50 Traffic-Driving Blog Post Ideas

As a blog editor, I find that more than getting writers, calls to action, editorial calendars and great photos, I’m helping writers discover topics and format great posts. Surely I’m not the only editor helping these bloggers, so here are 50 ideas to share. Steal ‘em, share ‘em, and bookmark ‘em. I know I will.

50 Ideas to Drive Blog Traffic

1. How-To/Tutorial
2. List (like this one!)
3. Thought leaders interview
4. Customer interview
5. Late-breaking industry news
6. Company news
7. Book excerpt (with permission)
8. Thought leader guest post
9. CEO guest post
10. Event recap
11. Crowdsource
12. Statistics
13. Customer story
14. Parody
15. What if?
16. What not to do
17. Video blog (vlog)
18. FAQs
19. Pull ebook chapters
20. Checklist
21. Cheat sheet
22. Dissect a Slideshare presentation
23. Success stories
24. Infographics
25. Survey or poll
26. Quiz
27. Contest
28. Product announcement
29. Make jokes
30. Employee or event photos
31. Webinar recap
32. Event promotion
33. Top posts
34. Top ebooks
35. Top webinars
36. Top videos
37. Favorite books
38. Favorite podcasts
39. Favorite videos
40. Research findings
41. Embedded Tweets
42. Tell a story
43. Syndicate content from other blogs
44. Summarize your results
45. Solve customer problems
46. Compare your job to bacon
47. Live blog
48. Write about a new team member
49. Draw a cartoon
50. Give kudos

What other blog posts are you writing? Share your ideas with me at @amandalnelson. I’ll probably blog about them.

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