Starter Posts for Niche Blogs
Starting a niche blog does require planning, and you may feel overwhelmed with trying to find ideas or topics about.
It’s good to remember your job as a blogger is to educate, inform, entertain, or persuade your audience. It doesn’t matter what your niche blog is about – your goal is to provide information to your readers so they can make the best decision. Help your readers solve a problem or answer a question and you will have a reader for life.
Here’s a list of starter articles perfect for any niche blog.
Educational Posts
Write a blog post that is easy for grade school children to understand. Building a blog and monitoring traffic is a great science fair project that teaches analytics and search engine optimization. It’s also a great tool to use for presentations and to include in their daily homework.
Explain it to a 5th Grader
Write a blog post that is easy for grade school children to understand. Building a blog and monitoring traffic is a great science fair project that teaches analytics and search engine optimization. It’s also a great tool to use for presentations and to include in their daily homework.
“Explain it to a 5th grader” comes from the point of view that you are writing it for a beginner with limited to no knowledge on the topic. It a
How-to-guide : Step by Step
Write a step-by-step post for a specific task or how to accomplish a goal.
Don't Make the Same Mistakes as I did
Help your readers save themselves time and money by discussing mistakes you’ve made ,how you learned from them, and how to prevent making the same mistake.
Informative Posts
When writing informative posts, you want to provide unbiased and factual information about current events, activities, or news.
Resource Lists
Collect a list of resources for your niche, and explain why they are valuable.
Comparison's Guide
Compare different products and services in an easy to read format. Do side by side compairsons along with pricing to find out what your readers like best.
Product Launches
Discuss upcoming product launches and explain the hype around them.
Product Reviews
Review products and services in your niche, and give them a 1 – 5 star rating.
Upcoming Events
When writing informative posts, you want to provide unbiased and factual information about current events, activities, or news.
When writing educational posts, stick to the facts. Avoid biased language when writing educational posts.
Write an extensive beginner’s guide to your chosen niche that leads your reader to completed goals.
Entertaining Posts
Sometimes, your reader may just want to be entertained. This may include movie reviews, celebrity gossip, short stories, poems, jokes, or strong opinion pieces.
Humor Article
Make your reader laugh.
Photography Posts
Create a blog post that has photos of your niche.
For example, if you are starting a blog about aquariums, write an article that leads the novice aquarium owner specific step-by-step details in setting up a new fish tank.
Short Stories
Create a short story with your niche as the centerpiece.
Starting a niche blog does require planning, and you may feel overwhelmed with trying to find ideas or topics about.
It’s good to remember your job as a blogger is to educate, inform, entertain, or persuade your audience. It doesn’t matter what your niche blog is about – your goal is to provide information to your readers so they can make the best decision.
Here’s a list of 30 starter articles perfect for any niche blog.
Persuasive Posts
Persuasive posts are written with the intention of swaying your readers’ opinions.
Opinion Piece
Do you have strong opinions of a paticular topic? Sound off and see how other people feel about the same topic. Start a discussion in the comments section.
Political Piece
Create a political piece and how it relates to the future impact on your said niche. This piece can be biased towards your political affiliation.
Buy this Product Now
Select a product that you are affiliated with and stand behind, and write an extensive review. Discuss how it compares to other products in your niche. You are trying to convince your reader to buy this product by showing all the ways they can benefit from the said product / service.
Long Sales Letter
Write a 2,500k word long sales letter and optimize it for your niche keyword. Write this letter in a way that makes your reader want and need the product.
In Conclusion
Now it’s time to go put on your thinking cap and get to the actual work. Create posts that solve your readers’ problems. Answer the who, what, where, when, why, how questions that your readers are searching for, and you’ll start seeing sales in no time. Remember to monitor your Google Analytics and see what posts are preforming well, or join semrush to get access to special keyword research tools.
Good luck & Godspeed
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