32 Signs You Are Out of Blogging Ideas

Blogging is like everything else in life. When you are just getting started with it, you can’t get enough of it. No obstacle seems to high. And no challenge seems impossible. But once you have written a few hundred posts, things are going to get real interesting. You can think of your blog as your own Web show. You are the producer, and you need to constantly come up with content that your readers want to consume. If you can’t, then it’s curtains for you and your blog. As long as you can find ways to convey value to your readers, you can expect to keep your readership. The problem is, after a few hundred posts, it’d be hard to come up with topics you haven’t talked about already. If your niche is broad enough, you can always find new topics to tackle. But if you have focused on a narrow niche, your job is even tougher.

There are three kinds of bloggers in this situation. The first group have no idea how to come up with new ideas in their current niche, so they start broadening their blog topic and tackle more issues on their blogs. Some even find new angles to look at old topics. That way, they still keep their readers satisfied. The second group give up completely and try other things (maybe those get rich in 20 seconds schemes). The others understand the urgency of providing value to their readers, but have no idea how. These guys start losing the plot and lose their readers in the process.

Not sure which group you belong to? Here is a tip. You are out of blogging ideas if you:

• talk about completely unrelated things on your blog.
• find weather discussions very interesting.
• complain about the previous night’s episode of lost.
• dedicate a whole week to dancing with the stars.
• change the date of your older posts to make them look like new posts.
• rewrite your old posts without adding anything new.
• write a new post only to find out it’s almost identical to an old post.
• dedicate a week to user comments.
• keep slacking off and post less frequently.
• keep taking vacation.
• check other blogs to find out how you can copy their ideas.
• post PLR articles directly to your blog.
• keep talking about politics on a non-political blog.
• have too many guest posts.
• keep talking about twitter but add no value.
• keep complaining about Facebook’s new interface.
• try to create controversy by talking about art vs. science.
• talk about your traffic accident for weeks.
• make up your traffic accident story!
• tackle relationship issues when you are not old enough to have a serious one or too old and never been in one.
• obsessively talk about how great other people are.
• attack yourself and make fun of your own posts.
• get in conversation with yourself.
• post fake comments and write blog posts about them.
• discuss what you had for lunch, dinner, and after-dinner.
• discuss what was on TV 2 AM in the morning.
• write posts on 2012 presidential election.
• or worse yet 2012 doomsday!
• complain about how blogging is hard.
• go on and on about your iPhone.
• fake a hack attack and talk about it.
• ask your visitors if you should post less when you post only once a week.

Have you found yourself out of ideas? Which of the above topics do you go for?