Blog Post Ideas: How to Generate Fresh Content Topics Easily

Ever wonder how to generate ideas for blog posts?

You work hard day and night to make your blog better. But, at some point, you lose the perception.

When does that happen?

It is when you start suffering from “writer’s block.”

Don’t worry. It is common for writers. There could be many reasons why you don’t come up with blog post ideas regularly. Here are a few of them,

1. You don’t have a writing schedule.
2. You don’t have a goal, so you don’t have targets.
3. You are not passionate about what you’re going to write.
4. You are too busy to brainstorm ideas.
5. You don’t know your readers or the niche you tapped into.
6. You are so desperate.
7. You hate writing.

I, too, was there long ago, asking myself what to write on my blog. But luckily, I was able to prevent the above barriers, and now I don’t have much time to write.

However, I couldn’t generate blog post ideas instantly at first. I followed a few methods to find article writing ideas.

Surprisingly, they worked perfectly for me. And will you too?

At the end of this article, you will find a gift from me. Save it on your PC, so you can later use it to mine blog post ideas to increase your creativity and speed up your blogging process.

Ready?

Here we go…

17 Excellent Methods to Generate Blog Ideas

Keyword Research

This is one of the easiest ways to generate new blog topics for your next posts. This method will add more blog posts to your blog and increase overall search traffic by making it easier for search engines to identify your site’s niche.

Have you seen some blogs publish posts as parts?

Ex:
Make Money Blogging Part 1: How to Choose Your Niche,
Make Money Blogging Part 2: How to set up your Blog,
Make Money Blogging Part 3: How to publish Posts,
Make Money Blogging Part 4: How to monetize your blog

These posts not only increase the number of doorways to your site but also increase the overall keyword density.

Furthermore, organizing pages in this manner makes it easier for users to digest content, thereby enhancing the user experience.

How to generate new blog ideas through keyword research

We’re looking for effective SEO keyword research tools to help us find keywords for our blog posts. There are numerous keyword research tools available. But only a few have unique and valuable features that you need.

Here are a few keyword research tools:

1. KWFinder
2. Ahrefs
3. Semrush
4. Ubersuggest
5. WriterZen

Use a Topic Discovery Tool

Do you know that there are tools for finding topics? One tool I recently discovered that I am very fond of is WriterZen.

It is a tool equipped with many SEO tools for writers. Learn more in this review. One of my favorite parts is the ability to find blog post ideas.

Competitor analysis has proven to provide outstanding results in a short period. The best part is finding a competitor’s top-performing blog posts within minutes and crafting a new article around your competitors’ keywords!

You can launch a competitor website analysis campaign in several different ways, such as;

• Manually check competitors’ websites to steal post ideas and then tweak the post title, content, and URL.
• Competitor keyword research
• Competitor website SEO audit

I have tested all three of these ways and got different results. Each part takes part in various works. So, follow the one that fits you perfectly.

How to find good topics using archives

Every blog has a blog archive page or category page. Alternatively, you can use the weblog’s sitemap for this purpose. (Sitemap is usually located at domain.com/sitemap.xml)

You check published blog posts on the blog and find out what posts are relevant to your blog and write about. I used this strategy and compiled this list post on “Best Proofreading Tools.” So far, it has worked perfectly. Within the first few weeks, it ranked higher on SERPs (Search Engine Result Page(s)).

While checking websites manually, you can search on Google to find indexed blog posts in a specific date range. Here’s an example of this:

Google Search Console

Google Search Console is one of the most overlooked yet valuable free SEO tools you will ever find. Many web admins opt for paid SEO tools, often overlooking the importance of the free search engine optimization tool provided by Google.

I have often used the Google Search Console to generate creative blog post ideas that can drive buyer traffic without any off-page SEO. My competitor keyword research, using the Semrush tool, blog post ranked for many long-tail keywords. Some are optimized, and many are not.

Ex: how do I find out what keywords my competitors are using (I created a Medium post, a Tumblr blog post, and a SlideShare presentation. They ranked higher on SERP and drew high-quality traffic, not just organic traffic, but also referral traffic)

You can easily find out what keywords your web pages currently rank by going to Search Console >>Performance >> Search Queries section.

You can filter search queries that contain informational parts such as “How to.”

If you asked me how to generate opinions for blog posts, I would first look for my reports! Google Search Console data is a fantastic place to get started! Here are some keywords that begin with “how to.”

I discussed this topic more deeply in this post: How to find long tail keywords: The Beginner’s Guide.

Also, you can use the following regex to filter keywords that imply some query in bulk.

^(who|what|where|when|why|how|was|did|do|is|are|aren’t|won’t|does|if|can|could|should|would|who|what|where|when|why|will|did|do|is|are|won’t|were|weren’t|shouldn’t|couldn’t|cannot|can’t|didn’t|did not|does|doesn’t|wouldn’t)[” “]

Comment Section

Do you love reading blog comments, either on your blog or others? I love it because it not only helps me understand users’ problems but also sparks new, unique ideas for articles. In fact, the blog post comment section is a blog post idea generator.

Visit a popular website in your niche and identify the most discussed blog posts. Some blogs also display the most commented posts widget in the website sidebar.

The chances are enormous of finding hot blog posts. Here is a comment on the Quicksprout blog posted by Steve Estimable.

You can read comments on your niche-related blogs and find new blog post ideas that people want to read.

Forums

For a few months, I started reading the threads on Forums more than on any other day. There are two main reasons: I can gain knowledge and identify people’s problems.

Since my favorite niches are Internet marketing, Blogging, SEO, and social media, WarriorForum and BlackHatWorld remain the two main forums I use regularly.

Here are a few thread titles from BlackHatWorld, a prominent free internet marketing discussion forum.

How do you find a forum for your niche?

The easiest way to find a forum on your niche is by simply searching on Google using search operators.

Queries: keyword intitle:forum, keyword inurl:forum, keyword inurl:discussion, keyword inurl:thread (Replace keyword with your niche/industry/topic)

Q&A sites

Q&A sites (shortened form of Questions and Answers sites) are another great medium to find popular blog ideas. Just like forums, you can see numerous questions related to your niche directly.

Here is an example:

A few Q&A sites:

• Quora
• Answers.com
• Stack Exchange Network
• Reddit (Look for subreddits related to your niche(s))

Related:

• List of question-and-answer websites – Wikipedia

Social Media & content syndication/sharing websites

There is a better place than social media to find trending posts, right? So why couldn’t we utilize social media to brainstorm blogging ideas?

Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Medium, SlideShare, Vkontakte, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Reddit, and Delicious are almost always the best places to find trending topics. In fact, you can get news from social media faster than from television or radio.

The above-mentioned social media sites have search boxes and search filters. And some categorize popular/trending posts for each subject (ex, SlideShare.net)

The only thing you have to do is visit one of those sites and enter your target keyword.

YouTube is another great place to find new content writing ideas. And X has an advanced search tool too. You can use this tool to find trending posts on X (formerly Twitter) since 2006.

Another way to generate blog post ideas is to use an external tool to find trending blog posts. By using a social sharing counter tool, you can see the most shared content on social networks. ContentStudio and Buzzsumo are two high-quality content discovery tools.

Blog Title Generators

Now you know eight different ways to generate blog post ideas. But have you ever thought that there are blog title generators?

Well, a few content idea generators can make you busy for weeks, if not months, in a row!

My favorite content idea makers are;

• Portent’s Content Idea Generator
• Hubspot’s blog topic generator
• TweakYourBiz’s title generator

Blog title generators are helpful when you can’t create an attractive blog title. Also, you might find new writing ideas when you construct blog titles.

RSS Feed Distribution Sites

The RSS feed’s longevity appears to have ended in 2010. However, as a content marketer, you can still utilize RSS feed distribution services to mine new blog post ideas that will generate more blogging ideas that you’ve never thought of before.

Here’s how to find popular content in your field and brainstorm new content that will get similar popularity.

There are a few RSS feed services. Feedly is one of those popular platforms:

You can search for keywords to find relevant topics/niches.

And a good tactic is to subscribe to RSS feeds of popular blogs. If any blog doesn’t have this feature, you can use Nimbus Note, Pocket, or Evernote to save content to use further.

Content curation websites

Content curation websites are filled with articles, videos, graphics, and other digital content from different parts of the internet.

For example, you might have liked an article on “100 Fat Burning Tips for Work at Home Moms,” and you found another helpful article from a blog about “How moms can utilize the Kitchen to prepare their goals for a healthy life.” You want to get those articles into one place.

Let’s see an example.

Here is the “Food” section of Flipboard, a popular content curation website:

Google News

Google regularly crawls news websites, online magazines, and a few blogs, such as Huffington Post.

The good news for content creators like you and me is that we can use Google News to find new trends and news related to our industries.

X Search

X is not just a social network. It is a microblogging site too. Millions of people use X for many aspects. We, as marketers, can use Twitter to reach a wider audience and generate more leads and clients.

Finding blog post ideas on X is the icing on the cake. Here’s how to do it rightly.

If you are interested in marketing your business on X, I recommend you check out these X tools.

YouTube Videos

YouTube is the world’s second most popular search engine, with millions of daily searches. In fact, YouTube marketing can develop your content marketing campaigns pretty well.

For instance, Google might pop up a YouTube video at the top of the SERP because there are no relevant articles for that.

By finding search terms people use on YouTube, you can understand many things, such as people’s intent, mode, and phase of the transaction. To get a clear idea, check out this image, which shows four stages of keyword research.

Google Trends

Google Trends is one of my favorite spots to find trending topics. Once you practice finding trending topics using Google Trends, you can increase traffic easily and quickly.

The best part of Google Trends is finding low-competition yet high-search-volume keywords.

Unlike Google News, you can determine whether the search query has a steady trendiness.

For example, check out the search trendiness versus the time of “Tumblr SEO.” Its trend is up and down.

And yes, if you guess whether you can compare keywords to find their popularity over time, you can do it very quickly.

According to the Google Trends chart, more people want to learn about BlogSpot SEO. If you take a keyword like ‘Ezines”, you can see that the keyword’s interest has decreased over time.

And, if you check the keyword interest of “sole proprietorship,” you can see its popularity has increased dramatically.

Okay. That’s enough introducing Google Trends. Now, let me explain how to find new blog post ideas that your competitors have never used.

Go to Google Trends over here and enter your search query into the search box.

Or you can explore popular topics within Google Trends too.

Check out the exponential popularity growth chart for “Influencer Marketing.”

And “influencer marketing” is partially a new topic.

As “Influencer Marketing” is a broad keyword, you could break it down to more niche-specific keywords and write more articles.

Ex:

The Evolution of Influencer Marketing: How to Build Your Empire Right Away
70 Tips for Influencer Marketing to Dominate ANY Niche
How to Build Your Own SEO Agency with These Influencer Marketing Strategies
Your Idea + Influencer Marketing Tactics = Quick Success!

Google Trends is a perfect online tool to mine new ideas for blog posts and YouTube videos. Catch up on the procedure and replicate what works.

You might not first find perfect blog post ideas. However, after spending a few minutes searching for rising and most searched phrases, you can find many ideas for the following article.

Ask Your Followers

One great way to increase blog engagement is by writing articles that your readers demand. It will also enhance the loyalty of readers.

You might get stuck at some point on what to write on a blog that will get more comments, social shares, and backlinks. If you asked your readers what to write, they would surely help you.

Here are a few ways to utilize followers’ feedback to generate writing ideas.

• At the end of the articles, ask what else they want you to write about.
• Listen to potential readers’ barriers to social media and forums.
• Ask what they keep back from being [[whatever your goal]]
• Survey your blog visitors
• Read comments.
• Respond to direct email messages.

Email marketing is an excellent way of finding readers’ potential problems. If you have subscribed to the email lists of top bloggers, you might have noticed that they ask what you are struggling with. (Mostly at the first three follow-up series)

If you haven’t built an email list yet, I can assure you that now is the best time to start. I use Gist for email marketing and customer relationship management (CRM).

Alternatively, you could also use GetResponse. I strongly suggest you build your email list immediately and add a special follow-up email asking your followers about their problems.

Let Your Brain Generate Awesome Ideas

You already have the best idea generator. It is within you.

It all starts with your creativity. Your brain can generate more ideas than you thought. Once you have control over your imagination, no one can stop generating awesome blog post ideas.

Here are a few simple ideas to stimulate creativity, helping you generate unique blog posting ideas.

Here are a few tips for developing content writing ideas to generate more traffic, social shares, and backlinks.

• Have a notebook in hand. Write down everything that comes to your mind. They could be crazy ideas. However, jot them down.
• Walk at least 15 minutes a day thinking about your business. So you will understand what your prospects will demand. (trust me, these ideas will flip your current bad situation upside down)
• Read more books and newspapers, and listen to the radio.
• Spend at least a few hours away from your business.
• Use Evernote or any other app to jot down quick ideas that come to mind.
• Spend your time with like-minded people.
• Last but not least, consider new ways to write content during your washer time! (I got many awesome ideas when I was bathing! ;))

I have written a few articles that came to my mind accidentally. Surprisingly, they performed very well. Received a lot of positive feedback. And steady traffic too.

How to Generate Smart Blog Post Ideas – The Infographic

As I promised, I will share a gift with you. Now you know it. 🙂

Download this infographic by right-clicking>> Save Image As >>Save.

You can refer to this infographic whenever you face writer’s block again. And it’s a great way to remember me. 😉

Final Words on Finding Ideas for Blog Posts

Getting exhausted by writing is not a significant issue compared to having a lack of topics to write about on a blog. As I discussed above, there might be many reasons why you might not have enough blog post ideas.

But, following a certain way, you can generate tons of unique blog post ideas within minutes.

Here are my top 5 ways to generate blog post ideas:

1. Google Trends
2. Keywords Research through Semrush’s Keyword Magic tool
3. Forums
4. Brainstorming Ideas
5. People’s requests

So, what is your favorite method of finding blog post ideas? Do you use any specific method other than the ones I listed above to find concepts? Share your thoughts in the comment form below.