Ideas for Blogging: How to Find and Make Money

Learn how to find ideas for blogging to make money from home. A monetizing tutorial for a be a blogger.

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Swain Leung

4/26/20228 min read

Blogging can be a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with the world, make some extra cash, and meet new people. There are many different ways to blog and make money, so find one that fits your interests and start sharing!

Today we'll talk about the process and let's do it together!

Ideas for Blogging
Ideas for Blogging

1. Find a profitable Niche

Finding creative ideas for blogging is not easy. It’s a challenge in itself to come up with new ideas for blogging.

But there are some things that you can do to help you find great ideas for your blog. Here are some tips:

  1. Use Google Search, Do Keyword Research

  2. Ask Your Friends and Family

  3. Ask Other Bloggers

  4. Look At Other Blogs and Articles That You Like

  5. Look At What Others Are Throwing Out There

The above tips are only providing you with some inspiration to get started.

2. Do Your Market Research

As the saying goes, “The best way to get something done is to do it yourself.” So I started to share what I use AI to get my writing skills and efficiency improved.

I wanted to search for a great idea that will be beneficial for my blog or website. Then I asked my team a list of questions:

  • What type of idea should we choose?

  • Should we be looking for ideas that will be profitable and/or serve a purpose?

  • What kind of posts should we write?

  • How should we write them?

  • How long should they take to publish?

  • Should we use a blog platform like WordPress or Blogger?

  • How can we organize our content so that it looks its best in our reader’s eyes and is easy to read?

  • And what about the budget we have available for this project — is there enough money left over to hire someone else — or do we have to start from scratch with no money at all?

Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with the world. Regardless of income, we firstly should ask ourselves about the output:

  1. What are your passions?

  2. What topics interest you?

  3. What do you know a lot about?

  4. What do you wish more people knew about?

  5. What are some of your favorite things?

  6. What's been on your mind lately?

I've failed in some projects, yes it was quite profitable but I don't have a strong backup for the content management. I did not produce great ideas to go ahead of others on Google. The project generates no traffic or sales.

3. Free blogging idea tools

Simply when I was struggling to find new blogging content ideas, I learned from H-educate's video:

10 Methods To Find Thousands of Content Ideas (Never Runout of Ideas!!)

  1. Free SEO and digital marketing tools to help people grow online: H-supertools

  2. Find what people are asking online: Answer The Public

  3. Get blogging content ideas from the best Q&A websites on the internet: Quora

  4. Simply ask our audience to help you find content ideas. Their feedback in email and on-site topic suggestions are the best topic resources for bloggers.

  5. Get related blogging ideas from Google Search Console (GSC). Target keywords you have ranked but with so many blogging potentials.

  6. Collect content ideas from competitor research. Seek out YouTube or Google or a similar source that shares content on the matter that interests you.

  7. Forums are a great place to absorb plenty of content ideas: Reddit is the #1 choice. We can also search for our niche on FindAForum.net and then find a forum in our niche.

  8. Share our experience, stories, and case studies for unique blogging ideas. People can not find them anywhere else. And make sure they can be beneficial by copying and cloning us.

  9. Repurposing our content in different media or channels. When we publish our videos on YouTube, we can write a blog for the same content.

  10. find the best content ideas That are performing the best on the internet BuzzSumo

4. Brainstorm Ideas For Blogging

Brainstorming is a technique that has been around for a long time. It’s not just the subtle way we lead our lives. It’s how we live them, too.

In modern times, brainstorming has become synonymous with carrying out an idea in order to arrive at a selection of potential approaches and approaches. It might work in terms of getting something done in your particular field or profession.

As for blogging ideas, we are looking for different approaches and ways to make a list of topics and keywords from a simple seed keyword or concept.

You could see this as setting up procedures or routines for conducting your writing in a certain way. Or you are setting up guidelines or patterns in order to help you move forward from one single idea to another. In either case, what you are really doing is coming up with ideas that might be useful to your blogging business or profession.

As far as how best to come up with ideas go, brainstorming isn’t only about coming up with new ideas but it also involves creating new opportunities along the way.

Here's a video of Six Creative Ways To Brainstorm Ideas to get you started:

4. Create Valuable Content Regularly

If you’re a blogger, chances are you’re reading and writing content. But the fact is that you’re not doing it as much as you should be. In fact, you may not be able to do it at all. Don’t let this stop you from writing regularly.

Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with others, but it can also be a full-time job for many people. It doesn’t sound like too much fun? You may regret not starting sooner than later.

There are plenty of things that can make blogging more enjoyable and more moneymaking for your blog:

  1. Use social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter to get your brand into the media spotlight.

  2. Add a unique twist on traffic: Create an “off-the-wall” blog topic that gets your readers talking about it online.

  3. Link to other websites that will make your blog topic original (and valuable to other bloggers). Get traffic from these sites by linking back or mentioning them on your site in some way (like a banner ad).

  4. Use video content that engages visitors on every page of the site. Video creates an emotional connection between visitors and the content they see.

  5. Add new posts regularly with topics that appeal to your target audience – such as holiday party ideas – so people will stay engaged with you longer

5. Monetize Your Blog

Blogging is a very profitable business, however, it requires a lot of work and dedication. There are people out there who can pay you money to produce their content. If you want to become one of them, here are some tips on how to follow.

  • Find Your Passion: It’s very important to find your passion before diving into the blog world. This way, you won’t be distracted by other things that don’t serve you in the long run.

  • Make Money With Blogging: If you enjoy blogging and want more money from it, you can do affiliate marketing! And once your websites are having great traffic, you can apply Google Adsense. These will help you make money with your blog as well as get your readers interested. They will be buying something like products or maybe even services related to what you write about.

  • Blogger Platforms: There are so many blogger platforms available these days. From WordPress, and Tumblr, to Blogger.com. There are plenty of options for earning money online with your blog.

    At the moment there is no better option than a WordPress blogging platform. Even if this isn’t your first choice when it comes to blogging platforms (if that’s the case then I suggest you check out Joomla), it is still worth looking into because not only does it offer better features but also has a more sophisticated user interface than other platforms. The team makes it easy to use and learn how to create new blog posts.

  • Get Paid For Your Content: By offering a service or product for free online, in exchange for writing content that will be used by readers (that means “content marketing”), both parties can get a few dollars per month or even per article written. I know this may seem expensive but remember when I said that “it isn’t that we, as writers are more aware of the world than the average person?

6. Promote, Promote, Promote

Blogging isn’t a job. It’s a way of life.

A blogger is one who writes with the intention of sharing his or her thoughts with the entire world. Bloggers are very concerned about how their words will be received by readers.

In this era when ‘information overload’ has become an epidemic, it is important to remember that information has value in its own right. However, content creators should seek to add value beyond that which they provide in order to attract readership. A blog can serve as a platform to share information and ideas with others. In the meantime, you should attract new readers and increase the likelihood of them converting into paying customers.

It always starts with an idea – whether big or small – but it’s important not to let your inspiration for blogging overwhelm you. The more time you spend brainstorming ideas, thinking about different ways you might achieve your aims, and putting them into practice, the better results you will get from them.

The most successful writers don’t necessarily write well first; they write well because they have great ideas and practice writing them repeatedly. They promote and won't stop promoting until they are able to produce something worth reading again and again.

7. Keep Content Fresh

All right, I’m going to start by saying that this is not a how-to post by any means. The point is to provide you with a framework to be able to generate ideas for your blog, whether you’re a complete novice or an expert.

The ideas I’ll share with you are ones I believe will help you find ways to make money from blogging, and will do so without needing a lot of upfront effort.

I started blogging back in 2008 when it was still relatively new, and have been writing about it ever since. I’ve written about nearly every topic imaginable (and some that aren’t). Be sure to follow the links on the site, as they will bring you more information on the topics discussed here.

So what are some of the things that can make money from blogging? Here are a few examples:

1) Blogging content that makes money. One of the best ways to make money from blogs is through content creation. What other business has such an opportunity? There are many businesses that can claim this title, but few have made it big like Google, which has held onto this title for years. Google only makes money when users click on ads placed on its sites, which are then charged for by search engine companies such as Google and Yahoo. This revenue stream is one of the reasons why many people choose Google over other search engines like Bing.

2) Blogging about topics that readers want. If someone is looking for information about health or fitness, their first instinct may be to go straight to Wikipedia or another source they trust because they want real facts and figures rather than hearsay arguments and guesswork. If someone wants news, they may look at sites like Huffington Post, which tends toward breaking news stories rather than offering opinions on current events; while if someone wants fashion tips.

There may be no better place than StyleList (aka StyleHive). A similar phenomenon occurs when people want specific products or services — Amazon or eBay will likely offer better prices compared to competitors who offer “discounts off regular prices”; while CVS might sell certain items at lower prices than competitors who offer free shipping*.

3) Blogging about things no one else cares about. Think about it: if someone wants something new and different, then why would they go straight to well-known sources like Wikipedia? Why would they read home improvement blogs?

Conclusion

In conclusion, there are many ways to make money blogging. Starting a blog and finding readers is the easy part. Making money through advertising, sponsorships, or affiliate marketing can be more difficult, but it is possible. If you are creative and have a niche topic, you can find ways to make money that fit your blog. So get started today and see how you can monetize your blog!