Blogging Topics For Beginners

Starting a blog can be daunting especially if you don’t know what to write about, so here are some blogging topics for beginners.

Sometimes when starting a blog, individuals get stuck on just what to write about. This may be the position you find yourself in and that brings back memories for me. I came across blogging purely for commercial reasons because of a new venture that I entered.

The trouble was I still didn’t know what to write about because I didn’t know what my purpose was. I got sucked into writing about topics that other people were writing about in this industry. What I should have done is work out what the purpose of my content was and then write my own unique perspective.

It took me a few years to work this out but now I know why I want to write the content I do, and it is now much easier. Most of my content revolves around the blogging, content creation and online business niches. What you must understand that your blog and the content you create will fall into a niche.

This is very important to remember because you niche will contain individuals that are aligned with you. Most people won’t be interested in what you write and that is in no way meant to sound negative. It is a simple fact and you must become thick skinned and not take to heart any adverse comments.

The First Three Blogging Topics For Beginners 

When it comes to niches, I have found over the years that there are three main and broad niches. They are Health, Wealth & Relationships because they encompass everything that is essential to our daily lives.

These are referred to as broad niches because they are a 35,000 feet hight view of what goes on in the world. So, they would be my first three blogging topics for beginners to look at but then you must drill down.

You know when you go onto Google and look for a location and the search results give you a map. When you click on the map it is the overview like the analogy of 35,000 feet up. It is only when you click on the + sign that the map then becomes clearer and more detailed.

Each time you click on that + the main road networks appear, then cities and town become prominent. The more times you click the individual street names emerge so you can pinpoint where you want to go.

Every time you go through this procedure for the three main niches a whole world of blogging topics will appear. Here is an example.

I am going to look at health and try and break it down to a specific topic. I am going to use a resource that is available to anyone to do some blogging topic research on.

The Amazon Marketplace 

That is the Amazon marketplace and specifically their bestseller section which is illustrated in the image below.

So, lets decipher the image below to see how effective Amazon is to generate blogging topics for beginners.

As you can see if we work from left to right the image shows the Amazon best sellers’ categories. These are all main broad categories or departments on the Amazon platform.

What I have done is look down the list of categories and selected the Health & Household niche. When I clicked on that option it generated a list of sub-niches within that main category. You will see that the list is shortened but I have taken the process one step further.

I have selected the Sports Nutrition sub sub-category so now I am two levels into the main best sellers’ categories. Within Sports Nutrition is another list of categories and the process can be taken down even more levels. This process drills down into micro niches, but it also gives plenty of blogging topics.

Drill Down For Micro Niches 

If you decided that you wanted to create a blog on Health & Home could create categories shown in the middle of the image. Then create lots of blog posts under those independent categories.

Or you could micro niche down and create a blog on Sports Nutrition and then use the list on the right-hand side as categories within your blog. This would be my personal choice because when you get to this stage you are becoming very specific.  

This process works for any niche on the marketplace. I would then look at the products within this sub sub-niche for ideas on what people are purchasing. Open each product and look at the customer reviews and note what people are saying about each product. Maybe they have further questions which again could be turned into blog posts.

Time For Some Keyword Research To Find Some Blogging Topics For Beginners

One of the best free resources to look for keywords is the Google Keyword planner. It is free if you have a Google account so if you haven’t got one the process is very easy to open one up. The following image shows the Google Keyword planner with the search term Sports Nutrition.

As you can see from the image the main keyword is Sports Nutrition. Once I have entered that the keyword planner gives me list of keywords that people are actively looking for.

The data suggest the monthly search volume, the CPC which is Cost per Click for paid advertising. It also suggests the level of competition for the keyword. This is not relevant for blogging specifically as it is for paid marketing purposes. The total number of search terms related to this main keyword is 617. As you can see this gives you plenty of topics that you could potentially blog about.

One Of My Favourite Tools Is Keywords Everywhere 

The Keywords Everywhere tool is a tool that sits in your browser in Google Chrome. It may well be available for other browsers, but I use it on Chrome. So, I am going to enter the same search term Sports Nutrition.

I like this tool because it gives me the data that Google keyword planner gives me, but it is on the screen. This is far quicker than going into the keyword planner and when you have this extension installed you get other data. The two boxes on the right of the image gives me related keywords and what people are searching for. It also gives me the volume of search and advertising costs. All round a quicker process.

Answer The Public (H3)

My last research tool which gives lots of blogging topics for beginners is a site called Answer The Public.

Again, I have entered in Sports Nutrition and what this site does is categorises the search term into questions that people are asking online. Questions starting with “who”, “what” and “why” and because I have Keywords Everywhere installed in my browser, I still receive the data that I have mentioned previously.

It is always good to have posts on your site that are question related because it means people are looking for solutions. I wouldn’t have all your posts as question related keywords, but it certainly is a great way to add value to your blog.

Your Go To Blogging Topic List

Using all these resources I suggest you make a list or spreadsheet of 100 keywords. This may take you a few hours, but it is time well spent because you will have 3 months of ideas at your fingertips. Then each day write a blog post and tick the search term of your list. When you list is exhausted do the exercise again. It is a rinse and repeat process.

As you can see the process to generate blogging topics for beginners is quite straight forward. It means that you will always have fresh ideas to blog about and provide value to your audience. If you are just starting out, then I have a resource that shows how to create a blog from scratch. Within the book I cover specific techniques on how to find high value keywords for your blog. Click here to register and download the book.

As always, I wish you every success.

Pete Harris

Professional Blogger & Information Publisher