Blog Topic Ideas - Find blog posts in Readers Comments!

This is a part of the Blog Topic Idea series.

The comment section can be a treasure trove for getting topic ideas. Every now and then, one of your blog posts would garner a lot of comments. This shows that your readers care more about that particular part of your niche more than the rest. This is quite an obvious hint that you should elaborate and write more about it.

Also, a post loaded with comments, gives you more than a handful of perspectives for a particular topic. These individual perspectives can themselves be blog post on their own.

For example, at KalaaLog, I wrote a blog posts: No More Photoshop - Use GIMP. I got a lot of comments there - and they were in depth views of the readers. Just reading through those comments, I could make out some of the strong points that people raise to justify piracy, and it was quite easy for me to write another spin off - Top 3 Reasons To Pirate Photoshop.

I guess there will be some new bloggers who think that they cannot use this tip. You see - I said Reader Comments - and they may not be readers of your blog. Go ahead, and look at other established blogs in your niche. See which one got more comments that the other posts and you can apply the same technique.