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Topics can be anything you enjoy doing |
Topics can provide information to others |
So what do you know about? Do you play a sport, or collect something? Do you know about plumbing or electricity? Or building, decorating, painting, writing? Any of these things would make great topics for a website. If you are still stuck for ideas have a look at facebook, twitter, wordpress and see what people are writing about. If people are discussing it then usually someone is looking for information on the subject. A site where I get some ideas is called 43 things. On this site people list things they want to do, learn, know. Go and have a look and get inspired to write about one of those things if you are really stuck. |
If people are discussing it - usually someone is looking for the information |
Finding your topic |
As mentioned before, my biggest mistake was getting caught up in finding the perfect topic that would bring thousands of visitors to my site and make me millions. The reality is any topic will bring visitors to a website - people search for information about everything from treating lice in children, to zen gardening. So anything you have an interest in, think you could write about, or have some special knowledge of could be the topic of your first website. Forget about concerns whether you could possibly write 20 - 30 pages on the topic, once you start you will see how easy it is to fill them. So lets choose a topic. My first website was about death and dying. I am a nurse, so I know quite a lot about this subject, and I was able to research the stuff I didn't know so well. |
Just a note - don't worry how many other websites there are out there on your chosen topic, no matter what you write about there will be lots if sites already out there on the topic. The difference is what you have to say about the topic. Your experiences, your voice, your particular knowledge - that is what people are looking for. |
Try picking a topic - model trains for example. Do a search on Google and see how many websites there are on the topic. Now go and look at some of the sites. You will find some sites have great content, some have virtually none, and some fall in the mid ground. You will be writing your website to fit in the great content category. These sites, once the search engines know them, will rank highly, and you will get visitors. Give those visitors great content and they will stay and read what you have to say. |
Finding your 20 - 30 pages |
Now you have your topic we need to find 20 - 30 pages worth of ideas. This is where most people get stuck first time round. They choose a topic like death and dying and then wonder how they will find enough information to fill those pages. There are a couple of techniques to use, and the method you choose will depend on your own way of working. You can mind map your topic laying out all the possible sub topics related to the main topic. This works well if you like to be organised and have a plan before you start. Or you can just start writing about your topic and let it grow organically. You will soon need to break up the information as you find that you have exceeded your 750 words, and you will find natural divisions for the topic. Or you can combine the two. Start with a basic outline, and let each arm grow organically. |
Lets look at my first site - death and dying your way - to understand how these methods work. When I mind mapped that site I divided it up into legal and finances, care options, funerals, saying goodbye, the dying process, pain management. Under each of these I put topics like making a will, insurance, power of attorney, the funeral director, the funeral service, poetry for the funeral, writing a letter of goodbye etc. As you can see, from a topic that looks like there cant be much to write about, we have several pages. I then let my site grow organically. From care options I grew a second page since there was too much information for one page. I ended up breaking it up to discussing what the care options are on the first page, then having several sub pages that looked at each care option in more detail. And a page on things your family can do for you when you are bed bound. So now you have your topic, and a vague (or well planned) idea of what pages you will need. Please follow me to content 3 where I will show you my method for researching and writing my content. |
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