Finding ideas for new blog posts is easy at first. But if you write very regularly you will start to run out of ideas

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Many people turn to copying what other writers are doing. They copy the titles (maybe changing them slightly. They write virtually identical content (but it’s unique just ask them).

And then they wonder why they get crappy results.

So how can you come up with great ideas for your next blog posts?

1. Think Like A Beginner

When you have been in a niche for a while you will eventually start to ask different questions. If you are in the cooking niche you might go from asking questions about the stove or temperatures to asking specific questions about a meal or dish you are making.

That isn’t bad but when writing it is helpful to think about your niche from a beginner’s perspective.

When I’m creating articles about the blogging niche I don’t write articles answering the questions I have now. Instead, I write articles I had when I was just starting out as a blogger.

Not only will you help more people by targeting beginner-type keywords but you will also get more traffic as there are far more people who are beginners in a niche since many will give up along the way.

If you think like a beginner you will also come up with far more queries than if you are thinking like an expert.

Experts don’t have near as many questions as beginners do so you have less questions to cover with expert topics and you will get less traffic.

Not a good combination.

2. Read Your Comments And The Comments Of Others

If you have a blog, YouTube channel, or Medium account you will likely get a lot of comments. Now some of these comments are spam (especially on a blog) but many are legit people who have real questions about your niche.

Use those comments to come up with article ideas!

Now if you are new to blogging, YouTube, or Medium you might not have many comments to go through to spark ideas. And that’s ok!

You can also go through the comments on other Youtube videos, blogs, or Medium accounts that are in your niche and see what common questions people are asking. By finding these common questions you will know what people in your niche want to learn about and will be able to answer those questions in your articles.

With this method, you do have to be careful however as even though a few people are asking the question that doesn’t mean everyone will be wondering the same thing.

With this method, it is important to use your own brain and intuition and think about whether other people are likely to have the same question or issue as well. If you see the same question repeated on Youtube channels, blog comments, and Medium comments then it’s likely something many people are wondering about so writing the article is likely worth it.

3. Recall A Pivotal Moment and Share It

The third way you can come up with ideas for new blog posts is by thinking about your journey in the niche. Think about what you did that made a drastic change in your life or in your niche.

For example, I’m in the blogging niche (obviously) and one pivotal moment I had was when I stopped working entirely on my first site and started working on my second and third sites.

I made this pivot with no idea if it was the best idea or not but I just went with it.

This would make a super helpful article for other people that are facing the same issue with their blog (trying to decide when or if to pivot). So writing that article would be helpful to other people and would also be pretty easy and fast for me to write since I would just share what I actually did and how it worked out.

Another example of doing something and then sharing it would be doing a case study.

I’m actually in the process of doing a case study right now on Medium in regard to engagement. Everyone says that you need to be actively following, commenting, and clapping to get good amounts of reads and views on Medium whereas other people say that the engagement that you need is simply people to engage with your article, and engagement with people in your niche doesn’t matter as much.

So I decided to test this out by almost entirely stopping my engagement in my niche on Medium and just putting out good-quality articles every single day instead.

So over the last month (all of August), I have been testing this out and then my first article in September will discuss my results. Then in September, I am going to pull way back on content output (going to write one article a week) and will instead work on engaging every single day by clapping, commenting, following people, etc.

That’s a case study that will help people on Medium not just through conjecture or guessing but by a real test that I am performing and then sharing the results in an article.

No matter whether you are writing on Medium or on your own blog there are all sorts of tests and case studies that you can do and then write about. You can also share every pivotal moment in your niche that propelled you forward or held you back from success.

People want to know what they should or shouldn’t do in every niche so take your experiences and help them by sharing what worked and didn’t work for you.

Matt R
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