7 BEST BLOGGING IDEAS

 

Personal Finance Blogging

Interested in money? Personal finance blogs are a great way to share your ideas and tips—and they can also prove lucrative. Lots of people are searching for help with common personal finance issues, like getting out of debt, saving for a house, and sticking to a budget—all fantastic blog post ideas, by the way.

You could monetize this type of blog by offering spreadsheets or templates for download, through affiliate marketing, advertising, online courses and more.

Examples of Successful Personal Finance Blogs

• Mr. Money Mustache: This popular blog is distinctive both for the no-nonsense tone and for its focus on making enough money (and reducing expenses sufficiently) to no longer need a day job.
• Money Under 30: This blog targets an audience of under-30s, providing beginner-friendly articles on a wide range of personal finance topics (including debt, budgeting, credit, and more).

2. Travel Blogging

While you might think the market is saturated for travel blogs, there’s always room for a fresh perspective or a different angle on your travel experiences. You might write about solo travel, travel adventures with young kids, or budget-friendly travel. Travel bloggers can score free trips and gear depending upon the type of blog posts they craft, too.

You could easily turn your travel blog traffic into money through affiliate marketing posts where you share top travel gear, roundups of your favorite hotels (or airlines), gifts for hikers (one of my best blog posts there) and much more.

Examples of Successful Travel Blogs

• Notes from the Road: Focusing on first-hand experiences, and sharing sketches and photos, this blog aims to “be written merely for the joy of curious explorers and travelers.”
• Hike With Ryan: My own travel blog! Rather than covering a huge range of types of travel on this blog, I stay focused on one of my favorite activities—hiking.

3. Food Blogging

Whether it’s a blog where you share your Grandma’s recipes, a collection of posts for people who want to eat great food while losing weight, or a blog celebrating different foods from around the world, you can find your own approach and voice on a food-related blog. For more on getting off the ground in this niche, check out my guide to starting a food blog.

Many food bloggers sell collections of their recipes, share behind the scenes video content, answer common questions readers have—and you could also host blog advertisements using Google AdSense as a monetization starting point. Just be sure your blog content strategy takes this all into account.

Examples of Successful Food Blogs

• Wandercooks: This great blog shares cuisines, cultures, and recipes from around the world. It’s packed with recipes – which include variations and substitutions too.
• Minimalist Baker: As you might expect from its name, this blog shares straightforward recipes, with plenty of those being vegan and gluten-free recipes.

4. Self-Improvement Blogging

The self-improvement niche is a huge one, covering all sorts of topics like time management, personal growth, strengthening relationships, and much more. While there’s already plenty of tried-and-true advice out there, you might be able to bring a fresh approach.

There are lots of ways to monetize a self-improvement blog. Online courses are particularly popular in this niche, as well as subscription newsletters that can share in-depth takeaways from recent experiments in your life, open letters to your readers, roundups of the most popular blog content in your niche and more.

Examples of Successful Self-Improvement Blogs

• Marie Forleo: Hugely popular and famous for B-School in particular, Marie Forleo’s blog deals with topics like sleeping better, overcoming fear, believing in yourself, and much more.
• Zen Habits: This long-running blog has a deliberately minimalist and calming website, along with thoughtful and in-depth articles covering a wide range of self-improvement topics.

5. Health and Fitness Blogging

Most of us have some level of interest in health and fitness. Whether you’re blogging about becoming a super-fit bodybuilder or about simply losing weight and enjoying running around with the kids, a health and fitness blog could reach a huge audience.

Use Google Analytics to pinpoint the most popular posts on your health and fitness blog, then consider these as an opportunity to promote your ebook, online course, or affiliate partners. You can also monetize a fitness blog by doing things like selling cheat sheets for maximizing your time at the gym (which will also give you great content ideas by seeing which topics are most popular), cooking hacks for fast, high-protein meals at home and more.

Examples of Successful Health and Fitness Blogs

• Nerd Fitness: This clever fitness blog focuses on making fitness fun, and throws in plenty of geeky references along the way.
• No Meat Athlete: Another fitness blog focusing squarely on a specific audience, No Meat Athlete is about fitness for vegans.

6. Small Business Blogging

Each year, the number of small businesses in the USA grows. And in the wake of the “great resignation”, more and more people are turning to blogs that help with things like business ideas, setup, growth, marketing, and logistics.

Small business blogs often sell their own products/services for business owners—but they can also make great money as affiliates for web hosting providers, WordPress plugins, business apps and other useful tools for supporting small business ideas. Check out my ultimate guide to starting a business on the side of your day job for an example to inspire you—it’s a great blog post that features an infographic, compiles real-world advice, uses myself as a case study, offers step-by-step guidance and more.

Examples of Successful Small Business Blogs

• Side Hustle Nation: One of my favorite side hustle blogs, Side Hustle Nation covers a range of topics related to running a side business, investing, and more.
• Shopify: The Shopify blog is packed with useful advice on running an eCommerce business, along with lots of inspiring and helpful personal stories from Shopify users who’ve used digital marketing to grow their businesses.

7. Parenting Blogging

New parents might be up at all hours searching for advice—and parents facing a new stage, like elementary school, the teen years, or an empty nest, will also turn to the internet for advice. Whatever stage of parenting your blog deals with, you’re likely to find a readership.

This type of blog can be a little harder to monetize, but affiliate marketing is likely to do well here: parents always need more gear, DIY tutorials and toys to entertain their children! New content like frequently asked questions (FAQ) segments and listicles do really well with this audience of time-strapped readers.