PB011: Create 10 Blog Post Ideas for your Blog [Day 11 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]

How to Come Up with Hundreds of Blog Post Ideas for Your Blog Day 11 is one of my favourite days and one that is going to pay off over the next few days and weeks of blogging. It's all about answering that question 'what should I blog about today???' that may bloggers struggle a lot with each day when they sit down to blog. The idea today is to spend some time ahead of time answering that question so that next time you sit down to blog you can get straight into creating some great content. You can listen to todays episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also love to get your reviews). In todays Episode A trap that many bloggers face when it comes to coming up with ideas for their blog Two reasons why brainstorming ahead of time what to write about is so important A process I used on Digital Photography School to come up with hundreds of blog post ideas (enough for my first couple of years of blogging) A variety of other techniques and suggestions for coming up with blog post ideas - some which are based upon some of the previous episodes in this podcast series including setting up alerts and subscriptions you set up yesterday, emailing a reader, heading to the forum or group you've joined, social media accounts etc How to tap into your own problems, questions and challenges to get content ideas The challenge to set up an ideas collection system (I mention I use Evernote) A couple of visuals from the exercise I suggest today: 1. describe the change you want to take your blog readers through: 2. break down that change that you wish to bring: Your Challenge Today Brainstorm at least 10 blog post ideas that you could use in the days and weeks ahead. If you can come up with more - please keep going while they're flowing but do capture them! Don't get into writing the posts yet - just brainstorm. Tomorrow we'll take the ideas to do something with them so tune back in then with your ideas ready. Further Reading on Todays Challenge How to Consistently Come up With Great Content Ideas for Your Blog How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers 5 Sources of Ideas for My Blog Posts Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping 27 Killer Strategies for Brainstorming Blog Post Ideas - JeffBullas.com Brainstorming: Generating Many Radical, Creative Ideas - MindTools.com Video: 6 Creative Ways to Brainstorm Ideas 7 Quick Ways to Brainstorm for Blog Post Topics - Random Little Faves And Sarah Schultz even has a free printable and great post at Why Brainstorming is Essential to Blogging. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Welcome to the ProBlogger podcast, episode 11 and day 11 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, your challenge is to come up with at least 10 blog post ideas for future posts on your blog. In today's episode, I'm going to share with you one technique that I used to come up with hundreds of ideas for the first couple of years of my blog at Digital Photography School. I'll also share some alternative techniques that you might like to use to get some inspiration. Today's topic is so important. Many bloggers get stuck at this idea stage of creating content, so hopefully, it will give you a head start on that. Today's show notes, with some further reading and the tools mentioned in the show, are at problogger.com/podcast/11. There's also an opportunity on those show notes to connect with what others are doing in the challenge.  Before we get into it, a couple of answers to questions I've had over the last few days. One is around how frequently should you be doing these challenges. I know some of you are doing them on a daily basis as I'm publishing them. But if you don't have time, don't feel that you have to do them daily. I know some of you are doing them every second ...