250: 9 Types of Killer Filler Content that are Easy to Create

How to Create Killer Filler Content for Your Blog This week I’m sharing a list of content filler types you can use for your blog. And they don’t take a lot of effort or time to create. If you’re struggling to create thoughtful, original long-form content, these will help fill some of the gaps. Here’s how to create killer filler content and add value to both your blog and your readers. Reader Discussions: Ask a question to generate a debate/community workshop Polls: Increase reader engagement and start a good discussion with a question Homework/Challenges: Specify a topic, and give readers an assignment Link Posts: Link to another blog/article (or include a list of links) to build relationships and find out what others are thinking Best Of/Archive Posts: Post useful posts new readers have never seen Guest Posts/Regular Contributors: Include posts written by others, or find a regular writer to do a semi-regular post Embeddable Content: Use photos, cartoons, or go to YouTube; search keywords related to your blog topic, and find a high-value video that helps your readers Interviews: Find interesting experts, and ask them questions to help your readers Answer Question: Address questions from readers and beginners (but make the answers short and sweet) These posts are a little less labor intensive to create, but still serve a purpose for your readers. The key is to experiment. Which get positive reactions? Evolve them into something you can add on a regular basis to your blog. But remember, don’t publish ‘filler content’ just for the sake of posting. Quote of the Week: “If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith Links and Resources for 9 Types of Killer Filler Content that are Easy to Create: Pat Flynn: AskPat podcast Further Listening Deadlines - Are They Good or Bad for Your Blogging? 6 Places to Find Writers to Hire for Your Blog How to Use Embedded Content on Your Blog Examples of 9 Types of Killer Filler Content that are Easy to Create Are You a Binge Photographer or a Snack Photographer? Help this Locationally Challenged Photographer Improve Her Portraiture What Mode Do You Shoot in Most? Photographer in the Picture 18 [+7] Great Photography Links from Around the Web One Year Ago on Lifehacker How to Create Impossible Images Courses Starting a Blog ProBlogger Pro – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Join our Facebook group Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hello. It’s Darren from ProBlogger here. Welcome to episode 250. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com, a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of ebooks, and courses all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your blog, to build that audience, to create great content, and to build profit around your blog. You can learn more about what we do at problogger.com. In today’s episode, I want to suggest to you a list of types of content that you can use on your blog and potentially in other mediums as well that don’t take a massive amount of time to create. This episode does build upon what I talked about in the last episode– episode 249–where I was talking about deadlines, schedules, and editorial calendars. In that episode, we heard a question from a blogger who was finding it difficult to keep up with the schedule. That actually found having a deadline each week, having that schedule was limiting and they decided to slow down and only post when they had something to say, which I agreed with on some levels, but I did mention that there was a danger associated with that. One of the dangers is that you can slow down so much that you don’t publish anything at all. I suggested last episode that there might be some ways of creating content that...