Essential SEO Tools & Resources

To get lots of traffic to your Blog, you need to post regularly, daily if possible, for at least the first few months. Initally, you’ll find it easy. Writing 20 – 30 articles won’t be difficult, even if you don’t have an interest in the subject of your blog.

But beyond those initial posts, how do you come up with ideas for further content?

Here are some methods I use for my blogs:

Keyword Research

Keyword research can be very inspiring. Using Keyword Elite, I pull together lists of keyword phrases that attract reasonable numbers of searches, but at the same time aren’t too competitive! I then write an article around each keyword phrase, being careful to ensure that the phrase appears in the title of the post and several times in the body.

Using Keyword Elite, you can quickly pull together a list of several hundred phrases to target, each of which will give you a chance of ranking well for and bring visitors to your site.

EzineArticles.com

Ezine Articles is a great site for finding content ideas. The site has a search box where you can enter a keyword and have related articles returned. For my niches outside of Internet Marketing, I usually find two or three articles, take the best tips from each and re-write a new article.

Combining this method with the results of your keyword research above can be a fast vehicle to creating unique, keyword focused content.

Read Other People’s Blogs

I also subscribe to quite a few blogs. When I see a post or review I like, I rewrite it and reference it on my blog (I also use trackbacks and comment on their sites to get inbound links to the page). Other people’s blogs can be a great inspiration for content ideas. Get yourself a feed reader and start subscribing to feeds (starting with mine) … you’ll never be short of ideas again.

PLR Content

Where your blog is specifically targeted at Adsense revenues, PLR Content can be a great source of content. Once you’ve completed your keyword research, match it up with PLR articles. To help get the content ranked in the search engines, simply change the title to incorporate your targeted keyword phrase, rewrite the first paragraph and the last.

There’s lots of PLR content available on the net covering virtually every conceivable niche topic. It’s great blog content, as long as you rewrite at least part of it as I suggest. With no changes it won’t rank as it’s already duplicated elsewhere. I use PLRWholesaler and Article Underground for my source of PLR content.

Re-Writing Your Own Content

I think we all like to believe that people visiting our blogs read all of our content word for word! That simply isn’t true. That’s why you should regularly revisit your own content and quickly re-write it to focus on a different keyword phrase. Similar to re-writing PLR Content, it can be a quick and easy way of producing quality content!

I also recommend carrying a small notebook at all times, so that when you think of a content idea you can note it for future reference.

If you can it’s great practice to have a list of your next 100 post titles in place, so that you can write one after the other and use the timestamp feature to publish them on a daily or twice daily basis.

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