Web Easy Pro 812 Resources for Website Content Ideas
It is a fact that one of the cornerstones to any website’s success is content, and lots of it. The search engines feed on content and the more good content a website has, the more opportunity there is to keep visitors surfing the site longer.
It is also a fact that creating fresh and unique content and thinking of new content ideas is one of the more difficult jobs for the webmaster when learning how to make websites.
12 Ways to Get Inspired and Get New Ideas for Website Content
1. Keyword Question Tool – This is a cool free tool from Keyword Tracker, that displays questions that surfers are searching for related to a particular main keyword. A great way to get ideas to write about.
2. Keyword Tools – Same tools that I discussed in the How-To Do Keyword Research post can also be used to find website content ideas.
3. Magazines – Your website topic and niche related paper magazines and newspapers are great sources for website content ideas.
4. Related Forums and Discussion Boards - Great places to find ideas to write about from members questions and discussions.
5. Google Alerts – Google will send you alerts from around the web, from sites, blogs and news networks whenever your search parameters come up. So sign up with Google Alerts, add your keywords and you will get lots of alerts in your mailbox with related news and stories that you can use to get ideas for website content!
6. Subscribe to Brand/Industry Blogs – Most all brands have a website and most all of them have relevant feeds and blogs. They will alert you to news, product releases and other info that will provide lots of content ideas.
7. Niche Blogs – Subscribe to related niche blogs.
8. Competitor Sites and Blogs – Your competitors, especially those that are popular and rank high in Google can be a great source of website content ideas. Don’t copy, just use their stuff to get inspired.
9. Article Sites – Articles sites, like GoArticles and Ezine Articles are great places to find content ideas. Just browse the articles in your subject category and you will find tons of ideas on stuff to write about.
10. Social Sites – Go to StumbleUpon, Digg and other popular social sites and see what made the front page, these are always the most popular articles on those sites that get a lot of attention and are favored by thousands of users and you can search by category.
11. PLR Articles – PLR stands for private label rights, and these are pre-written articles that are either bought or downloaded for free from various websites and can then be used freely without copyright infringement. So they can be reprinted, copied, changed and used in any way you wish.
The key to using PLR is to always rewrite the articles and make them your own, this is better as far as search engines go, since PLR is usually reprinted on many websites.
Best PLR Resources:
PLR stands for Private Label Rights and they are articles that are either bought or obtained free from various sources that you can use as you wish. The key to PLR is to make it unique and make it your own, you can rewrite by hand, or you can use this fantastic Content Spinner that can save you tons of time. This is not some useless spinner like all the rest, this one is really useful and has a fantastic Thesaurus with an easy to use drop down menu for easy spinning, watch the Video Demo to See it in Action.
Free PLR – This is one of the biggest free packs of PLR I’ve ever found, tons of articles on all types of subjects.
$5 PLR Pack – This one is loaded with all kinds of topics and subjects and you get thousands of articles for $5
12. Surveys – Create a survey and post it to your site and poll your visitors as to what they want to read about. This really works best for informational and flagship sites and blogs.
By Beth Hrusch, 08/31/2009 @ 3:05 pm
Thanks for the tips! I like to get ideas from things that are going on in my life or in the news, and tie them into SEO. It also helps to add guest bloggers to your blog pages. New voices and writing styles make it more interesting for readers, and bring fresh ideas to the table.
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Ann Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@Beth
Great input, thanks for commenting.