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Hi. I’m Nicole Dean and I’m doing a fun Online Success Blog World Tour and this week I’m sharing my ideas about “How to Get Ideas for your Next Blog Post”.

So far we’ve covered 10 ideas and they should give you enough blog content ideas for the rest of the life of your blog.

11. RSS Feed Swipe File.
This idea came from my friend, Susanne of HillbillyHousewife.com – Set up a Google reader account which is a RSS feed reader/aggregator. Then, go and sign up for the RSS feeds for several competing sites. (If you don’t know of any competing sites yet, the feed reader will allow you to search for them.) Then, log into your feed reader any time you need ideas for a blog post. Alternatively, you can log into the feedreader once per week or per month and jot those ideas into your idea notebook for later.

12. Magazines & Books.
Both magazines and books are huge resources for blogging. Just because they aren’t “online resources”, it doesn’t mean that they can’t give you lots and lots of ideas. Start by finding magazines and books in your niche and go through their table of contents to generate ideas.

I love doing this because it gets me out of the house to Barnes and Noble where I can grab a cup of coffee and relax for awhile while doing research. Of course, I could go through the table of contents online at Amazon.com but that’s not nearly as much fun. (Don’t forget to jot them down in your notebook!)

13. Yahoo Answers.
Have you been to Yahoo Answers recently? It’s a treasure trove of questions that people have about just about any topic. Now the site is basically the clueless leading the clueless, so I wouldn’t recommend actually taking advice from anyone posting answers there, but it’s a great research tool to come up with blog ideas that you can write about. 

14. Google Alerts.
My friend Tracy of LoveImpossible.com suggested this tip. Set up a google alert for just about any keyword, URL, or person’s name. It can be a topic you’re interested in, your competition’s website -anything! and you’ll (tada) get an email alert any time that term is posted online anywhere. The alert will lead you to blogs that are posting about items of interest to your niche which can jumpstart your brain to a multitude of ideas. 

Don’t forget to add a Google alert for your own name & sites to see what other people are saying about you and then use those blog posts to get the ideas flowing.

15. PLR Packs.
I love PLR. (For those who don’t know, PLR stands for Private Label Rights and is usually referred to in regards to content in internet marketing.) What that means is that you can buy PLR articles affordably and use them on your website or blog. You can edit them as much or as little as you want (I recommend editing more than less) and use them to speed up your blog posting.

How I use PLR articles is to grab a paragraph and see if it gives me inspiration for a blog post. If so, I may use that one paragraph as a draft and build from there. Another option is to just go through the titles of the PLR articles on your hard drive and see if any of them give you an “ah ha” moment to help you to begin writing.

Speaking of PLR articles and reports, here’s a great resource that you will most certainly like: click here –> PLR Special Offers Club.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more. Please keep sharing your ideas.

Warmly,
Nicole Dean

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