21 Blog Post Ideas You Can Use Today

Numbered style lists posts are always popular and highly shareable. A great feature of List.ly is the ability to embed lists directly on your blog.

A blog carnival is a themed collection of links to other blog posts. It is a great way to connect with other bloggers and also to drive traffic to your own blog. Either start your own or participate in one that’s already running.

Share some of your favorite inspirational quotes.

Provide your unique perspective on a trending topic. There are lots of ways to find out what's "hot right now" online including Google Trends, Twitter.com/Search and Reddit.com.

Use an editorial calendar to track of seasonal, cultural and industry events and write a blog post to fit the theme. Try Twitter's #OwnTheMoment tool for inspiration.

Memes are humorous pieces of content that spread virally across the web. Create your own meme using an image editing tool like Canva

Mix things up by recording a podcast or video relevant to your blog's theme and topic.

How-to guides are always popular. Use images, video or audio to enhance your guide and make it more shareable.

Break a topic into a series and link the posts together as you publish them.

A hack is a list of workarounds for a common problem or issues. Is there a hack you can share with readers? Or why not ask your readers to share theirs?

There are several online tools you can use to create a readers' poll. If you have a WordPress.com site, then you’ve got Polldaddy polls already built in. You can create, manage, and see results for all of your polls directly in your WordPress.com dashboard. If you use a WordPress.org install on your self-hosted site, install the Polldaddy WordPress.org plugin. Use it to get a snapshot of readers’ attitudes towards certain topics. Publish a follow-on post with your findings.

Put together a useful list of terms relevant to your business and share them on your blog.

Can you predict or comment on the latest industry trends? Readers will enjoy learning about it through your blog, particularly if you share your own unique perspective. Set up Google Alerts to keep updated on emerging trends in your industry and provide the latest information for your readers.

Choose a respected industry professional and interview them for your blog. Alternatively, contact several experts in your field and have them answer a question: Take all the answers and turn them into one big blog post.

Check your blog's analytics to see the most popular blog posts you've written. Can you expand on these to include new research or thinking? Perhaps the content can be turned into an infographic or a poll. Alternatively highlight the most popular in a best-of post.

Review a book, product or service relevant to your readers.

Ask a colleague or friend to write a guest blog on an area of their expertise.

Gather the week's industry news into a round-up post. Provide links, attribute sources and add your own commentary.

Readers’ comments can be rich ground for new blog posts. Don’t restrict yourself to just your own blog. Check the comments on other popular blogs in your industry and discussion threads on LinkedIn or Facebook groups. What are people talking about? What questions do they have? What could they use more information on?

What are the most common myths or misconceptions about your industry? Write a blog post dispelling them.

Choose a piece of content which has grabbed your attention during the week and share it with readers.