Let’s face it. Your blog should be updated with fresh content at least once per day.
Yet, if you’re anything like me, and you have multiple blogs in various niches, you know how difficult it could be to quickly find an interesting topic to write about.
Today I’ll share with you a few tips and tools that will make your content-generation life much easier, and will help you to come up with fresh and interesting posts for all your blogs and social networking sites in a matter of minutes.
Ready?
Ok, first thing you should do is go and download a cool free software tool for web intelligence.
It allows you to monitor in real time all articles, posts, tweets, etc that were just posted on the web.
It’s important to notice that you will see only the content that search engines consider valid and relevant for your particular niche. Since you’re checking only the top results, you will be able to avoid a lot of web noise surrounding your particular keyword (let’s say it’s a main keyword for your niche market).
You can set up unlimited niches, and you can gather intelligence from Google news, Google blogs, Technorati, RSS feeds of your choice or many other sources, and you can set up a frequency of updates (ie: software can check the selected content source every hour, every 30 minutes, etc).
Plus, if you like what you see, you can check site stats, such as alexa ranking, google pr, complete rank, etc. And you can share this new post that you just found (if you want) on many bookmarking sites, all from within the interface of this cool soft.
Impressive, isn’t it? Click here to download Blog Talk Monitor.
Ok, now you know how to quickly find interesting niche content. But you still need to put this content on your blog somehow, so that you could later distribute it to various social networks.
Another tool I want to share with you makes publishing your newly found content a breeze. If you don’t have a time to write your own article, you can use this tool to “borrow” the post from another authority blog, and put it on your blog in a matter of seconds.
What is great, you can also gather tons of high-quality back-links from the sites that you used to “borrow” content from. They called trackbacks. So when you re-post info in a positive way, you ping those sites through your blog and in many cases your trackback will be approved. And you know that high quality links are the blood of search engine optimization, right?
This tool is called Utility Poster. Click this link to watch the video explaining the process in details.
There is also an upgrade version of this tool called Video Utility Poster which allows you to post videos on your blog. It utilizes the same principle as Utility Poster, but instead of Google News and other similar sources of information, it scours video sharing sites such as YouTube.
After I got it, the process of publishing videos on my blogs became much quicker and easier.
What else can you do to get fresh content on your sites/blogs/social networking pages? Well, you can always publish rss feeds from the sites you like or you can combine many feeds in a single feed using syndication services such as feedburner.
The downside to this approach, you don’t really control the content that appears on your blog. So I would use rss feed syndication sparingly.
Another way to generate content is to invite a guest author. You either exchange blog posts, or you just invite the author with good original content to write articles on your blog. In exchange, you allow them to post links to their sites (either within the articles or may be even on blogroll).
One more way to come up with quick content is to look at stufftotweet.com
It shows live most popular results from Digg, Del.icio.us, Twitter, LifeHacker, Mashable, CNN, and some other important sources of web news.
Hope this post gave you some ideas on content generation. Please share your comments and ideas.
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