What better way to obtain ideas for your blog than straight from the horse’s mouth?
The horses in question are your prospects and clients; just don’t tell them I called them a horse.
FAQ blog posts are all about taking the questions you receive and, through a clear framework, turning them into a structured and optimised long-form piece of content that answers them directly.
Why do this in the first place, though?
Amazing question, and that’s the focus of this blog post specifically. Read on to learn why.
Why FAQs Are a Goldmine for Blogging Ideas
FAQs are often one of the most overlooked sources of high-intent content. Not because they’re not useful but because we usually handle questions daily, forgoing reflecting on how we can minimise the frequency of them and answer them simultaneously.
If you find your current clients often ask, and your prospects and top-of-funnel audience do, paying attention will likely be invaluable.
More often than not, these questions are almost one-to-one with what another user would search for in Google or other search engines, making them ideal for value-driven content and SEO.
Benefits of Turning FAQs Into Blog Posts
Aside from the obvious benefit of having more content, converting FAQs into blog posts through FAQ-focused content offers several powerful benefits that may not be immediately apparent.
They’re Already Based on Real Customer Intent
If a customer has asked you a question, you don’t need to consider whether or not the question itself is valid or being searched. You may have to do a little digging to figure out a topic while you’re conducting keyword research, but here, you have it delivered on a silver platter.
Part of the heavy lifting is done, and you can create a tonne of blog post topics and content ideas from FAQs alone. They’re what people are actually asking for and are perfect for SEO.
They Create Easy Opportunities for Long-Tail Keywords
Most FAQs and more nuanced questions your audience may ask naturally form long-form queries. They’re structured in a specific manner where the intent behind the question is clear, and so is the answer.
These long-form queries are ideal for targeting low-competition rankings as part of a long-tail keyword blog strategy and establishing a robust content foundation on your website. You can bundle some of these questions together to create natural content clusters within your blog, further strengthening topical authority.
They’re Quick to Outline and Easy to Write
My personal favourite benefit is that they’re quick to plan.
Writing may not follow suit, but these questions naturally form the base for the H1 of your post. In some cases, outright using the question without modification is perfect for keyword targeting.
The post itself also follows a simple format:
- Answer the question (intro/first H2) ->
- Consider what follow-up questions your audience is likely to answer (Remaining H2s) ->
- Call to action on how you can help (CTA/final H2)
This creates a standardised answer-style post that provides tangible value while retaining user engagement through follow-up answers. The call to action helps naturally position you as the expert to solve that problem for them, assuming your service or product does so.
By answering the question first, you develop trust with the user, helping them feel more confident that you’re the right choice.
Types of Questions That Make Great Blog Posts
Questions aren’t made equal.
While answering a very niche question may help one user, it may be so niche that the volume is not worth the time spent creating the post.
That decision, however, is up to you. If you have a knowledge base or FAQ archive where you answer these types of questions, then it would be a great addition for future use.
For SEO specifically, there are a few styles of questions that make for great posts.
Service-specific FAQs: Questions like “How long does it take to install a garden fence?” or “Do I need email marketing?” are great options, as the intent behind the question is clear, making it easy to formulate an answer that aligns with your business’s positioning.
Process Questions: Questions like “What should I expect during a home page redesign?” or “What is a standard kitchen refurbishment process?” provide ample ways to create evergreen content. These also provide you with the means to discuss your business’s specific process and include some internal service links.
Comparison-style Questions: Questions like “Is WordPress better than Squarespace for a business website?” or “Is blogging more valuable than social media marketing?” allow you to dive deeper into a topic and give your authoritative view. These don’t necessarily have a “yes or no” answer, but they allow you to be transparent with your content and generate trust.
A small but important point to note is that even if a question doesn’t fall within one of these three styles, it may still be valuable to answer in the form of a blog post.
Generally speaking, if you’re receiving questions via sales calls, emails or contact forms, you should turn them into content.
How to Turn a Single FAQ Into a Full Blog Post
As a fun exercise, let’s turn a question into a full blog post structure. Typically, this can be done in a three-step mini-framework that looks like this:
- Start with the question as your main headline
- Answer it immediately, then expand with content
- Add supporting sections that provide additional value or predict follow-up questions
Let’s see this in practice.
While going through this section, I challenge you to follow along with a FAQ of your own so you can get the hang of structuring these posts for your business.
For me, I’ll use “How often should I publish a blog?”
First, start with your question as your headline. Whether you reword it to suit a specific direction better is up to you. In this case, I might change it to:
“How often should you publish a blog for your business?”
To keep it on theme with helping out businesses. From there, I would answer the question:
“While there is no strict guideline on how often to post, two times a week is a powerful frequency if you’re able to be consistent. That said, working within the confines of your time and resources is most optimal, which means retaining a frequency you can keep for the long-term.”
Usually, this would be in the first H2 of the post.
Then, we examine the questions the reader may have after reading this and how we can further support the topic. For this, I would consider the following H2s:
- Why frequency and consistency matters
- What to do if you can’t be consistent with your blog
- What results are you likely to see from different posting frequencies
- How to make blog post creation more efficient
And so on.
You can use this train of thought to help establish a value-driven outline for your FAQ blog posts as part of a comprehensive FAQ blog strategy. There may be more than four follow-up questions you can ask.
When creating your outline, consider it through the eyes of your users and what they would find most impactful. Sometimes, a shorter post with fewer headings that answers the question quicker is more favourable.
You can always choose a heading to make into its own post.
Want to Turn Your FAQs Into Blog Content That Works Harder?
Converting FAQs into blog posts is a solid strategy for ensuring the content you create is highly relevant to your audience.
Starting with these questions when generating blog content is beneficial, as it is easier to formulate a blog format from a question than from an abstract topic. This will make it easier to build consistency with a frequency you can stick to.
If you have some FAQs that you’d like to spin into blog posts but don’t know where to start, get in touch, and we can go through them together.
FAQ: Turning FAQs Into SEO Blog Posts
Why turn FAQs into blog posts instead of just using an FAQ page?
FAQ pages often limit depth, just like a service page. Blogging for SEO provides the opportunity to delve deeper into these topics, refine keyword targeting, and sustain ongoing search traffic. Many questions, specifically those related to services, are evergreen, meaning valuable content can continue to bring in site traffic well into the future.
Do FAQ-style blogs really help with SEO?
They do. They target specific long-tail keywords and search queries. They also provide an organic way to include numerous keywords throughout the post and have the potential to natively lead into other questions or topics, further strengthening internal linking if you create that content as well.
Should I include the question in the blog post title?
Almost always, either as your H1 or within the intro. This helps with SEO and clarifies the reader’s intent. The only reason you wouldn’t do this is if you’re answering the primary question alongside a complementary query, and you need to formulate a header that is more relevant to the combination rather than an either individual question.
