The reality of blogging is that to be able to build a successful blog you need content, and you need a lot of it.It doesn’t matter what format your content takes, you need to work on ensuring you have an endless source of content ideas to help you run your blog and market it outside your field.
I have written over 1,000 articles in the past 2 years and within that period I have faced my on share of problems with getting content ideas. In this article I will be giving you a few places where you can easily generate enough content ideas to keep your blog running.
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! answers is a very useful tool and my favorite Yahoo! product (that is if I use any of their other products).
The reason I so much love Yahoo! answers is because I have clients in several niches and I know next to nothing about these niches. All I need to do to get enough idea about what to write on is to visit the category of that niche on Yahoo! answers, take a look at the recent questions and then write a blog post aimed at providing an answer to that question.
Your Favorite Forums
If you’re looking to write your next popular blog post then you might want to try getting ideas from your favorite forums. In most cases these forums have the best content ideas for you simply because they are more specific to your niche and have been able to attract every level of people who care about your niche.
Try to take a look a your favorite forums, look at the common questions asked by most members and then try to provide a solution to that question on your blog.
The Top Blogs in Your Field
I can only start to imagine the number of blog post ideas I have gotten from Copyblogger alone.
The best place I get the ideas needed to write most of my blog posts is from the top blogs in my field. The good thing about that is that aside from the fact that these blogs have enough blog posts that you can read to get ideas on what to write about they also have well written and educative points that can inspire your ideas.
It is important however not to just copy these blogs blatantly. Read their articles, see if you can write a better version of it with unique points on your blog, or better still, write a follow up on it.
Your Favorite Books
Some of the most successful articles I have written till date, both on my blog and on other blogs, were inspired by some of my favorite books. Whenever I read a physical book I see what a lot of people who spend the majority of their time online are missing.
The reality is that physical books are still useful and contain a lot more tips than most people think. While that book might have been written in 1960 it contains a lot more ideas that are applicable to this age than you can even imagine.
Social Networking Sites
If you’re reading this there is every probability you are on Twitter and or Facebook already and there is also every probability you follow a number of experts in your niche. Whenever you are in need of content ideas all you need to do is go through your Twitter or Facebook stream and then read a few of the blog posts shared by the experts you are following. In the process of reading those articles shared you will have gotten enough ideas to keep your blog updated for at least a week
