Whether you’re new to the blogging scene, or a seasoned veteran, finding fresh blogging ideas can sometimes be a challenge. However, it doesn’t have to be. Yesterday’s post showed you seven ways to find blog ideas, today’s post will show you where to go to find fresh content to jump start your writing.
Fresh content can be found in myriad places, you just have to know where to look. Listed below are seven places to find great ideas and blogging topics for your next post.
Reddit is a news aggregator site that allows readers to vote — up or down — for articles and blog posts. Therefore, the top vote getters are those that are most interesting to the readers, not the editors. Also, since the site updates nearly every minute, you know you’re getting the content that most readers find interesting right now. Many great blog posts come from writing about current events.
StumbleUpon
According to Wikipedia, “StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users.” Since you are probably looking for a blog topic within a particular niche or genre, SU can help you out by sending information about that topic right to your browser. Need ideas about blogging? Just stumble the topic of blogging. You can do the same for any other subject as well.
Technorati
What makes Technorati unique is the fact that it is a search engine for blogs. As a result, the site makes searching for a specific topic fairly simple. Topics are arranged by the tags that are used by the author of the blog post. The site then aggregates the posts into categories including technology, social media, entertainment, and so on. However, there is also a search function that allows you to find any topic of your choosing. Therefore, finding new blog ideas should not be difficult.
I have written about finding fresh content on Twitter before. Twitter has several ways for you to find great ideas. Simply use hashtag and regular searches with your topic or subject matter, and twitter will return an entire list of the most recent tweets containing your search terms. You can then use these tweets to springboard into your next perfect post.
Google Trends
Google Trends is a really good way to identify what people are searching for on the internet. It lists the most recent search terms and trends. This is another great way to find current topics for blog posts.
Forums
Searching through blogging forums is also a great way to find possible blog post ideas. Many people ask questions in these bulletin board environments, which gives you the opportunity to write a blog post that answers these questions. For example, if you have a technology blog, you could search through the technology forums and write posts based on the questions you find about gadgets, hardware, software, etc.
Life
Sometimes you just need to walk away from your computer, laptop, tablet, phone, etc., and just experience the outside world. Life is full of stories, anecdotes, and examples, from which you can draw new inspiration. You should always carry a notebook with you as you journey so that you can write down things that you see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. You never know where that next awesome blog post will come from.
I hope you find these ideas helpful and I’d like to hear how you find fresh content and inspiration. Leave a comment below and then share the love with a Retweet, Like, or Pin!
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Twitter: vagish
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I’ve always used life as the best method to acquiring quality good content. But I think that social media sites probably do have a lot of ideas to blog about.
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I use Reddit and StumbleUpon but Technorati works best for me. A very useful post Tom! thumps up!
really you have helped alot to all of us …good content is really hard to found the resource which i have found earlier are literally of no use or just repetitive just got failed on copyscape
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Google plus is also one of the latest place to find fresh content ideas for the bloggers, I always take help of Google plus to search new blog post Ideas for my blog. Thanks.
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Google+ is definitely noteworthy. Thanks for adding it to the list.
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Thanks for sharing a must resource list for everyone .For someone like me content is the biggest hurdle i bet it will get resolve at some extent by your writeup
Twitter: AppliedVisual
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Forums are a great place to find content. Especially if you have a specific product or service. On most forums, people are already searching for information that you can easily make into blog posts. Takes the guess work right out.
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Hello Tom!
Many of my blog ideas come from other forums that I visit. I also see great ideas while I review my Twitter feed.
I think your suggestion of searching Stumble Upon is a great idea. I have visited that site a few times, and your article reminds me that I need to visit it more often :)
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Google Trends and Stumbleupon are my most used tools, haven’t really given reddit a try even though alot of people tell me I should.
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I mostly use Reddit and Google Trends for getting new ideas. Will try out the rest too. Thanks..
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I always make use of stumbleupon, google trend, i always work more with social media sites like facebook and twitter because you always get post tittle idea and what is trending. i never thought of technorati but will try it out.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing the best resource here for making the blog writeup neat and useful as the content will always rule on search engine so the original writeup will got more appreciation an indulge into more traffic
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I used to try StumbleUpon more frequently. Thanks Tom. You’ve composed a good list which I look forward to use in coming days.
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Nice list Tom!
I use StumbleUpon and also Google Trends many times to find new ideas. But this list gave me some more ways.
Thanks!
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Twitter: MarkMorphew
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Hi Tom,
Like the post and your suggestions! when i’m struggling for content ideas I often head on over to Twitter and have a look at my stream – normally 10 minutes of doing that and i’m all set with new ideas.
Cheers,
Mark
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Fresh content? Stumble upon? Kidding right?… anyways i do agree with most of the other items on the list however…
Twitter: roborebedotcom
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Im thinking what you should be looking to find is inspiration rather than content… yu should be inspired by what you read and not copy paste… but that is just my humble opinion
Twitter: Ajayudayagiri
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I’d like to suggest forums as the best place to find fresh content for a blog post. By visiting the forums we can know most hot topic on the forums and daily interest of the visitors in it. So, choosing a best topic is nothing but a fresh content from forums.
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Hey Tom,
Nice post and Yes, social media sites like stumble upon, pinterest are best place to find fresh content. I am also uses these sites for my post as it very difficult to choose a post but these sites really helpfull to decide. Thanks for sharing this post.
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Yes fully agreee wid u ur right . we need to walk away from computer and internet to get fresh ideas.. Thanks for sharing
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I feel….You provided latest information which is worth sharing. Especially the importance of Content development cannot be under rated. With the passage of time, “content is King” proverb becomes more important.
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Topsy, BizSugar, pinterest, formspring, and buffer are great tools for fresh content. I also use google alerts to spy on competitors. Omgili.com can be used to find relevant content on forums.
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Reddit, stumbleupon these two places are best to find new fresh content and news idea. I am active on both networks. I also get good traffic from these sites :)
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It can get really difficult to think up good ideas when you’re writing a large volume of guest blogs – some useful advice thank you!
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great presentation and nice workout on article i appreciate about your hard work keep posting such wonderful articles….
Twitter: Rohitkabdwal
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very nice suggestions Tom,
most of them very good and nice sources of finding the fresh content,but what i liked was the last one i.e “life”.
life always brings new, and exciting things , and I’ve seen that bloggers who write about their life experiences. they are much praised.
very nicely written.. thank you :)
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Very informative article. I always depend on Google trends to find keywords and research topics. Thank you for sharing :)
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this point are awesome first time read something like this i m going to use these point thx for sharing.
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Thanks for the tip about Reddit. I haven’t tried it. I like Stumble but how do you get past the recommendations. I never get any further.
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Hi Tom:
Great post you have here. As I am a writer, I am always looking for content…now I know where to find it. Thank you so much for sharing. Heading over to your blog now.
Take care.
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This was a very nice idea to search for fresh content, terimaksih for the info and sharing
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your post has been very enlightening and full of learning…
I’ve been greatly motivated by your post….i m a new blogger and would greatly appreciate you advice and important tips regarding blogging
thank you :)
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i do checkout the Yahoo Answers, and Quora apart from twitter, stumbleupon and reddit for good fresh content ideas.
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Google alerts is my fav one. But I like u r idea of “Life”.. Yes your rite.. we need to walk away from computer and internet to get fresh ideas.. Thanks for sharing
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I use Google Trends and Twitter for it,and believe me Twitter is the most ideal place for fresh content i have came across,every day.tons of new feeds to look upon.
And Thanks for sharing such a nice article :)
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I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post.
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I use google trends & Twitter, every time I feel like creating my “most popular” blog post, and it actually works… Nice post, Tom! I will now keep these options too with me :)
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