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In 1 - Blogging: Lets Get You Started we ended with the subject of content. Fresh topics are important to keep your blog readership interested, and now were going to discuss just how you can do that. What are you going to write about? It should be a topic that youre passionate about or are at the very least interested in. If youve chosen blogging as your new career, then you dont want to torture yourself by writing about something that you have zero interest in, otherwise you might as well return to that mundane job you just quit! Feelings and emotions show through your writing, so your readers will notice any indifference you may have toward a certain topic that you find boring. Dont forget the advice about writing with a personality. Forced writing will not establish you in the world of blogging at all. Once youve chosen your main theme -- or if it has chosen you, then thats even better -- start posting to your blog and try to get into the habit of doing that at least once every day. It doesnt always need to be a long post; it could be a comment on something you read in the newspaper today or a segment that you saw on the breakfast news program on TV. Think of yourself as a gigantic container ship, that needs a lot of effort to get moving. At first, youll budge just a foot or two and later youll trudge slowly on until youre at full speed. Before you know it, itll take a lot of effort to stop you! Nevertheless, regardless of how well you know your topic, youre going to run out of fresh input at some point, so lets look at some content brainstorm ideas. 1) Check out what other bloggers have to say on the current state of affairs in your field of discussion. You can find related blogs by visiting http://blogsearch.google.com/ or http://www.technorati.com. Youll learn from other blogs and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog! 2) Once youve established contact with other bloggers, youll have almost inexhaustible input to keep you going for a while, so there wont be an acute need to search for content to write about. Should you still be stuck, then you can search for news articles related to your niche in you local newspaper or online. 3) By joining a few forums related to your niche -- just choose the ones that are the most focused on your particular area -- you can engage in conversations with others who share your interests. This is a great way to build up a Q&A bank and interesting discussion topics to write about. An added bonus is that your forum posts will quite handily generate traffic for your blog and, hopefully, profits. Try to maintain your daily posting habit. The major search engines love fresh content and they are more likely to spider your blog frequently, which will also result in getting you extra traffic. The subject of traffic will be discussed in a future article, so dont worry about that right now. Just keep writing and posting and building up that momentum -- youll be an established blogger before you know it! |
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