Content marketing is changing. As more people start blogs, you have to step up your quality and give people what they want when they want it.
Here are a few free
tools to help you brainstorm topics and headlines to stand out amongst the
crowd this year.
Quora
Content marketing is all
about providing information and answering questions. When a user searches for
something on Google, they initially intend to find more information on a topic
or a question. This is why Quora is one of the best tools you can use to create
effective blog post ideas that get more attention on Google.
Quora is a question-and-answer
site that’s filled with questions commonly asked by people from around the
world. The site consists of all kinds of topics from blogging to marketing,
small business, eCommerce, and more. You will be able to find thousands of
questions and answers related to any industry and use them to come up with blog
topics of your own.
For example, if you’re
blogging about eCommerce, you can browse the main eCommerce category on Quora
to find more than 100k questions. Then you can use one of the questions to create
your own unique topic. Like “How To
Make Money Online Without Freelancing Or Selling A Product.”
Feedly
Feedly is a tool that
allows you to subscribe to your favorite blogs and read their latest blog posts
from one place. Feedly is also a useful place to explore blog topics to
brainstorm ideas for your next post.
Feedly has a powerful
search engine that lets you explore blogs already on your reading list or other
blogs in the database to find content related to specific keywords. Then you
can browse different blogs to find topics related to your search.
Moz Keyword Explorer
Optimizing your blog
posts for keywords is an important part of creating content that ranks well on
Google. This tool will make that job much easier for you. Moz Keyword Explorer
doubles as both a keyword research tool and a content idea generator.
Using the tool you
can search for a keyword to analyze it for monthly search
volumes, ranking difficulty, and get more insights into specific keywords and
search phrases.
Then, you can switch to
the keyword suggestions tab to find related keywords ideas you can use to
generate content topics. Keep in mind that this tool limits your search to only
20 free queries per month.
HubSpot Blog Idea Generator
If you don’t have time
to do extensive research and would rather have a tool that generates quick blog
ideas for you, then this is the tool you need. Generating blog ideas doesn’t
get any simpler than HubSpot’s Blog Idea Generator.
Using this tool, you can
instantly generate blog topic ideas by entering a few nouns into the tool. The
tool will then generate 5 different topics you can blog about throughout the
week. Of course, you’ll need to optimize the topics a little to fit your blog.
BlogAbout
This free tool works
similar to the HubSpot blog idea generator. All you have to do is enter a
keyword into the tool and it will generate a title for you. Then you can keep
hitting refresh to create as many blog topics as you want.
This tool only gives you
templates and ideas for creating your own blog topics. So, use it to come up
with ways to create blog posts, but tinker with the titles to make them more
relevant and effective.
Blog Post Idea Generator
This is another quick
blog idea generation tool that’s designed specifically to kill writer’s block.
The tool work’s similar to the previous tools on the list by generating blog
topic ideas based on a keyword.
But, it has a special
feature that allows you to instantly search your generated blog idea on Google.
This saves you the trouble of having to copy-paste the title on Google by
yourself and quickly figure out if that topic has already been covered by
another blog or what kind of competition you have for the same blog topic.
Over To You
Try using a combination
of these tools to get better topic ideas. For example, you can get a topic from
Quora and search it on Feedly to find alternative and more effective blog topic
ideas.
The key to beating
writer’s block is simply to keep writing and, before you know it, you will back
in your flow. These tools will certainly help you get there.
Now, stop
procrastinating and go write something!
