5) Ultimate Guides

On the other side of the spectrum, your excellent grasp of a subject matter can help people further hone their expertise in a particular area. Ultimate guides are more challenging to write because it often requires backing your article with research, statistics, and references to give weight and credibility to your content.

Moreover, be sure that what you’ve written offers a unique perspective and provides new information. If you enjoy doing in-depth research and explaining concepts in layman’s terms, you can try this.

6) Frequently Asked Questions

The Internet has become a go-to for answers to any questions. People have a need to know and they turn to search engines for quick answers. Quora is a popular venue for asking questions. However, even if you post answers to FAQ sites, people will continue to search for other answers.

You can create an FAQ blog to serve as a resource for people. You can explore and answer a question in a more in-depth fashion. Use this opportunity to have your blog indexed by Google as it uses an algorithm based on what people ask.

7) Interviews

Content is based on a blogger’s expertise or self-knowledge. If you want to carve an extraordinary niche, help your audience gain information based on the insights of other experts.

Your interview subjects don’t have to be popular. Begin your interview by introducing your subject and their contribution to their field. You don’t even have to talk to your subjects face to face. The wonders of digital communication can have you engaging through email or videoconferencing.

As an interviewer, prepare to write down questions that are relevant. Ask questions that people would ask if they were in your shoes.

8) Personal Stories

You can fill your personal stories with good keyword searches depending on what experience you’re sharing.

Personal stories allow your readers to relate to you on a personal level. This niche has an emotional appeal that you can use to create powerful content. Storytelling is an art than can trigger an emotional response in your audience, and that could help drive them to take action.

Personal stories can also drive traffic because people are always on the lookout for unique human accounts and bizarre experiences. For example, if your story is entitled, “How My Two-Year-Old Son Swallowed a Goldfish,” people will click on it out of curiosity. When this happens and they find it funny, they will share your story on other sites that you can use to draw more traffic to your blog.

9) Charity and Activism

Charitable activities and activism for good causes will always find an audience. We clamor for social change and do what we can to help one another gain an equal footing in a dog eat dog world.

You can blog about what you believe are worthy causes, and even write reviews about them. Appeal to the good side of people. Get to know the latest startup projects and write about the ones you support. Talk about individuals or entities on a crusade for social change.