For a success of a Blog you need to tell your readers what they want to hear. You can’t dictate them nor you can force them to read what you want to share with them. Remember it is the readers who are the biggest asset for the success of a Blog and to make your readers permanent you need to make them happy.
To make them happy you need to answer each and every query of your every single reader. Sometimes when similar questions regarding a same topic are being asked by your readers and you can’t answer all of them then you need to solve all of their problems by just making a new post.
Solving the problems of people can also help you to gain more readers for your Blog which can be later converted into your Blog subscribers. All you need to do is to search for the latest and top trending stories on internet or find some commonly asked questions on internet, The next thing will be to publish something new which relates to the top trending story and if you are willing to solve people’s problems then search for the most asked questions and answer them into a Blog post.
Next thing will be to reach your audience and you need to tell them about your content. They will catch up with your Blog to find out that whether you have the solution or not.
For Example Matthew Woodward a famous Blogger from United Kingdom become so popular on internet in just a few months by a series of posts which he published about tiered link building .
At that time when he posted the whole series about tiered link building, people were so curious to find out that what is tiered link building. Since no one knew that what is that new phenomena, the people who had a little know how of this topic were highly cheered by the people all around the internet.
Matthew grab up the opportunity and made a few posts about link building one after one. He also shared his content on Forums, Social Media, Reddit and on different Blogs which helped him to gather a large audience which was the major reason behind his blog success.
He fertilizes the traffic he was gaining because of his articles series about link building and converted his readers into subscribers which insured that the visitors who were coming in the shape of referral traffic will now become direct traffic in future.
Read this: To know how to increase your Blog Subscribers list
Since the idea has been very cleared to everyone now. But for those who still aren’t very sure of what I am talking about, I will like to clear in some of these words:
The idea is to first know that what people want and then we will write quality articles which will solve their problems. The next thing will be to share the content on relevant forums, social media pages, article directories and on relevant niche Blogs.
I believe that these words were pretty enough to describe that what idea or plan we are going to follow to increase our readership.
Now when the idea is very clear to everyone, we will start talking about those tricks from which we can get our audience queries and problems. Meaning that we will find a topic for our next Blog post which will get our readers applause.
How to Find People’s Problems?
To get a relevant topic you need to interact with your audience and you must figure out that what content they are demanding. But since we are assuming that your Blog is very new, we have to implement some new tricks which will make sure that you get a decent amount of traffic to your Blog even in the very start of your Blog.
So the idea is to find our reader’s problems and to do this we will use these platforms:
Google Trends
Yet the most relevant and reliable source to know that what are people searching the most on Search Engines. By using this free tool you can know that what content or story or query is attracting the internet users the most.
To use this tool visit Google .com/trends, Select your country from the menu and get your keyword.
As you can see that Google trends will show the most search keywords on Google and Youtube. If any of these search queries is related to your Blog’s niche then it is the best time to write about it.
BuzzFeed
Buzzfeed is another great tool to monitor that what people are searching for. BuzzFeed actually tracks all its site data and tell their users that what are the most trending topics. You can visit their “trending page” to find out that what people are most attracted towards?
The URL of their page what I call trend page is buzzfeed .com/trending and it will look like this:
Blogging Communities
If your Blog is related to a niche which is related to Blogging, SEO, WordPress or any other field which relates to Blogging then you may join some Blogging communities to find out that what other Bloggers are writing about.
Read this :To know about my recommended 5 Blogging Communities
Follow bloggers who have great following and track their last 5 posts. Find out that what topics they were covering and how you can make a better content from them but make sure that the topic is still in the search roll.
Follow your competitors
Since your competitors are more old than you in the content market therefore they understand the market situation better than you. They also do some efforts on their behalf to figure out that what people are looking for hence following your competitors will make it easier for you to understand that what people are searching for.
Just follow them and make a better post than them and share it with the internet users everywhere you can but make sure that the platforms where you are sharing your content are relevant to your niche.
Follow Market Influencers
Market Influencers are people who can change the tend of the people because they have large following and their words are taken seriously by their readers.
It is not necessary that a Market Influencer will own a Blog. Some people who just share other people content can also grab readers attraction because people know that this man will share the right content which we are looking for.
For an example I will like to mention AJ Ghergich an influencer of SEO industry. He does not own a Blog neither he is an author on any Blog but still people follow him because he shares quality posts for weeks and months.
These influencers only share content which was able to get reader attraction and a decent amount of shares. Or I should say they only share content which people are looking for. So by following this kind of people you will be able to know that what is internet audience looking for.
As you can see he has 45.8K followers which means that his words have value. I am following him for about two months and he has always shared quality articles who had great response.
So choose your next Online Guru and follow him. Track the last 5 articles he has shared and ask yourself that which content can you modify more better than the original author.
I am not asking you to copy his phrases and sentences and to paste them on your post. I am asking you to search for a content which you believe that could be written more brilliantly.
Follow Linkedin Groups
Linkedin is the world’s largest professional network which has CEOs, employers, employs and self employers all at one platform.
You can search for jobs there. If you own a company and you need skilled employs for your company then Linkedin is the best platform to find them online.
Since we are not looking to integrate with entrepreneurs neither with people who are is search of a job. Our goal is to get a topic for our next Blog post.
For this purpose we will join a few groups on Linkedin who are related to our niche:
Follow Google Plus Communities
Since Google plus is one of the top growing Social Media websites on internet, we can also take our chance to get some leads from here.
If you have a Google+ account then you would had found that there are already a ton of Groups and Communities about Blogging and other niches which are related to Blogging somehow.
For Example SEO, Content Marketing and many other factors which are related to Blogging niche. And all of these groups are very familiar in Bloggers and people who are related to it.
Every successful blogger has a good social following on Google+ because they want to enhance their chance of getting traffic from GPlus.
But not just traffic is the only reason behind Gplus popularity in Bloggers, Every single +1 and Google share will also build a high quality backlink for your Blog.
Read this to get all the details about how can +1s from Google+ can lead your blog to high ranking SERPs
Well if we come back to our topic we will start from where we left.
Since we are searching different websites to get internet users problems and queries to solve them on our post, we will also search Google+ groups to find out that what people want to read and what is trending on GPlus.
To do this we will join different communities on Google+ to know people queries and trending topics:
You can use a tool to know that what’s hot on Google+ trends by visiting “What’s Hot” page:
Or visit plus. google. com/explore
Search Forums
Another good way to find relevant topic for your Blog post is becoming a part of a forum that is related to your Blog’s niche.
Many people ask their queries on forums and they follow replies. Many times when a new product is launched people want to clarify many things about it before buying it for this purpose they leave several questions and queries on forums to find out that what worth the product will be.
So if you are running a SEO blog and a new link building company or SEO service has launched and people are asking about it then you have got the opportunity to earn some decent amount of traffic from which you can earn a few thousand dollars by just solving their issues and by sharing your content with them.
Just make a good post where you will answer all of their questions and in the end leave your affiliate link for your readers.
If your post was a quality post then people will stay on your site, they will read the whole article and in the end they will buy from your affiliate referral link.
All you need to do is to first get an affiliate account of the company, now get your affiliate link and write a good piece of content for your readers and leave your affiliate link in the end of the post in shape of an anchor text like this: “So what you are waiting for buy it from here”
Read my post about How to make money from Affiliate Marketing?
Read my post about How to build quality content?
The Result
After implementing all of these tricks to find a suitable topic for your next Blog post, you have definitely find some attracting topics and keywords that will attract internet audience to your Blog.
Now the next thing is finding the proven content and then making it more better and then we will share our content to the people on those platforms on which we were first searching for users queries.
For this we will use some tools which are given below:
BuzzSumo
We all know that great content gets readers attention and people share it with their known ones to let them know about it.
BuzzSumo is a great tool to find out the most shared content.
After searching for the topic for your next blog post you have surely find some relevant topics and keywords on which you will write your next article. Lets say that your topic is content promotion or you are willing to write a post about content promotion then searching for the articles who already are written on the same topic as yours and which have gain a great attention of internet readers will be a great idea because from them you can gather up some great information which can be used into your upcoming blog post.
You can learn from those articles, you can combine the knowledge what you have learned from them and finally you can make a stunning post which is different and unique from all other articles.
To find quality articles who were written on the same topic as yours we will use BuzzSumo(a free tool to find the most shared content)
Just visit BuzzSumo’s home page, enter your topic or keyword and press Go!:
Now a new window will appear, you will need to mess with some settings. Make sure that you have only selected Articles for filter types and you are only searching for 6 months old posts.
Now when every thing is set the time is to check for the results. Just after a few seconds you will find some most shared content on your screen which you can read and refurnish to engage with your audience.
As you can see that BuzzSumo is now showing us all the great content which was shared so many times by their readers on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, and on Google+.
These signs indicates that these articles have value and they are very well written that is why people are sharing them a lot.
You will get at-least 10 results for your searched keyword or topic. All you need to do is to select and save quality content links into a notepad or text book file according to their Social Engagement.
When you have free time read them and then write a quality article by combining all the information you have gathered from these sources.
Topsy
Another great tool for searching quality content will be topsy. It is a great tool to find content that has received a lot of backlinks.
After searching for your topic or keyword you will get a good list of the most linked content that is related to your niche.
Choose quality posts from here and make a list of them.
Remember we are only targeting posts which have received a great amount of social engagements and links.
Read all of these articles and try to make a better piece of content than them.
The idea is to combine all the information which we have gathered from all of these articles and then we will merge them into a single article.
We will post it on our blog and then we will share it on every single platform we have used to find user attracting topics.
Engage with your audience on Forums, Social media and use a secret tool Buzzbundle for it.
You can read about Buzzbundle here.
Conclusion
I hope that these tips will help you a lot in finding the relevant and attracting topics for your Blog posts.
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