Blog Posts – What to Write About
Are you like me – you know you need to post on your blog more, but you don’t know what to write about?
Today I was reading the Albert Hallado’s blog and he was making the point that in order for your blog to be successful you need to be blogging consistently.
Albert blogs twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday, without fail. I admire his focus and dedication to blogging every Tuesday and Thursday, and doing that week after week.
I am an inconsistent blogger,and need to improve by blogging to at least twice a week. I got to thinking about why I don’t write on my blogs more.
Currently, I have 3 blogs that are doing pretty well and I know they could be doing even better if I would just write on them more consistently.
I know that benefits of blogging more often so why don’t I do it?
It’s easy to get distracted by everything else going on in life, making it hard to sit down and write something. Is that the reason? No, not really.
For me the real problem is finding something to blog about. I don’t consider myself a great writer. I can write okay, and I think my grammar is fine, but honestly I think the main problem is I don’t know what to write about. I get writers block and have a hard time coming up with ideas to write about.
So, how can I come up with ideas to write about? I need something to trigger ideas. Then as I was checking my email it hit me.
I can use Google Alerts to trigger ideas to write about. I had actually used Google Alerts before to give me ideas for articles I could write, so why not use them to get ideas for my blog.
Using Google triggers is really easy, just go to http://alerts.google.com type in a search term related to your blog. I use Comprehensive for Type, Once a Day for How Often and have the alert sent to my email.
You can set up as many alerts as you want. If you have a blog with different categories, you could set up an alert for each category.
This has really helped me find topics to write about, and to find information on other sources to comment about.
For example, one of my most popular blog posts was about how Blogs are Dead. I actually had an alert setup that was related to dofollow blogs for one of my other blogs. One of those alerts pointed to a blog where the owner wrote about how blogs are dead. So,I went and read their blog and then wrote a post on my blog commenting on the statement that blog owner made about blogs being dead.
This is one very easy way to generate ideas on what to write about. I suggest you give it a try.
Now, that I know how to generate more ideas, I need to be more disciplined about posting more often.
I hope this blog posting idea works for you!
Mike
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Hi Mike,
Great post Mike!
Albert
Thanks for stopping by Albert!
I always enjoy reading your blog and you have motivated me to be a more consistent blogger.
Mike
Great idea, I just learned about this the other day, from another site and its already provided some inspiration for new articles.
I love Google alerts, and I use it alot! But it can get overwhelming, when you receive over 100 alerts in a single day, hehe.
That’s true Google alerts can be one too many, that’s why I like to use my newspaper for ideas.
Great information… Spend good time to read your article.
I use Google News or sites like Reddit to get ideas what to write about. I once tried to set up Google Alerts, but what it sent me was rubbish
usually i visit sites like engadget or businessweek to get my source of news
when you receive over 100 alerts in a single day, hehe.
That’s true Google alerts can be one too many, that’s why I like to use my newspaper for ideas.
The google alert is to great way to write a comments an article.
This has really helped me find topics to write about, and to find information on other sources to comment about
Thanks.
Google Alerts is simply phenomenal. I found that yahoo also has an alerts system, but, it is a hassle to use, and thus I haven’t used it, since I didn’t want to create a login.
Not to know what to write about is a major problem for most bloggers!
Hi again, Mike! I just visited and went around Albert’s site. Hey, I enjoyed the experience so here I am again. Hope you don’t mind me leaving a couple of comments in here. I picked this particular blog because I often have trouble choosing what topic to blog about. Thank you for the tips. A lot of categories offer variety, which is great.
Nice work man..keep it up.
I use Google News or sites like Reddit to get ideas what to write about. I once tried to set up Google Alerts, but what it sent me was rubbish
I write about things that interest me most so that I could blog about it passionately. Sometimes, I watch Oprah to get topics that are popular at the moment. Hope this helps. Thanks.
I know that I find it hard sometimes to write on all the blogs I own as I get a little burnt out. I find the longer you work on the same blog, the more you run out of ideas.
One idea that has worked for me is when you are running out of ideas, get a guest blogger to write a post or two. Not only does that give you a break, but it ensures that your site will still have consistent content.
hi
Google News or sites i use like Reddit to get ideas what to write about.thanks for this important information thanks for sharing
Nice post! I think the key is to be truly excited about your subject matter. That way you’re motivated to research and write.
Google Alerts it’s a great tool, I often use it.
This is a very innovative way to keep track of your niche and really any other topics being searched. Thanks for sharing this!
The only way to get new ideas for writing is just reading as much as you can.If you will read more and more then it’s definite ideas will raise in your mind and you will be able to write more and more.
You are right.Its very difficult to write articles some times when your mind is not thinking creatively.So i think we should read more and more so it will generate ideas in our mind for writing more and more.
The first time I heard about Google alerts was back in college when one of my professors admitted to putting an alert on his name just to see what was being said about him. I thought it was funny and the same day, I put an alert on my own name. Since then, I’ve used alerts for every website project I’ve worked on, and it’s GREAT for seeing trends and even some oddball stuff!
ha I was doing this by going to google news and yahoo news, so I will try it. I did notice one post here that say what he got was rubbish but I’ll keep an open mind.
This is my first time to know that alerts[dot]google[dot]com type in a search term related to your blog. I hope this will be very helpful. I will try it as soon as possible. Thanks for sharing that.
I was also suffering the same problem before but after using google alert its really helpful for me to find topic related to me.its make commenting easy. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot, I just set up an alert, let’s see how it works, if it helps me out I’m going to get addicted to this, and if I do get addicted to google alerts and stop looking for news since the news will look for me, I’m coming after you!
I have spent tedious nights trying to think of stuff to write about. Thanks for the idea on using Google Alerts for content ideas, I hadn’t thought of that before. Digg, Reddit and the rest are also good places to get ideas from as well and my favourite has to be StumbleUpon.
I like the idea of Google alerts. I had not thought of it for blogs, I’m not sure why though, I have used it for other information on subjects that I want to keep current on. My only problem is procrastination! If you get daily alerts on more than one thing, the alerts really start piling up.
Very informative and very good for me. As i am new to blogging, i always look for topics on which i should write on.
For me the real problem is finding something to blog about. I don’t consider myself a great writer. I can write okay, and I think my grammar is fine, but honestly I think the main problem is I don’t know what to write about. I get writers block and have a hard time coming up with ideas to write about.
Funny, everything you said is nearly identical to myself. Except for the google alert part which I think is a fantastic idea and I set a few alerts up for myself just a few minutes ago. I’m sure if I could just get into a rhythm of posting entries that it will get easier over time. Guess we’ll find out.
Hi,
Google alerts is really a great tool. However, for writing my blog I use to look around over social networks and the news section of major papers/magazines. This is how it works for me.
- J.
i use rssowl(rss program). i added the gazettes. i check the new pages every they. and i always find something to write about.
Never used G-alerter. May be should try it :S
its a nice idea and i think you are intelligent enough to take concept and post your own opinion.its a nice way to share the good thoughts too.
The article is good provides information about you don’t know what to write about? which is useful post.I like the article very much and hope to see more of such articles as it is very informative.
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One method for blog post research is to carry a pen and pad of paper with you and to jot down whatever comes to mind. Using this method, you begin to train yourself, so to speak, to generate ideas on the fly.
Thank you for a great post. It is very helpful and informative and helped me to manage my Alerts.