14 Blog Post Ideas to Un-Boring Your Blog

You’ve no doubt heard the advice that you should vary the length of your sentences so as not to put your reader to sleep. The same can be said of your blog posts. If you always write using the same format, your readers will get bored. You will get bored. Even Google will get bored.

Okay, Google won’t get bored. Google is a computer and is incapable of getting bored. Yet.

You still need to mix things up a bit to keep your blog interesting, though, so here are 14 types of blog posts you can write instead of that boring old beginning-middle-end post you keep repeating.

• List Post. This is a list post. Pretty self-explanatory.
• How-To. How To Install Microsoft Exchange Server; Bathe a Puppy; Save the World. Not all in the same post, though.
• Product Review. This kind of blog post ties in really well with an affiliate program, just in case you want to get paid someday.
• 7 Tips. This is just a different kind of list article. It doesn’t have to be 7 tips, but it should be an odd number. I don’t know why. Just because.
• Tell a Story. Everyone loves a good story. Tell us why you finally upgraded to Windows 7, or how you discovered that you’re allergic to mink, or what you learned about email marketing while you were on vacation.
• Interview an Expert. Email interviews are super easy to conduct, and take very little cleanup to become a blog post.
• Answer a Reader Question. Don’t have a reader or a question? No problem. Go find a question on a forum or on Yahoo! answers and answer that.
• Video Post. Set up that new Flip Mino you got for Christmas and just start talking. You don’t have to be a television anchor to do this. In fact, you’ll probably get a better response if you just concentrate on being you.
• Case Study. Did you split test your Aweber sign-up page? Change your cat’s shampoo? Try to pass off tofu as chicken to your kids? Write up a case study with the results of your experiment.
• Industry News. No matter what niche you’re in, there is news about it. Check out PR Web for press releases, set up Google alerts with your keywords, and search Twitter to find out what’s happening in your market.
• Best of the Web. This is just a round-up of the best blog posts in your niche, and is a popular choice for a weekend series.
• Best of Your Blog. These are always big around the end of the year. They’re also known as “sneeze pages” (marvelous image, huh?) and are not only easy to write, but great for your internal linking structure.
• Debate a Controversy. This is a fabulous way to get lots and lots of comments. Nothing like a good debate to stir things up.
• Compare Two Unlikely Things. How Chinese Buffets Remind Me of Blogging, or How Choosing a Day Care Provider is Like Getting a Root Canal.
• Start a Blog Series. Like Monday Marketing, Temptation Tuesday, or Funny Friday. You’ll have at least one day’s post figured out every week. And no, you don’t have to be alliterative about it.

These 14 ideas are just the beginning. There are many more post formats you can use to spice up your blogging day. Got a favorite? Share with us in the comments section.

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