If the prospect of having to find regular, good quality content to populate your blog overwhelms you, I hope you’re going to find my 9 Easy and Quick Ways to Gather Content for Your Blog Posts post extremely useful.
Content Shortcuts
Here are 9 content shortcuts which you can easily try out. In fact, these will help you find information that’s current and relevant to share on your social media, or as the basis of your blogs and emails.
1. Hootsuite
This application allows you to automatically monitor social media for keywords related to your business or topic of interest. So that means you can immediately access the latest breaking news, recommendations, and reviews on your social media networks. Think of it like a robot researcher scanning for content while you’re doing other things.
2. Feedly
Content aggregation websites like Feedly helpfully group news and information into themes, allowing you to search more easily. Just type in your area of interest and see what comes up. Then it’ll show you the sites specialising in these topics. As well as how many articles they publish each week and let you click through to see them. Or even easier, add these to a content feed to create a newsfeed.
3. Alltop
Type a keyword in the search box and it’ll show you what categories it appears in. For instance, “arthritis” leads to an alternative medicine page, with all the top stories and hot topics collected for you.
4. Keyhole
This tool enables you to search Instagram and also Twitter for hashtags and keywords. It then returns plenty of information such as influencers, top posts, and top pages. In addition, it can also present the data by demographics and platforms, and it allows you to save your searches for future.
5. Hashtagify
This is an excellent tool for finding hashtags that lead you to ideal content for your website and social media, as well as email. When you enter a topic, you’ll see hashtags of related keywords plus examples of the top Tweets that use it.
Furthermore, you can now go and search for content linked to those hashtags by using a tool like this.
6. HashAtIt
This is a great tool for finding hasthtags right across social media. Just use the search box to enter a term.
7. Google Alerts
Choose a keyword to find relevant content. If it looks useful and interesting, then set up an alert for that topic. Then you’ll get all the latest delivered to your inbox.
8. News Website RSS
Almost every news site allows you to sign up for RSS feeds based on specific topics, so that means you’ll get emailed each new article as it’s published. This saves you time as you don’t have to then check sites individually.
9. Topical Websites
As well as the RSS feeds on general news sites, try those that are more specific to your area of business. Find a minimum of 5-10 websites that supply information, advice and news associated with your interests or niche. If possible, sign up to their RSS feeds, social media accounts and email newsletters.
I hope that you found value in my 9 Easy and Quick Ways to Gather Content for Your Blog Posts post and will have a go at implementing some of these yourself.
To Your Success!
