A blog post can be just a few sentences or many paragraphs. Some blog posts include an image and no text, whereas others might contain a complete tutorial or an online lesson teaching readers how to accomplish a task. Think about your audience (or at least the audience you want to have read your blog content) as you write your blog posts and create content that would appeal to them. The variety of blog posts in the following list gives you a starting place to help write your own blog posts.
✓ Current events: Write about something you heard about in the news.
✓ How-to or tutorials: Share your expertise in your blog topic by writing a tutorial or instructions to help your readers accomplish a task or an activity.
✓ Interviews: Contact a prominent person who works in a field related to your blog topic and interview her for a blog post.
✓ Link love: Find interesting blog posts across the blogosphere that are related to your blog topic and publish a post that provides links to those posts to help your readers find new blogs and to help you connect with other bloggers.
✓ Lists: Write your top five tips or suggestions or your top ten must-have products to help your blog readers. Alternatively, write a list of don’ts or a similar list of warnings.
✓ Opinion: Write a post that simply provides your opinion on an issue or event.
✓ Photos: Post a photo related to your blog topic.
✓ Polls: Ask your readers for their opinions by publishing a blog post that includes a poll or survey.
✓ Reviews: Write a review of a product, an event, a book, or anything else related to your blog topic.