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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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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.

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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

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…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

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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

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Visit a group tofind out what people in yourindustry are talking about

Check out thetrending topics inyour Twitter sidebar

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Take a brisk walkand see what ideascome to mind

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Use Ubersuggest to find keywordssuggestions and variations based

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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

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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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