Now we move onto blogs that focus on a certain topic, niche or target a specific group of people. These blogs may be about cars, houses, a hobby or anything. These present a slightly more systematic and thought out approach to creating posts because of their refined nature.
Break it up
If your blog focuses on a specific topic you are very confined because there is only so much possible on that specific topic, however, there may be more then you think. Try starting off with a general post. If my blog is about car, i might start off with something general about car modifications. That covers one day and is a short brief post. In that post you may briefly talk about engine, brake, intake modification and so on . Now, for the next few days you can talk about each of those subtopics that was originally mentioned in your first post and explain why someone would want that and what effect it would have on the vehicle. After that each of those three posts can be again split up. For brakes you could now talk about disc brakes, drum brakes, and electromagnetic brakes, their pros and cons and why they are effective. The post for each of those subtopics would take up a day as well and would include pros and cons and its benefits and talk about it in detail. After that for all of the subtopics you could also do another post on the current brands available, which one people should get, how to install them and even show it step by step. As you can see this one general topic branches out to many other topics and on top of that, car modifications, is only one topic within the large domain of cars, so the same could be done for buying a car, or maintenance on cars. This same method can be applied for any blog all it requires is a little initial planning and writing it all out before u start posting. Just remember to link all the topics to the subtopics and vice versa so that people can easily navigate from the generals to the specifics.
Keep it short
As you could imagine the method just discussed could give you alot of posts. However, they only work if you keep your posts short. Remember people don't like reading, this post here for example, is bordering on long. So to keep your posts short, do not go off on tangents. You may start to talk about a side topic if it is related but don talk about the related topic too much. Its best to mention the the related topic goes into more detail in another one of your articles and post the link to that article. In the case that you are trying to do the previous method described, be sure to keep the posts short and to the point. If you are writing about one of the general topcis and plan to make more specific posts and link to the general one, be sure to make sure the general ones stay general enough that it is worth the reader's while to jump to the specific one.
Get an idea from someone else
First collect all your ideas using the previous method discussed. After that, ask around to family for posts they think would be interested in that topic, then after that search some topics online that are related to what you blog about and see if you can find any inspiration for new things that you have not yet written about.
Now that you have way to generate more ideas, you should consider blogging as often as your schedule allows. Check out why its important to blog daily.
If you don't have a blog that focuses on a specific topic and have a blog that focuses more on ideas you have or how your day went, it is a little easier to come up with post ideas. To see how, check out how to come up with posts for a journal blog
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