Choosing a Blog Topic - Play With The Time

Choosing a blog topic could be hard for some active blogger. This is because they want people to visit their blog more frequently. Esspecially when if their blog is for some short of Internet Marketing purpose. Put a topic with the popular keywords might drive traffic to your page. But you also can play with the time for your topic/title. Two time base topic is you could choose from are:-

• Topic that become popular for specific time/suddenly
• Timeless Topic

Write Posts That Are Very Topical For The Times

One of the best ways to get a sudden burst of traffic is to write about something that is hot right now or in the news. This is a great way to get a sudden burst of really interested traffic. This is because some people get into internet to find out more about the news they saw in tv or magazines, or even newspaper.

You can find out whats hot now by watching the news or use online services like Google Trends, Yahoo Buzz or Ebay Pulse. These sites give you lists of searches that are very popular online right now.

Some of the hot topics right now are :

• Obama
• Global Warming - 60 earhth hour
• Economic downturn

Do a research on that topic and if you could, add some additional information to make it more interesting. Put your comment into it, make it very professional and wise might drive your vistor to add your page to their favorite.

Create Content That Is Timeless

If you want your blog to be around for a while and you want readers to come in 5 years time and still find your content relevant to them, you need to make sure the content is timeless, whether they read it in 3 months, 3 years or 30 years.

This not only means you don't have to keep updating your content every 6 months which will save you time, it also helps with other people who you may allow to use your content on their websites.

Some topics however, will always be timeless. Find those, write on them. It could be a technical topic which point to some technical people for example write a topic about renewable energy, farming, or a Do it Yourself. Another category might be a topic that won't be expired for a long time such as fashion. People will keep coming back because the content is timeless.