Finding ideas to blog about is a tough job, even for an experienced blogger.
No matter, how good are you at brainstorming ideas, you run out of ideas some of the times.
There are dozens of posts that explain to you how to find blog topic ideas. The majority of those posts fail to explain how to find ideas that drive real backlinks to your blog.
The best way to build natural backlinks is to produce great content and properly promote it. For that, brainstorming
ideas for blogging that have the potential to drive high-quality backlinks is essential.
The specialty of this post is that in this post, I will explain you to find ideas that drive you high traffic and backlinks.
Let’s get started.
1. Quora:
It’s a goldmine to find ideas for blogging about. Leveraging it for building your blog and finding inspirations, can do wonders.
Let me unveil you the dirty little secret of finding post ideas that drive backlinks to your site.
Head over to
Quora.
There, search for the topic of your interest.
In the above example, I searched for the topic ‘
content marketing’.
There, I searched for the questions that have quite a decent number of followers.
If a question has good followers, that means it is a common question.
There’s the thing.
If you create content on the same topic, you’ll get great readership. Moreover, you may get potential backlinks if you present the topic in a unique way.
When you create content on the topic you find in Quora, I advise you to answer the original question along with a link back to your site.
By this, you’ll get additional targeted traffic from visitors and as well as the followers of the questions.
When targeted traffic comes to your blog, you’ll boost your social shares, and you may attract good backlinks.
2. Use the power of Google search:
Google is the best friend of yours to help you find the best topic ideas.
You may ask me – “What should I search for? I am dry”.
Here’s the trick.
Research after research it is found that following are the types of content that are shared and linked to most of the times.
Infographics
Ultimate guides
List posts
Case studies
Now you know what.
Before implementing this strategy, I advise you to install
Ahrefs Toolbar for your browser. Ahrefs has the largest database of backlinks. The toolbar displays the number of backlinks the search results have.
I’ll get you clear. Keep reading.
2.1. Find infographics ideas:
Search Google for,
Your keyword + “Infographic”
It returns you all the top infographics in your niche. Most of the top results have a good amount of backlinks.
As I said earlier, for accurate results, as you can see in the above screenshot, you need to activate the Ahrefs toolbar. It displays the number of backlinks beneath the search results.
You can also combine multiple keywords for more results.
Like, if you are in blogging and SEO niche you may need to search for the term,
Blogging OR SEO + “Infographic”
It returns all the pages that have infographics either related to blogging or SEO.
Like this, by adding keywords, you can expand the number of potential post ideas you get.
3. Scan the headlines:
There are plenty of RSS readers, blog aggregators, and content curation sites, which collects the best resources and articles in a niche.
You need to just scan the headlines of the content curated on those ideas to spark up some new blog post content ideas in your brain. The content you are scanning should be popular to get backlinks.
Below are some of the best places to find content ideas like this:
- Alltop
- Flipboard
- Scoop.it
- Pinterest boards
- Feedly
- Blog communities
- Twitter hashtags
Just search for the keyword related to your niche in the search box for these tools, and get content ideas.
For Twitter, just search your keyword.
Now you need to examine the Tweets that got great engagement. You can find tons of ideas for you to blog about.
Wrapping up
These are some the effective ways to find content ideas that generate backlinks to your site.
I suggest you maintain an idea file and update it as you come across the ideas to blog about. It makes sure that your inspiration won’t dry out. Whenever you start writing a blog post, you can refer that file for oiling your machine up.
Make sure the content you create is of high-quality because no one links to your content if it is mediocre and do not deliver value to your readers.
I hope you found this article helpful.
