As has been discussed multiple times in our own blog over the last year or so, content is king. The quality of the content you push out in your company’s blog is directly correlated to the amount traffic you pull in to your site, but sometimes quality content is hard to come up with. When it comes to blogging about marketing and design, often times it can feel like everything has been written about. Lack of motivation, lack of in depth knowledge on a topic, and lack of writing skills can all be content killers, but beyond these, the largest reason for poor quality and redundancy in blog content is just not knowing what to write about. I’ve been guilty of this many times in the past and have taken the easy road and written about something mundane just because it was easy. It doesn’t have to be this way though. There are numerous sources for great blog content ideas across the internet and that’s what we’re going to list here today. So, without further ado, let’s get to business.
1. Reddit
Reddit is a haven for user submitted original content that you can utilize for list creation and original blog stories. The proof is in the Buzzfeed pudding. The pop blog/list giant is often accused of stealing content directly from Reddit, but the truth is despite their often late arrival to the party, they do a great job of giving credit to users for the content they pull and you can do the exact same thing. Further, Reddit’s subreddit feature makes it easy to find information and submissions no matter how niche the topic may be.
2. Quora
Quora is an amazing way to find out what people want to know about your industry. As is the case with Reddit, on Quora you can follow specific themes and topics to have a never ending supply of questions you can answer on your own blog s well as on the site.
3. Slideshare
Slideshare is the number one site for sharing slideshows. Use it to find the most popular presentations in your industry for blog content inspiration. For the title of a presentation to the content contained within, there is a surplus of information you can utilize.
4. Alltop
Alltop is a fantastic site that lists the best blogs in whatever industry you’d like to view and keeps the top 5 posts from each of them listed at all times. This allows you to find favorites from which to draw inspiration for blog content.
5. Popurls
For the most up to date trending topics within any industry, this site can’t be beat. Taking the hottest posts from some of the webs largest publications, there is an endless supply of blog content to take.
6. Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest is a keyword tool that shows you the top ten suggested keywords and phrases when someone starts typing into Google. Just search for the keyword of your choosing and you’re able to browse a large range of keyword topics that can help you come up with some great titles and topics.
7. Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator
How much easier could this be to use? Answer? It can’t. Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator is the most simple tool you can use in your blog content endeavors. Simply enter up to 3 keywords and watch as the algorithm pumps out some great titles for your next post.
8. NinjaOutreach
9. Your Social Media Interactions
Maintaining a conversation with your user base is a major key to a productive social media presence. Pay attention to what people are saying about you and to you on social media. Positive or negative, there are an enormous number of takeaways for blog content you can get from your social media presence.
10. User Submitted Questions
Last but not least, and in the same vein as the previous source, are user submitted questions. What are people asking you through your own website? Are they commenting on your articles? Are you contacting you through your contact page? What are they looking for? These are all questions that you should be able to answer with some great blog content.