3 Ways to Generate Content Ideas That Your Audience Will Appreciate
This is a guest post by Karan. Karan is a web publisher and a casual photographer. He currently write’s about AIPMT 2012 and Delias Coupons. Follow his niche site journey on Blogenator.com
If you are just starting out, then it can be a bit difficult to know what your audience actually wants and what kind of content you need to deliver so that it holds value for your target audience.
Generate Content Ideas
So here are the top 3 ways, which can give you an idea, what exactly does your audience want?
Check Click through rate of your site’s pages
Even though this is something that most of us already practice yet there is one thing that breaks the chain and that is “lack of action”.
Marketers do give emphasis on the most popular pages on their site but they refuse to leverage it to generate popular content ideas and thus increase readership.
If you have a newsletter, make sure that you checkout the CTR for each of your campaign. This is a strong indicator to what really interests your audience.
Ask Questions on Facebook!
Ask Facebook Questions
This is a no-brainer. One of the easiest ways to acknowledge exactly what your followers want.
Just create a quick question related to your brand and add a few options. That’s it!
People will actually appreciate if you show your concern for their opinion. Make sure you allow more options to be added while creating the question.
Ask your Community!
If you have a brand, building a community around your brand is a compulsion. Be it via blogs or social media, if you have a community, it becomes extremely easy to know what is going on inside the mind of your general audience and you can leverage that knowledge to ensure that you deliver quality content.
Ask your Community!
Now to engage with your community, you can resort to any or preferably all of the steps listed:
Blog Comments
In the midst of the supporting comments that the readers leave, there are always a couple of one’s that reflect a doubt or a query. Well, this can be a strong indicator of what issues you’re readers are facing and thus I’m pretty sure that if one of your readers is facing it, he’s not the only one.
Blog Posts
This has been a pretty popular strategy nowadays. All you need to do is create a blog post that asks its readers to address their problems and queries pertaining to a topic. This is a powerful strategy that builds your brand’s authenticity and value among its followers while at the same time bringing you content ideas, which your readers really want!
Tweet your way to ideas
Well, we have already discussed how Facebook questions can be a real help. But the quiz should not be limited to just Facebook. Make sure you engage with your followers on all social media platforms where you exist and demand what their opinion on the same.
Twitter can be a real deal in this matter even if you don’t have a strong followership. You can check the trending topics in your niche, follow the leaders in your niche and checkout what their followers are discussing about.
If you do have a strong followership on twitter, there are a couple of things that you can do to check what’s hot and what’s not!
#1 Check your most favorite tweets
This task can be easily simplified using an online service called Favstar.
Here is what you need to do:
1. Login into Favstar.fm using your twitter ID
2. Authorize the application for your twitter account
3. Click on tweets and check out the tweets that have been recently been marked as favorite.
Since, it’s marked as a favorite, you now know what’s appealing to your audience.
#2 Check the tweets/blog posts that have been retweeted the most
You can easily do this by logging into your twitter account and check your tweets that have been recently retweeted.
It’s all a numbers game and the more the merrier.
Based on the twitter trends mark the top 5 topics that your followers have found of utmost interest and dig more into those topics to find problems that you can resolve for your readers.
I guess that’s all for now, here is a final piece of advice that you will make sure you get results.
“Stop Thinking, Take Action!”
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- Twitter for Traffic: 5 Tips For Increased Presence | Netchunks | November 16, 2011
I’ve been carefully watching how my creations are used, Karan, and you offer good advice. My humor articles seems to do well in the short term, and technical solutions for WordPress issues are the most “evergreen.” People respond to articles about psychology and success, too.
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Well, thanks for your Opinion Astro. Building up a strong portfolio of pillar content is the strategy I follow and I would recommend all to follow the same.
Twitter: ifhamkhan
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I love the tips of asking through fb members. I usually do this work and got 100% response. Thanks a lot karan for other tips too.
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I’m glad you liked them Ifham, make sure you checkout Blogenator.com…..I’ve been writing some awesome stuff there…
Thanks for great ways to know what visitors want. I still think that the most effective ways to get to know it is to use Facebook and Twitter as these are the easiest and the quickest ways to get a feedback. If you have a fanpage on FB, it will work all the time.
Twitter: karanlabra
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Yup a facebook fanpage with targeted followers can realy help build a foundation for your business.
Thanks for your comment..:D
I join informative groups on fb and post what i learn.!
Twitter: richescornercom
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One really good way to generate content ideas is to think about some event or incident that happened in your personal life recently. Then find a way to relate that to a learning topic within your niche. Sit down and tell your story and then talk about what you learned from your experience. The great thing is that you are talking about yourself and it’s a good way to be really personal with your blogging.
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Now this is something that works pretty well. Thanks for your insights Richard.
Good ones, Karan. By the way, sometimes I note down ideas when I read other blogs and these ideas then become the basics of new writing topics for me.
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That’s a strategy that even I follow, keep a record of everything you learn and then just share it in an organized manner adding your personal experiences to it.
Nice post,
No doubt in that if any blogger wants to get much readers on their blog post then he/she needs to do all work in that with originality because almost all things are depend on that. If content is very unique and in easy language then it will be prove great for blogger.
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Nice points, it’s always better to ask from your readers what they’re interested to read on your blog plus always check your niche news, forums and blogs so that you can stay up to date about new findings and can tell your readers about it too.
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Thanks for your comment Aanchal.
If you have a blog, comments that you get is an awesome source of ideas of content as if you read and reply the comments and give some kind of feedback you will never lack the content topics. I know it from my own experience.
Twitter: bbrian017
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Hello Karan. Tweeting your way to ideas is truly a great idea. I have done it some times before, but I got to say that there are a few tricks involved. You have to do it when the majority of your followers are online, and some sort of incentive, like a free gift or a mention in a post is effective. If you make people part of what you’re doing, it serves as a great motivator to get involved.
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Hi There Brian, that was really some handy tips from you, I agree including people as a part of what we are doing can help a lot and if we can offer something like free gift as an incentive then it helps a lot in getting more people take notice. Thanks for the comment
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I think this is the right way, very often I am running polls, ask in my website forum and on social networks. This way I am sure that topics will be interesting for my readers.
Great tips. Analysis at any point of time is required as it will let us know users interest and flaws.
Some good ideas here. I will have to explore using FB for this.
I think asking question on the FB is the best way to drive more traffic..
writing the article is not sufficient but we need to provide some polls and suggestion boxes then we will know how many people really liking our content
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Really…I still think that the most effective ways to get to know it is to use Facebook and Twitter as these are the easiest and the quickest ways to get a feedback. If you have a fan page on Facebook, it will work all the time.
Twitter: paktelecom
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i agree with you, content idea is more important before doing anything else, and we can get idea by updating ourself with latest trend and what are readers want to read from blog
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All points are valid.For quality contents, always writing something with suggestion of experts in your community.Because of this activity many brains can think on one topic at a time.
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Hi there .. great post, this post is informative and interesting .. I’m looking forward to see more interesting content like this ..
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing this wonderful article. It helped me gain a lot of info.
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Checking out some stuffs in various communities will always help to grow more than the usual..
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Thanks Karan What You Provided is really a gem for Online Promotion.
But I am New To blogging though I tried alot to start. I used FB and Twitter But Always Mixed in the Middle of and dont find any way to proceed But always stop in the middle Your Articel help me alot . I have certain Questions . How much Does it Impact User Ratio if you select a Most readable Blog Title ( I wonder How I will Find that). My Website ranking Decreasing Day by Day.
A nice list of ideas. I must admit generating original content must be one of the hardest thing to get and produce.
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Thanks, great well worth the read.
One thing with genuine content blogging is that one will never run out of ideas.Particularly if you sincerely care about your readers, meaning you dont just see them as one of statistics in your google analytic but real human being who are looking for information to satisfy their want.
Karan guest post is a good example of what i am saying. Though this not your blog, but you have added value to my knowledge of blogging particularly generating fresh content ideas. Thank you.
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Really awesome post….
if i am right… Karan is the best author here…
Ask Questions on Facebook is the best way for getting new ideas and contents
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Great ideas, Facebook really is a big help to generate audience. And I do love your post. Thanks for sharing.
At times you may totally run out of ideas on what to write on. As much as there are many places in which you can get ideas on what to write on, you must ensure that it is what people want to read or to hear about. I like your choice of using Facebook and comments to know what people want you to write about.
We just need to get unique idea on which we can have confidence of attracting the audience and motivate them to give opinion. Ways to get unique ideas as mentioned above can also help in generating unique content which will further help in performance.
They are a nice lot of ideas to go with.You should know what others want and when you do not know,you should ask them.That way,your suggestions are pretty useful.Thank you.