Try Blogging About Your Hometown
Find great content to blog about right outside your front door.
When you need a new article to blog about on Triond think about using your hometown. It makes sense. You live there. You probably work there. You party and vote there. What could be easier than blogging about your hometown?
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Now I know from reading a lot of articles from the writers in my network here at Triond that a lot of you already do use your hometown to get ideas on what to write about. I just thought I would blog about it.
Pittsburgh is my hometown. There must be ten universities in this city. Pittsburgh is a great professional sports town. The city is also a center of culture, finance, manufacturing and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is one of the top hospitals in the nation if not the world. There’s a lot to blog about.
A lot of special events of international interest also take place here. The meeting of the G-20 was just the most recent event. And it doesn’t hurt that Pittsburgh has been named the most livable city in the United States several time in the pass few years by a couple of high profile international publications.
All of these things are good for online marketing and page-view money making.
Blogging for fun and profit is a wonderful thing; but you have to come up with content. You have to come up with articles that people want to read. The best thing about blogging about your hometown is you already have a build-in audience.
So, the next time you’re knocking around for an idea to blog about consider blogging about your hometown. And no one will blame you if you do a little bragging.
Go Steelers!
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October 28th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Good idea. The C of C would appreciate it if all I did was brag. I’d have to omit some political issues. lol.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Great one Guy! Good job!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:59 am
That’s not a bad idea!
October 28th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Excellent idea and thanks for sharing a great article.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:11 am
good idea. Mount Kinabalu is in my mind.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Hometowns make great material. I keep telling myself I could keep busy just doing some character discriptions of some of our most interesting citizens.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:25 am
ken, I’ve never been to Washington D.C., a city of monuments. I wonder where the government keeps my old army records.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Jenny, I like Pittsburgh as a city. Especially the neighborhood that I live in which is in the same neighborhood as the University of Pittsburgh.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Papa, even if a blogger lives in a small town, I’m sure plenty goes on in a small town.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Jane, I like blogging and of course coming up with new content is a constant problem. Blogging about one’s hometown is part of the solution.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Agnes, I like the fact that a hometown blogger has a built-in audience. A blogger can start with a hometown audience and then draw in other readers who do not live in the same town.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:50 am
martie, every hometown has plenty of “characters” in it. A blogger could not make up some of these characters.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Great idea. I have written several articles about Pensacola, Florida but I have never blogged about it.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Thanks for the share!
October 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
This is a good idea. I don’t live in my home town. So, I have two places to write about.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Cool maybe I’ll do that
October 28th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
PR, my father grew up in your hometowm. He would kid us about eating alligators tails.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
alc, blogging about your hometown is something we can all do.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
wcmonro, that’s even better. Twice the fun.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
royee, it’s a good idea. You can’t go wrong.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I’m not sure as I’d have much to say about the small town I live in. I wouldn’t imagine there would be too many hits on the search engines. But where I was born and raised, I did do an article on and it did fairly well.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
You must have been reading my mind, I was working on an article about my home town today.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Mary, I don’t think it’s so much where your hometown is but the stories a writer can write about her hometown. An interesting story is an interesting story no matter where it takes place.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I think a hometown story by a hometown writer has a good chance of being a winner.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
it’s a great idea.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Assuring,and there ‘ll be more content. Only I feel whether it may be alien to the readers, but I may be wrong.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Awesome idea. Miami is the place to be. Nice weather and beautiful palm trees.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:51 am
nice idea, thanks. i was pondering on what to do? i got the answer
October 29th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Thanks for the information…Good idea.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Good suggestion. Only, it should be made interesting, as you say.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Ruby, I must admit it is one of my better ideas.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:40 am
wonder, give it a try and see what happens.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am
marlene, it’s worth giving it a try. You’re a good writer. I’m sure you can make content about your city interesting.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:46 am
martin, your hometown is a good place to begin looking for writing ideas.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Teves, our hometowns have a great impact on us as writers and people. Writing about our hometowns is a natual.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am
chitragopi, making an article interesting to the reader is the name of the game no matter where the idea comes from.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I did start blogging about my home town a year or two ago (well, about my terrible neighbours, more accurately), but I gave up. Actually, I may just give it a try – this could be quite amusing…
October 30th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I have lived in so many places, I guess I have many hometowns I could blog about…:)
November 1st, 2009 at 8:23 am
You’re right…there are a lot of things going on around us, locally, that can generate some material when writer’s block occurs. Thanks for the idea, Guy. Also, thanks for serving our country…you guys never got the credit you deserved.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
That is such a great Idea, and if you have lived in many places or visited for extented amount of time, it is the perfect thing to do.
Awesome