You will not always have something to talk about in your niche blog. Even if it’s a personal blog, you will reach your saturation point. You will start asking “what else can I talk about”, “do I really want to talk about this” and “I’m not really earning so what’s the use of still writing on this blog?”.
If like me you over-analyse posts and issues, then you probably have had some trouble writing posts day after day, week after week. Some people say “just write”, but it’s not that simple. Here are some of the things that worked for me when I have writer’s block.
1. Use a Keyword in a Sentence
This is a little game I play when I really don’t have anything to write about. Go back to your blog’s roots and think of why you started it in the first place. What was your main toipic? What is your blog about? Get that keyword and write out titles on paper. Having a list of sentences with your keyword in them will recharge your brain. Soon, thoughts and ideas will start pouring.
“Use this word in a sentence” is also a game I play when thinking of new domains to buy.
2. Category Contest
Does it seem like you’re always talking about the same thing, and one category is outdoing the others in terms of post number? Why not increase the post count in the other categories so it’s all balanced? What I love most about wordpress was the fact that I can categorize posts, instead of just “tagging” (like in blogspot).
3. Google Trends
If you’re really opinionated, you can write out your opinion on every hot topic that’s being searched on Google Trends. This works for personal blogs, or blogs I fondly call FFA (free-for-all). You might see some blogs that don’t have a set niche, but upon closer inspection, there IS a niche: the blogger’s opinions.
These blogs also have the potential to earn a lot by joining review me or SR. Just find a category that you like and take all blogging requests related to that category.
4. Google Alerts
Again, your main blog’s topic comes into play when you use google alerts to craft blogposts. Just set up a google alert on your gmail for a particular word or a set of related keywords and let the big G’s system send in news stories and blogposts related to your topic. You can spend 5 minutes browsing through these sites and selecting the most relevant ones. Your next blog posts can contain your “reaction” to these alerts.
5. PLR
a.k.a. Private Label Rights. These are ready-made posts you can use to update your niche blog. Competition for traffic and eyeballs is so intense right now that ghostwritten articles have become staples for website owners (I should know, I get hired to write on several blogs, and the requests are pouring).
What you need to know about PLR is that you have to edit it, or hire someone to edit it for you so that the article gets personalized and tailored to fit your blog. You also share the rights to the articles with several other people (most PLR sites have thousands and thousands of members, like my favorite, All PLR), so rewriting is necessary.
