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I’d add a type: Linkbaiting posts.
You follow some attractively looking title, but the post itself doesn’t even nearly reveals the topic 
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12 Types of Blog Posts
I hope I can give you some new insights in blogging, new ways to write is good, it challenge you as a writer, but your readers will also like the variation. So just try to write some new blog posts, than the same old blog posts all the time.
1. Instructional posts
In this kind of post you are telling the reader how to do something. These kind of articles are often quite big on Digg, they are also called “How-to”-articles.
2. Informational posts
This kind of post is a post which is telling the reader a method or a general thing, almost always a problem which they are making clear of, but not giving a concrete solution.
3. Reviews posts
You probably know this kind of post. All those affiliate products which are being sold by reviews. It is a post where you’re reviewing a product. Normally the article includes an affiliate link.
4. Lists posts
These posts are really popular, list posts are my all time favorite posts type. The article is often shared by many people and they are relatively easy to write.
5. Interviews posts
Something I should do more often. I love writing the questions and afterwards ask people the questions, they are also shared by many people, because people like the interaction between two people. Interviews also gives your readers another opinion than your opinion all the time.
If you write a blog about politics and you are totally liberalist, then interview a socialist – you would also be able to start a heavy debate, doing that.
6. Case studies posts
I just started doing case studies on DaneBlogger, the first case study will be published soon.
A case study is an example. You can walk your readers through a problem on another site (the type of case study I’m doing) or if you just watched a person who treated a dog very bad, then tell how you should react if the dog was misbehaving in this way.
So you tell about a problem and then come up with solutions, or just how you can improve a particular thing.
7. Profiles posts
Instead of focusing on a dog, you could focus on a person, a brand instead. So the same as case studies just about a person.
8. Links posts
This is an easy way to write a blog post. If you read a blog post and you feel inspired then you should write a blog post and tell your point of view, but only if you feel inspired. Don’t just fire off some bad stuff. Only share good blog posts.
Share the posts you could be writing on your own blog.
9. Comparison posts
This is a very funny way, to do write a blog post. You can make a list. Pro vs. cons.
The blog post here, could compare two or more products – and then make pro vs. cons on every product. Then write a conclusion on which product you would choose.
10. Rants posts
Rant posts are funny to write, even more funny to read. It is just where say what’s on your mind, and just like it is. You shouldn’t hide anything.
11. Research posts
Research posts can take time and you need to consider the sources you take from. Try to include some statistics in the blog posts. They are fun to read.
12. Prediction posts
I think almost everybody who reads DaneBlogger have done a post like this. The title could be “What Will Happen in 2010?” or “What Would Happened in 2009?” something like that.
I hope this inspired you to write some new stuff on your blog. It really is important that you vary your post types, your readers would like it too. Unless they are totally conservative.
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You’re right, I should have added some more on the post.. But I think that every single type of post could easily be 800+ words. So 12*800=9600 words.. That’s a lot. So I will in later posts write more detailed about some of the types of posts.
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Cool article; I’ve decided to conduct more and more interviews as I find them interesting (hopefully my readers do too). I think once you interview a few people, the big faces will want to be interviewed and THAT’s the best way of getting traffic to your blog in my opinion.
Also, I have to slightly disagree with you. ‘Link posts’ (where you link to other people, like weekly roundups, right?) aren’t as easy as they appear. I did a list with 57 different articles on… I wrote a small summary for each article, uploaded a small pic of the author, and obviously linked to them all. The post ended up as over 3500 words and took around 4 hours to write, format and publish.
That said, it was well worth it. Within a couple of days it had around 40 comments and the same number of RTs. It’s still bringing in traffic even now… I suppose it goes to show that, if you put the work in, you’ll be rewarded! 
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@Simon
It wasn’t an article like that, it was more like: If you wrote an article about this post and then maybe added 3 more points, that would be an easy written blog post. Don’t you think?
And yeah, I saw that post of yours. It was an astonishing article, really well written, and people who is on a list like that, is of course retweeting and commenting. So it’s quite easy, to get traffic from that.
Keep up the good work
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Nice write up describing some types of articles to write.
Just a note on link list posts, I changed the way I write mine, writing a short paragraph about each article with links to their home page, the article, and to the authors Twitter page if they have one.
I found that this is much easier to read, and I only link to 6-10 articles so they are more likely to get clicked. Plus, I believe the links will carry more weight being put in the text with anchor text instead of just a list with the title….
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February 4, 2010 at 08:53
Hey. I don’t normally leave comments, but I just wanted to say thanks for the great information. I have a blog too, though
I don’t write as good as you do, but if you want to check it out here it is. Thanks again and have a great day!
Great post. I have posted on my blog almost every type post you have have mentioned but, the rant or the case study. I eventually plan to add these types of posts, but only when they come naturally and not forced.
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Hmm, I guess the previous comment was a spam It, actually, fits any kind of a post!
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@Element321 Yeah, good idea. Don’t force yourself to do it, that would probably give some uninspired posts, which isn’t good.
@iWoodPecker, haha lol. Yeah, it does.
I would have liked to see the thirteenth type of post mentioned, which I personally find very good, at times. It’s the “Uplifting posts” because there sure are times to thank readership – even encouraging them to keep up the good work when they actually take action upon what you’re telling them.
I feel it’s much like positive comments. They lift up other people’s days, and that is a good thing to GIVE to others.
In a world of dog-eat-dog (competitive) attitudes, it is so rare to find encouragement as part of people who write blogs.
Keep up the good work.
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February 17, 2010 at 05:55
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