This is my post #101 on SEO 2.0. When I started this blog, I had almost no clue what to write about, just some vague ideas.
In fact I thought that SEO is such a boring topic and this niche so crowded that my blog will not get very popular.
I was wrong. SEO 2.0 jump-started and had more than 1500 visitors daily on some days. I’m sure that you can repeat my success.
Thus I will translate my 101 posting ideas into a more general way so that you can apply them to your blog and get more popular and successful. Get inspired!
- Describe what’s different about you and your blog
- Write about your blog design or WordPress theme and how you improved it
- Write about the #1 authority in your field and poke fun at the person, be polite
- Compile a list of definitions of the topic you write about
- Criticize a hugely popular site
- Post something visually very appealing that constitutes also a unique and compelling idea
- Write about how great it is not to treat other bloggers like spammers and how to do it right
- Compile a best of list of blogs about your topic. Do it based on your opinion not only stats
- Create some categories and write a post about why they are still empty to use it instead of a 404 page
- Take a well known, widely used and popular concept and attempt to expand or change it
- Write about a blogging friend of yours or a give away or both
- Write about a Web 2.0 service that is annoying
- Explain why a widely used practice is obsolete and show it can be automated
- Ask your visitors what they think about your topic and how they envision it
- Feature a game, in the best case a free social game which can be played online
- Compile a list of examples of best practices in your field to define it
- Introduce a method for a task which is performed by numerous people daily
- Introduce another blogger from your area, country who is an authority but not well known or who is otherwise worth it
- Imagine 10 blogs dealing with your topic but do not yet exist, try to be funny
- Speak out on censorship
- Write the opposite of what the majority believes
- Check your stats and welcome people from countries or places you never visited before
- Introduce 5 great new bloggers you admire from the start
- Laugh off bloggers who do not understand what you are about
- Be friendly to your audience, make them call you by your first name
- Take a really clean and popular website and explain how everybody can become like it
- Unmask a buggy software everybody is forced to deal with
- Compile a best of list of companies that sell what you write about
- Invite your readers to a social network you use
- Introduce a glossary for your topic or industry that unveils the real meanings of the particular speak
- Write about your blogging success, any blogger who blogs for more than two weeks in a row already succeeded
- Compile a best of list of tutorials for a particular problem which is not covered too often
- Introduce a new trend on the Net that is not yet widely covered and show several examples of it
- Review websites or products for free
- Do your first review quickly
- Ask people for something they can’t imagine to live without
- Present some practices that are not too obvious and call them “dirty tricks”
- Feature a site that wrote something about you or linked you
- Write something positive and reach out about a group of people or a minority that is bashed by everyone else in the media
- Do something useful for people who use the same tools as you
- Pick out a compile a list of the most original blogs that cover your subject
- Write something about one of the A-list bloggers you admire
- Ridicule someone who has got no clue about you and your business but offends you anyways
- Take the A-list blogger you admire and use a method he uses, explain it to your readers
- Compare two widely known services, a bad but popular one with a good but not yet as popular one
- Compile a best of list of tutorials for a upcoming service or software that will soon be used by everyone
- Allow readers to introduce themselves on your blog
- Compile a best of list of free services that make people spare some valuable time
- Ask readers from around the world or your country on their take on a particular subject
- Introduce a project or publication you contributed to
- Attempt to broaden your topic and compile a list of articles which prove that it’s connected to other similar topics
- Make fun of yourself showing how you failed with blogging, make other bloggers relate to it
- Take a popular post by a blogger you know and respect and write a parody of it or remix it
- Explain why your enemies are wrong, substantiate that with a list of ten valid points
- Introduce some well known international sites your audience might still not know
- Explain why you love a particular thing, service or website
- Compile some alternatives for a service almost everybody uses without thinking about it
- Review a blog that otherwise wouldn’t be featured on yours
- Copy a successful blogger, offend him jokingly and/or use reverse psychology to explain why you suck while making the people curious
- Collect and post interviews with a famous personality you like
- Show and explain some special ways of using on application or service everybody uses
- Make some changes to improve your blog and write about it
- Introduce your friends on your favorite social site
- Present some products you can recommend in your, preferably those that you use anyways. promote them if you wish so
- Introduce 10 blogs out of your niche which you can recommend
- Debunk a common myth about a practice that worked a year ago but is outdated by now and connect it to a example of how to do it now correctly
- Show some ways of helping non profits within your industry
- Review a service which is either new, being hyped or very well known, or all three in one
- Introduce your friends from another social network
- Write about something not working or really annoying for you and others
- Compile a list of blogs many people might not know yet but which are certainly worth a visit
- Describe some wrong assumptions about a widely used service
- Show your new visitors some ways how they can subscribe to your blog
- Explain a not so evident way of using a software, tool or service others might not know
- Express your dismay about some vexing phenomenon and show ways how to deal with it
- Devise a list of third party resources for a popular tool or service
- Introduce some promising new services you used already the general public might not be aware yet
- Flatter your subscribers and vow allegiance, encourage users to subscribe
- Anonunce that you will take part in a collective endeavour of the blogosphere, for a good cause preferably
- Expose someone who bashed you or someone else for no reason
- Write a list of demands to a huge corporation that abuses people all over the world and inform other bloggers about your list
- Look up at Bloglines who subscribes to your blog and write about them
- Write down some blogging advice that might seem obvious to you, but certainly many others won’t know about
- Express your feelings about blogging and tell your readers what inspires you and how
- Take a widely used but controversial practice and introduce your own thoughts or better alternative techniques concerning it, devise a list if possible
- Write about your experience with a popular service, even if it’s negative
- Take part in a collective effort of the blogosphere or your industry to make the world a better place, introduce others who do it on a daily basis
- Express your astonishment with something unusual many people would not expect either
- Take your niche topic and connect it to 2 similar niche topics that are usually treated as separate
- Describe your blogging success and how you achieved it. Any blog that’s alive longer than a month and has more than 20 post is a success story, besides not only numbers “count”
- Write about typical patterns in your niche, business or industry others can relate to, especially if there is some secret element in it
- Take a spam email that deals with what you offer or do and ridicule it
- Celebrate your achievements on your favorite social site
- Take a breaking news everybody writes about, collect the posts and add your commentary on it, be original do not just summarize
- Describe a service or tool you use and why it is better than another one or why it could be useful to fellow bloggers
- Clean up your blog or make other changes and write about it
- If something goes really wrong on the Net, take it apart and ridicule it
- Make a list of sites you deem useful not only for you but also for others
- Collect your blogging wisdom and share it with your audience, everybody has something valuable to say
- Let a fabulous blogger write a gust post for you, do not edit it too much if not really necessary
- Celebrate yourself, blogging, the blogosphere and share your inspiration, based on your own blog – one love!
I hope this advice is useful to you. Would love some feedback if and how you could put it into practice on your blog… Also feel free to add your blog posting ideas.
Last updated: August 9th, 2018.