How to Get Blogging Ideas Fast
Your brand-new blog is up, but how do you fill it with content? How do you find ideas that are worth publishing? It is easier than you might be thinking.
6 Ways to Get Blogging Ideas
Keep a file of ideas
Blogging ideas can come to you at the oddest of hours, and when this happens, you need to note it down. Ideas may come when you are traveling, taking a shower, or listening to music. Write them down and soon, you will have plenty of content ideas to write about.
Steal Other People’s Ideas
Check out some awesome blogs in your niche and subscribe to them. Read some of their posts and in no time, you will get inspiration for your own blog. You do not have to copy their ideas directly but can write on something related.
Bozzuto – It is one of the tools you can use to find out the popular content ideas and write about them. After typing in a keyword, you can see the popular post’s social media shares, evergreen score, total engagements, and more.
Ask Your Audience
You can tap into powerful content ideas by finding out what people in your niche are asking on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. You can also read the comments on your blog to get more ideas.
Additionally, tools like Answer the Public have tons of questions collected from Google that people are asking. Type in a search term related to your niche and you will see numerous questions. You can write a post on one of those questions.
Endless Blog Post Ideas from Charlie Page on Vimeo.
Do SEO Research (Keyword Research)
This is, by far, the most recommended approach. Use a free keyword research tool like Ubersuggest to type in a content idea and find out more information about it such as the monthly search volume, the SEO difficulty and so on.
For this example, I am using Ubersuggest, This keyword tool is free and has features to do keyword research and competition research. It also provides questions and ideas when searching for ideas.
To get the best ideas to write about, go for keywords with a lower SEO difficulty and high search volume, such as the last four above.
Once you scroll down, you will come across content ideas that shows some of the most popular blogs ever published on the same keyword. That is a goldmine of ideas for you.
As Free as it is, you can are limited by the number of searches you can do per day, unless you pay for the full version
Look at Current Trends
A popular tool I like to use is GOOGLE TRENDS. Google Trends is a website by Google that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages. The website uses graphs to compare the search volume of different queries over time. Wikipedia
You can search for popular topics and see if people are searching for the same things. It is very handy to get a list of ideas to build around
How to Engage Your Audience
When you publish on your blog, you are doing it for your audience, and you need to engage them as well. How do you achieve this?
1. Include social sharing buttons in your post
Install social share buttons for WordPress that lets your readers share your favorite posts on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on.
2. Engage them with comments
After publishing a post, you may want to know what your readers have to say. Some of them may have questions you need to address. So, it is always recommended that you enable comments.
Just remember to moderate all comments to avoid spam. Not to mention, reply to all comments.
3. Publish content your audience would like to read
This is one of the best ways to get your readers’ attention. Use some of the methods explained above to know what they are interested in and publish a post on the same. It will surely attract their attention, shares, likes, and comments.
4. Contribute to other sites in your niche
Reach out to other bloggers in your space and collaborate to publish on their sites. This method will allow you to reach out to a wider audience who will start visiting your blog.
5. Include visuals
Using images, videos and GIFs in your posts is going to impress your audience because visual content has been proved to work well. Include it in your posts and your readers will engage with most of your posts and keep coming back.
6. Add emotion and humor
You do not want your blog posts to sound like a serious biology textbook. Include some emotion and humor that will put a smile on your readers’ face. That is how to make them keep coming for more.
The Blogging To-Do List
As you your blog grows, you will want to create a daily, weekly, or monthly blogging schedule, which may contain tasks such as:
- Keyword research
- Coming up with blog topics
- Creating blog outlines
- Writing the blog post
- Publishing 1-4 blogs per week
- Responding to comments
- Reaching out to other bloggers for guest posting opportunities
- Posting and engaging your audience on social media
- Emailing your audience about a new post, etc.
- Doing basic blog maintenance like updating old content, updating plugins, etc.
