If you are a blogger, then you must have hit writer’s block sometime in your career. It is frustrating when you go without updating your blog for ages because you have simply run out of ideas to create new content.
In order for your blog to grow, your posting schedule should be regular and consistent, but when you hit writer’s block, your schedule goes haywire as you are left pulling out your hair, trying to come up with fresh content.
The good news is; it need not be this difficult. You can still come up with fresh, engaging content even when you feel like your creative juices have drained out. Wondering how? Well, read on to find out how you can create brand new content for your blog even when suffering from creative blocks.
How to create blogging content when you don’t have any ideas
How to push out new content when you’re out of ideas
1. By Curating Content
Curate content from your ten most favorite websites and publish a blog post listing them along with
These are some of the easiest ways of creating blog content while also giving shoutouts to other bloggers. You can name your article something like Best Blogging Posts in 2021 or likewise. This also works with the best products especially if you have seen other bloggers post about them before you tried them out.
2. Post product reviews
Search engines love product reviews because they are so valuable to readers. Pick up a product or service you like, and write a review on it, explaining its merits and demerits from your point of view. Easy! You can also do this with places and services around you where you live that are similar in services or food types.
Take a step further by contacting the company and asking them to donate a sample for giving away to your blog commenters. Who says you can’t be creative during a creative block?
3. By soliciting guest posts
Research a little on blogs that are smaller in size or are the same size as yours, and invite these
The bloggers will be thrilled to get exposure to your audience, and you, in turn, will find some new readers when the bloggers promote the guest post to their contacts. Just be sure it’s a high quality piece of content before you post to your own blog.
4. By explaining how you succeeded
Readers often come to you with questions like, ‘How did you start your blog?’ or ‘How did you grow your blog?’ or ‘What is the secret to a successful blog such as yours?’
Take the time to write a post addressing all these questions, explaining your entire journey to success, with all the milestones and stepping stones that you came across, all the lessons you learned so others can learn that as well. Readers will take away the value of this content and appreciate your story.
5. Explain your challenges
A great counterpart to the success story you post can be a story about the challenges you
Be authentic, not creative, and just tell the experience as it was, and how you dealt with the problem and moved forward. Your readers will definitely appreciate your journey and how far you have come.
6. Interview someone
Interviews are great content for blog posts and help you keep your content varied. Adding other topics you may not cover but closely relate to your topics help to give some interest and variety to what readers already expect from you. Think about your target audience, who would they want to hear from?
Also, it isn’t as difficult coming up with a few interview questions as it is to come up with an entire blog post. It also gives you a chance to interact with other stalwarts in the blogging industry and increase your network. Even consider interviewing other freelance writers, with whom you can exchange tips and strategies for overcoming that pesky writers block.
7. By repurposing content
What does repurposing content mean?
It means that you take the content from a blog post, email newsletter, or Instagram Live (really, any social media post) and turn it
Sounds easy right? You can just take some older email list newsletters and turn them into a modified and updated blog post. Don’t copy everything from the newsletter into the post; try to add new points or explain the other points in detail so that you don’t recycle old content – you repurpose it.
Last but not least:
If your creative juices are drained, find ways to get inspired once again. You can do this by reading other great blog posts and collecting ideas, writing a deeply personal story on your blog, sharing your most vulnerable yet transformative moments with your readers, and taking some time off writing, then revisiting with a fresh approach.
Blog Post Ideas
Below, I’ve featured a few of my favorite blogging niches, including some ideas for blog posts you can make within these niches. These are all topics I tend to dabble in, because they are all super fun to write about and participate in. Plus, as a blogger, its important to be able to write about a wide range of subjects, even if you only choose to write about a few.
Depending on your particular blogging niche, there are many types of posts you can make to keep your content consistent and fresh. Use these ideas for your blog (below) to help you curate your next great topic or great idea. Then, create an original post and tell me all about it in the comments – I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Lifestyle
Lifestyle bloggers generally blog about well…life. Bloggers in this broad niche live a unique lifestyle, different from the status-quo. Thus they have a unique perspective to share with their readers. Minimalist, vegan, sporty, health-driven, urban, rural, mom, and so on are all different types of blogs that fall within this category. In need of a little inspo, read this lifestyle blog I wrote. It’s all about Arizona, and the Fall events I love attending year after year.
Lifestyle blog topic ideas:
- A day in the life of X career
- Vegan lifestyle
- Decorating for the Fall season
Parenting
They say it takes a village to raise a kid. Consider the parenting niche of blogging that village. As a parent, I love parenting blogs. No, I don’t follow the advice of every one I read, that’s never a good idea. But they do inspire me and show me new parenting perspectives. And remind me that I’m not in this alone. I love posting in the parenting niche, since I am of course a mother first and foremost. Check out my article about raising positive kids for an example of a good blog for this niche.
Parenting blog topic ideas:
- Kid-friendly crafts and/or recipes
- Best places to vacation with kids
- Roundup of your favorite kid-friendly activities
Fashion
Fashion blogs are among the most searched for blogs in the world. Everyone needs a little fashion inspo from time to time, including myself. With every season comes tons of new trends, making it super hard to keep up. That’s why fashion bloggers are so important in the online space. While I’m not a declared fashion blogger, I do dabble in this niche from time to time. See how to style a kimono for an example.
Fashion blog topic ideas:
- Roundup of Winter outfits
- How to style skinny jeans
- Your favorite Black Friday Deals
Personal Development
From finances to relationships to mental health, we all need a little personal development in our life. If not for one thing, then another. The personal development niche is all about sharing the lessons you’ve learned throughout life in hopes of helping others. I love it. Here’s an example of a personal development blog I wrote not too long ago. It’s all about how to be a mentally strong person.
Personal development blog ideas:
- How to overcome trauma
- Your non-negotiable daily habits that make life better
- Roundup of your favorite self-care techniques
Beauty
Makeup, cosmetic procedures, anti-aging techniques, hair treatments, product reviews – there is so much to talk about when it comes to beauty. Especially in today’s fast-paced environment where new products, trends, and treatments are coming out every. single. day. Wherever your passions lie within the beauty niche, there is always something to blog about here. Here’s an example of a blog I wrote in the beauty niche: how to hydrate your skin from the inside out.
Beauty blog ideas:
- Morning skincare routine
- Makeup ideas for Holiday parties
- Roundup of your favorite beauty products
Pets
Unless you’re a vet, it’s hard to know exactly how to care for your animal. Especially if they are a special type of animal. That’s where pet blogs come in. They tell you all your animal, including unique facts, how to care for it, how to improve it’s life, the best toys, the best food, and so on. To see an example of a pet blog in action, see this one I wrote about how to properly take care of your frenchie.
Pet blog ideas:
- How to take care of X pet/animal
- Roundup of the best toys for X animal
- How to trim your pets nails
Blogging
Did you know you could blog about blogging? Well, you totally can and I do it all the time. As bloggers, we have a responsibility to lift up and support other bloggers. Even if they are the competition. If you’re in need of a good new blog post, share your tips on blogging. How do you overcome writers block? How do you choose what to write about? What is your creative process? Which types of blogs are your favorite to write? Your readers are probably dying to know the answers to all these questions. In the hopes of encouraging others to shoot for the stars and achieve all their blogging goals, I love writing articles like this one, where I discuss important aspects of building your online presence.
Blogging blog ideas:
- Best Lifestyle Blogs of 2022
- How to write a product review
- When to hire a freelance writer
Using all the hacks mentioned in this article, you will make sure that you never run out of content to post on your blog, even when you yourself feel creatively uninspired. Now, it’s time to revive your blog again, and decorate it with killer content that uses up the least of your creative resources!
What are your thoughts on the same? Have anything to add? Feel free to drop your ideas in the comments below.
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