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Six Easy Ways to Find Fresh Blogging Ideas
If you’re having trouble coming up with blogging ideas, here are six great ways to find inspiration.
1. Top of Digg and Reddit
Digg and Reddit are social news sites, where news articles are voted up and down by users rather than editors. In other words, it’s news rated by the people rather than a newspaper agency.
These sites are updated almost every minute, every day. It’s a great way to stay on top of current news, in the world or in specific industries.
Make sure you’re browsing the “News” subsection of these sites, or you’ll be exposed to a lot of strange and funny yet irrelevant things online.
Often times a great blog post comes in the form of writing about a current event. For example, Airbnb was launched when they did a press push linking their business with the Obama / McCain elections.
2. EBay Pulse, Google Trends
EBay Pulse and Google Trends are both great ways to see what people are searching for on the internet.
Google Trends tells you on a daily basis what the trending topics are — what people are searching for more than before, and so on.
EBay Pulse does the same thing, with a strong orientation towards physical products.
