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Generate ideas for your blog posts easily (and it may help your traffic too)
By Mike | August 12, 2008
Here are a few tools to help you come up with topics for your blogging efforts. From input I get from conference rooms, surveys and comments this can often be a big problem for new and even established bloggers.
First following blogs in your niche and commenting regularly not only helps you get traffic from your commenting but you also get to see what others are discussing. The easiest ways I have to do this easily is to use Google Reader and follow the rss feeds.
You can find blogs in a few ways. First is Technorati. Punch in your keyword in the search box and you will find blogs to subscribe to.
You can also use Google to search for more blogs.
Add your topic as a Google Alert and get the latest news and information that Google finds directly into your email box each day. Here again you also see what is new in your niche.
Finally Google has just added a new service Google Insights For Search. this is a really nice tool for finding what is hot and that can also help you to get better traffic by picking the topics that are currently hot in your niche.
It also will show you the hot topics for that niche.
As you can see it shows you what specific topics are rising in search volume.
To summarize - gather the best blogs in your niche and add them to your Google Reader so you stay current and can take part in the conversation in your niche.
Take advantage of the tools like Google Insight For Search to see what is changing and follow the news through Google Alert and you should always have plenty of fodder for blog topics.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
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August 17th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Mike,
These are excellent suggestions for those of us who need new and fresh ideas. I also appreciate the screen shots. How is Google insights different from Google trends?