Do you ever struggle to come up with new blog content ideas? And then start looking for ways to generate some new blog topic ideas. This is called writer’s block. Here we run out of our blog post ideas. We struggle to find new blog topics to write about.
This is one of the most common problems for almost all writers, especially beginners.
You start your blogging career with enthusiasm. But after writing a few articles you start running out of your blog content ideas.
And on the other hand, your readers are waiting for a new piece of content from you. They are expecting consistent content as you delivered in the past. And you also know that you need to generate content consistently to engage your audience. You try to push your brain to come up with new blog topic ideas. But it gets even worse because you are only focusing on one way of generating new ideas.
Important: Writing consistent content is helpful to get new readers as well as engaging with existing readers. It is also very useful for SEO as well.
{No blog posts = no site traffic=no engagement}
{Consistent post=more site traffic=more engagement}
In this article, we made a list of the top 17 ways that you can use to come up with new blog post ideas. You can try a few of them to come up with your blog topic ideas whenever you get stuck.
Table of Contents
Find E-books of your Niche
E-books relating to your blogging niche can be a great tool to generate new blog content ideas. It can surely give you some awesome blog topics to write about.
Here is a 4 step process of using an E-book to find out new blog topics for writers.
- First, find out popular e-book relating to your niche
- Second, open up its content page
- Then make a list of all the topics that the book covers
- After that find a unique angle to describe each chapter or topic and write about it.
This process can help you to come up with new content ideas immediately whenever you get stuck. Use this process with any topic or ideas over and over.
Note: Do your keyword research before starting writing on any topic.
Use Amazon to find new Blog Content ideas
Amazon can also give you a ton of blog content ideas if you know how to use it. It is very simple and easy to use strategy.
Say, for example, you cover the topic on SEO. And you are looking for more fresh topics to write about.
Here is how Amazon look inside can help you to create a list of new blog post ideas.
First head over to Amazon, then enter your search query. For example, we will use SEO as our search query.
Next, click on the book search result and check the Look inside.
Focus on the titles and reviews, and you are more likely to get the book with the right kind of information.
Then click on the Book Cover to look inside the book.
Now scroll through the table of contents and try to scoop as many ideas as you can.
Now scroll down the rest of the table. It will give you a lot of new blog topics to write about.
This process can be repeated with any topic or idea over and over.
Summary: All you need to do is to find a book relevant to your niche. Then look at the table of content to see the topics the book covered. After that, write them down and start your work.
This strategy is very much helpful because it leverages the work which has already been done. The authors of these books have already done their research to identify the ideas. They already cover the topics that readers want to read including their questions and answers.
Use Social Media to come up with blog content ideas
Social media platforms are also great ways to find new blog topic ideas.
Find out the groups related to your niche and join them. Be an active member. Check all the conversations and queries other members are making. Try to understand their problems and they come up with a solution. In this way, you not only just get new blog post ideas but also get new readers for your blogs as well. It also helps you to build a target audience for your blogs.
And apart from that, you can also use social media analytics tools. These tools will help you find the most shared topics on social media. Filter out the popular posts that are related to your industry and mine them for your content.
Here are a few steps that you can follow to find new blog content ideas from social media platforms like Facebook, Linkedin:
- Decide a social media platform that you want to use
- Search for the groups related to your niche
- Search the keywords related to your niche inside the group
- Check all the discussions and conversations of the other members regarding the topic that you can write about.
These are the 4-step processes that you can follow to come up with content ideas.
Use Twitter
Twitter is one of the best Social media platforms to generate tons of blog topics for writers.
Twitter has a secret weapon to create new content ideas, and it is called Hashtags. Through hashtags, you can find the trending topics on Twitter.
Here is how you can use Twitter and Hashtags to find new content ideas.
First of all head over to the RiteTag.com then search for the hashtags.
Then type a broad match keyword that describes what your site is about. For example, Digital Marketing, Tech, finance, etc.
After you put your keyword, it will give you a list of hashtags.
Bookmark the relevant hashtags and save it,
If you are planning to write a question-answer type article you can also search for some generic hashtag like #howto, #questions, etc.
Now head over to your Twitter.com and put your keywords in the search box.
You can also use both your generic and broad keywords combined and can see the results.
With the help of this process, you can easily come up with 10-15 new blog topics to write about.
Just repeat the process whenever it requires.
Leverage BuzzSumo
BuzzSumo is another excellent tool for writers to find blog topics.
It shows you everything from the most viral post to the number of social media shares. You will get everything in one place.
Use it properly and generate tons of new blog post ideas.
AnswerThePublic
AnswerThePublic is a tool that gives you the result of what people are searching on the web. All their searches, queries, problems, etc,
Here is the 4-step process you can follow to find new blog topic ideas on AnswerThePublic.
- Go to AnswerThePublic.com
- Put your search terms or keyword there
- Export them as a CSV file
- Then find all the most relevant topics and start writing your blog.
It will give you tons of new topics to write about.
It provides results based on Questions, Prepositions, Comparison, Alphabetical.
Use Quora to come up with blog content ideas
Quora is another great place to find new blog topics to write about.
Quora is a platform where people make their queries and you, on the other hand, can answer those questions. And vice-versa. So it is basically a Q&A platform.
How can you use the platform to generate new blog post ideas?
Here is a 5-step process for finding blog topics on Quora:
- First, make a list of the terms or keywords related to your niche
- Enter them on the Quora search box one after one.
- Go through all the queries and the discussions that are relevant to you
- Highlight parts of the discussion and put your thoughts too(optional)
- Then come up with your piece of content and enjoy your readers’ appreciation
For this article, we are using the term SEO and this question is popped up. Now I can write an article on this topic.
Similarly, you can search for your keywords relevant to your niche and write a detailed article on this. And also check the sidebar for more related questions.
This process alone can give you a lot of blog content ideas. So use it properly.
Read Blogs related to your Niche
Reading blogs related to your niche can give you a few blog topics to write about. But here I am not talking about copying someone’s content. It can hurt your site SEO performance.
Rather take some ideas and add them with your thoughts. Put your data, reference, and examples, and come up with your piece of content.
Use Blog Comments
Go through the blog comment section of your popular blogs and also the blogs related to your niche. And check what readers are talking about. Also, check what kind of questions they are making. This is one of the most effective ways to find new blog post ideas.
Here is a 4-step process you can follow to generate some new blog topics through comments:
- Find a few blogs that are popular with your niche.
- Read their latest blog posts related to your interest.
- Go through the comment section and write down the relevant queries.
- Then choose the blog topics you haven’t covered yet. And write content around that
Follow the step to come up with new blog post ideas.
Ask your readers what the want to read next
This is another great way to come up with new blog topic ideas. Ask your readers what they want to read next or what are the problems they are facing(relevant to your niche). Then write your content keeping in mind your reader’s queries.
Do a survey with your readers and ask them about their queries or what they want to learn.
Keep your survey short and simple, don’t overwhelm your readers. Ask not more than around 10 questions.
How to do a proper survey?
First, set the number of questions that you want to ask. Because most of the people don’t bother to fill a form if the questions are too long and designed poorly.
Second, filter out your list and trim things down to the questions that are very important for you.
Third, do your survey with the right people. You don’t need everyone to respond to your surveys, just find the most qualified candidates possible. And try to gather data as accurately as possible.
Here is the list of few things that you can do to get more response to your surveys:
- Use some incentives or rewards (relevant to your niche) to attract more readers
- Put your survey on Facebook, if required do a paid promotion as well with your target audience.
- Add survey emails to your autoresponder sequences.
- Add your survey form link inside your top-performing articles.
These methods can help you to get 10-12 responses or even more every weak.
Use Google Auto Suggestions to come up with blog content ideas
Google auto-suggest can be a great tool to find blog topics for writers. It provides suggestions based on the relevant search queries that people make inside Google.
How to use it?
- Go to Google
- Type in a phrase and see the suggestions given by Google.
- Choose the relevant once and come up with your blog post idea.
Google Trends to come up with blog content ideas
It is free to use software by Google. It helps you to know the trend of a particular topic. And a great tool to find blog topics for writers.
How to use it?
- Head over to your Google trends.
- Enter a search term or a relevant topic, then select your country and hit enter.
- See the graph defining the trend.
- Now scroll down, and see the Related queries section.
- Check out both the queries that are on “Top” and those that are “Rising”, you will get some new ideas.
Use KeywordTool.io
KeywordTool.io is basically a keyword research tool. But we can also use it for finding new blog post ideas.
How to use it?
- Head over to the tool.
- Then type your keyphrase or keyword.
- After that, the tool will give you a list of keywords.
- Go through all the keywords (suggestions, questions, prepositions).
- Find all the relevant ones, and come up with your new article.
This process can give a plethora of new blog content ideas. Use this tool and generate tons of new blog topic ideas.
Do a Competitor Research
Competitor research or analysis is surely the best way to find new blog topics to write about. It is extremely helpful to discover new content opportunities for your own website.
Some of the benefit of competitor research:
- It gives you new keywords that you still have not covered yet on your website.
- Improvers your search result and engagement by providing you fresh topics to write about.
- It also gives you a glimpse of their strategies. You can understand what is useful to them.
Here’s how you can do the competitor research to find new blog topics to write about.
- Go to your keyword research tool.
- Then paste the URL of your competitor website.
- Search for all the keywords the website is ranking for.
- Also, find the top posts of that site and the keywords that the pages are ranking for.
- Now, scan all the relevant keywords and topics that you still didn’t cover yet. Take them and write a new piece of content and share it with your readers.
YouTube Videos
YouTube videos can also be a good way to come up with new blog post ideas.
Find out the most viral videos in your niche and try to convert it down in words including your thoughts. This could be the easiest way to find out new blog topics.
Use Idea Generator tools to come up with blog content ideas
You can also try any blog idea generator tool to come up with new blog topic ideas. Use this process when everything else fails. You can use tools like- Blog Ideas Generator by HubSpot, Portent, ContentIdeator, etc.
Follow the “News” in your industry
Follow the news and try to find what is interesting going on in your industry. Pick that news- probably the controversial and popular once, which usually have more reader engagements. And then try to build content around them.
Note: Once you find your content ideas, use them to create an editorial calendar for at least 2 months. It will save surely you a lot of time and effort. And not just that, it will also provide you consistency in your blogging strategy.
Conclusion-
In this article, we have discussed 17 ways that you can use to come up with blog topics to write about. Use them whenever you get stuck. This trick isn’t to avoid getting stuck, but a way to get over when you get stuck. If this article helps you to learn something new then share this. And share your thoughts as well.
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