So you have your blog up and running, you made a number of blog posts and saw a trickle of traffic to your site. You are now excited and want more posts to go up and generate more traffic making you blog popular!

Lets face it unless you are a born writer soon or later you gona start running out of ideas on what to write about. And through desperation turn to content generation and loose the personal touch! Well don’t despair as help is always there, you just have to know the right people and associate yourself with them.

As a blogger you will want to associate yourself with pro bloggers like Yaro Starak, Alvin Phang, John Yeo, Justin Brooke and the maestro of Problogger.net Darren Rowse just to name a few – if you haven’t yet I would suggest you join these pro bloggers mailing list, you will be surprised at the amount of ideas their emails can generate for you to write about.

As an example, Alvin Phang (Read the name list at the end of this blog) sent me an email recently giving advice on what to write about – thats where I go the idea about this post – anyways here is what he wrote: (These are his words – I have not changed them in any way)

We know that blogging can be very hard and
sometimes takes up lots of time and effort
to thing of ideas to post about.

Here are 5 great ideas you can use to generate
your blog post

1. Write about what you did today at work or
at home

Most often people will not bother about what
you actually do or achieve, but one thing I
noticed when you blog about something you are
complaining about or talking nice about someone,
there are people actually interested in these
stuff and people will actually comment to agree!

Caution when you blog about those topics, not
to put in names or companies names to prevent
being sued. A famous local blogger named XieXue
actually talks about the government and uses
lots of bad words and interestingly there are
people so interested in her blog.

She currently get daily 10,000 visitors just
to listen about her lifestyle, seems like she
is another Paris Hilton but Singapore version.

2. Compile a list of 5 problems you encounter
about your business or work and write about them

You can actually sit down and compile 5 of
your latest problems and you can write about
the current problem people faced or if possible
also include in solutions to the problems.
The better you are at blogging about solving
people’s problems your blog content will be
of more quality.

3. Review people’s blog

When I first started, I did not know what to
write as what many bloggers are facing daily.
So the next thing I would do was talk about
other people’s blog.

Here are a list of thing you can talk about
other people’s blog
- What you learn their blog
- Why do you actually frequent that blog?
- Talk about topics the blogger talk about

4. Read articles online and duplicate content

I love to do this the most as I not only improve
my knowledge but about able to generate more
ideas for my business. Normally what I would do
is visit a article directory and just type in
the keyword I am interested to blog about.

Next I will read about 2 to 3 articles and I
will copy their content but rephrase them into
my own words. Warning about doing this, you
cannot copy any sentence from the article as
in the past I got a complain email just by
copying 1 sentence of an article so do
ensure you rephrase every word there is.

5. Blog about your experience

I find this the most meaningful and you will
be suprised when you start to blog about your
experience, people will be able to relate
to what you write and respond!

But do not simply blog about good experiences
you must also share bad experiences too so that
you can tell people what to avoid when you blogging
it.

So put them in use and you find you will have
no problems finding ideas to post on your blog.

I hope you too can draw some inspiration from the advice given and continue generating great post for your readers. Care to share your unique way of generating ideas for your post? Leave a comment bellow

As for the list of Pro Bloggers – I’ve had a 2nd thought since this post is already too long, I am going to set up a page dedicated to them and what they do. Watch this space Pro Blogger’s page coming soon