How Can You Find Ideas for Your Articles?

Content is king. You have heard it many times and I believe most of you are trying to create fresh contents everyday. Is it easy? I bet you will say NO. Getting idea for new articles is certainly the most difficult part. But if you're creative, you can find a lot of new ideas from these places:

1. Personal Experience. This definitely is the best resource for an article. Just let people learn from your experiences; and they will love you! Don't be afraid to share them; even if they are against what're commonly believed. For example, it is widely believed that the secret to become a successful Google Adsense publisher is getting high traffics and high Click Through Rate (CTR). In my experience, this is not always the case. So I wrote it down, and people loved it!
2. Yahoo Answer. People love to read articles that answer their curiosity. How do you know what most people want to know about? It's easy; just use Yahoo Answer. You will find thousands of questions there.
3. Ask Your Friends. What if you are looking for something simpler than Yahoo & Google Answer? Ask your friends then. Tell them what your website is about, and let them ask what they want to know.
4. Popular Forums. Other places to get much information about what people want to know are popular forums. Just find out what the most popular threads are, and you'll get many ideas for your articles.
5. Social Bookmarking Websites. This is one of my favorite resources. There are thousands of new links being submitted to the social bookmarking websites (such as: digg, del.icio.us, fark, reddit, etc) everyday, and many are amazing. Read them, and you will find many new ideas.
6. News Updates. Hottest news is always attracted many people to read it. Newspapers, magazines or online news updates are some of the resources where you can get it from.
7. Comments in Popular Blogs. Do you like posting comments in popular blogs? Do you realize that it can also be used as an idea for an article? People like posting comments because they want to express their opinions, many even counter attacked the authors. Why don't use it as the topic of your new article?
8. Blog hop. Also known as blog hopping, is to move from one blog after another to read the entries or to leave comments. Visiting others blog may inspires you something.

Any other ideas you have in mind ?

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