Successful blog post ideas

Posted on July 16, 2008

If you are preparing for your next post, you might be thinking what is the best blog post idea to write about, something that can be attractive and useful to your readers, something that can generate and bring you a lot of traffic from search engines and give you backlinks from other blogs.

This post will provide you with the most successful blog post ideas, I recommend to use all of them in your blog posts and not to focus on just one of those ideas, this will give your blog some kind of variation.

1- Reviews & Comparisons

I consider this to be the king of all blog posts. A review is actually of real benefit and readers usually look for in search engines , however its success depends on the quality of the review that you write.

There are tons of reviews that you can write about, you can write a review about an interesting book, a quality product that you tried or know something about, a quality service or you can even write a review about a blog.

Things to care about when writing a review

Don’t write a review by just copying from another reviews, you should bring your own experience into what you write otherwise it will be of no value.
Write about something your readers need to know.
Reveal points of strength and weakness of the product.
Include comparisons with other products & services.
Include links to other resources.

2- Tutorials

Tutorials attract a large portion of readers who want to know how to do certain things and tasks. Write a good tutorial and it’s guaranteed that your post will be spread among dozens of other blogs.

3- News & Events

Feed interested readers who are always looking for what’s new and up to the stage. Try to be unique in writing about any news or events, put your touch and make it different from other routine news articles.

4- Blog Carnivals & Free Resources

Write a list of links to free resources about a certain topic, this will act as a reference for readers who are interested in such topic. It’s much similar to a blog carnival, you can check this post if you aren’t familiar with the term.

5- Interviews

Make an interview with another blogger or expert in some field, prepare a list of well chosen questions that will make your interview sounds interesting and useful as well.

6- Personal Event or Case Study

Write about a personal event or discuss a specific case from your own point of view, don’t rush into writing nonsense personal stories or events, keep remembering that the key point for the success of your post is adding something of real value.

Do you suggest any other successful blog ideas?

If you have any other blog post idea that you tried and consider as a successful one, feel free to contact me or leave a comment to include it in this post.

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11 Comments so far

blogbookmark.com, on July 16, 2008 at 6:41 pm

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…..what is the best blog post idea to write about, something that can be attractive and useful to your readers, something that can generate and bring you a lot of traffic from search engines a…
Marelisa, on July 16, 2008 at 7:13 pm

These are all great tips. I think people also like blog posts that make them laugh or posts that make them think (”Oh, that makes sense, I hadn’t thought about it that way.”)
admin, on July 16, 2008 at 7:22 pm

Hi Marelisa,

Humor posts, that’s a good addition, thanks for mentioning it!
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Ellen Wilson, on July 16, 2008 at 7:51 pm

I try to vary it a bit so people don’t get bored. Or me either for that matter. Honestly, I don’t know what people like. I like your list here. There are a lot of great ideas. E
Sara at On Simplicity, on July 17, 2008 at 6:07 am

I like what you’ve listed. Tutorials have been interesting to do, and have gotten mixed reactions, mostly good.

I’ve also had a lot of fun–and some great success in building community–by just asking simple questions. If the question is engaging enough, you can get a lot of participation. I love that I get to learn more about the people I interact with on these, plus their answers can spark even more ideas for posts!
admin, on July 17, 2008 at 6:09 am

Hi Ellen,

You are right, it’s a challenge to keep your readers interested all the time. Sometimes, comments aren’t enough to determine the success of an article. I prefer to see how much a post has been called through search engines as well.

However, we should keep trying, thanks for your comment!
admin, on July 17, 2008 at 6:13 am

Hi Sara,

I usually get new ideas from comments as well, I consider reaching a good post idea as a real analytical task.
Ellen Wilson, on July 19, 2008 at 9:57 pm

Good idea, I never thought of that - having a search engine check out a post. How do you do that? Just paste it in Google? Also, I was trying to figure out page rank yesterday and for the life of me I thought this was a free service from Google. I could not find it anywhere, and there were a couple of sites where you had to pay. That doesn’t seem right. If anyone knows, please let me know.
admin, on July 19, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Hi Ellen,

I mean checking how many readers came to my post through search engines by searching for a specific keywords or phrases, I consider this as a successful post from the point of Search Engine Optimization, your question sparked a good future post idea that I might write about in the future

Regarding the Page Rank thing, you can check it for free at this url: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Don’t get disappointed about it anyway, it takes some time to get a good rank, i am still doing that, good luck!
Barbara Swafford, on July 22, 2008 at 2:39 am

I’m currently running an interview series on my blog right now with Lorelle, a favorite blogger and mentor to me.

All of your ideas are superb and create great ideas to build off of for future posts.