20+ Blog Post Examples to Inspire (& Kickstart) Your Creativity
by Susan Banks
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Looking for blog post examples to inspire your own blogging efforts? Your search ends here.
As an experienced writer and blogger who has read hundreds (maybe thousands!) of blog posts across different niches, nothing gets me more inspired than reading outstanding blog content.
I love to dissect each post after reading it, really pinpointing what hooked me in, kept me reading and inspired me to action.
Then, I use those techniques in my own blog content.
So if you’re looking for some out-of-this world blog examples to spark your creative fire, I’ve got over 20 of them to share with you in this post.
Better yet — I’ve also included a “takeaway” for each blog example, identifying what makes it stand out.
Ready to be blown away by some brilliant blog posts?
Let’s go!
Affiliate Marketing Blogs
Affiliate marketing is a popular way to make money online. The challenge is knowing what to do and where to start.
Affiliate marketing blogs promise to bridge this divide and take even beginners from the starting line to making ongoing passive income.
1. Affiliate Marketing – A Simple Step by Step Guide (Smart Passive Income)
The mission of Smart Passive Income is to help entrepreneurs reach their dreams.
This beginner’s guide covers all the essential questions that newbies ask, from what is affiliate marketing, to how much money affiliate marketers can make.
Takeaway
By using a table of contents, you can engage your readers by showing them what to expect from your post.
2. Fit and Fab Profits: 50 Best Fitness Affiliate Programs for Massive Passive Income (Affilorama)
Affilorama’s goal is to “minimize the potential hurdles for aspiring affiliates.”
This blog example is a comprehensive list of 50 fitness affiliate programs, including specific details such as commission rates, cookie duration, and links to the sign-up pages.
Takeaway
Answer a burning question your readers have — such as what affiliate programs are available in their niche — and display it in a clean, clear layout.
3. 10+ Best Travel Affiliate Programs to Earn Excellent Commissions (Bloggers Passion)
Bloggers Passion helps “bloggers to start successful blogs from scratch.”
There is a lot of money to be made from travel blogs. The 10+ travel affiliate programs include flights, hotels, car rentals, and travel gear.
Takeaway
Make it easy for your readers to find what they are looking for by using tables and a linked table of contents.
DIY Blogs
DIY blogs help homeowners and crafters who want to save money, acquire a new skill, or get the satisfaction of fixing, building, or creating something with their own hands.
4. Homemade Gift Ideas for Everyone on Your List (A Beautiful Mess)
The motto for A Beautiful Mess is “Stay Home and Make Something.”
It can be challenging coming up with the perfect gift idea, and this blog post has 50 easy DIY gift ideas for the creatively challenged to the seasoned DIYer.
Takeaway
If you have multiple related blog posts, create a summary post that links back to each of them.
5. How To Wrap Front Porch Posts (Addicted to Decorating)
Kristi, the author of this blog, is “an interior decorator-turned-DIY blogger.” She blogs about remodeling her 1948 fixer-upper.
Wrapping front porch posts would probably not even occur to most DIYers, which makes this blog article stand out.
Takeaway
For instructional blog posts, include clear photos with each step. Your unique DIY projects are worth sharing.
Gardening Blogs
Gardeners are a passionate bunch who are on a never-ending quest to learn more about how to grow and propagate their favorite plants and beautify their gardens. Gardening blogs are a source of education and inspiration.
6. There’s More Than One Way to Ripen a Tomato (A Way to Garden)
On A Way to Garden Margaret Roach shares her love of gardening, nature, and food.
Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables to grow at home, but getting them to ripen can sometimes be a challenge. Margaret’s beautifully written blog post helps solve this dilemma.
Takeaway
Make your blog posts easier and more enjoyable to read with images, text boxes, and beautiful prose.
7. Don’t Dig Up Dahlias For Winter! (The Middle-Sized Garden)
An oft-neglected blog niche is middle-sized gardens, which are “larger than a courtyard but smaller than an acre“. This delightful blog fills that gap.
Dahlias are gorgeous flowers that, in a lot of areas, need to be dug up over winter. This blog post promises another way!
Takeaway
Many long-held assumptions about how things must be done are not true. Show your readers another way.
Home Decor Blogs
Home decor blogs cover a wide range of topics, including interior, exterior, and garden design — basically, anything that is related to decorating your home.
8. Japanese Influenced Interiors – A World Of Inspiration (Design Files)
Design Files is an Australian design blog that covers “homes, gardens, art, architecture, … and more!”
Readers of design blogs are looking for beauty and inspiration, and this post about Japanese-influenced interiors has an abundance of both.
Takeaway
What stands out in this blog example are the stunning photos and the layout. Use your creative talents to make your post a work of art.
9. How To Choose The Right Rug Size For Your Living Room (Emily Henderson)
Emily Henderson is a blog about design, style and life.
Choosing the right rug size for your room seems obvious — until you actually have to choose! Then you are confronted with multiple options. This blog post helps you decide.
Takeaway
If you are struggling with a perplexing question, you are probably not alone. Research, then write about it.
Lifestyle Blogs
A lifestyle blog covers a wide range of topics that interest the blogger and appeals to their target audience, such as food, fashion, home decor, and parenting.
10. A List of Things That Are Perfect (Wit & Delight)
Lifestyle blog Wit & Delight covers a wide range of topics, all focused on “cultivating a meaningful home life.”
Instead of personally striving for perfection — an unachievable and frustrating goal — this author suggests that we remember the perfect things in life, and gives us her list.
Takeaway
People love lists — even if they are random and arbitrary. If you love it, put it out there.
11. 10 Single Moms By Choice Share Their Experiences (Cup of Jo)
Cup of Jo is a daily women’s lifestyle blog whose readers “come for the blog, stay for the comments.”
Motherhood can be challenging, especially when you choose to go it alone. Learning from other women who are single moms by choice can help ease your fears.
Takeaway
An excellent way of engaging your readers is by answering challenging questions that they face.
Marketing Blogs
Marketing blogs teach businesses how to reach and engage their customers. The topics they cover include content marketing, social media, email marketing, and SEO.
12. 801+ Power Words That Pack a Punch & Convert like Crazy (Smart Blogger)
Our site, SmartBlogger, is dedicated to writing and blogging.
Writing is made up of words, and words have power. If you want to have an impact on your readers, add this cheat sheet, with 801+ power words, to your toolkit!
Takeaway
You can use multiple design features to capture your readers’ attention, including text boxes to summarize important points, screenshots of examples, and block quotes.
13. The Only 30 Free SEO Tools You Need (Ahrefs Blog)
Ahrefs creates SEO and digital marketing tools and has an educational blog.
A lot of SEO tools cost money, so it is useful to know which tools you can use for free and what features each of these have.
Takeaway
To make your list posts standout you can use large headlines, screenshots, a text summary, and a “highlighted feature” for each item.
Personal Development Blogs
Personal development blogs cover a wide range of topics, all aimed at making you a better version of yourself.
14. 200 Incredible Life Hacks That Make Life So Much Easier (Life Hack)
Life Hack’s personal blog is “centered around the art and science of optimizing time and productivity.” This particular blog post has 200 simple hacks to make your life easier.
Takeaway
Mixing up the format of your post adds an interesting twist, like this post, in which half the examples are images and half text.
15. The Feynman Technique: Master the Art of Learning (Farnham Street)
Farnham Street helps you “master the best of what other people have already figured out.”
Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate in physics, was a master at simplifying and teaching complex topics. This post breaks down his four-step method.
Takeaway
Simpler is better. If a child can’t understand what you’re writing, perhaps you need to rethink it.
16. 4 Short Stories that Will Change the Way You Think (Marc & Angel Hack Life)
Mark & Angel Hack Life helps you “think better, feel better, and live better.”
The four stories in this post engage and teach us. Each is followed by “The Moral” of the story and a link to more reading. Two are affiliate links to books on Amazon.
Takeaway
You can seamlessly insert anchor text Amazon affiliate links into your blog posts.
Photography Blogs
Photography blogs cover topics that interest both amateur and professional photographers, including how to take great shots, reviews, and the photos and travels of professional photographers.
17. Rule of Thirds in Photography (Digital Photography School)
At Digital Photography School photography enthusiasts “share tips and techniques to help you improve all aspects of your photography.”
One of the best-known rules of image composition is the rule of thirds. This post delves into the intricacies of this guideline to help you compose amazing photos.
Takeaway
If you have a passion or expertise — share it — like the writers of this blog.
18. Everything You Need To Know About Cat Photography (500px)
On 500px “you’ll meet inspirational photographers, and discover how they capture the images that blow your mind every day.”
This cat photography post is too adorable to resist. Whether you are a cat lover or not, you can’t deny that cat photos and memes are ubiquitous.
Takeaway
Pulling on your readers’ heartstrings works. So do beautiful photos.
Technology Blogs
Technology blogs cover news and developments in all areas of technology, and how it impacts our lives and the world around us.
19. No, physicists didn’t make a real wormhole (Ars Technica)
Technology site Ars Technica specializes in “news and reviews, analysis of technology trends, and expert advice.”
At the end of 2022, there was a lot of excitement about a wormhole that scientists created in a lab. Well, not quite. What exactly did they create?
Takeaway
Breaking news that generates confusion can be a good topic — if you know what you are talking about!
20. I taught myself to lucid dream. You can too (MIT Technology Review)
MIT Technology Review explains the latest technologies and their impacts.
This blog post is popular because our dreams fascinate us, and lucid dreaming is a new area that we can explore, to learn more about ourselves.
Takeaway
Adding an audio version of your article — like this post does — is a good option for people who would rather listen than read.
Travel Blogs
Travel blogs appeal to wandering souls. Whether you want to be a digital nomad, get travel tips, or destination guides to exotic locations, you will find a travel blog to guide and inspire you.
21. My Best 61 Travel Tips to Make You the World’s Savviest Traveler (Nomadic Matt)
Nomadic Matt has been teaching people how to travel on a budget for 15 years.
In this post, Matt gives us his 61 best travel tips from 16 years as a nomad.
Takeaway
By adding affiliate links throughout your post, you can give your readers the information they are looking for while making money doing so.
22. A Perfect Week in Istanbul (Wandering Earl)
Earl has been wandering for over 20 years non-stop and visited 130+ countries. In his blog he shows that “long-term travel … can, and should be, a realistic lifestyle option.”
In this post, Earl gives us an itinerary of a perfect week in Istanbul.
Takeaway
Summarizing your points in a list makes it easy for your readers to see all the important information at a glance.
Use These Blog Post Examples to Kickstart Your Creative Juices
You’ve studied the best blog post examples from many different niches. You have learned what makes these blog posts successful and what keeps their readers engaged.
Now, its time to take what you have learned, add your own special sauce, and apply it to your blog or website.
So what are you waiting for?
Take action, and soon, not only will your articles be read — they’ll be remembered.
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This post was originally published on September 18th, 2023 by Susan Banks. It has been updated for clarity and comprehensiveness.
Susan Banks
Susan Banks is an experienced writer and blogger who loves to pick apart blog posts to see what makes them tick. She uses everything she learns from these blog examples to create her own stellar content.
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