5 Places To Dig Up Questions For Your Blog

One of the best ways to get more popular in the blogging world is by giving people what they are asking for. In fact, that’s the recipe to success in any business. If you can identify what people need and give them exactly what they are looking for, there is no reason you can’t make it big in blogging. Now, I am not suggesting that you can become a super-blogger by answering questions on your blog all day. At the same time, there are plenty of blogging ideas that you can dig up by doing your homework online.

Regardless of what niche you are involved in, you can always find people who are asking questions online that are probably being asked by many others. By identifying those questions and the needs of those people, you can write blog posts that people eat up and want to share with others. Not complicated on the paper but it does take some work. If you are looking to take advantage of this tactic to develop more ideas for your blog, here are 5 places you should look at:

Yahoo! Answers: still the best place to dig up ideas for blogs. There are plenty of questions in the database, which means you are going to have plenty of opportunities to develop ideas for your blog. You can also become an authority by participating and answering questions here.

Askville: a community by Amazon that doesn’t get the recognition that it deserves. If you are running a technology blog or have an audience that is hooked on Amazon products, Askville is a great place for your research.

Linkedin Answers: Linkedin is already one of the top social networking websites on the market. The quality of questions here are often much higher and the questions much more targeted. But if you are writing a highly technical or advanced blog, you are going to love using Linkedin Q&A.

Wordtracker Keyword Questions: a cool tool by WordTracker that lets you find out what people are searching for through search engines. It can be pretty useful at times.

Facebook Groups: Facebook Groups and fan pages are other places you can look at to find out about what people are asking and what you can provide to them. These social networking websites are data gold-mines as long as you are there to take advantage.

What’s been your experience with the above websites?