What's the hardest thing about blogging? Coming up with fresh, new content! And you have to publish new posts frequently - twice a week at the very least - to keep readers interested and earn search engine love.
If you're feeling stuck, here is a list of 50 blogging ideas that are sure to inspire you to come up with new content for your blog. Most of the ideas can be used more than once, so you won't run out of blog posts for months to come.
And by the way, if you want to make more money from your blog, Blogger's" Paycheck shows you how to make passive income from your blog without spending all day at it.
1. Special events - Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.
2. News - Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.
3. Book review.
4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.
5. Blog milestone - Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment....
6. Niche heroes -Blog about a person who made a positive contribution in your niche.
7. Blog memes - Join in blog memes such as "Wordless Wednesday". There's at least one for every day of the week!
8. Product review - An excellent way to work in some affiliate links.
9. FAQs in your niche - Write a short Q & A based on FAQs about your niche.
10. Blog comment response - Write a long and expanded response to a comment on your blog.
11. Predict trends - What do you see happening in your niche in a year? 5 years?
12. Historical view - What was your niche in the past? Or what past event influenced your niche?
13. Top tips on any topic of interest to your readers.
14. Best of... - A good year ender, make a list of your best posts for the year.
15. Contests - Organize a contest for your blog readers, or make a list of contests your readers can join.
16. What I learned from... a current event, a person you met, or an experience you had.
17. Definitions - Define terms that are commonly used in your niche but a beginner may not understand
18. New products - Not a review but simply an announcement of a new product relevant to your niche. This is another good opportunity to drop in some affiliate links.
19. Biggest problem - Ask your readers what their biggest problem is about your blog topic or niche. They post their answers in the comments section.
20. Biggest problem follow up - Summarize the comments from #19 in another post.
21. Biggest problem follow up series - Write a separate blog post tackling each question from #19.
22. Interview somebody knowledgeable in your niche, or has succeeded in it, or is otherwise interesting to your readers.
23. Big list - Compile a big list of various resources, just like this one. The bigger the better!
24. Reader Survey - Put up a brief survey online and blog about the results.
25. Be provocative. Challenge a common belief or widely accepted idea in your niche.
26. New idea - What new idea about your blog topic or niche have you come across lately?
27. YouTube - Embed a funny, moving or insightful video on YouTube. You can even have a "video day" once a week.
28. YouTube version 2 - Make YOUR own YouTube video. Publish it on YouTube then embed on your blog. This way, you can attract traffic from YouTube to your blog.
29. Freebie - Scour the 'net for freebies that your readers will love. Or create a freebie of your own, such as a checklist or special report.
30. Personal story - Use a personal story to illustrate an important concept or principle in your niche.
31. Free to publish articles - Check out relevant articles in article directories such as Ezine Articles... but don't publish them entirely on your blog. Instead, use an article or a group of articles as your take-off point for a blog post, or several.
32. Link love - This is a post with links to other blogs. Some bloggers set aside one day a week to publish a list of the best blog posts on their topic.
33. Photo - A picture is worth thousand words, right? Search Flickr for creative commons pictures that your readers will like.
34. Hot topics - Look at Digg for hot topics in your niche
35. Pros and cons - Examine what's good and bad about something related to your blog topic
36. Respond to relevant questions you find in Ask.com
37. Guest post - Invite another blogger to write a guest post for your blog
38. Reader's post - Invite blog subscribers to submit an article or post to be published on the blog
39. Inspirational post - Write a motivational post for your readers.
40. Update an old post with fresh ideas, new learnings and current research findings.
41. Beginner's guide - What do beginners in your niche struggle with? Write a post to guide them through it.
42.Best list - Patterned after "best dressed lists" make a list of the best ___ in your niche.
43. Worst list - Make your version of the "worst dressed list" for your niche.
44. New uses for - Think of new ways your readers can use gadgets and other stuff.
45. Write about a live event that you attended and what you learned from it.
46. Bribe post - Bribe your readers with a freebie in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter or RSS feed.
47. Around the world - Compare how people in different countries do something related to your niche.
48. Seasonal - Relate the month or season to your blog topic.
49. Blog carnival - Join or host a blog carnival, where several publish posts about the same topic on the same day.
50. Host a virtual "conference" on your blog - Invite "speakers" to publish their post on a specified date and time. Q&A happens in the comments section.
Now that you've got a steady flow of fresh content, how do you actually make money from your blog? Visit Blogger's" Paycheck for a step-by-step guide on blogging for profit.
Icek Blueyez
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
THE WAY OF THE "PAID TO" BUSINESS PROGRAMS
The Way of the PTC Business Programs
Why PTC is the Best Model to Earn Extra Money Online
Finally you will learn how to make some profit online. This is a guide oriented to the ones starting in this business. If you are already experimented on all this, you may want to skip this guide and go ahead and take a look at our Trusted PTC List. If you are not, I highly recommend you to take the guide first. Well,lets get started. There are a lot of business models on the internet that offer you earnings for something you do. These are most popular among them:
- Matrices
- HYIP
- Affiliate Marketing
- Paid To
These are legit business models, however as our intention is to invest little to none money from scratch, we are going to choose Paid To Click (PTC) which is the best model to start off: Most are free to join, low payouts, etc. But as I told you before, not every program in the internet is a legit one. So because of that, there are some factors that you have to keep in mind while choosing a Paid To Click. For example:
Trust ability. This is the first you should check. Its true that you can never know, they could look very legit one day and the other then disappear. Check for payment proof on the internet and on their forums if they have one, also look for reasonable scam claims against them. I say reasonable because there are a lot of angry people out there that blame the PTC for stuff they could have been aware of if they have had read the ToS (Terms of Service).
Work ability. You need to pick a PTC that fits your necessities. Click per day rates, pay per click rate, time per click rate, etc. Also you need to know if the time your willing to spend on it.
Longevity and profit. Do you think the business can sustain itself enough for you to make a good profit? Other factors come and go between different PTC sites, because they are all different. Now, here comes the part that nobody likes. Nothing comes for free, you need to spend something, not necessarily money. To be successful you will need to spend either of these:
Time and effort. Have you ever wonder that if this business is such a great opportunity, why normal people just do it? That's because of the misinformation around, they come here leaded by someone that told them they would make enough money to live on their asses for the rest of their life in as little as a month doing almost nothing. Then after a while, reality kicks in, and they go "OMG! I didn't knew that". Picture this: Someone is running the 100m race, you watch it in slow motion. He's running fast and confident, sees the goal not so far and he think he has already won. Then all of the sudden coming from behind a little crippled midget called reality, passes him by and gives him the finger while he and the finish line seem to keep getting further and further away. Sounds sad isn't it? Well that's pretty much what happens to most people that try this without begin fully inform, they have such high expectations that when they face the reality they depressed and start thinking that they can't or won't be able to make it. If by reading this your already feeling like that, then you'll probably be better off getting a normal 9 to 5 job. If you are sure you will have the patient and the diligence to make this work, and I'm talking about at least 3+ months of hard work, then you will be fine. Believe this, nothing that is good in life comes for free and/or easy. If you don't have money to invest, these are your main tools.
Money. You might have heard this before "Money is everything"... well its kind of true. And it's also true here. If you don't have the time to work all day in this, or you are just lazy to be working it off, then spending money is the way to go. So, resuming, if you want this for free, it will be hard, and will take time. If you don't want to work that hard for this or don't really have the time, you will have to invest some money into this. Now that you know what is required, lets get further into the PTC world.
There are 3 kinds of PTC:
- Bux(Bucks). The bux kind normally offers 4 of $0.01(1 cent) per 30 second ads. That's what most bux offer in total, some may have games or lotteries, but that's just a variable.
HERE ARE SOME OF TRUSTED BUX SITES:
1. NEOBUX
2. BUX-MATRIX
3. INCRASEBUX
4. ONBUX
5. CLIXSENSE
6. BUXIFY
7. PALMBUX
8. OMNIBUX
9. JPHFBUX
10. WORDLINX
- Auroras -They are totally different. While bux tends to "care" more about their clicking members auroras have very much lower rates. They offer around 20-200 ads that pay from $0.001(1/10 cent) to $0.0001(1/100 cent) per 5-20 seconds.
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF LEGIT AURORAS:
1. WARPBUX
2. BUXP.INFO
3. PPLINX
4. INCENTRIA
5. INDOCLIX
6. DONKEYMAILS
7. CLOCKPAY.NET
8. CLICKITE
9. CLICKSIA
10. SIMPLYCLIX
- Traffic Exchanges. These sites are committed to the trading of website hits. There are auto surfers/manual surf, 5-30 second ads and 2:1, 1:1, 5:4 and many other rates (sites you see, times your website is seen).
1. EASYHITS4U
2. HIT724
Why PTC is the Best Model to Earn Extra Money Online
Finally you will learn how to make some profit online. This is a guide oriented to the ones starting in this business. If you are already experimented on all this, you may want to skip this guide and go ahead and take a look at our Trusted PTC List. If you are not, I highly recommend you to take the guide first. Well,lets get started. There are a lot of business models on the internet that offer you earnings for something you do. These are most popular among them:
- Matrices
- HYIP
- Affiliate Marketing
- Paid To
These are legit business models, however as our intention is to invest little to none money from scratch, we are going to choose Paid To Click (PTC) which is the best model to start off: Most are free to join, low payouts, etc. But as I told you before, not every program in the internet is a legit one. So because of that, there are some factors that you have to keep in mind while choosing a Paid To Click. For example:
Trust ability. This is the first you should check. Its true that you can never know, they could look very legit one day and the other then disappear. Check for payment proof on the internet and on their forums if they have one, also look for reasonable scam claims against them. I say reasonable because there are a lot of angry people out there that blame the PTC for stuff they could have been aware of if they have had read the ToS (Terms of Service).
Work ability. You need to pick a PTC that fits your necessities. Click per day rates, pay per click rate, time per click rate, etc. Also you need to know if the time your willing to spend on it.
Longevity and profit. Do you think the business can sustain itself enough for you to make a good profit? Other factors come and go between different PTC sites, because they are all different. Now, here comes the part that nobody likes. Nothing comes for free, you need to spend something, not necessarily money. To be successful you will need to spend either of these:
Time and effort. Have you ever wonder that if this business is such a great opportunity, why normal people just do it? That's because of the misinformation around, they come here leaded by someone that told them they would make enough money to live on their asses for the rest of their life in as little as a month doing almost nothing. Then after a while, reality kicks in, and they go "OMG! I didn't knew that". Picture this: Someone is running the 100m race, you watch it in slow motion. He's running fast and confident, sees the goal not so far and he think he has already won. Then all of the sudden coming from behind a little crippled midget called reality, passes him by and gives him the finger while he and the finish line seem to keep getting further and further away. Sounds sad isn't it? Well that's pretty much what happens to most people that try this without begin fully inform, they have such high expectations that when they face the reality they depressed and start thinking that they can't or won't be able to make it. If by reading this your already feeling like that, then you'll probably be better off getting a normal 9 to 5 job. If you are sure you will have the patient and the diligence to make this work, and I'm talking about at least 3+ months of hard work, then you will be fine. Believe this, nothing that is good in life comes for free and/or easy. If you don't have money to invest, these are your main tools.
Money. You might have heard this before "Money is everything"... well its kind of true. And it's also true here. If you don't have the time to work all day in this, or you are just lazy to be working it off, then spending money is the way to go. So, resuming, if you want this for free, it will be hard, and will take time. If you don't want to work that hard for this or don't really have the time, you will have to invest some money into this. Now that you know what is required, lets get further into the PTC world.
There are 3 kinds of PTC:
- Bux(Bucks). The bux kind normally offers 4 of $0.01(1 cent) per 30 second ads. That's what most bux offer in total, some may have games or lotteries, but that's just a variable.
HERE ARE SOME OF TRUSTED BUX SITES:
1. NEOBUX
2. BUX-MATRIX
3. INCRASEBUX
4. ONBUX
5. CLIXSENSE
6. BUXIFY
7. PALMBUX
8. OMNIBUX
9. JPHFBUX
10. WORDLINX
- Auroras -They are totally different. While bux tends to "care" more about their clicking members auroras have very much lower rates. They offer around 20-200 ads that pay from $0.001(1/10 cent) to $0.0001(1/100 cent) per 5-20 seconds.
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF LEGIT AURORAS:
1. WARPBUX
2. BUXP.INFO
3. PPLINX
4. INCENTRIA
5. INDOCLIX
6. DONKEYMAILS
7. CLOCKPAY.NET
8. CLICKITE
9. CLICKSIA
10. SIMPLYCLIX
- Traffic Exchanges. These sites are committed to the trading of website hits. There are auto surfers/manual surf, 5-30 second ads and 2:1, 1:1, 5:4 and many other rates (sites you see, times your website is seen).
1. EASYHITS4U
2. HIT724
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