Generate Blog Post Content Ideas Using Loads of Informative Resources

Have you ever worried about digging your time in getting ideas to come up with stunning blog posts? As a blogger, I don’t think you may be exceptional. You are not done choosing the best hosting with discounts or themes for your blog. The content creation and its promotion really make sense. In this post, I am sharing the informative sources to generate blog post content ideas. As well informed quality content is good for SEO, this post speaks a lot.

Especially for beginners or newbie’s, getting topics and content ideas that claim high ranking is something unapproachable. However, there are plenty of sources where expert webmasters or bloggers will gather topics and blog post content ideas for their on-go.

CONTENT matters a lot

Content is one of the crucial factors that decide the success of any blog post or a site. Having great content discussing a unique topic, having quality, relevant, and informative; will drive more organic traffic.

Though it is a hectic one and you can never be carefree. Last week I got a chance to interview Ammar Ali from AllBloggingTips. I was shooting the same question to him that how he is coming up with interesting posts and content often engaging more visitors. His answer was straightforward. Understand your audience needs. Of course, this is true. To make your readers to stick on, know your visitor’s behavior and plan your future posts. You may get thoughts from the below resources. To grab the attention of new audiences, discover more exciting and unique topics what people are looking for.

The below list of informative sources will help you with this to generate blog post content ideas for your upcoming blog posts. Content preparation will become simpler following those web pages.

34 Informative Resources to get Blog Post Content Ideas

Free & Common Sources to Grab Amazing Content Ideas

Here are a few sources where you can gain maximum out of it. However, these are all freely available online and feed with more interesting facts to fulfill your thirst.

1. Quora

Quora is one of the most exciting ideas mining area to get different thoughts on anything in the world. It is a platform to raise questions and more influencers sharing their views as answers. You can choose your areas of interest too while creating your account with Quora.com. You can get feeds on the topics on which you are interested. Moreover, if you want to know anything out of your chosen subjects; it says no to you.

For every question raised by individuals, there will be plenty of answers, suggestions and more. If you are struggling “Where do I find ideas for blog post content?” The Quora would be an excellent source. Do you know how expert bloggers are making out of it? For a question or specific discussion, you will come to know the people’s curiosity and awareness, shares among the social media networks, and so on.

Answers from a variety of people will help you to discover more fresh blog post content ideas. You may refer to the above image where I have used the topic – free tools to check English Grammar.

Also, Question Stats area will let you know how publicly exciting topic is that.

2. Other Popular Blog Content

If you are still wondering, how top influencers are being the talk of the arsenal ever? The straightforward answer is; keep reading other blogs. It is a never-ending process. There are millions, and billions of blogs are available over the web. I am a great follower of Neil Patel. For every article or post I come up, I would have referred to Neil Patel’s blog posts on that topic. I have to say that Neil’s blog covers every topic related to SEO, Blogging, Online marketing, Traffic, Money making, etc.

Similarly, you can follow as many as expert’s blog pages to generate more content ideas for your blog posts on a specific topic. Neil’s great friend Brian Dean (Backlinko.com) is another tycoon who inspired me.

3. Blog comments

Every domain or industry has loads of blogs. Do research and pick a minimum of top 10 blogs that your readers would love to follow and read. Check out such blog’s comments section and see what the readers are sharing over there. From this, you might get some curate ideas where the same readers can be turned out as your organic traffic.

In the comments section, you may find audiences rising questions. Have a note and present your blog post helping such readers to find solutions from your page. To illustrate, I have shown images here with an example Silo Structure.

4. YouTube

Do you know that YouTube is considered the second largest search engine? Of course, you can make use of at a greater extent to get more interesting ideas for your blog posts content. Enter your topic or phrase relating your industry and check videos which may be trending, or how to, or more. You may even subscribe to popular YouTube channels related to your area of interest.

For an instant, here I am searching for “Silo Structure.” The 1st video claims 96k views. By which, you may notice that people are curious about creating silo structure for their websites. Also, you may watch the video and its descriptions to know how the poster presented the video in meeting visitors need. The 3rd video tells about “Silo Structure in WordPress without Plugins.” Likewise, you could get in-depth details on silo structure to write more elaborated in your blog post.

5. Infographics

Any pictorial or media-format of information will attract readers than boring text. Analogous to that, you can find more blogs explaining on any topic in detail using infographics. Search for infographic blog posts on your topic and acquire maximum tips and thoughts it represents. Here, I am sharing a sample blog post from Backlinko.com with Infographics on on-page SEO.

You may create content for your blog post content ideas gained from the infographics. Infographics are an excellent way for all types of blog posts content. It’s no way loses it proficiency in offering an incredible and SEO friendly content boosting your SERP.

6. Google

Hope I don’t want to explain in detail to get ideas from Google as it is the most widely used search engine. Google search engine results page would be the prompt and most familiar source for any webmaster. All the other sources what I would be presenting in this article almost starts with Google Search Query. What do you say?

Meanwhile, Google “Related Searches” at the bottom of SERP helps you to know people’s mind and what else they are looking for related to your topic or industry. You can also get more LSI keywords to scatter it throughout your blog post content improving keyword density and literally SEO.

Indeed, don’t limit yourself referring only first 10 search results that are displayed in Google’s 1st page. Extend your reference on more pages like results from Google 4th, 7th pages or anything. The same is applicable for other search engine results too.

7. Yahoo

Yahoo and Bing are the very next popular search engines closest to Google. The Yahoo Answers would be an efficient platform similar to Quora to gain more ideas about your topics. But, I would say, you may not find more discussions on complex topics like Silo Structure or advanced on-page SEO techniques on Yahoo Answers. However, you can Yahoo Web which is similar to Google SERP (but, you may feel annoying as the page filled with ads).

8. Bing

Bing is a familiar web search engine operated by Bing. Few web pages getting top ranking in Google SERP may not be in the same position in Bing. Each search engines will have a unique ranking algorithm. Similar to Google My Business, businesses can use Bing Places to have their local business information like working hours, reviews, photos, and more.

You can utilize Bing’s “Related Searches” to find user’s queries and use it as LSI keywords (as in Google SERP).

9. Expert Roundups

Expert Round ups are great to get connected with top influencers in your industry and to see things from different perspectives. Conduct an expert roundup after any events, press releases, or before writing excellent quality content on a specific topic. Know different point of views through roundups and reproduce it in your style with added information and essence.

You may refer to the Expert RoundUp post which I have published on “Best SEO Predictions for 2018”.  In which, I have included almost 53 expert bloggers and webmasters.

10. Competitive blogs

You don’t ever think that monitoring or following your competitor’s activities would help you to come with strategic implementations. But, make sure to have a healthy competition. Else, it would ruin your success. The competitor analysis can assist you to read audience mind, and those might be your future visitors.

If you have a proper plan in your hand on the upcoming posts and ideas, then it is not a great deal. On the other hand, if you about to draft your future posts, then check your competitor each step ahead and understand the strategies to put it forward. Make sure you are making it far better than your competitors to grab user’s attention. Otherwise, it is not going to be fruitful.

Free and Best Sources for Unique Blog Post Content Ideas

1. Amazon

Still reading books practice persists. We do not ignore obtaining ideas from books. To make it simple, you may use Amazon. Check for top picks of books on a specific topic and go through the user’s reviews too. The index section of the books can get you an infinite number of topics and ideas for your blog post.

You can benefit out of 2 ways. First, those who are buying books will show interest to read web pages too. Put ideas in front of your blog page and grab such users increasing your organic traffic. On the other hand, from the user’s reviews; you may find what you want to cover in your blog posts content on a particular topic.

2. Forum

Forums and other online communities are the excellent sources of thoughts on any streams. The better part is you don’t even require registering on forums. However, there are few favorite forum pages for which you have to be a paid member to participate. But, it is not necessary to merely gather ideas on blog posts topics and content. To illustrate, I have used “Dofollow links,” and I have got an idea that “ways to create high quality do follow links” would grab more readers.

Find most recent questions (relevant to your blog) on which the number of discussions happened. By which, you can understand the area or subject on which people are more interested in.

3. Pinterest

If you wanted to gather ideas for something different, say visually; then Pinterest would be a superior choice. Search and head to the boards of other Pinterest users and know the area of interest. You can find it as a place to research and source of information to your blog content on a particular topic.

If you are having a blog on “Tree Houses”, referring to the above image – you will more ideas to decide upon your next blog post. For example, how to build tree houses, tree house building ideas, DIY treehouse works, etc. You can also follow the Pinterst profile that has more pins denoting that how users are interactive and curious on the particular topic.

4. Facebook

Similar to Pinterest and other social media platforms; feeds, posts, and images you see on your Facebook profile may provide some valuable content ideas for your blog posts. Also, you can use some SEO tools like BuzzSumo to find trending topics on social media networks. You may contribute blog posts on such trending subjects and promote it through social media networks results in attracting massive traffic to your page.

5. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a unique social media network for professionals. Get connected with your co-bloggers or follow top influencers in your domain. You will get plenty of feeds every day on various topics and different flavors of information. I bet that you can’t end up your article reading once you started following LinkedIn regularly. I prefer to read at least an article a day through LinkedIn which would help in a way or either to prepare content for my blog posts.

6. Twitter

Browse influencer feeds, hashtags and tweets to know about the discussions that are trending in your niche. Even you can search for keywords tagged by other Twitter users that have grand claims higher user engagement.

Another added advantage would be you can roll out a Twitter Poll to ask your followers for the feedback and reviews on your topic. You can talk about more recent and trending news on your niche knowing it from Twitter to make your readers keep following your blogs.

7. Free Webinars

Webinars are the most efficient approach to learn and interact with experts online. It is enough to register with your email id and keep watching webinars on your topic or niche. You can get even unimaginable ideas and views through the webinars sessions conducting by top influencers on your topic.

For an instant, if you are looking for such free webinars on digital marketing; I recently published a blog post compiling must-to-attend webinars. It’s worth reading. A kicker here is you don’t want to wait or keep your eyes open to attend webinars. Most of the webinars will be recorded, and you can retrieve it any time you feel comfortable.

8. E-Books & Free courses

Sometimes, I would be thinking that any website I check-in; I could see a pop-up with catchy words enabling us to subscribe for e-books. At a stretch, I was baffled as I couldn’t manage such massive collections of e-books. Similarly, you can get an endless amount of insights and information from e-books published by experts. Sharing e-books may be intentional to build their email subscriber list. However, you will be getting valuable ideas for the price of your contact email id.

Free courses are something analogous to e-books, often some e-books may get you courses on the specific topic. Search for such admirable e-books and online courses and gain as what you need out of it.

9. Expert’s Interviews

Interviews are the ultimate track to know master’s expertise and views on any specific topic. Have a practice of interviewing experts or top influencers from your niche and keep publishing on your blogs. It may cover a wide range of discussions exciting your readers.

Meanwhile, frequently check out interviews by experts on other blogs or websites. Even if it was more about their experience and own stories, you could get ideas of inspiration for your blog posts.

I love to interview experts in the SEO, blogging and internet marketing industry to grab more insights from their experience. Through which, I am happy to add value to my readers. You can have a glance at our interview series here.

10. Email Newsletters

Subscribing for email newsletters on your domain is easy. You can sign-up for at least a small number of professional newsletters. What can you look for? Discover topics which your target customers are more interested in.

Either way, you can run proper email newsletters campaign to check the open, click through rates and responses if any from your subscribers. From this, you can know more about your reader’s interest and what they are in need.

11. FAQ Sections

Have a look at other website’s FAQ section (of same industry). You will get a clue what questions your target customers will have in mind. Make sure to include FAQ section on your website or blog page answering in any content like text, video or tutorials.

I would suggest you accumulate your entire competitor’s FAQ, analyze it, answer them by your way and release it on your page to the readers.

12. Case studies & Testimonials

Are you wondering how a case study or a testimonial can get you ideas for your blog post? Read more case studies and testimonials on your topic to know what technique or strategy implemented over there that leads to its success. Anything that is fruitful only will bring accomplishments. You can write something on such strategies in your upcoming blog posts.

You may also frequently publish case studies and let your existing customers share their testimonial and present it on your website. Check the analytics or page views on a specific case study and find what your prospects are curious about.

13. Social Media Networks

You can use social media networks in multiple ways. Firstly, have a list of prospects or readers and follow their social profiles. Know their interests and what they are curious about and come up with content on your blog posts. Follow top influencer’s on your domain and gather information on what they are discussing and engaging readers.

Secondly, you may throw some generic questions on your social profiles and build your followers. There are popular tools to keep responding to your social mentions regularly. Make sure to proactive on your social networks and act in response including Facebook groups, feeds, Twitter retweets, LinkedIn groups, hashtags and furthermore.

14. Surveys

If you are struggling to know what your readers or audience wanted? Then, conduct surveys. Rolling out polls to the target visitors can give you great organic inspirations and ideas. Even a single survey about what people are struggling on your niche enables you to assist them with your blog posts content.

Google surveys allow you to run a survey using demographic data to specify the type of audience you want to target.

15. Local Events

Get connected with people. Besides meet-ups, don’t miss out any local business events in your niches. Having a chance to communicate with people and look at their presentations revealing unknown or less common topics.

Attending to such events can get you more exposure and enables you to understand the market trends.

16. Expert’s AMA sessions

Every blogging experts would be including Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions after their presentations, events, webinars or anything. You will acquire an upgraded level of ideas or views from AMA questions and answers as each has different perspectives.

17. Customer Reviews

You can get a variant range of ideas from people’s review on Amazon and other sites about your niche. You may even get unique inspirations from such customer reviews. Each question or feedback from the user’s perspective will lead to a content topic for your blog posts.

18. Google Plus

You might know that Google+ is to post and share your thoughts or content and spread it among your connections. Of course, yes. Still, you may use Google+ collections by which you can categorize the posts on Google+. You can link your Google+ account to your website or blog home stream and know which topic attracts more user attention. Expand Google Circles and communicate with the extensive network in your industry.

19. Google Alerts

I prefer using Google alerts to know what is happening over the web around a particular topic or niche. Using Google alerts, you can set the alerts easily and get RSS feeds or emails whenever any blogs or news comes live on a specific topic. You can have filters to set language, region, and more. For instance, I used the search term “Blogger Outreach.” Refer the below image.

You can keep updating yourself with the new web content on your specific topic or industry. By the way, you can produce content with the latest information that makes readers enjoy.

Paid Sources for Stunning Blog Post Content Ideas

1. Ninja Outreach

Ninja Outreach is a paid tool to have professional outreach to the top influencers in the industry. Using Ninja Outreach, you can find similar posts that exist on the web, extract emails ids of those who featured on those posts and outreaching through emails and so on. The email outreach template matters a lot.

Among all these, for generating blog posts ideas; you enter the search term. You will be getting the list of blog posts on that specific topic, top influencers, other bloggers featured on the guest post, social shares of the post, traffic engagement and more. With all this information, you can get inspirations on a particular topic which brings more social shares and drives huge traffic.

Moreover, Ninja Outreach assists in performing the whole promotion process. It includes quality link building, guest posting outreach, to find guests for interviews and podcasts, content promotion and furthermore.

2. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is an excellent content research tool as it has explicitly Content Explorer feature. Using which, you could able even to filter the most popular or trending content on any topic. It gets you more details about the posts related to your specific niche or topic. It fetches you a comprehensive list of posts with its performance metrics like social shares, organic search traffic, referring domains, and more.

You will have filter options to precise the search results. If you want to create your content target audience, or social networks, or anything; decide it from these results. You can have most-wanted blog posts content on your blog or website, analyzing the performance metrics of the search results. It becomes more comfortable for you to have apt content what your target audience may be looking for, and that creates curiosity among the readers.

3. SEMRush

SEMRush is one of the trustable and favorite SEO tools for any webmasters or bloggers. Upon Google’s most significant update that to focus on high-quality content; SEMRush has its Content Tool. Enabling its users to leverage the benefits as a complete SEO tool, it’s ContentTool feature is to measure and understand specific metrics.

An in-depth analysis of such metrics leads you to have inspirational ideas for your blog posts on a particular topic. Moreover, it claims for knowing your audience, understanding what your audience is looking for, discovering more content ideas to drive a strategy and so on. The SEMRush Topic Research tool displays metrics like keywords, shares, backlinks and more details. By which, you will come to know the topic of trendiness, and you can reproduce the content in your style.

4. Buzzsumo

Similar to Content Explorer of Ahrefs and Content Tool of SEMRush, BuzzSumo’s Content Profiler would be the best choice. To pick the top content on a particular topic or niche and to know its performance, BuzzSumo would be the best choice. It is a unique tool to see any content or blog post’s popularity among social networks.

You can promptly come up with ideas to draft content for your upcoming blog posts depending on the posts engagements on the same topic. You can get an opportunity to navigate through top influencer’s posts and gather enough information to present it to your readers.

5. Udemy

Udemy is exclusive for online training courses that cover a wide range of business like marketing, health & fitness, photography, software, music and more. You can make use of it as both paid and for free. Udemy has a strong tie-up with industry experts to offer professional training on even small subjects.

There are around 65,000 online courses available with or without certification. For an instant, let me share a course title that suits our post subject. The course which covers resources to use for idea generation, finding out what your audience wants, how to organize your ideas and explore and so on.

To Wrap Up

It is not entirely obvious to come up with a topic or blog post content ideas that grab the reader’s attention. Rather, it is more significant to know what people talk about your brand or niche. You may be having some general idea about it; still, you have to be more specific.

Your blog post content must be able to answer your target audience queries, offer solutions to specific problems, educate, and so on. For which, you have to be one among such readers and know the user’s mind and behavior. Only then, you can present such amazing content what your audience is looking for. Make use of this article with a list of resources to generate blog posts content ideas on your brand or niche.

I am sure that I missed out still more ways to come up with blog posts content ideas. It might you are using or used. Please mention it in the below comments section letting others know and make use of.