When You Are Finished with Ideas for Your Blog…

For a genuine blogger, this is a common problem and a real headache to keep thinking about how to generate useful and unique content for its readers.  Genuine Bloggers have to maintain their dignity by not only providing unique and genuine content but also they have to be exact about the topic.

Blog is a beast which continuously demands more & more food for its growth. It is a common problem with all the authors, no matter big or small to get out of topics for writing. Its basically a human nature to get tired of doing same thing every day. So with my experience and after meeting some of the popular A-grade bloggers, I have concluded this post to help the blogging community. Check out some of the popular techniques of getting out of this un-creative trauma.

Hang Out!

Bloggers work non-stop at their PC’s. Having a habit of continuously staring at their monitors, it is normal with a human being to get bored or feel stressful. At this point of time brain is not in a condition of manipulating new ideas for blogging. The intial step to get rid of such situation is to take some rest or hangout with your friends.

While hanging out with family members or your friends would actually generate new ideas like while sitting with your friends you notice one of your friend is facing problems in performing a function on a PC or Mobile. Consider your friend’s problem and ask him why is he facing such problem. When you get back to your desk think about the probable solutions to it and do some research on it. This usually helps in gathering a lot of topics for blogging from people around you, which finally serve up as fodder for your blog.

Did you know, your blog has fodder for itself?

After hanging out a for a day, if you still don’t got any snack for your blog, don’t get depressed. Also I know the RSS feeds sometimes just annoys as we see the same story is being published on multiple sites. You might be thinking I’m joking that you blog can feed itself but seriously it can do and the fodder is in your blog’s comment section. Sometimes comments from your readers gets you back in business with a new idea. There are many “How do I ……”, “What is ……”, “Please help me with ……”, etc. such type of comments. Do some homework on their queries and you will get a lot of new idea’s from them.

Google Alerts can save your day!

If you still don’t know about Google Alerts, let me tell you my friend you are missing a great part of the Blogging Tools. Google Alerts is basically a service from Google which creates a feed of new link being added to its index on a particular topic. All you have to do is just visit Google Alerts type in a Keyword, and subscribe to the feed.

You have to be little careful while entering the keywords like if you have a blog related to food, creating an alert with “food” will mess you up, Instead you can type “recipe” or particular keywords so that the unwanted stuff would not get in your feed. For example if Google captured a blog post of a person who wrote “I like so and so food” might get included in you Alert feed if you must have subscribed to keyword food but as you chose recipe if a person updates “I need the recipe and procedure of so and so” By this you will come to know that what is missing on Internet as well as If some one posts a new recipe it would inform you about it.

Entrance and Exit Keywords

The trick I am going to tell you now is used by many of the A-Grade Bloggers. If you use any tracking service for your blog like Google Analytics, StatCounter or any other, you might be knowing that these sites provide entrance keyword which tells that what users were searching for when they entered your site via search engine. If you run custom search at your blog, filtering out the exit queries can also let you check which queries made the user exit from your blog.  This is a great tool know about what’s missing over your site and if you do a bit research on these queries, It could serve as new drinks for your blog.

Don’t forget the Forums

For bloggers forums could act as a great source of food for your blogs. Many people post their different sort of problems in forums which are also categorized by the forum moderators. Thus you can easily for queries which are related to topics of your blog. All you have to do is search for a forum of your niche of blogging and subscribe to the particular categories feed. Any new post in forum will hit up your RSS reader right away.

Social Networks!

Well I agree to the fact that Social Networks many a times distract bloggers from their work, but if you look at the Social Networks in a different way it could serve you in feeding you blog heavily. Like when you are on Facebook, try to discover official pages that are related to your niche of blogging. By participating in the discussion there, it will let you think of new ideas.

Twitter is another great place to generate new ideas. If you are following a good community there, it could get trucks of topics for you. The other networks and communities include Digg, Xmarks, Technorati, StubmbleUpon, and many more.

Google Trends

Most of us know about the Google Trends, a service by Google that lets you view the most popular queries made for the day on its very popular Google Search. Google Trends also let you see the most popular queries, country-wise. Google Trends gives you the idea about what’s hot over the world or in your country.

Mom is the last rescue!

If nothing works among all of the above solutions, get someone from your family who does not have any or low knowledge about computers to sit around you while you do your work. This might be sounding funny to you but it actually works. Tell him to ask questions about things while you work or simply let him work on your system and monitor his/her activities. Try to observe what all problem he faces while surfing, show him a cool new service related to your niche of blogging, tell about its functionality and ask his/her thoughts on it.

If you have got some more ideas, we all would love to hear them. Drop in your comments below. Image Source: Life As Art, Cinderellasg.