• Author: admin
• Date: Feb 15,2008
• In: Marketing, SEO

Creating fresh content for niche blogs – How to be informed all the time

There is an old saying in internet marketing that “Content is king” but bloggers nowadays have a big problem with getting information, so some of them give up writing articles for this particular reason (I am talking about niche blogs). I had the same problem a year ago, but today I can say that there are so many ways to stay informed and you can blog about anything, because you only need a main idea and a few more resources to write a great article for your niche blog. So from my experience here are a few methods to keep up to date with the new information from your niche.

Google news or blogsearch – great tools in combination with any feed reader

Yes, google news because it provides fresh information every hour, day and in combination with a rss feed reader you are ready anytime to write on your blog about anything. All you need is a keyword in which you are interested in (from your niche) and the fresh news will be brought into your reader. I made a little video tutorial so you can see the exact steps for this method though it’s really simple:

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This method with only one keyword rss feed can be used also with all the social bookmarking websites like digg, propeller, technorati etc and the good part about it is that you can keep in touch with blogs from your niche.

Article directories provide relevant content for your niche

There are so many article directories on the internet that you can use thought almost all of them have the same content, but there are a few that make a difference. So you can use the entire article because it is free, but I don’t recommend this because your readers will consider you a copycat. If you don’t want to have this type of problem you should only take the main idea or some paragraphs and modify them so that the googlebot doesn’t consider your content duplicate and penalize you.Another great thing about article directories is that they have rss feeds by category, keywords or by author so you can subscribe to them.

Here is a little list of article directories:

• Ezinearticles – here you can find the best articles out there for free
• Articlesbase– my personal favorite because it has a lot of options
• Articleseen is my personal article directory, in beta version for now. You can find more info about the script here
• Articledashboard – another great article directory that also provides the script that is used for this website.
• Goarticles – also has some original articles

Forums related to your niche – best source for new topics

I am really addicted to forums because I can find interesting opinions about the topics I am interested in and I can find very easy ideas for my articles. For example I like digitalpoint and sitepoint’s forums because I can learn new things and it really helps in internet marketing to find out what people are searching for. Who knows maybe the person who started the topic will come via google on your blog because you wrote an article with your own opinion about that particularly topic. The idea is you should search for as many forums related to your niche and make new friends, I assure you that this helps you a lot and will also grow your traffic.

In conclusion I think you should test all the websites that provide content and information for your niche and most important, don’t despair!

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