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Why do you need to google "blog post ideas" when you have so many thoughts assailing your brain? What do you expect?

mike_hock 3y ago
He wants to put his bachelor's degree to use that he paid X amount of money for. He has the same blogging-as-a-job mindset. Why is (for example) Raymond Chen's blog interesting? Because he has a real job that gives him stories to blog about and occasionally vent his frustration, and the result is entertaining but real, useful information. He doesn't spend time pondering what to write about next. You don't need a degree in creative writing to blog. You need a real job or hobby to have something to blog about. I don't care about some rando's opinion on some video game, whether he writes like Shakespeare or not.
- whiona 3y ago
  Hi Mike! It’s cool if you didn’t enjoy my post, but there are some rather strange assumptions about me in here just because I happen to enjoy computer games, and was at a bit of a loss as to what I wanted to write about that day. I have a full-time job that I think is pretty cool (I’m a librarian) but I prefer to keep my work life at work, and my internet life on the internet. Never the twain shall meet. I am also a she who has many other hobbies. :) I know there’s a bit of a stereotype that anyone who likes computer games must be a male NEET living in their mom’s basement, but it’s pretty inaccurate to reality!
joemi 3y ago
Indeed. Searching for phrases like that are exactly why he got some many not-just-for-the-hell-of-it hits. The people who are most in need of ideas about what to blog about are those that are doing it just because they heard their company's site needs a blog. So those are the kind of answers most people searching for "blog post ideas" are looking for. People who are blogging just for the hell of it don't typically need to search for ideas, since they just post about whatever they want.
- whiona 3y ago
  This is a fair point! My search became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts…I had been hoping to find some cool blogging challenges or prompts on some small community, but of course it’s only the SEO optimized stuff coming up in the search, and that SEO optimized stuff will tell you to blog like they do. Lessons learned!

He wants to put his bachelor's degree to use that he paid X amount of money for. He has the same blogging-as-a-job mindset. Why is (for example) Raymond Chen's blog interesting? Because he has a real job that gives him stories to blog about and occasionally vent his frustration, and the result is entertaining but real, useful information. He doesn't spend time pondering what to write about next. You don't need a degree in creative writing to blog. You need a real job or hobby to have something to blog about. I don't care about some rando's opinion on some video game, whether he writes like Shakespeare or not.

whiona 3y ago
Hi Mike! It’s cool if you didn’t enjoy my post, but there are some rather strange assumptions about me in here just because I happen to enjoy computer games, and was at a bit of a loss as to what I wanted to write about that day. I have a full-time job that I think is pretty cool (I’m a librarian) but I prefer to keep my work life at work, and my internet life on the internet. Never the twain shall meet. I am also a she who has many other hobbies. :) I know there’s a bit of a stereotype that anyone who likes computer games must be a male NEET living in their mom’s basement, but it’s pretty inaccurate to reality!

joemi 3y ago

Indeed. Searching for phrases like that are exactly why he got some many not-just-for-the-hell-of-it hits. The people who are most in need of ideas about what to blog about are those that are doing it just because they heard their company's site needs a blog. So those are the kind of answers most people searching for "blog post ideas" are looking for. People who are blogging just for the hell of it don't typically need to search for ideas, since they just post about whatever they want.

whiona 3y ago
This is a fair point! My search became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts…I had been hoping to find some cool blogging challenges or prompts on some small community, but of course it’s only the SEO optimized stuff coming up in the search, and that SEO optimized stuff will tell you to blog like they do. Lessons learned!