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101 Blog Posting Ideas

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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. Especially 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 is back on track having more than 1500 visitors daily last week.

I’m sure that you can repeat my success too.

So 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!

1. Describe what’s different about you and your blog
2. Write about your blog design or Wordpress theme and how you improved it
3. Write about the #1 authority in your field and poke fun at the person, be polite
4. Compile a list of definitions of the topic you write about
5. Criticize a hugely popular site
6. Post something visually very appealing that constitutes also a unique and compelling idea
7. Write about how great it is not to treat other bloggers like spammers and how to do it right
   
8. Compile a best of list of blogs about your topic. Do it based on your opinion not only stats
9. Create some categories and write a post about why they are still empty to use it instead of a 404 page
10. Take a well known, widely used and popular concept and attempt to expand or change it
11. Write about a blogging friend of yours or a give away or both
12. Write about a Web 2.0 service that is annoying
13. Explain why a widely used practice is obsolete and show it can be automated
14. Ask your visitors what they think about your topic and how they envision it
15. Feature a game, in the best case a free social game which can be played online
16. Compile a list of examples of best practices in your field to define it
17. Introduce a method for a task which is performed by numerous people daily
18. Introduce another blogger from your area, country who is an authority but not well known or who is otherwise worth it
19. Imagine 10 blogs dealing with your topic but do not yet exist, try to be funny
20. Speak out on censorship
21. Write the opposite of what the majority believes
22. Check your stats and welcome people from countries or places you never visited before
23. Introduce 5 great new bloggers you put on your blogroll
24. Laugh off bloggers who do not understand what you are about
25. Be friendly to your audience, make them call you by your first name
26. Take a really clean and popular website and explain how everybody can become like it
27. Unmask a buggy software everybody is forced to deal with
28. Compile a best of list of companies that sell what you write about
29. Invite your readers to a social network you use
30. Introduce a glossary for your topic or industry that unveils the real meanings of the particular speak
31. Write about your blogging success, any blogger who blogs for more than two weeks in a row already succeeded
32. Compile a best of list of tutorials for a particular problem which is not covered too often
33. Introduce a new trend on the Net that is not yet widely covered and show several examples of it
34. Review websites or products for free
35. Do your first review quickly
36. Ask people for something they can’t imagine to live without
37. Present some practices that are not too obvious and call them “dirty tricks”
38. Feature a site that wrote something about you or linked you
39. Write something positive and reach out about a group of people or a minority that is bashed by everyone else in the media
40. Do something useful for people who use the same tools as you
41. Pick out a compile a list of the most original blogs that cover your subject
42. Write something about one of the A-list bloggers you admire
43. Ridicule someone who has got no clue about you and your business but offends you anyways
44. Take the A-list blogger you admire and use a method he uses, explain it to your readers
45. Compare two widely known services, a bad but popular one with a good but not yet as popular one
46. Compile a best of list of tutorials for a upcoming service or software that will soon be used by everyone
47. Allow readers to introduce themselves on your blog
48. Compile a best of list of free services that make people spare some valuable time
49. Ask readers from around the world or your country on their take on a particular subject
50. Introduce a project or publication you contributed to
51. Attempt to broaden your topic and compile a list of articles which prove that it’s connected to other similar topics
52. Make fun of yourself showing how you failed with blogging, make other bloggers relate to it
53. Take a popular post by a blogger you know and respect and write a parody of it or remix it
54. Explain why your enemies are wrong, substantiate that with a list of ten valid points
55. Introduce some well known international sites your audience might still not know
56. Explain why you love a particular thing, service or website
57. Compile some alternatives for a service almost everybody uses without thinking about it
58. Review a blog that otherwise wouldn’t be featured on yours
59. Copy a successful blogger, offend him jokingly and/or use reverse psychology to explain why you suck while making the people curious
60. Collect and post interviews with a famous personality you like
61. Show and explain some special ways of using on application of service everybody uses
62. Make some changes to improve your blog and write about it
63. Introduce your friends on your favorite social site
64. Present some products you can recommend in your, preferably those that you use anyways. promote them if you wish so
65. Introduce 10 blogs out of your niche which you can recommend
66. 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
67. Show some ways of helping non profits within your industry
68. Review a service which is either new, being hyped or very well known, or all three in one
69. Introduce your friends from another social network
70. Write about something not working or really annoying for you and others
71. Compile a list of blogs many people might not know yet but which are certainly worth a visit
72. Describe some wrong assumptions about a widely used service
73. Show your new visitors some ways how they can subscribe to your blog
74. Explain a not so evident way of using a software, tool or service others might not know
75. Express your dismay about some vexing phenomenon and show ways how to deal with it
76. Devise a list of third party resources for a popular tool or service
77. Introduce some promising new services you used already the general public might not be aware yet
78. Flatter your subscribers and vow allegiance, encourage users to subscribe
79. Anonunce that you will take part in a collective endeavour of the blogosphere, for a good cause preferably
80. Expose someone who bashed you or someone else for no reason
81. Write a list of demands to a huge corporation that abuses people all over the world and inform other bloggers about your list
82. Look up at Bloglines who subscribes to your blog and write about them
83. Write down some blogging advice that might seem obvious to you, but certainly many others won’t know about
84. Express your feelings about blogging and tell your readers what inspires you and how
85. Take a widely used but controversial practice and introduce your own thoughts or better alternative techniques concerning it, devise a list if possible
86. Write about your experience with a popular service, even if it’s negative
87. 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
88. Express your astonishment with something unusual many people would not expect either
89. Take your niche topic and connect it to 2 similar niche topics that are usually treated as separate
90. 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”
91. Write about typical patterns in your niche, business or industry others can relate to, especially if there is some secret element in it
92. Take a spam email that deals with what you offer or do and ridicule it
93. Celebrate your achievements on your favorite social site
94. Take a breaking news everybody writes about, collect the posts and add your commentary on it, be original do not just summarize
95. Describe a service or tool you use and why it is better than another one or why it could be useful to fellow bloggers
96. Clean up your blog or make other changes and write about it
97. If something goes really wrong on the Net, take it apart and ridicule it
98. Make a list of sites you deem useful not only for you but also for others
99. Collect your blogging wisdom and share it with your audience, everybody has something valuable to say
100. Let a fabulous blogger write a gust post for you, do not edit it too much if not really necessary
101. 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.

Coming up: Another great guest post by “Do Not Read This” blog goddess Lidija Davis. So watch out!

Sincerely, Tad

43 Comments »

1. Adam Taylor —

   lol what should I do to get > 20 daily visitors :[

2. onreact —

   You should write pillar content and submit it to StumbleUpon. You’re only writing short notes as for now.

3. Adam Taylor —

   I used to but it’s hard to find the time now. Oh well.

4. pearl —

   wow.. this is like your entire SEO2 blog’s summery in two posts great idea..

5. Michael Martine —

   You’re doing a hell of job, Tad. You’re one of my favorite reads.

6. Steven Snell —

   Congratulations on the increased traffic. This was a great idea to link back to your old posts.

7. onreact —

   Thank you pearl, Michael and Steven. I wasn’t really sure about this one. Took really much work and I don’t know whether it is really of much use.
   Nonetheless it got popular on StumbleUpon.

8. Jeff Quipp —

   Nice list Tad! I’ll be referring to this often I’m sure when I’m experiencing writer’s block. Also … congrats on your traffic last week!

9. onreact —

   Thanks Jeff, I’ll probably be posting something about how I achieved this new boost. The traffic was really down prior last week.

10. david deangelo —

    Another 101 lol. This post is great in serving an extra purpose. More internal linking to previous posts!

11. Mohsin —

    Now, I am sure it’s one of Skellie’s suggestions for writing viral posts. She gave me a similar suggestion, but I am too lazy

12. Shana Albert —

    Congrats, Tad on your 101st post!! That’s awesome!! I look forward to reading many, many more.

    Shana

13. Maki —

    Dude.. this has a chance of getting on the del.icio.us frontpage. Hopefully the stumbles will bring in some bookmarks.

    I like the format… cool.

14. Lidija Davis —

    As always, brilliant! Congrats on 101 - that means I got a shot at 100 - Woo Hoo!

    My two cents worth

    1. If you are searching for something specific on the Web and cannot find it, chances are others are searching too. Why not write it yourself?

    2. Publish a monthly list of events coming up for your industry - webcasts, podcasts, conferences.

    3. After an event occurs, link to all the related posts that pop in the blogosphere about the event. Posts that are useful to your readers; that can teach them something

15. Fred @ Newest on the Net —

    Tad,

    Great post. What a brilliant way to highlight your content!!

16. onreact —

    Thank you for the flowers everyone as we say in Germany. It won’t make the del.icio.us Popular though Maki. This post:
    http://seo2.0.onreact.com/101-ways-to-make-your-blog-more-popular-and-successful
    almost made it with twice as much bookmarks.

    Lidija: All three are very true and haven’t been listed above. Thank you.

17. Neena —

    Great list. I will bookmark this one and pull it out when I have bloggers block.

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19. Thiru —

    that’s an inspiring list

20. Nishanthe —

    Whoa!..this is the biggest list I have seen and I am sure I will never go dry with ideas again
    thanks
    -Nish

21. Clement —

    Great list of posting ideas! But will I have time to go through each one of these ideas?

22. onreact —

    Clement: Print it out and read it on the bus

    All the others: Please write about how this post inspired you. I want to know and see the outcome!

23. Sly from Slyvisions.com —

    “I hope this advice is useful to you”

    What??? This article was MORE THAN USEFUL. I have written articles like “10 Things To Do When You Having Nothing To Blog About” and it became one of my most popular articles. But compared to this one, it’s nothing!

    Very nice list here.

24. Clement —

    onreact, good suggestion. I have stumbled it so that I can come back to it again and again. By the way, I have added you as a friend on BlogCatalog.

25. Clement —

    Thanks a lot for visiting my site

26. doniek —

    Good advice and good post

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29. Charlie Anzman —

    Nice!

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    pymninvoivy, you’re a really cute robot. Why should I get angry at you ?

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36. Tony Oquias —

    Hi, I’m practically a newborn in the blogosphere and I will definitely get the needed nourishment here for me to grow.

    Thank you for the many valuable articles on your blog.

    Cheers
    Tony

37. Sam —

    Great post some real food for thought here

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41. TzuVelli —

    Fantastic List of articles.Congrates on #101.

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    and 100 deep links back into your deep content too…win win

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