Where to Get Ideas for your Blog Posts
Posted by: May Ong in Bloggers News, Reviews, Wordpress TipsToday I am going to show you several methods that can help you find ideas for your posts on your blogs, that are relevant to what your readers are looking for.
All it takes is a few minutes to come up with your own 10 or more ideas for your posts, by reviewing search terms.
The first tool we go and look into is 103bees. It is an search traffic analysis online service for bloggers, webmasters and internet marketers who focuses on natural search engine traffic analytics. Real-time statistics and in-depth information on search terms that targeted traffic to your websites are provided. This is not a 100% free site. You get a 30 day trial period upon sign up. They offer low traffic sites a one time fee of $19 and for higher traffic sites (more than 100,000 hits per month), the fee is $9 monthly.
The second tool you can use is Sitemeter. Their real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. Sign up for Site Meter Basic which is free, or got for the Premium starting at $6.95.These statistics here can show you some great ideas for blog posts. Go under Referral section and look for those that has Google.
The third tool is HitTail.com. HitTail Basic is free for lower traffic sites. It shows you the keyword search results as well as longtail keywords or phrases that people used to find your site and gives you suggestions on what you should post about for new content in blog posts or Pay Per Click campaigns. They have a “Plus” service for $9.95 per month with more statistics.
Other Ideas From Bloggers
* The other Free resources that you can look into are Google Analytics and FeedBurner.
* Shoot photos of ordinary things, and ask yourself what have these got to do with your blog. You may get a number of ideas generated from this trick.
* Comments from your own readers are actually the best signal of potential topics. Look for comments that get several replies.
* Subscribe to newsletters. You can usually come up with a few good topics from these.
* Frequented search terms are a great starting point for building a new article, as well.
* Bounce off topical issues, stories and events around original content “stale” topics creates fresh ideas which is interesting and easy to read.
*Search for articles about topics relevant to your blog categories. Look for any of those article small tips of stuff that you can write a full post about.
* Read books and printed newspapers and blog about it if it is interesting. Also check out the table of contents in books. If you have a special niche you want to write about, just get a book on the subject and look at the contents listings.
* Try out http://wiki.chainofthoughts.com/dt/en/. This is another source of brainstorming ideas. Just type in any word and it comes up with a long list of popular related topics.


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