Getting new content writing ideas

Aug 25, 2008

It doesn’t matter whether you publish a regular website or a blog; in order to get traffic you need to generate content on a regular basis. Generating valuable, regular content for your website or your blog achieves the following for you:

Bring targeted and qualified traffic from search engines
Bring repeat visitors on an ongoing basis
Develop an interactive community around your product or service
Encourage people to link to your website or blog from their own websites and blogs
Facilitate social media marketing
Develop your expertise and consequently, your brand
Create lasting loyalty and fan following

All these are overwhelming benefits and very hard to ignore especially when almost all your competitors are leveraging them. But as a small business generating valuable content again and again can turn out to be a real challenge especially when you run out of ideas after a few weeks or a few months. I am an online copywriter and I still run out of ideas for a couple of blogs I manage, and of courses I need to keep the content on my copywriting and content writing website fresh and relevant too. Here are a few things you can do to get fresh ideas for your blog or website:

Hire a professional writer

This is the easiest way if you can afford it; once you have hired a writer for your blog or website then it becomes his or her headache to come up with new ideas for your blog or website or both. I take up this headache for many of my clients but ironically I lack the effort when it comes to writing for myself. I know the best writer for your business would be you but if you can better utilize that time doing something else then it is prudent to hire a professional writer for your content needs. Here is a detailed article on how to hire an online copywriter for your blog or website.

Take ideas from whatever you have already written

If you have been publishing web pages and blogs then by merely going through them you can get lots of writing ideas. Pick up a sub topic and expand upon it. Randomly pick up an expression and see what you can write around it. This will not only be great fun it will also give you plenty of new ideas. Also go through the comment section of your previous blogs; plenty of times people ask questions through comment sections and those questions can be easily answered as full-blown blog post or web pages.

Visit other blogs and websites

As a busy person this is perhaps the hardest task. You can assign a particular day for this task. Create a compact list of websites and blogs that you would like to keep a tab on to get new writing ideas. Either bookmark them or subscribe to their RSS feeds. The benefit of subscribing to their RSS feeds is that you don’t even have to visit them and you will be notified the moment something new is posted there. Instead of simply visiting other blogs and websites you can also try to interact with the publishers or other visitors because this also stimulates your mind and gives you knew writing ideas. Online forums and social media and networking websites too are a great source of new writing ideas.

Become knowledgeable in your field

The more you know the more you have to write. Becoming knowledgeable not only helps you write better it also improves your professional prospects. Continuously try to learn new things and devise ways to do existing things in a better manner and then share your experiences through your website or blog.