Earlier today I posted an article on where to get article ideas from on the Article Content Provider Article Marketing Blog. You can actually use the same list to generate ideas for blog posts. Here are my top 5 recommendations for places to get blog post ideas:
- Blogs - You should read and subscribe to as many blogs as you can within your niche. Read the top ones every day and scan the headlines of the rest. You can usually come up with good topics to blog on.
- Search Engines - The search engines have great resources: Yahoo! Answers, Google Trends, Dogpile, and MSN Live all have resources that will help you get a good idea of what you can blog about.
- Technorati - This isn’t on the list at the Article Marketing Blog, but it should be. Technorati has a top 10 list of most searched and blogged about topics. Good way to get ideas.
- Old Articles - Pull up some old articles you’ve written and recycle them. Don’t print them verbatim, but with articles you can actually cut them in half and have two blog posts. Rewrite them so you don’t get dinged with duplicate content.
- Blog Directories - This isn’t on the ACP list either, but I recommend joining Blog Catalog and MyBlogLog. Join neighborhoods and make friends. By networking with others in your niche you can get good ideas with hardly any effort at all.
If you just check these five resources once or twice a week you will never run out of blog post ideas. Of course, you can always hire a ghostwriter too. Let them come up with the ideas.
