14 Best Blogging Ideas for Beginners

If you know what many people don’t know and you think creatively, you can be a good blogger and command a long list of followers. You can write on any topic under the sun on any niche where you have valuable information to share. Blogging is a hugely competitive business though so you must be able to write well and be prepared to share valuable information consistently before you can get noticed as a blogger. It may be quite simple really to start a blog, but creating a successful blog requires a lot of time and patience.
 
If you are a beginner blogger, it is advisable to choose the right web hosting company for your blog. Most beginner bloggers prefer WordPress because it is a features-rich platform where they can seamlessly access a wide range of simple WordPress themes and templates. In addition, WordPress is a scalable platform which allows bloggers to use WordPress plugins and other features to set up a successful blog fairly easily.

 
You must ensure however that you fully understand and focus on some very important tactical aspects of blogging such as creating impactful blog post titles, using the right content management system, and search engine optimization, SEO, if you want to make a quick success out of your blogging.

As a beginner blogger, before publishing your first blog post, here are some very popular blog niches ideas you can consider before making a choice based on your own knowledge, interest and inclinations.

1. Marketing blog: This is one very popular blog niche. In this niche, beginner bloggers can always take advantage of the abundance of topics to cover. If you blog in this niche, you can easily draw lots of readers to your blog if you cover relevant and interesting topics in the niche. Most blogs within the marketing niche are always great to attract an audience. For instance, this blog you are reading now falls into digital marketing niche that lots of digital marketers are always interested in.

2. Self-help blog: Many beginner bloggers are always interested in personal online journals where they vividly described their daily lives, experiences, struggles and coping mechanisms. If you link your self-help blog to networks comprising like-minded people, it quickly gains readership and wider audience.

3. Parenting blog: One very interesting topic in our adult lives is parenting. Many new parents are always on the internet looking for tips and advice on how to care for and raise their kids properly. If you write a good parenting blog, it can cater to the needs of such an audience. You can in addition use such blog to promote and sell baby products to make money.

4. Gardening blog: Gardening can be some kind of hobby that easily attracts the interest of many home owners. If you write a gardening blog, you can share tips and showcase your own garden produce particularly fruits and vegetables. As an added spice, your blog can also feature stories from other gardening enthusiasts to inspire your audience.

5. Finance blog: This is one blog niche that concerns almost everyone particularly adults who pay taxes and like to make investments. Finance blog can be laced with popular blog topics that both individuals and businesses are interested in. Make sure you have the training and expertise to write an authoritative finance blog. This is because if you don’t know what you are talking about, your blog can easily lose readership and audience.

6. Business blog: You can write a business blog about any business you know well and you are involved in. Many people always want to share from the experiences of others in business. Many small business owners in particular like to follow blogs for inspiration, tips, advice and general information. You can write a good business blog is you have practical information on interesting small business topics.

7. Home Decor blog: This is one great blog niche that usually attracts the attention of home owners and people moving homes. Home decor blogs with cool tips and stunning visuals are extremely popular. Beautiful, vivid, before and after images in particular can help bring organic search engine traffic to your blog.

8. Pet blog: You can write a good pet blog if you own pets and have the experience of keeping pets. For effects, you must be specific about very popular pets instead of writing generally about pets. Topics related to pet housing, pet training, pet food recipes and health tips easily attract people’s attention.

9. Wedding blog: If you have an existing business and domain knowledge to attract potential customers, a wedding blog can be very interesting. This is more so if you choose to write about wedding issues that cover all types of topics like wedding planning, photography, reception venues, decoration, entertainment, food and drinks and suchlike topics that can be very useful to people who are about to get married.
 
10. Food blog: Yes, everyone loves to eat but you must have a real passion for food before you can write a good food blog. Among numerous food blog topics, you can choose to write about home-cooked recipes, exotic cuisines, health diets, reviewing new restaurants and hotels. The competition in food blog niche may be severe but you can get your blog to stand out and be noticed if you target some micro-niches many other bloggers may have overlooked. 

11. Fitness blog: These days, for health concerns, many people like to keep fit. These people are always on the internet searching for information. A good fitness blog can satisfy that need. Most health and fitness blogs are always in high demand and if you choose your own fitness blog niche, you can create a popular blog from a wide range of fitness topics to gain an engaged audience. This is why fitness blog is readily one of the most in-demand topics for bloggers.

12. Travel blog: If you like traveling and you travel a lot, travel blog can be a very good avenue to share your experiences and offer travel tips. Travel blog space is hugely popular and can be quite competitive but your blog can manage to stand out if you offer unique tips about travel routes, travel means, air travel discounts, hotel accommodation and pocket-friendly dinning. Carefully documenting your travel experiences, the people you meet and their cultures and way of life can provide very interesting topics for your travel blog.

13. Tech blog: This is a niche segment with tremendous potentials for blogging. Tech blogging is hugely popular and can be highly competitive as well. This is why you must have domain expertise and authority if you want to succeed as a tech blogger. You can easily increase your tech blog readership if you focus your blog on topics that are of special interest to readers. These are suchlike topics as new product reviews, tips and demos.

14. Beauty blog: The beauty industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise and blogging in the niche can be quite interesting if you know what you are doing. If you follow the beauty industry keenly, you can leverage your knowledge to write an informative beauty blog. The industry attracts many interests and blogging in the niche is hugely competitive. Uniqueness will get your blog noticed faster than others by focusing on a blog niche within the industry that will enable you to stand out from the crowd. Topics ranging from beauty products, spas, food supplements, diets, beauty accessories, manicure, pedicure, nail art and hair care are great topics to write about in a beauty blog if you want to attract good readership.