[infographic] 50 content ideas in 30 minutes or less - from @kimgarst
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"Generator with personality."
Imagine you are writing for your ideal customer:What is one of your most asked questions? Answerthat question(s) in a blog post!
Look through your website analytics to find outwhich topics are most popular with your audience.
Ask them for their most pressing questions.
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Try
portent.com/tools/title-maker
Use Portent’scontent ideagenerator
Answer your most asked question
Visit to findtrending topics
Send a short poll or survey to youremail list or social media followers
Set up Google Alerts for keywordsrelated to your business and niche
Join a Facebook group inyour niche to see what yourtarget market is talking about
Ask your social media followerswhat they want to know and/or learn
Visit Google Trends to find trending topics.
Use ’s Blog Topic Generator
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Visit popular websites or blogsin your niche to see whichtopics they are writing about
Find one that jumps outat you, and then spin thetitle to create your own,original content.
"Psst… this is what we did atContellio with this infographic. Werepurposed Kim's excelent list.Everyone benefits."
- Paul Nowak, @contellio
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12Use Facebook Interest Lists to findcontent of interest in your industry
Page through a book that would be of interest toyour audience and see if any topics jump out at you
For more on this, seemy post How to UseInterest Lists to FindContent Ideas to Share.
14Take a look through yourFacebook ‘Visitor Posts’ to see ifthere are any questions you cananswer in a blog post
15 Use Buzzsumo to find topcontent in your industry
What is the #1 issue my target marketstruggles with? Attempt to write a blogpost that solves this problem.
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Look through your emailmarketing program’s analytics
Do a Google search for a popularkeyword in your niche
Find out which topics and headlines havegotten the most opens, click-throughsand conversions
See what others are writing about the topicand add your thoughts to the conversation
18 Look through your blogcomments…
…find questions or topics youcould address
Use the Google Keyword Planner touncover other keywords and topicsand you can write about
Take a current list post (e.g. Top 10Ways to…) and write a detailed postbreaking down just one of your toppoints
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Use Social Mention to listen inon social media conversations
Go to StumbleUpon and ‘stumble’ tofind possible sources of inspiration
Compile currentblog posts intoa resource list
Find out what topics are really of interestto your target market
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Visit Answersto find questions youcan answer onyour blog
Ask a fellow business orwebsite owner for ideas!
Find top hashtags in your nicheusing a tool like Hashtagify.me
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For instance, on my blog I mightcreate a post called TopResources For FacebookMarketing, and include links tomy most popular Facebookmarketing posts.
buildyourownblog.net/the-blog-post-ideas-generator
Use The Blog Post Ideas Generatorfrom Build Your Own Blog
Visit an industry forum and readthrough comments and questions
Look through your offlinemarketing materialsfor content ideasLook through your offline marketing
materials for content ideas
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Visit to findquestions youcan answer
Visit a group tofind out what people in yourindustry are talking about
Check out thetrending topics inyour Twitter sidebar
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See what’s happening the news See what’s happening the newsSee what’s happening the newsBreakingnews:
Write about a current newsstory as it relates to your niche34
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content ideas
Take a brisk walkand see what ideascome to mind
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Look through your Facebooknewsfeed to see which topics areconsistently popping up in your feed
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Spend 10
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subject, issue, point
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Use Ubersuggest to find keywordssuggestions and variations based
on a particular topic
Use Google auto-complete to findpopular content ideas
Answer a question thatyou’ve always wanted toknow the answer to!
Visit a competing blog andlook for a list of their mostpopular posts
Start typing a keyword intoPinterest’s search box to findpopular searches
What's my next post about?
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You can often find such a list in the sidebar.Use this as a starting point for your own post.
It will automatically populate the search box with the mostpopular searches starting with the letters you type in.
Compile a list of FAQ’s you can answer in a blog post
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Visit to find populartopics that bloggers in yourniche are writing about
Browse through Pinterest to findpopular images that inspire yourown content ideas
Scour your social mediaaccounts and blog comments
Ask your social media moderatorsfor content ideas based on what
they see every single day
Use a plugin like CommentLuvon your WordPress site to seewhat your commenters havebeen blogging about
Use WordStream’s Free Keyword Niche Finder tool to findpopular subtopics based on a general keyword search
Leaf through anindustry magazine tosee what inspires you
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