What to Do if You Have a Tough Time Choosing Blog Post Topics
(Updated 10–3–2022)
Finding blogging topics seems like a serious challenge crippling most bloggers.
But unless you dissolve this block you will have a horrible time being a successful blogger. Pros need to blog persistently.
Almost all bloggers slam into writer’s block sometimes.
I suffer from writer’s block here and there. Sitting with the block feels frustrating. But if you see the blogging journey through you better learn how to locate blog post ideas.
Choosing blog topics allows you to be prolific, generous and successful.
Blogging is a marathon not a sprint. Pros publish detailed content on a wide range of topics from within their niche over a long time. Most bloggers struggle, fail and quit before going pro because blog post ideas seem evasive or scarce. However, only abundance exists. Shortages do not exist even if the ego tries to engineer writer’s block.
Being prolific is a skill. Tightening your blogging niche and listening closely to readers (and blogging leaders from your niche) are two tactics for increasing your prolific nature.
Specialists and careful listeners never run out of things to blog about.
Follow these tips to foster an endless flow of blog post topics.
1: Tighten Your?Niche
I recall back in the day. I covered many topics with my old blog. Not being able to narrow things down confused me. Feeling confused created writer’s block. Slamming into writer’s block stopped the topic generation process.
Imagine being in a diner with 300 menu options. Perhaps it feels abundant to have uber options when picking dinner but not so when trying to snag blog post ideas.
Narrow things down. Tighten your niche. Blog on a single topic. Specializing adds clarity to your thinking process. Thinking clearly lets you pick blog post topics with increasing ease.
Clarity is everything in blogging. Clear bloggers do things with greater ease. Even if blogging feels uncomfortable or flat out scary sometimes, getting clear dissolves resistance on your blogging journey.
Pick one niche. The world loves specialists. The world does not love generalists too much. People go to doctors for medical assistance. People do not seek out medical advice from folks who quote Web MD, deliver the mail and run a part time massage business on the side. Do one thing. Do it well. Access an unlimited flow of prospering blog post topics.
Tighten your niche to specialize in finding blog post topics from that niche. Narrow your focus to find blog post ideas with less and less effort.
For example, I updated and republished this blog post about 6 months after the last update by drilling down to add practical tips to this post. Specializing in the blogging tips niche afforded me the:
to discover, use and test a rich array of practical blogging tips. Knowing about these tips gives me more blog post ideas and blog post content to flesh out.
You will never run out of blog post ideas if you tighten your niche to become a specialist.
Drill down.
Specialize.
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Be prolific.
2: Listen to Reader Questions (or Follow Top Blogs in Your?Niche)
I pay close attention to my readers. Folks ask me blogging questions regularly. I answer the questions through blog posts.
Noting reader questions gives you an endless flow of blog post ideas. You do not need to have a big blogging tribe spitting out blogging questions as if the queries flew at you on a conveyor belt. Simply answering 1 question with 3–4 blog posts is possible, probable then a certainty if you learn how to dissect the question into multiple answers.
Imagine if a reader asks you how to increase blog traffic. Versus turning the question into a single post, publish 3–4 posts based on the question.
Consider publishing posts on:
Publishing one post weekly means you now have one month’s worth of blog posts based on dissecting a single blogging question from one reader.
If you literally have no readers — or all of your readers shyly refuse to ask you questions — do the next best thing: follow top blogs in your niche.
Top bloggers in your niche have their finger on the pulse of their readers. Top bloggers keep their ears to the cyber street, answering reader’s questions with every single blog post. If successful bloggers cover the topics you would be wise to cover similar topics in your niche.
Finding blog post topics is never a problem for bloggers who listen to their readers and who follow top blogs in their niche.
Pay particularly close attention to reader problems. Sometimes, bloggers ignore reader problems to focus on their personal blogging struggles. This is a mistake because readers bring you a conveyor belt of blog post ideas via their issues, struggles and failures.
Get out of your head. Focus on your readers. Listen to them. Observe their struggles. Mine blog post ideas from their issues to churn out content at a steady clip.
Every high level blogger mastered the skill of solving reader problems through a free flow of detailed, in-depth blog posts. Top bloggers offer you blog post ideas freely but you need to follow influencers closely to capitalize on this simple tactic for harvesting blog post ideas.
I subscribe to a handful of respected bloggers via Feedly. Use whatever tool works for you to generate blog post topics.
Conclusion
Every blogger slams into writer’s block eventually.
Knife through this mental block. Tighten your blogging niche. Be a specialist to mine an endless flow of blog post topics. Listen to your readers. Follow top blogs.
Become a prolific blogger by putting writer’s block in your rear view mirror.
Originally published at https://www.bloggingfromparadise.com on October 3, 2022.
Intern at KLFY TV 10
7 个月oh the paradox of choice.. I still can't decide what my next blog should be, ugh.. this is my first time realizing that "writer's block" doesn't only mean a lack of ideas.. I guess I can call what I have going on (often), an overabundance of ideas, writer's block as well