-intensity interval training workouts.
You may also mention how consuming one carb meal every three days kept your spirits and energy levels up while you still burned off fat like a furnace.
Your readers will appreciate your candid honesty and benefit from your advice while applying it to their own journey.
This is an excellent type of post you should include on your blog.
By now, you’ll realize that coming up with ideas for your blog is easy if you know where to look.
Very often, people try brainstorming on their own without looking for inspiration from other sources.
Even just visiting Amazon and looking at the contents pages of books in your niche will give you tons of blog post ideas.
You must get out of your own head and look for topics in existing books, websites, videos, etc.
When you have these, you’ll be able to find slants in the topics and approach them from your own unique angle.
That’s how you conjure up an endless supply of blog post ideas for your site.
Get inspired and get to work.
