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Feeling tired and don’t want to write a “real” post? Is it 11:55 PM and you still haven’t posted for that day (you do know you can just change the time of posting… meh)? Are you simply idea-starved? Then try using any one of these formats to write a post in under twenty minutes!
1. The Top Ten List Post
Additional details below each bullet in this popular social media optimized (SMO) format are optional but generally accepted as necessary. These types of posts can do very well on Digg and StumbleUpon, especially if they have pictures and/or videos. Make sure your post title includes numerous preposterous claims as well as exaggerations. After all, internet marketing isn’t about telling the truth.
2. The Post Apologizing For Not Being Able To Make A Real Post
This post is the ultimate irony - apologizing for not posting in a post. It’s only suggested use is when you’ve stopped caring about quality, but it is also acceptable if you decide that American Idol is more important than your blog (note to self: American Idol Blog? Hm…)
3. The Monthly/Weekly/Daily(?) Compilation Post
Go over your blog statistics in an effort to impress your readers with your mad earnings (~$5) and traffic (6 visits/day). Try to list blog stats for the previous month as well - it makes it seem like you’re improving.
4. The Paid Blog Review Post
It’s an easy job: you get paid to write what you think about a website. You really can’t go wrong. In fact, if you mask it well enough, your readers won’t even realize your blog isn’t remotely about credit card refinancing, mortgage lenders, payday loans, plastic surgery, or financial aid!
5. The “About Me” or “About My Blog” Post
While most blogs have a page on their blog dedicated to this type of post, some decide to write about it as well! This is a fairly simple task because all it involves is talking about yourself.
6. The Link Love Post
Just link to a bunch of different blog posts with short descriptions. Use other people’s content for your own benefit - it’s all the joys of content scraping with practically none of the penalties!
7. The Generic Niche Blog Post
For every niche (except maybe Extreme Mountain Jumproping), there are cliché posts which have been gone over so many times it’s not even worth posting about anymore (except when you REALLY need to write something). In my niche, this could be a post about “making money with Adsense”, for example.
8. The Controversy Post
Print out the faces of ten random bloggers in your niche. Tape them to your wall and throws darts blindfolded at the pictures. Write a post dissing the blogger you chose through this clever scientific process. Remember to include a photo of the aforementioned blogger that you graffiti’d.
9. The Image Post
10. The Off-Topic Post
This is for extreme cases in which all of the above options fail. Just write about your dinner or something - it seems to work for John Chow.
By keenmary on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
Great blog post ideas that really useful for everyone. These ideas will benefit who are already in the field of internet marketing and also for beginners. These helps you make the blog posting very efficiently.
By Terry on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
Can you please explain how to make $5 from a blog which gets 6 visitors a day? I’m very interested as this would more than double my income, but I’d have to work up to 6 visitors first.
Fun post.
By Zach Katkin on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
Top ten lists when you’re lazy huh? What’s your favorite paid blog post?
By Link Building Bible on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
LOL… I am so lazy, that I just wrote a 5-bullet post, instead of 10.
And, my top viewed and search engine traffic posts are link love posts… lol…
I am way lazy!
By Max Miroff on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
@Terry: Uhh… well, first you have to take a nice big jar of peanut butter and just lather it onto the back of your computer where all of the wires come from. Just work it in there until you start to smell burning. Then run to my house and sign these forms saying you won’t sue me.
@Zach: My favorite paid blog post? I haven’t yet found anyone willing to fork over their money for a paid plug (can’t fathom why - it’s not like BB doesn’t get any traffic or anything, no sir)
@LBB: My highest trafficked post is also a top ten list
Maybe laziness really isn’t so bad… I think I’ll talk about that later, right when I’m done procrastinating.
By Terry on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
Actually, speaking of lists. I recently did a list post that got something like 27,000 page views in one day. So maybe they’re not a lazy way to go . . . greedy, yes, but lazy, maybe not.
By Max Miroff on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
@Terry: You can make a lazy post and still get hits
By Wakish on Apr 12, 2008 | Reply
Hey there..
I really like the 3rd idea: “The Monthly/Weekly/Daily(?) Compilation Post”.. I think this is very practical and any blog can apply it..
But I would not put the 2nd point in practice.. “The Post Apologizing For Not Being Able To Make A Real Post” I don’t find it a good idea..
Keep going!
- Wakish -
By Futon-Matt on Apr 13, 2008 | Reply
I loved the way you used one of your lazy tactics in the post describing blogging when lazy.
Very nice.
By Geekhall.net Admin on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Well, You used the 3rd point last time, so do’t get lazy now and put up more content or something!
By Chiya on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
The Top Ten List Post–I believe that is what you’re doing now! But it was entertaining and interesting so it’s shiny.
The Link Love Post –I’ve done that.
The Controversy Post–If you do this and sign it “Summer Glau” that would be pretty awesome. (http://xkcd.com/406/)
By One Year Millionaire on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
It is beautiful how the first item in the list typically describes this post! I love reading your posts though, keep it up
By Timon Weller on May 12, 2008 | Reply
What about the short blog posts where they dont finish the post, so your left thinking what the…?
By diamond engagement ring on May 27, 2008 | Reply
All joking aside, I like this post so much I’d like to do the same on my jewelry blog. To be truly self effacing, I might point out all the times I’ve used such techniques.
By Barbara Swafford on May 31, 2008 | Reply
I have a blogger buddie and he recently did a post named “Nothing”. It was a blank except for the title.
I left him a comment, and then proceeded to use his post as inspiration for one of my own. It was a win-win, he got more traffic and I got a post idea.
I love how that works.
BTW: Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog.
By Max Miroff on May 31, 2008 | Reply
That pretty much seems like the epitome of laziness
By Pass Drug Test on Jun 28, 2008 | Reply
I’m using google answers for my blog post ideas