1000 Blog Posts Idea – Start Blogging Today

Even with the onset of ‘content saturation‘ (aka Content Fatigue) there really is a lot to blog about, here are some of the blog posts ideas that you can implement:

PERSONAL & GENERAL INTEREST

1. Blog about self-improvement – a positive start
2. Self-hypnosis, meditation and relaxation – after all the world is a busy, noisy place
3. Learning a new language
4. Personal development i.e. the passions you pursue
5. Your hobbies
6. Pets (but not cooking them)
7. Photography tastes – avoid pornography
8. Your personal adventures
9. Publish your curriculum vitae
10. Write a full and informative blog all about you
11. Handwrite a post, scan it, publish it – be different, be legible
12. Write a poem
13. Draw a picture
14. Record a video
15. Tell people of your guilty pleasures – within reason
16. DIY projects, no matter how tedious make them interesting
17. Personal plights and fights; an open and honest letter to yourself for all to read
18. Childhood memories, not too dark/morbid unless it fits your blog topic
19. The inspiration behind what you do
20. Your first rejection
21. Your first big win
22. What you spend money on
23. Your ideas, patented or otherwise, that failed to launch

LIFE & HEALTH

24. Career vs job vs life – what have your learnt
25. Health and fitness ideas/routines for busy people
26. Travel musings – on a budget or splashing out
27. How to improve your social and communication skills
28. Your favourite recipes – how you feel eating them, any health/work/life benefits
29. Practise of self-defence and martial arts – or just carry a can of pepper spray
30. Meat or veg
31. Extreme sports
32. Not extreme sports, it’s perfectly fine to like chess – your move
33. Any charitable exploits? Talk about your philanthropy
34. Write about life hacks – take the edge off the daily grind

YOUR (HONEST) OPINION

35. Do a general rant post – because sometimes it’s okay to vent
36. Review a book in your niche
37. Writing about writing styles
38. Review a film that inspires you
39. Review a product that makes your life/work better
40. Share your goals and dreams, publicly
41. Write a post in response to some recent post/news
42. Become a myth buster – find false information and correct it
43. Pose a rhetorical question
44. Tell people of your last/latest event/conference experience
45. Find an interesting quote on Twitter, give your response
46. Review a website you like
47. Review a website you really don’t like
48. Review your favourite online audio blogs and podcasts
49. Review the very last product your bought
50. Pros and cons post about anything that interests you
51. Review a recent webinar you attended
52. A book you wish you’d written
53. Books you want to write, when blogging isn’t getting in the way
54. The future of X is Y
55. Rip apart an industry pro’s thing (constructively)

CUSTOMER FOCUSED

56. Turn an email conversation in to a blog post – with the other person’s consent of course
57. Create an A-Z of your industry in a big post
58. Write a real-life account of something good – true stories that inspire people
59. Common misconceptions about a specific issue
60. How to fix something your customer needs fixing
61. Do a promotional post about your product/service/thing
62. Product/service tips post to get the best/most out of your thing
63. Comparison post, promoting your thing vs another thing – let’s hope you have a thing!
64. Start a poll – ask meaningful questions
65. Record a call with a customer on their pain point – produce notes and takeaways

COMMUNITY SPIRIT & INTERACTION

66. Run a blog contest – promoted it well, make the prize worth of someone’s time
67. Start a debate! Remember to listen
68. Present an existing debate’s pro/cons as objectively as you can
69. Run an interactive survey
70. Build a list of your readers – tell them about it
71. Interview someone about their great story/career/work/life/alien encounter
72. Share an interesting infographic – with annotation
73. Create and share an infographic of your own design
74. Consider a motivational group writing exercise to distil wisdom
75. Write an inspirational/motivational post with famous quotes
76. Share recent life experiences with your reader that is relevant to them too
77. Host an exclusive giveaway for your community of readers
78. Turn your blog comments into “do-follow” links – announce it and get more comments, with spam included (one to test)
79. Compile and publish the best comments from your blog’s history or the current year
80. Ask readers to share their favourite posts, compile a post
81. Answer every single comment personally – craft a post around the responses
82. Post about your experiences with blogging, the good, the bad and the ugly
83. Ask for feedback on your blog, in a blog, citing the good stuff and updating/refreshing the not so good stuff
84. Ask for further feedback on the revised articles – improving old and existing blogs further
85. Invite industry experts to comment on your blog – turn that interaction in to a content piece of its own

HUMOUR & UNUSUAL IDEAS

86. Post an obvious lie – but don’t go overboard
87. Write about a conspiracy theory – agree with it, or dispel it with your own
88. Show the log file of how an intense conversation unfolded and the conclusion
89. Write a short story
90. Write a longer story – who said blogs had to be under a certain number of words?
91. Tell the world about your cooking and the reason for your divorce
92. Write a satirical piece
93. Extremely exaggerate about something – blow it out of all proportions for maximum impact
94. Make a post of humorous GIFs
95. Meme post – everyone loves/hates a meme!
96. Share your favourite photos in a post
97. Lampoon a stuffy or serious subject – use the word lampoon more often
98. Add a twist of fun and your own commentary on pop culture
99. Blog about your bad habits and their consequences – bodily fluids need not apply
100. Draw up a bucket list
101. The ‘somebody had to say it’ blog post – an earnest account
102. Compile a list of your favourite jokes
103. Compile a list of awful jokes
104. How to learn X in Y days – put your mind to something and you can do it
105. Building Noah’s Ark whilst nobody is watching – not sure why
106. Cycling naked in a Scandinavian country
107. Commuting – love it or hate it, most of us do it; discuss
108. A list of killer blog topic ideas
109. A deleted chapter from your blog that should never be published, but you just published it
110. More outtakes and gaffs – a warts n’ all approach to blogging
111. You tried something new. It failed, miserably. Tell people!
112. Compile a list of fellow authors/bloggers portraits and rate them – like Tinder for writers, but hopefully less pervy. Seriously, don’t weird people out too much
113. Write a love letter to someone famous
114. Write an open letter to a celebrity about something weird
115. Write about your time incarcerated after writing the above open letter
116. Write a parody
117. Create a hoax post even though it’s not April fools day. Ask for forgiveness later
118. Dating tips for strangers
119. Improving your sex life with technology
120. A candid commentary on becoming a better person
121. If you were a superhero, who would you be and what super power would you wield
122. What aliens would think of X if they landed here

SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIFIC

123. How you use X social platform daily/weekly/on occasion/never
124. The results of promoting your work/blog on social media – what you did right, what you might change next time
125. The community/platform you love and why
126. The best bits of social media
127. The worst bits of social media
128. The anti-social bits of social media
129. Twitter moves too fast, nobody hears me – or a similar sentiment
130. How to use social to drive traffic to your website – a hot topic, always
131. Handling your critics
132. Crowdsource your next topic and write your article accordingly
133. Quote post, but not just famous people – quote people that [should] matter to you and your readers
134. Pick of the week from social media
135. People to follow on Twitter – embed their tweets in your content
136. Influencers to follow on LinkedIn
137. The best LinkedIn groups for your niche
138. The best Google groups for your industry/niche
139. Compile a list of interesting people in a Twitter list – write about it, share the list
140. Facebook pages worth liking and sharing
141. How to make social media work for your industry
142. Write about a trending Twitter hashtag and/or topic with quotes and comments from real Tweeters

WORK, CAREER & JOB LIFE

143. Working in uncommon fields of expertise
144. Working location independence
145. Build your to-do list for all to see
146. Describe what would happen if you worked for a company you aspire to work for
147. Write down all the thoughts you had in mind today
148. Write about a big work regret
149. Most important life lessons that impacted work
150. Your work/success secrets
151. Interview partners and team members
152. Remote versus office based working findings
153. How to get a job at your place – if your place is worth working for
154. What your look for when hiring people
155. Who you’ve fired and why you fired them
156. Land your dream job in your industry

GENERAL BUSINESS ADVICE

157. Make a full case study about something you did at work
158. Share your favourite industry blogs/bloggers in one post
159. Share your favourite industry experts/leads in a post
160. Invite your readers to submit guest posts
161. Write about a big win or big failure
162. The marketing that worked for you
163. The marketing that burnt your money
164. The marketing that you hate
165. Help your readers succeed in something you know a lot about
166. Tell your readers about the potential pitfalls and mistakes
167. Tell your boss/staff what you really think (in a positive way)
168. Mobile apps to improve workflow
169. Offline business outside of blogging
170. How to maintain a healthy office environment
171. Publish an eBook about your business niche
172. Presenting advice – avoiding PowerPoint where possible

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

173. Offer advice to your industry to gain contacts
174. Research and analyse a topic – ensure a high level of accuracy
175. Do a round-up of great content from around the web
176. Conduct a round-up of your best/most popular content
177. Highlight a key player in your field, dissect their success
178. Write about a hotly contested topic, add a contrarian twist
179. Write an online course about what you do
180. Publish an eBook using your best bits and highlights
181. Curate someone else’s work with your own commentary
182. Compile a list of common mistakes in your industry
183. Compile a list of not-so-common but equally as important problems in your niche
184. Write about the future and what to expect
185. Write about the past and what should be learnt
186. Write an episodic series of posts – entice your readers to come back for more
187. End your last post on a cliff-hanger – keep your readers in suspense
188. Run a Q&A on your favourite social platform, publish the results
189. Curate a list of people in your niche worth following, their blogs and social accounts
190. Create a video of yourself discussing hot topics
191. Create a video of yourself summarising your own content
192. Chair a group discussion on Skype, Google Hangouts or similar
193. Write an inspirational post to display your humanity

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

194. Write about #GrowthHacking – it’s bang on trend
195. Educational posts for fellow entrepreneurs and business folk
196. Educational posts for budding entrepreneurs
197. Say yes to everything – write about the results
198. Say no to way more stuff – you’ll have a lot of time to write about it!
199. The art of doing and getting what you want (or at least trying to)
200. Find historical/archive information and revive it with a modern twist
201. Behind the scenes post – what goes on behind the closed door when you’re creating your content, or similar
202. Tell people about public figures that have something to say
203. Write about the plight of the celebrity and their relevance to your industry
204. Public speaking tips

FACTS & FIGURES

205. Publish a list of statistics and cite their sources – reach out to sources to promote your article
206. Talk about bizarre/unknown facts – add interest and intrigue
207. Share your blogs traffic numbers and the story behind them
208. Reveal your blogs earnings – if you monetise it through affiliate marketing, ads and the like
209. Reference an important historical date – ‘on this day in history’
210. Visualise data in charts
211. Economic commentary and effects on your industry
212. Running a business discussing growth and the numbers
213. Piggyback on a current trend – go all nerdy on the data/analytical/statistical edge
214. Write about a dominant element in your niche that surrounds numbers or data
215. Do a test post – proving and disproving theories and ideas
216. Turn all your data into an interesting infographic

TECHNOLOGY

217. Dissect the gadgets you don’t like in negative detail
218. Tell people about the gadgets you love and why they should love them too
219. Old tech you miss and why
220. New tech you love and why/how it enriches life
221. Muse over new tech that is a waste of carbon
222. Blog about the best app in your niche
223. Write about how life would be worse/better with a robot wife/husband
224. Review and/or compare software that you use on a daily basis
225. Record and publish a video version of your blog post – exhibiting the gadget in all it’s glory
226. Craft a list of useful online tools that your readers will find useful
227. Blog and web design for non-designers – good for SME/SMB audiences
228. The free plugins and scripts you use to get ahead
229. The paid plugins and scripts you use to get an edge
230. The developer/designer/agency you use to take the strain
231. A case study about the above experience – free/paid/outsourced/etc
232. A frank discussion and findings about working with X – X being a person, a product or a company
233. Write about internet transparency and the right to be forgotten, or the fact you have nothing to hide and don’t really care

RESOURCEFUL & VALUABLE

234. An in-depth research post with a whitepaper/report to download and takeaway
235. Create a list of something with value that is truly meaningful and useful
236. Find your favourite single blog post, go one step better, bigger and in more detail
237. Similar to the above, do a genuine ‘ultimate’ post on something – but make sure it really is the ultimate post out there
238. A general news post for your industry
239. Definition post about a specific thing
240. Collate a list of useful tools
241. Write a frequently asked questions (FAQ) list – collect additional information from your comments and add them to your blog post
242. Write a should ask questions (SAQ) article – for all those questions people don’t think about but really should
243. Compile a list of useful guides and eBooks that you didn’t write
244. Share discount codes for products and services you use
245. Share your processes and procedures – help people work smarter
246. Create a glossary for your industry buzz and jargon
247. How to write better – because people worry too much about writing
248. How not to write better and just go with it – because people shouldn’t care
249. How-to guides and teaching on your favourite subject
250. Blog your progress through your favourite non-fiction book – share the advice and tips received
251. How to save money on X by doing Y
252. A mash-up, from the above, of lots of helpful ‘stuff’ for your readers – the helpful yet somewhat schizophrenic post
253. Your top blogs of reference and reading for a particular subject matter
254. Segment an infographic and discuss each portion in more detail – because people rarely do this
255. A list of steps to take before you can achieve something
256. Link to another blog and share your thoughts/rebuttal
257. Recap posts – your own and others from around the web
258. Write a cheatsheet
259. Write a list that will genuinely help your readers save time doing whatever it is your readers [typically] do
260. Project breakdown, experience, process and outcomes
261. Create a crashcourse – get people to sign-up for ongoing updates
262. Share your favourite online graphic/images resources
263. Share your favourite online audio blogs and podcasts
264. Do a screencast for your readers – keep your clothes on
265. Borrow someone else’s brain – write a joint collaborative piece
266. Recycle old content, re-mix it, mash-it, update-it and re-hash it

If you re-purposed all the ideas in to written, image, audio and video formats, the above list amounts to some 1,000+ blog post ideas. That should keep you busy for a few years!