Originally presented at WordCamp Atlanta 2012. Revamped for WordCamp Los Angeles 2017. Most, not all bloggers hit the dreaded wall called Bloggers Block. You blog, but you either fall into one of the following: 1. You’ve reached a plateau with your site, and just cannot seem to write any more. 2. You really are not sure what you can cover on your site. (For those with businesses, you might be scared of spamming.) 3. You are afraid you might be copying other sites in your niche, that may be covering the same topics. 4. Juggling family or personal issues. There’s a solution for all of these! I am going to go over some tips to help you overcome Blogger’s Block, and get you to think outside the box when coming up with loads of topics for you. Don’t let search results scare you- your blog voice and your knowledge can do wonders for you!

1. Avoiding Bloggers Block
By Nile Flores
@blondishnet | https://blondish.net

2. Objective
❏ What Bloggers Block is and reasons why it happens
❏ Techniques to help you generate content ideas
❏ General topic ideas to cover for any niche
❏ Free and Growing Resource Articles to help generate more topic ideas
❏ Maybe even have time to brainstorm some of your topics too!

3. I want you to be able to have no more
problems coming up with content for
your blog.
!

4. What is Bloggers Block?
It is more commonly known as writer's block.
According to UrbanDictionary.com, writer’s
block is:
A usually temporary psychological inability to
begin or continue work on a piece of writing

5. Credit: The Onion

6. Why does this happen?
❏ Lack of knowledge in a subject
❏ Lack of interest in a subject
❏ Stress or Health
❏ Discouraged by lack of traffic
❏ Too many distractions
?

7. Guess what?
ALL of these have a solution!

8. How to Overcome Bloggers Block
❏ Research
❏ Be open to new ideas
❏ Read from other bloggers in your niche
❏ Keep writing
❏ Take care of yourself
❏ Set an official schedule to blog

9. The number one reason a blog dies is due to
lack of new content. There is nothing to feed to
social networks, search engines, and most of
all, your readers.

10. Blogging is not an easy walk in the
park, or a glamorous one. It takes years
of practice, learning, lots of schmoozing
with other bloggers, investing time and
money, strategy, and a lot of words
before you make it.
Your lack of traffic can be solved if you
do the work.

11. 3 truths some bloggers don’t get
1. You DO need to hook your site up to social network sites.
2. You DO need to engage with people.
3. You CANNOT expect traffic by search engine alone,
especially when search engines are also social oriented.
#truestory

12. Think about it - without anything for your visitors to see, why
bother having a site?
This IS NOT the Field of Dreams movie! You have to do more
than build a site, you have to continually fuel your blog with
more content.

13. More food for thought about content...
Your visitors are obviously going to be important,
but your content is what will drive them to do what
you want… whether it is to comment, buy
something, or subscribe to your newsletter.
Constant unique and thorough content is the key.

14. Be passionate about what you blog about!
You have probably heard people say that you need to have
passion for what you write about. That is true. It must
extend to not just writing your article but being
open-minded to find resources to make your post
well-rounded.
If you can’t find it in yourself to bother to research, then
you’ll be closer to blogger burnout.

15. Resources for Search
❏ Other bloggers in your niche
❏ Journals
❏ Books
❏ Newspapers
❏ Magazines
❏ Wikipedia
❏ Community sites related to your
niche
❏ Products

16. General content idea types for ANY business or blog
❏ Case Studies
❏ How Your Business Operates/ Site News
❏ News In Your Niche
❏ Related Products Or Service Recommendations To Your Business or Blog
❏ Special Interest Articles (ex: Interviews)
❏ Polls
❏ Videos On Product or Service Demonstrations

17. More Content types
❏ Lists
❏ Memes
❏ Infographics
❏ Reviews
❏ How to guides/ tutorials
❏ Resource pages (links)
❏ Testimonials
❏ Q&A
❏ Roundups
❏ Podcasts
❏ Freebies
❏ In the news/Press coverage
❏ Social media related
❏ Giveaways
❏ Press release
❏ Public Service Announcements
❏ Quotes
❏ Sponsored Posts
❏ Wiki
❏ Guest Posts
❏ Ask Me Anything

18. ANYTHING that deals with your site’s
focus, is game for content.

19. Is it Possible to Blog without SEO?
Yes, but do you want to grow your audience? Then you’re going to have to
implement some SEO strategies.
Being passionate about what you blog about is nice, but it can only take you so far.
https://blondish.net/ask-nile-is-it-possible-to-blog-without-seo/

20. Keyword Research
Keyword research allows you to find out and tackle
what topics people are looking for in your niche.
You can also learn what
keywords you need to target
with your blog, rather than blog
without a plan.

21. Handy SEO & Blog Tools to Fuel Your Blog Content
❏ Blog Title Generator - http://bit.ly/1QiL7zE
❏ Google Adwords Keyword Planner - https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner
❏ Yoast Suggest - https://yoast.com/suggest/
❏ Google Trends - https://www.google.com/trends/
❏ SpyFu - https://www.spyfu.com/
❏ Google Webmaster Tools - https://www.google.com/webmasters/
❏ Google Analytics - https://www.google.com/analytics/

22. Hundred of Blog ideas listed by the niche.
This list is always growing and updating!
https://blondish.net/the-ultimate-list-of-blog-ideas/

23. Prevent Blogger Burnout
Take care of yourself!
Below is an article that
has 9 tips to making it
easier for you as a blogger
or freelancer.
http://bit.ly/2xBjFz6

24. What are some of your issues with blogging?

25. T H A N K Y O U !
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