One of the biggest aspects of blogging is that unfortunate need and necessity to come up with interesting things to write about. Content is of high importance.
Occasionally, new ideas seem to come naturally. But on other days, if not most of the days, the mind goes blank. As for bloggers, sitting down viewing the monitor on such days, can be frustrating. No ideas means no new posts. And unfortunately, no new posts does not a popular blog make.
As bloggers, writing and putting up sentences in a correct manner is something to be concerned about. Should they find themselves searching for inspiration, or they’re just mindlessly procrastinating, below are some of the most methods to get new sources of new post ideas.
Watching the Competitors
One of the many reasons to be a follower of the competitors is that their blogs can often be great place for inspiration.
Take a look through their most popular posts and try to find one that to spin on. Keep in mind however that there’s a fine line between inspiration and plagiarism. You can list down top of the ideas from all competitors and then narrow down on few of the ideas, add a unique spin or may be combine the essence of 2-3 articles in the same niche to create the new content.
People in the Same Niche
Healthy conversations often result in good points to write on. Bloggers can even offer their friend to engage in the write up and discussion once content is live.
Consult and talk with people on the same niche. They usually can help bloggers get new ideas about new specific things according to their niche.
Q&A sites have huge user base where the blogger can advertise on these sites along with surfing for inspiration.
Reader Engagement
It is an important to create content with readers in mind. Niche can be the choice but when it comes to the quality of content, reader is looking for solution and information.
Going through the comments under a post can provide the blogger a good reaction on how the post goes on social circles. Visitor posts can also be a mean of getting new trends on the niche.
What all questions were asked by readers, were those questions addressed? How many such questions can be converted into posts of their own? What issues have they been dealing with? Blog comments and social reaction can work as great source of new ideas.
Past Posts
Blog traffic report can determine which posts have provided the blog with the most number of hits. Which all posts are the golden posts and have proven most popular in the recent times. Writing around the popular idea of past is not only a good way of handling the lack of inspiration, it's also a "sequel" of the content which users and the blog readers liked the most.
Bloggers can also provide a link or two to the original post to ensure that all contents gets attention.
Google Trends
Writing about trending things is always a good idea since they serve pieces of information for readers and draw huge traffic from social and organic channels.
Following trends can be a hit and miss with so many other websites following trends but still it is one of the best idea to come up with content and its actually the content people are looking for.
Niche Forums
If the blogger is taking their business seriously, then they must be a member or at least aware of top forums and message boards in their niche.
Following those boards and seek any information available through the most popular threads. There is high level of content contribution from different sorts of minds on forums. Navigate through threads and try to find certain topics that the blogger have not covered.
RSS Feeds
Following few good websites and blogs can keep bloggers updated with the happenings in the niche.
The Right feeds can lead to an great post idea. All the blogger have to do is subscribe and posts will automatically be arranged in his/her RSS reader on daily basis.
Social to the World
Going social means going out to see the world. Taking a spare time to walk, clearing the mind, seeing new places and new people can contribute to many new information and ideas.
Many bloggers attend events in different cities, even countries, to have the best ideas about what's going on. It might not be necessary, but for those bloggers that are taking their blogs into a serious business, going social to the world can be a huge advantage, a huge addition to all the listed above methods.