81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters

We recently launched our new course How to Start a Blog That Matters.

To coincide with the launch, we’ve compiled a huge list of the blog topics suggested by all of you for our Million Dollar Blog Project. We used one of these to create our new blog Expert Enough, but there are tons of great ideas left on the list.

There are websites about nearly everything imaginable, but that doesn’t mean that they are all good.

At Think Traffic, we believe that anyone that puts in the right amount of focused effort can build an audience online, even if it is about an obscure topic.

Don’t know what topic to start your blog on? Here are 81 blog topic ideas to get you thinking about what you could focus (or re-focus) your site on.

(Some of the most creative ideas people came up with are in bold.)

1. Self improvement/Self-Hypnosis
2. Health & Fitness for Busy People
3. Language Learning Blogs
4. How to Travel on a Budget (Best hotel deals. Car rental. Trip advice.)
5. Writing Style
6. Rescued Animals
7. Personal Development (Passions & Ambition Pursuing)
8. Social Dynamics & Communication Skills
9. Working in Uncommon Fields of Expertise While Location Independence
10. Self Defense
11. Recipes for couples without children
12. Male guide to female communication
13. Using technology in small business (Google Docs, CRM, credit card processing)
14. Bullying/cyber bullying
15. Behavioral disorders in children
16. Body-weight training
17. Entrepreneurial education for young children & adults
18. Disc Golf
19. DIY Projects, DIY Business and Selling Homemade Items
20. How to have a Strong Marriage
21. How to be a real and true friend
22. How to Train for a Triathlon
23. Careers vs job: following your passion
24. Getting VMWare Certified
25. Getting Microsoft Certified
26. Hamburgers
27. Self-sustaining lifestyle (grow your own food/ use solar power etc)
28. Mind strengthening (mind over matter/ lucid dreaming)
29. Beyond the basics of personal financial management
30. Healthy eating blog
31. Ghost-hunting
32. Home brewing beer
33. Self defense training (“for women” or “for children” or “for business executives”)
34. Indie Video Game Development
35. Video Game tactics shown through video tutorials
36. Community gardening/Urban farming
37. Starting and running your own social network
38. Point and Shoot Photography (How to create incredible photographs with whatever camera you have in your pocket)
39. Blog & Website Design for Non Designers (How to make your blog look incredible without spending a fortune)
40. The Art of Getting What You Want (How to use confidence and technique to get what you want from life, your relationships and your career)
41. Make Good Video for the Web (How to leverage the video medium to take your brand, blog, website, or business to the next level)
42. Self-Employment (The logistics behind how to start working for yourself (i.e. How to leave your job, find health insurance, set up an LLC, etc.)
43. How to write an e-bestseller (How could we document the process of creating an Amazon Kindle (or other electronic format) bestseller.)
44. Rapid Language Learning
45. How to become a better writer
46. How to lose weight and feel awesome (Even at middle age! The Primal/Paleo way)
47. Vegan diet
48. Cycling. More specifically, urban commuting.
49. Apartment living (this could range from renter issues to decor, etc.)
50. Interior design blog
51. Eating organic on a tight budget
52. Health conscious, High mileage, Minimalist traveling
53. How to Become a Famous Rock-star
54. Sports Photography
55. Life skills/life coaching for high school students
56. College planning for homeschoolers
57. Speaking in Public (How to overcome the fear to the audience; minimalistic approach to presentations, etc.)
58. A Family related site (Topics centered mostly on improving the relationship between family members; how to increase the creativity of kids and specially parents; how to help kids to find their passion and inner peace.)
59. Alternative Running Events (Mudruns, Tough Mudder, Spartan Race, Warrior Dash, etc.)
60. Learning the Ukulele
61. Learn How to Play Guitar
62. How to Get What You Want Without Breaking the Law or Burning Bridges
63. Becoming a wine connoisseur
64. Build a boat and cross the Pacific in it
65. Getting good at tennis and qualifying for Wimbledon
66. Windsurfing
67. Regular Surfing
68. How mobile applications that can improve one’s work productivity, relationships with friends and family, and overall quality of life.
69. Simpler Living (a blog that will explore and map a journey from a miserable 6 figure a year traditional way of living back to an often forgotten way of life.)
70. The best “places” around the world & do they live up to the hype?
71. How to do travel photography/videography
72. The Great Recession (A blog based upon a sustainable lifestyle with a smaller footprint.)
73. Building an iPhone application
74. The end of the world and the Maya prophecies for December 21st, 2012
75. Car maintenance
76. Running a Small Agile Business (a la 37 Signals)
77. A “Good Cause” Site (Telling the Stories of Successful Non-Profits & Charities)
78. Eco-tourism
79. The world of virtual conferences
80. QR codes. How to best use them in small business Marketing.
81. Inspire Bootstrappers (A blog to inspire bootstrappers by posting real bootstrapper success stories.)

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Now its your turn.

We’d love to hear any ideas you have for a blog you are creating yourself or one you’d love to read. Let us know in the comments below this post.

Starting a blog is actually easy. Thousands of new blogs are started every day. Anyone can start a blog in 5 minutes, but very few people will create blogs that matter.

The How to Start a Blog That Matters course can help you create a blog that will change your life and the lives of your readers.

–> Head over to see if our new blogging course is a good fit for you.