Where to Get New Blogging Ideas
This blog entry was posted on July 16, 2009.
One of the biggest challenges facing bloggers is to regularly come up with new ideas for interesting blog posts. Blogging ideas may come easily when you first start blogging, but where do the ideas come from month after month? Effective blog marketing requires innovative and engaging topics that create conversations.
Each blogger will create ways to trigger ideas for the next blog post. For me, blogging is part of my own self improvement program and I use blogging to keep current on trends and technologies. The writing is an outcome of regular reading and researching. I dedicate about one hour a day to the process, usually in the early morning when it is quiet.
Where do I go for my ideas?
- Questions from clients: As I work with my clients, I field many questions. Many times I will find myself saying, now that is a good question. This may become the topic for a new posting.
- Read news press releases from your industry. Some of my favorites for Internet trends are comScore, Pew Internet and Forrester Research.
- Regularly read other related blogs and the comments made. This will give me ideas of what I would like to write about.
- Digg: I have a keyword plan for my blog. I will go to Digg.com and search for my keyword phrases and see what comes up as popular pages. I will use one of these as a basis to create my own posting.
- Other social bookmarking: I will do the same type of search on StumbleUpon and Delicious to give me ideas.
- Search Technorati and Google blog search using the same keyword plan to see what comes up as interesting to me.
- Comments on my blog. My readers will make comments or ask questions that spark ideas. I also track the number of readers each blog posting receives.
- Track blog traffic stats. I will take the most popular topics that attract readers and create another posting around the same topic.
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#1 is my most trusted source on what I should be blogging about. If I find that I’m fielding the same question over and over from clients, I write a blog post about it. And, more often than not, it even helps when I get the same question, give a short response and say hey, interestingly enough, I’ve written a blog post about it… give it a read.
Comment by Christian — July 16, 2009 @ 10:41 am
Another good idea is to use Google Alerts to directly email you new posts. You can choose the terms you want it to search for and it will email you new blog posts on an interval that you set yourself. That’s how I found this blog post!
Comment by Andrew — July 16, 2009 @ 11:57 am