As a blogger of hundreds of blog posts, how often are you stuck at this important question: how to write better blogs and generate new content ideas every time?
Writer’s block is normal, even for the best of authors. However, coming up with new ideas is another issue. Content marketing is a business of fresh ideas. So, the question remains, how do you do it?
If you ask us, it is as simple as ‘paying attention to people around, listening to them, and reading trending news circling around your niche’.
Since we know it is not as easy as it sounds, and that’s exactly why we have curated ways to generate new content ideas in your chosen niche. We have suggested tools and tricks that will help you find more topics.
Don’t Miss-
10 Ways to Stay Away from Creating Boring Content
Top 5 Blogs Every Beginning Blogger Should Follow
1. Choose a Data-Driven Approach
Early in the blog life, it is easier to come up with blog ideas using industry knowledge, instinct, and creativity. But you will run out of ideas at some point. That’s when you should bring your customers in for providing ideas. Customer interactions are a huge way to learn what the current readers are interested in.
Google Analytics, social signals, or other site visit tracking tools can retrieve data that can simplify your blog idea generation process.
In Google Analytics, the Behavior Section tracks site visits of blog posts. You can use the data to identify which posts of yours draw the most visitors.
On the other hand, social engagement helps you see what audiences are interested in. If you realize that content about one aspect of your product or service is gaining maximum social attention, you can leverage the topic and increase social connection.
2. Ponder Questions: Quora, Yahoo! Etc.
Quora is a huge place where customers ask questions about everything. Type the name of your industry or your blog subject and you will find hundreds of questions that can be your potential blog ideas. For instance, a question a new mom has is ‘my baby is not taking breastfeed, what do I do?’ From this question, you can generate a blog idea like 15 Reasons why Baby is not Taking Breastfeed.
3. Join Online Groups
Be a part of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter Groups. Social media truly acts as a forum. People from various industries discuss different issues and subjects in these small groups. Join a group in your industry that posts a lot of questions. However, do not choose a group that prompts article sharing because they are mostly spams.
4. Use a Topic Explorer (BuzzSumo)
BuzzSumo Topic Explorer and other tools allow you to find related topics, ideas, popular content and key questions for any subject you blog about. Type in the industry or subject name and enter a search, and you will see results in hundreds of categories like streaming videos, streaming content, popular content. Each related topic includes additional sub-topics and questions to explore.
5. Industry Specific Forums
Although an old school, forums are one of the simplest ways for industry people to converse online with people as kith and kins. There are forums just about any industry, apart from the general ones like Quora. Go to google, type ‘your industry’ forum and enter search. You will most likely find at least five active forums in the result.
Must Read – 3 Pro Tips to Make Your Blog Go Viral
6. Social Media Followers
Since you know that a basic marketing strategy is to share blogs you create on social media platforms to attract target audience and engage your followers, you can ask questions to your followers and generate topics from their replies. For instance, you can post questions like: What do you fear at work? From the answers, you can generate topic ideas like: ‘How to overcome public speaking’ or ’10 jobs for introverts at work’.
7. Add Wildcards in Google Search
Yes, Google is still a great way to generate ideas for content. You just need to learn a few tricks, such as Wildcards.
Add a wildcard character, like “*” or “__” in between your search query and let Google automatically make suggestions. Examples are “How to __ at work” or “how to __ a biryani”.
Follow these seven methods and let us know how many content ideas were you able to generate with them in the comments.
Leave a Reply