Where Is Your Audience Hanging Out?

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No web content exists in a vacuum. While you should strive to create uniquely entertaining content for your blog, your target audience is almost certainly already out there reading other blogs, engaging on specialized forums, and using social media. Finding the sites where your audience already mingles is a great way to discover what topics they are most interested in, what language they are using, and what valuable content you can add to that mix.

Some examples for your entertainment blog may include:

• Spotify.com/pair
  
• Foxnews.com/connect
  
• Hbomax/tvsignin
  

Visiting these sites is also a great way to begin engaging with your audience before your blog has even gone live. Jump into conversations on forums and in comments sections and get to know the people you’ll be writing for. This is a great, organic way to build relationships and direct people to your blog in its early days. Sharing your passion with like-minded people will make them more excited and passionate about supporting you in your blogging endeavor.

News-type Articles

News articles or other “announcement” type content can be a great way to gather new readers. One benefit of news content is the short-term but powerful increase in search volume during an event. While this bump may be temporary, it can be a great tool for grabbing new readers who end up coming back for more.

Writing about current events or new happenings also means there will typically be less competition for readers. Other blogs and media sources are all getting the information as it develops. Since the base of knowledge available is smaller, this gives you a good opportunity to add your own flavor to the article.

The downside to news-type articles is that they tend to lose popularity much more quickly than evergreen content. While the interest for an event may be very large one day, the next day people may already be moving on to the next shiny object.

Entertainment news is one of the most popular news categories out there - which means there is never, ever a shortage of topics to write about. You are probably keeping your finger on the pulse of the entertainment news cycle in your niche anyway. Now, all you have to do is write blog posts covering the news that you find most interesting or the news that your audience is likely to find the most interesting. Just make sure you get your blogs up quickly because old news does not attract a lot of traffic.