If you’re a blogger, creating content weekly or even daily can be a challenge. If you’re writing articles for a living, then you’re probably facing similar problems. How do you find topics to write about?
One of my favorite ways is the list post. Everyone has written them. Let’s take a recent one of mine for example.
50 Ways to Improve Your Health
If you’re looking for article topics or more post topics, then try expanding an entry into a post or article. Again, let’s take “meditate” from the article and work on that. Here are some samples to get you started.
- Learn to meditate
- Types of meditation
- Benefits of meditation
- Meditation and spirituality
- Meditation and relaxation
- Advanced meditation techniques
You get the point, I’m sure.
One benefit is that you can do research on one topic, meditation in this case, and then use that research in multiple posts or articles. If you’re only making $10 or $20 per article, then it’s to your advantage to write more articles from the same amount of background research.
If you’re a blogger, then turn the posts into a series on your site.
What, you don’t have any list posts of your own to mine? Use others’ posts for inspiration, but be a good internet citizen and give credit for your inspiration.
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