How To Have Endless Article Ideas

Posted on March 27, 2008

You need article ideas. You probably already know that publishing and distributing online articles is one of the cheapest and surest ways to promote your web site. But perhaps you have just plain run out of ideas. Well stop staring at that computer screen and try the following.

Use Your Pages For Article Ideas

If you have a large website, you probably have a treasure trove of useful information and ideas for articles. Start going through it page by page. If the page hasn’t already been used to create an article, start rewriting it into one. Even better, read the page over once, close it, and then write a article from scratch on the topic. You’ll find that you have gained new insight since you first wrote that page, so why not share that with others.

Take part of a page and expand on it. For example, suppose you have a site on car care, and you have a page called “Ten Ways To Clean Car Upholstery.” Choose the best of the ten. Now write a fuller explanation of it and title the article “The Best Way To Clean Car Upholstery.”

Use Your Daily Conversations

We are all “experts” about different things. Chances are you have a web site about some topic of interest to you, and you talk about that topic. What things do you say that catch the attention of your friends? What do you friends ask you about?

Suppose you know about computers, and you have a web site about them. Think about what things you have told your friends that they seemed surprised to learn. Then start writing them down. The resulting article might be titled, “Your Computer - Six Things You Didn’t Know.”

Find Article Ideas On Other Sites

Go check out what the competition is doing. You can’t copy what you see, but you sure can get ideas. Start at a search engine and search any keywords you are targeting or might want to target. Look at the sites that show up in the results, starting with the primary pages linked to from the home page.

If, for example, you have a web site about hunting, search “hunting,” “firearms,” “guns,” “deer hunting tips,” and more. Then find topics that you haven’t covered among the pages of those other sites. You might disagree with some of what you find, or think it is incomplete. Great! Disagree or complete it in your own words - there’s an article.

Are there other ways to have new ideas? You bet! But why not get busy with these three? If you search every page of your web sites for inspiration, make a note of every conversation you have, and browse the pages of your competition, you’ll have all the article ideas you need.

Copyright Steve Gillman. I lost money online, until I discovered the power of articles. Soon I was making a good living. You can do the same, with my Free Article Writing Course (including more ways to get ideas for articles) at: http://www.999articles.com

Tags: , ,

------------

Share This

Related Posts

» Filed Under Writing and Speaking

Comments

Leave a Reply