5 Blog Posts That Might Capture Your Interest

  1. Interviews –
    1. Sometimes when you’ve run out of insightful things to say it might be a good idea to let someone else do the talking in an interview (or a guest post).
    2. This is a great way to not only give your readers a relevant expert’s opinion but to perhaps even learn something about the topic you’re writing yourself. One tip if you’re approaching people for an interview on your blog – don’t overwhelm them with questions.
    3. One of two good questions are more likely to get you a response than a long list of poorly thought through ones.
    4. Q&As with high profile people. Interviews with well-known bloggers always seem to get links, comments and traffic. The nice thing about this method is that the only work involved is writing questions and approaching bloggers. The success rates for getting interviews are pretty high as most bloggers love talking about themselves!
  2. Case Studies –
    1. Another popular type of post here at ProBlogger have been those where I’ve taken another blog and profiled them and how they use their site to earn money from their blogging.).
    2. Sometimes these are more like a review post but on occasion I’ve also added some instructional content to them and made some suggestions on how I’d improve them.
    3. Case studies don’t have to be on other websites of course – there are many opportunities to do case studies in different niches.
  3. Profiles –
    1. Profile posts are similar to case studies but focus in on a particular person.
    2. Pick an interesting personality in your niche and do a little research on them to present to your readers.
    3. Point out how they’ve reached the position they are in and write about the characteristics that they have that others in your niche might like to develop to be successful.
  4. Link Posts –
    1. The good old ‘link post’ is a favorite of many bloggers and is simply a matter of finding a quality post on another site or blog and linking up to it either
    2. with an explanation of the blog post and
    3. why you’re linking up, a comment on your take on the topic and/or a quote from the post.
    4. Of course adding your own comments makes these posts more original and useful to your readers. The more original content the better but don’t be afraid to bounce off others in this way.
  5. Contrasting two options –
    1. Life is full of decisions between two or more options. Write a post contrasting two products, services or approaches
    2. that outlines the positives and negatives of each choice. In a sense these are review posts but are a little wider in focus.
    3. I find that these posts do very well on some of my product blogs where people actually search for ‘X Product comparison to Y Product’ quite a bit.



July 28th, 2009 by Randy Eagar

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