Another type of highly popular blog post is the review.
It’s fairly straight forward to write a review post, but you’ve got to be careful. If it doesn’t fit with the theme of your blog, you’ll find that it actually damages your overall traffic. Your blog should always be laser focussed on the niche you want to talk about, and related areas to the niche. You can’t go off topic!
Another type of post is ‘a list’ – lists of the ten most popular (x)’s.
(x) reasons why (y) is the only option/ a very bad idea
(x) reasons why you should/should not do (y)
(x) life saving hacks.
The highly popular blog, http://lifehacker.com is full of these tips and tricks – an article centred on solving a problem. The problem may not be implicitly stated, but instead touched on in general terms, but the solutions are always bang on the money, and that makes this blog a must read.
Its style is easy to emulate too. What problems does your niche have – are there several solutions (that you know of?) and can you express them in simple terms?
The final type of post that is very popular and easy to write is the feature – features can be one article, or several long articles, with links to each other. They should cover something important and be packed full of information. Keyword rich, you want your readers to come away feeling like they’ve really learned something, and search engines to come away with a whole new platter of wonderful content to add to their indexes.