How To Pick a Topic For Your Blog (+ 57 Inspiring Topic Ideas)

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I get emailed all the time by people who are wanting to start their own website or blog, but they just don’t know where to start. There are books and guides all over the web that talk about the popularity of certain subjects, and whether or not something can be “monetized” or not.

My view varies a little from the popular “pick something you can make money with” concept.

Because in my 10 years of experience online, if you aren’t passionate about a topic, you aren’t going to feel motivated by it, and sooner or later, its going to fizzle out.

YOU HAVE TO PICK SOMETHING YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT

Let me say that again

PICK SOMETHING YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can’t chase money, you gotta chase what you love and the money will follow.

If you chase your interest, your loves, your passions… 9 times out of 10, there are going to be a lot of people out there, that share your love or passion (long as you don’t get TOO specific, which I’ll go into in more detail below).

So it is with blogs or websites.

Some may say “how on earth are you going to monetize a blog about cute dog pictures?” There are websites making thousands of dollars a month with the sale of dog accessories, “how to train your dog” ebooks, “how to photograph your dog” courses, etc.

There are very few topics or categories that cannot be monetized in some way.

Aside from picking a topic that you are not interested in, the only other possible mistake you could make, is by making your blog too overly specific. If you love pugs who do dog tricks, I would still focus your blog on the general dog category. You can still post about pugs who do tricks, but you aren’t limiting yourself, or your readership to the small niche of people who only like pugs who do dog tricks.

On the flip side, you also don’t want to go too broad, as you might create too much competition for yourself, or you might find your readers becoming disinterested in the wide variety of topics that you post.

So to summarize: