Since I leave the boring business side of blogging to my human, she is subscribed to a bunch of different marketing and blog newsletters. Here is one email that arrived yesterday:
Stuck in a rut when it comes to blog topic ideas?
We’ve created the Blog Topic Generator, an interactive tool to help you come up with creative blog post ideas, in seconds. Type in general topics you want to write about and the tool will give you five blog post ideas, just for you. And, you don’t need to fill out a form to get the first five topics.
“Why not give this a try and see if it works for kitties?” I thought. So I clicked on the form and filled the list with topics that would interest cats: Cats (duh), Playtime and Treats.
And this is what the Blog Topic Generator came up with:
I don’t know about you, but my favorite is #3 — “Think You’re Cut Out for Doing Treats? Take This Quiz.” I didn’t even know that treats could be done. I thought they were meant to be eaten. I am not even sure what exactly constitutes “doing” treats. I could never do #4, since I know way more than 15 cats blogs I would recommend! I think I’ve done a blog post on #1 several times. As for the playtime posts? Well, playtime seems to be a foreign concept to the marketing employees who designed this Blog Topic Generator. I feel kind of sorry for them.
Figuring that one attempt wasn’t enough of a test, I decided to try again, this time with the topics Cats, Behavior and Food. I thought maybe being a little more serious would get results that at least made more sense. I was wrong.
Wow. I have no idea how they came up with a post entitled “Miley Cyrus and Behavior: 10 Surprising Things They Have in Common.” At least the tool didn’t try to compare her with us cats! As for the rest of the list, well, maybe some day I could do 10 Quick Tips About Food, but from what perspective? How to steal it? How to shun it? I’d have to get more specific. And do your bosses have things they want you to know about us kitties? I hope they are telling you.
Want to have fun too? Why not try the Blog Topic Generator yourself — then come back here and let me know what you got!
I put in cats, food, and purr and got this:
Why We Love Cats (And You Should, Too!)
5 Tools Everyone in the Food Industry Should Be Using
7 Things About Purr Your Boss Wants to Know
The history of Cats
14 Common Misconceptions About Food
On #1: Do we really need to explain why?
Purrs,
-Buster the Cat
Well, that was fun:
1 10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About Abyssinians
2 How To Solve The Biggest Problems With Cats
3 5 Tools Everyone In The Boston Industry Should Be Using
4 What Will Abyssinians Be Like In 100 Years?
5 15 Best Blogs To Follow About Cats
I actually like #4…
Hmm A mix of useful, fun and plain funny off topic!! Could be useful for inspiration.
A really great idea, this tool! I write about natural treatments for cat cancer, and got a weird topic idea I probably *won’t* use: “Why We Love Cancer (And You Should Too!)”…
Okay, I put in: CAT, KING, NAP. I got:
1 – 15 Best Blogs To Follow About Cat
2 – The History Of King
3 – 10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About Nap
4 – 20 Myths About Cat
5 – 5 Tools Everyone In The King Industry Should Be Using
Useless, except #4 maybe, and my Human’s too lazy to research them, MOL!
Well Sparkle, if you were a special kind of human you could do treats but that might land you in jail.
Funny : here is what we got with “cat toy, cat behavior, indoor cat” : yes, we confirm, the generator loves Miley Cyrus…
– 7 Things About Cat Toy Your Boss Wants To Know
– 15 Best Blogs To Follow About Indoor Cat
– Miley Cyrus And Cat Behavior: 10 Surprising Things They Have In Common
– 10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About Cat Toy
– 10 Signs You Should Invest In Indoor Cat
Purrs
Oh No! It really did suggest going hiking with Miley Cyrus!
I think I’ll try this for nature blogging. I hope they don’t suggest I go on a hike with Miley Cyrus.
OK, that made me laugh so hard I nearly choked..
Using cats, shelter, adoption, we got:
What Will cats Be Like in 100 Years?
10 Quick Tips About shelter
10 Signs You Should adopt
The Worst Advice We’ve Ever Heard About cats
15 best blogs to follow about animal shelters
This one cracked me up. What it has to do with cats??? “Miley Cyrus and Behavior: 10 Surprising Things They Have in Common.” I think cats behave better than her.
Well, if nothing else, it will amuse the humans for a while 😉
We could have some fun with this too 🙂
heehee
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure, JJ
and Angels Tiger and Tillie
OMG!!! luvluvluv it…*dashing off to give it a whirl*
Hmmm, M said that probably wouldn’t work for us cuz we’re so boring here. he he – I don’t play much. I’m just cute is all and love my humans. It’s interesting tho.
Nice tip!
Have a nice weekend!
MOL! That topic generator obviously doesn’t know what it’s talking about. Thanks for sharing, Sparkle – we got a good laugh out of that.
This is actually useful, thanks! I got the Miley one too but I got another I’m going to use.
MOL! That’s pretty funny. I’d like to know what my competitors can teach me!
Since you didn’t say cat’s behavior or cat food, I guess that’s the best they could come up with. Kim Gauthier of Keep the Tail Wagging is making a monthly list of blog topics that are geared toward dogs but over half pertain to both. Looking at the comments, it looks like they use the same ideas and just plug in your words.
library, cats, hockey –>
1. The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on library
2. 10 Quick Tips About cats
3. 5 Tools Everyone in the hockey Industry Should Be Using
4. The history of library
5. 10 Signs You Should Invest in cats
let’s see… #3: skates, sticks, gloves, helmets, pads
Then I tried X, Y, Z –>
1. 5 Tools Everyone in the x Industry Should Be Using
2. 20 Myths About y
3. 15 best blogs to follow about z
4. 7 Things About x Your Boss Wants to Know
5. 10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About y
We did a combination of felines, toys and food:
1 What Will felines Be Like in 100 Years?
2 Miley Cyrus and toys: 10 Surprising Things They Have in Common
3 5 Tools Everyone in the food Industry Should Be Using
4 14 Common Misconceptions About felines
5 20 Myths About toys
Looks like they like using Miley Cyrus as a topic.
I’m thinking Miley Cyrus got in there because she is a popular search on Google. I’m gonna do a search on “Miley Cyrus” and “cat toys” and see what I come up with.
Those types of things makes my human laugh. Site Sell now has a plugin for WordPress that allows you to use some of their key word type things and I seem to recall she put in Siamese cats and got a potential: Reef Fish of South East Asia…(Yes we can figure out why but it wasn’t exactly what she was looking for!)
We’d like to know how to do treats to see if we’re cut out for it! 🙂
Sparkle what great info!! You are the best researcher!
Hugs madi your bfff
I think mine actually turned out okay (cats, knitting, running)
1. 5 Tools Everyone in the Cats Industry Should Be Using
2. Why We Love Knitting (And You Should, Too!)
3. Think You’re Cut Out for Doing Running? Take This Quiz
4. How to Solve the Biggest Problems With Cats
5. 14 Common Misconceptions About Knitting
Mommy said she is (no surprise here!) a stream of consciousness blogger.
We liike the idea and will have to give it a try! Thanks for an interesting tool.
Dang, that tool could help you think it out…after some nip n’ giggles!
I used cat, nap and treat and somehow Miley Cyrus still snuck in there
I could use a treat cheat sheet though!
1Miley Cyrus And Cat: 10 Surprising Things They Have In Common
215 Best Blogs To Follow About Nap
3The Ultimate Cheat Sheet On Treat
414 Common Misconceptions About Cat
5Why We Love Nap (And You Should, Too!)
Those topics it came up with are kinda strange! We’ll go check it out and see what we come up with.
That does sound like a great place to visit and get some good topics. But I have to say that the comments here are interesting too. There is a good subject for a blog post, Blog comments. We will have to give this a try. Thanks for this great info.
I wrote Cats , Humans , Problem and got
1. 20 Myths About Cat
2. What Will Humans Be Like In 100 Years?
3. The Worst Advice We’ve Ever Heard About Problem
4. Think You’re Cut Out For Doing Cat ? Take This Quiz
5. 15 Best Blogs To Follow About Humans
XOXO
“Doing treats”? The mind boggles…
Purrs,
The Chans
Sounds scammy… Ya think?
Not really scammy, just markety. It’s a very legitimate company.
Compooters just don’t understand kitties!