81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters

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

1. At Fizzle, we believe that anyone who 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.)
   Before you read on: if you want to get some better training for blogging (with easy to follow video lessons), check out this video. Especially if you want to monetize your blog.
   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. Blogging about special kinds of foods (we’ve got a course on this one!)
   15. Bullying/cyber bullying
   16. Behavioral disorders in children
   17. Body-weight training
   18. Entrepreneurial education for young children & adults
   19. Disc Golf
   20. DIY Projects, DIY Business and Selling Homemade Items
   21. How to have a Strong Marriage
   22. How to be a real and true friend
   23. How to Train for a Triathlon
   24. Careers vs job: following your passion
   25. Getting VMWare Certified
   26. Getting Microsoft Certified
   27. Hamburgers
   28. Self-sustaining lifestyle (grow your own food/ use solar power etc)
   29. Mind strengthening (mind over matter/ lucid dreaming)
   30. Beyond the basics of personal financial management
   31. Healthy eating blog
   32. Ghost-hunting
   33. Home brewing beer
   34. Self defense training (“for women” or “for children” or “for business executives”)
   35. Indie Video Game Development
   36. Video Game tactics shown through video tutorials
   37. Helping small businesses get more customers
   38. Community gardening/Urban farming
   39. Starting and running your own social network
   40. Point and Shoot Photography (How to create incredible photographs with whatever camera you have in your pocket)
   41. Blog & Website Design for Non Designers (How to make your blog look incredible without spending a fortune)
   42. 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)
   43. Make Good Video for the Web (How to leverage the video medium to take your brand, blog, website, or business to the next level)
   44. 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.)
   45. How to write an e-bestseller (How could we document the process of creating an Amazon Kindle (or other electronic format) bestseller.)
   46. Rapid Language Learning
   47. How to become a better writer
   48. How to lose weight and feel awesome (Even at middle age! The Primal/Paleo way)
   49. Vegan diet
   50. Cycling. More specifically, urban commuting.
   51. Apartment living (this could range from renter issues to decor, etc.)
   52. Interior design blog
   53. Eating organic on a tight budget
   54. Health conscious, High mileage, Minimalist traveling
   55. How to Become a Famous Rock-star
   56. Sports Photography
   57. Life skills/life coaching for high school students
   58. College planning for homeschoolers
   59. Speaking in Public (How to overcome the fear to the audience; minimalistic approach to presentations, etc.)
   60. 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.)
   61. Alternative Running Events (Mudruns, Tough Mudder, Spartan Race, Warrior Dash, etc.)
   62. Learning the Ukulele
   63. Learn How to Play Guitar
   64. How to Get What You Want Without Breaking the Law or Burning Bridges
   65. Becoming a wine connoisseur
   66. Build a boat and cross the Pacific in it
   67. Getting good at tennis and qualifying for Wimbledon
   68. Windsurfing
   69. Regular Surfing
   70. How mobile applications that can improve one’s work productivity, relationships with friends and family, and overall quality of life.
   71. 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.)
   72. The best “places” around the world & do they live up to the hype?
   73. How to do travel photography/videography
   74. The Great Recession (A blog based upon a sustainable lifestyle with a smaller footprint.)
   75. Building an iPhone application
   76. The end of the world and the Maya prophecies for December 21st, 2012
   77. Car maintenance
   78. Running a Small Agile Business (we’ve got a 9 stage blogging/business roadmap for this)
   79. A “Good Cause” Site (Telling the Stories of Successful Non-Profits & Charities)
   80. Eco-tourism
   81. The world of virtual conferences
   82. QR codes. How to best use them in small business Marketing.
   83. Inspire Bootstrappers (A blog to inspire bootstrappers by posting real bootstrapper success stories.)

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   Now its your turn. Break a leg out there!
   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.