Many who are new to blogging often do not know what topic they should write about. The rule of thumb is write a topic which you are intereted in. If you are interested in the topic, you are more motivated to research and write consistently. There are many types of blogs you can start right away.
1. Political blog – on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).
2. Personal blog – also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.
3. Topical blog – with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.
4. Health blog – on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.
5. Literary blog – also known as litblog.
6. Travel blog – with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.
7. Research blog – on academic issues such as research notes.
8. Legal blog – on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.
9. Media blog – focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.
10. Religious blog – on religious topics
11. Educational blog – on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.
12. Collaborative or collective blog – a specific topic written by a group of people.
13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.
14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.
15. Personification blog – focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).
16. Spam blogs – used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ‘splogs’. Search engines do not like this and usually they will deindexed them in no time.