Using AI Prompts to Generate Blog Topics (with Templates)

Blog Idea Generator (with AI Prompts and Templates)

Blog ideas are sometimes hard to come by. Don’t start from scratch: use our AI-powered Blog Idea Generator to get started quickly without sacrificing quality.

Then, when you’re ready to make those blogs a reality, sign up for a free trial to work with our expert creative team.

How to Use Our AI Blog Generator

Just give us a few details about your topic or keyword, and our AI-powered assistant will create great blog ideas, instantly and free. The more information you give it, the better the results you’ll get out of it.

Prompts for Improving Blog Topics

Once you’ve created your AI blog topics, use these prompts to refine and improve them:

1. Explore Industry Trends:
“Generate blog ideas around the latest trends shaping my industry.”

2. Answer FAQs:
“Create a list of FAQs specific to my industry.”
“Write a plan describing articles that will strategically answer these questions.”
“Create informative post ideas addressing common questions my customers have.”

3. Innovations Spotlight:
“Tell me about recent industry innovations and their implications.”
“What are some opportunities for industry innovation that my business is uniquely positioned to address?”

4. Solving Pain Points:
“Generate blog content that addresses specific pain points that my products/services alleviate.”

5. Success Stories:
“Recommend real-life case studies highlighting the impact of my offerings.”
“What kind of case study will resonate with my target audience?”

6. Overcoming Challenges:
“Help me share stories of how my business has triumphed over challenges.”
“How has my industry helped businesses and individuals?”
“Help me tell my business’s narrative in a way that inspires confidence in our brand.”

7. Unique Value Proposition:
“Suggest blog content that showcases the distinct benefits of my business.”
“How can I highlight what makes my business different?”

8. Seasonal Content:
“Generate ideas related to upcoming events, holidays, or seasons.”

9. How-to Guides:
“Suggest step-by-step guides or tutorials related to my products/services.”
“Outline educational evergreen blogs that will continue to drive traffic and conversions.”
“Recommend guides, tutorials, and educational pieces for a college-educated audience, assuming they are already somewhat knowledgeable in this industry.”

10. Customer Feedback Insights:
“How can I include content inspired by recent customer reviews to address concerns and highlight positive experiences in my company blog?”
“What are the most used words and phrases in reviews about my industry?”

Blog Idea Examples

Example 1: Wordstream

Wordstream is a source of digital marketing insights for small businesses throughout the US. For 12 years, they’ve provided insights into the world of marketing in the online space. They created this handy list of thought leadership blog post ideas.

Wordstream blog

Example 2: Wix

You’ve probably heard of the code-free website builder Wix. In a recent blog post, they share insights into choosing a niche to write about. This allows you to group your content into themes. This is great if your business is fairly unique or focuses on a specific type of narrative. Wix’s list of niche blog ideas is a great place to start.

Wix blog

Example 3: Upwork

American freelancing platform Upwork created a great cheat sheet for marketers or business owners seeking inspiration to generate content ideas. In their blog, they offer over 80 blog post ideas that cover various categories. Each category is then broken down into smaller parts, which get more specific. Here’s the first set of content categories that they set out.

Using the above example, it’s a good idea first to consider the broader category you’d like to focus on and then dissect that further with specific content ideas.

Examples of AI-Generated Prompts

Example 1: A New Health Blog

To start, we had to input a keyword for a general topic, which, in this instance, was ‘healthy eating.’

“10 Superfoods to Incorporate into Your Healthy Eating Plan”
“The Science of Healthy Eating: How Nutrients Impact Your Body”
“Healthy Eating on a Budget: Tips and Meal Ideas”
“Understanding the Psychology Behind Food Choices and Healthy Eating”
“Meal Prep for Success: A Week’s Guide to Healthy Eating”

Could you tell me a bit more about your target audience and the goal of your blog? This will help me tailor the ideas more closely to your needs.

To further refine the above, we answered its question by confirming that the target audience was males and females between the ages of 30 and 40. We added that many are new parents with busy lifestyles. It then gave us the following:

Thank you for the additional details. Considering your target audience, here are some refined blog ideas that may resonate with them:

“Balancing Parenthood and Nutrition: Easy Healthy Eating Tips for Busy Parents”
“Quick and Nutritious: Top 10 Healthy Meals for On-the-Go Parents”
“Healthy Eating Hacks: Prepping Family-Friendly Meals for the Week Ahead”
“The Role of Healthy Eating in Managing Stress for New Parents”
“Building a Healthy Plate: Nutritional Advice for Parents in Their 30s and 40s”

Do you have any specific health trends or diets you’re interested in covering, and are there particular content types (like how-to guides, listicles, personal stories) you prefer?

As you can see, our AI tool has provided many great topics that are relevant to our audience. These are great starting points to set the content creation machine in motion.

Example 2: Trading Cryptocurrency

The keyword we entered was ‘Trading cryptocurrency.’ Here’s what it gave us:

Fantastic, cryptocurrency trading is a very timely and engaging topic. Here are some initial blog ideas:

“Cryptocurrency Trading for Beginners: Understanding the Basics”
“Maximizing Profits: Advanced Trading Strategies for Cryptocurrency Investors”
“The Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Trading Cryptocurrency”
“The Psychological Edge: Developing Discipline and Patience in Crypto Trading”
“Evaluating Cryptocurrency Trends: What to Watch Before You Trade”

Could you share more about the experience level of your readers, any specific cryptocurrencies they’re interested in, or a particular angle you’d like to focus on, such as technical analysis, market news, or investment strategies?

What’s great about our blog idea generator is that there are endless opportunities. All it takes is a few simple prompts to unlock a vast amount of creativity.

10 Best Practices for Blog Topic Generation

While creating blog content for your business can initially seem daunting, it needn’t be. With a few simple best practices, you’ll very quickly be able to generate themes that are directly aligned with your target audience. Here’s what you need to consider.

Develop an Audience-Centric Approach: When developing content ideas, it’s essential that you also develop an audience-centric approach. That means understanding your audience’s demographics and preferences. HubSpot did this quite well in this marketing automation blog, where they are taking a problem that many finance businesses face around efficiency and offering insights on how automation can solve this.
Conduct Keyword and Trend Research: A key to any blog strategy has to be keyword and trend research. Make sure that you are optimizing your content for search visibility. You can do this by conducting thorough keyword research that your audience is looking for. It’s also important that you stay up to date with all trends relevant to your industry. You’ll find plenty of tools to consider in this keyword research blog.
Maintain a Diverse Content Mix: You must keep your content fresh and engaging otherwise, you’ll lose your audience and go from hero to zero quickly. Don’t just stick to one format. Instead, mix things with how-to guides, opinion pieces, case studies, and listicles to cater to different audience preferences and capture their attention.
Address Customer Questions: Become the answer! A key goal for your content should be that you want to solve a problem. Consider what common questions your customers ask. Then, use these queries as the basis for informative blog posts. You’ll quickly become a reliable source of insights that will drive up your engagement rates.
Provide Unique Perspectives: Always offer a few viewpoints on the subject you are focusing on. When approaching familiar topics, try to do so from unique angles to provide new insights and perspectives your audience may not have read elsewhere.
Check for Content Gaps: The unexplored is an excellent place to venture into. Take a close look at your existing content to uncover gaps where new and exciting topics could be found. Also, look at your competitors’ writing and see what they may be missing.

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