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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. Read more »
Get Your Questions Answered on Startups.com
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I have always believed that the more you give, the more you get back. Everything I have learned about blogging and business, I have learned from others. I didn’t suddenly discover the knowledge. Whether it was reading a book, attending a conference, or going through message boards, there has always been someone on the other side to answer my questions/concerns. So it’s always nice to be able to give back to those who are just getting started with their journey in the business world. I was a big fan of ideablob as it was a service that let people share their ideas with the world and get advice on how to proceed with their projects. Unfortunately, the service was shut-down when the parent company filed for bankruptcy. Startups.com is another service that lets users ask their questions and have them answered by the community fast. If you want to make it big as a blogger, you need to treat your blog as a business. If you have never run any business in the past, you are going to have issues and concerns to deal with on a daily basis. Thanks to Startups.com, you can get some of those issues answered.
The idea behind Startups.com is noble and something all entrepreneurs need to pay attention to. At the same time, Startups.com can be more than a Q&A forum for you as a blogger. Not only you can help other bloggers have their questions answered, you can also find out what people are curious about and write posts about those issues. LinkedIn Q&A has been a great source of blogging ideas for me and Startups.com can help as well. Read more »
8 Places To Find Blogging Ideas – Part I
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So you are an aspiring blogger. And you have been in business for a few months. Are you finding yourself out of ideas? Do you keep going back to your top posts and try to rehash them or find new angles? You are not alone. There are literally hundreds of thousands of bloggers who struggle to come up with new posts on an everyday basis. In fact, there is no shame in being stuck. If you never get stuck, then you are doing something wrong. Blogging is not a smooth ride. It’s not supposed to be a fun vacation. Blogging is not supposed to entertain you. You’ve got to work hard to earn the trust of your readers and set yourself apart from your competitors. And as long as you are not stuck, you may not push yourself hard enough to move your business to the next level.
There is a difference between being stuck and staying stuck. Those who stay stuck accept the fact that they are not good enough bloggers to make it big. That’s what sets apart superbloggers from mere mortals. Superbloggers never stay stuck! If you have no idea what to blog about next, don’t fret. There are plenty of resources that you can use to come up with new ideas. Here are some that I personally use for my own blogs.
- Yahoo! Answers: if you are looking for ideas for your next blog post, what a better way than figuring out what people are curious about. Yahoo! Answers is your best friend. The sky is the limit here. Don’t forget to participate on Yahoo! Answers to drive traffic to your blog as well.
- Facebook Groups: here is a gold mine that not a lot of people use. By joining groups in your niche and other markets, you can connect with other people and find out about their needs and questions. That’s how you can come up with new ideas for your blog. Bingo!
- Twitter Search: I don’t know about you, but I am crazy about Twitter search. There is just so much information there, and the sky’s the limit. If you can’t come up with a blogging idea from Twitter search, you should probably quit this business (stay tuned for more blog posts on Twitter Search).
- LinkedIn Q&A: you thought Facebook was a killer? Wait till you check out LinkedIn Q&A. It’s designed for folks to ask questions, and you can not only answer them but also use them for your next blog posts.
- WordTracker Questions: it really doesn’t get more simple than this. Type whatever you want to blog about in WordTracker Keyword Questions and find out exactly what people are asking.
- Fluther.com: a great Web 2.0 site that shows you all kinds of questions that people are asking. Another great tool to come up with blogging ideas.
- Wis.dm: another great Web 2.0 service designed to help folks find answers to their questions. And that’s what it all comes down too. If you know what people are asking, you can provide more value to your readers.
- Ask500People: Ask500People is a site that I have started using recently, and it is been very helpful for me. Call me biased, but I love sites that allow people to get answers to their questions. And these sites are all goldmines for blogging ideas.
There you have it. Told you it was simple 
Here is the reality: blogging is hard, and it takes a lot of work. But if you do your homework and research your topics, you are going to have a lot of fun and learn a lot of new things too. And you’ll be a better individual for it. That’s what blogging is all about!
