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Two of my blogs crossed 4+ years with storing more than thousands of posts in it. And throughout my content creation journey, I faced a lot of writer�s blocks. It�s quite natural to creative mind.

The biggest problem of writer�s block situation .i.e. you can�t think of any new topic to write. So, I tried out my own personal technique to overcome it.

The technique was very simple� I related my content topic with my daily life & interest and as a result content creation became quite interesting. Everyweek I used to come up with a new post related to my experiences like movie, product feedbacks, food taste, night party, etc..

So, here I�m going to share my regular content ideas secret with you but before I want to say that this is may not be applicable for the niche bloggers. My blog is an non-topic blog and I write about random stuff�

Check out some content ideas below..

Books Reading

If you actually love to read books then you can give a small idea about what interested you in a book or what really sucks in it. You can even give rating to it, so that your readers gets a choice of purchase and reading.

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Biggest Challenge

Talk about your biggest challenge that you overcame and write about the lessons you learned from it. It�s really fun to do.. Even don�t hesitate to share about your failure, it doesn�t reduces your position but increases the emotional touch with your readers.

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Health Conscious

If you�re quite concern about your health & do exercise regularly to keep you fit, then talk about it. Share your fitness secrets and also the effective results you received from it. Keep your readers updated with time & improvement. This gain readers� trust.

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Food Eaters

If you love to eat foods, then also write about it� If your mom prepared a tasty recipe for you & you liked it, then share about its taste with your readers. Restaurant lovers can put up their favorite food list so that other eaters can lick it�

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How you Did it..

If you�ve fixed any of your home appliances, broken glass, toy car, then let your readers know how good fixer you�re. Make a DIY guide for them� Same thing is applicable for the craft creators. Show them, how good craftsman you�re.

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TV Shows

You�re not interesting but you watch a lot of TV Shows. That�s ok! .. They�re too a great source of discussion� you can share your opinion about the recent episode and interact with other fans.

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Movies Hungers

Everyone love Movies.. I personally love to discuss about it. You can do movie gossip too.. Watch a movie, rate it, comment on it & share it.. Simple!

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Personal Stories

Never say that you don�t wana to know what�s going on between your friend & his GF. That�s too natural.. Human loves personal stories. So, you can engage your readers by narrating your own story. It works great & also help you to reach more closer to their heart.

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Product Review

You purchased something from your departmental store and you really liked/disliked it, then show your satisfaction/ dissatisfaction for the product in a post & let other know.

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These above are some Regular content creation ideas� I hope, it�ll benefit you. If I missed out any other point, or if you�ve your own secret then don�t forget to share below in the comment�

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For a blogger, the most difficult part of blogging is collecting information for his next blog post. Without new information, you can't write unique content.

Every blogger have their own news sources. They keep on visiting those sources for some hot & unique information on the subject they love to read and write. Even, i have my own sources of information from where i gather news on daily basis.

Without it, none of the blogger do have anything to share with readers? So, always keep some fixed information sources from where you'll surely find atleast one unique stuff.

Let me share about how i collect information, so as to write post on daily basis..

1. BuzzFeed.com - This site helps me to collect buzzing viral videos, images and news. These awesome daily viral stuffs are for my twitter follower, who are always waiting to retweet those tweets.
BuzzFeed creates hundreds of content daily because it is contributed publicly.
Even, if you have a humor blog or an entertainment blog, buzzfeed can be one of your best source of content.

2. Google Trend - Go Trendy over the Web. If your blog is looking for trendy traffic then Google Trend can be your best source of information. It shows you the most searched term over google- few minutes ago, which can give you an idea about creating some new content on trendy topics to receive trendy traffics.

An interesting thing about Trending Topic is that, your blog post can get a quick listing on that search result because google looks for the real-time result for trendy keyword.

3. Google Alert - This tool is used by most of the niche bloggers. That means if you are concentrating on a single topic, then you can set alert on few "Keywords" to keep on tracking about its news over web and when any news is published on it, you'll be the first to be informed through email alerts.

4. Expert Blogs - I read them a lot.. If your blog is all about solving deep problem of a particular subject, then you can read the expert's blog to keep yourself updated about their research.

Your observation and Explanation can be your next blog post.
Best Expert Blogs: Digital Inspiration, Matt Cutts, CopyBlogger.

5. Question and Answer Sites - Best Information source for those who wants to know the public views about any question asked publicly. If you even have any question on your mind, then you can ask it publicly and let public to solve your problem.

The Questions asked over Question & Answer Sites can be your next blog post topic because they're the question on demand and your duty is to solve those out.
Best Q/A Site: Yahoo Answers, Quora, Ask.com .

6. Techmeme - Techmeme spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page. It helps me to keep me updated with latest technology news.

7. Twitter - Last thing you can do is track the popular brands, people and experts over twitter and grab the fresh & hottest news..

These above are some of my great information sources, from i collect my next blog posts ideas..

The Day Starts:

On 7:30 am: A Blogger Wakes Up & have a Cup of Coffee� He then check his stat to know who visited his blog last night!

On 8:00 am: After getting refresh, he open his Google Reader or BlogLines, etc and reads the news as well as his favorite blogs�

On 9:00 am: He goes out of his home for a walk�. While walking he sometime tweets from his mobile to keep his followers updated about what he is doing right now�

On 10:00 am: He comes back to home & goes on checking Emails� He sometime gets involved in the discussion with other bloggers.

On 11:30 am: He warms up himself by doing comments on other blogs� It too gains him some backlinks.

On 12:00 pm: Again he walks outside to eat & think about what to blog next.

On 4:30 pm: He Catch up the emails and creates the outline of his evening post.

8:30 pm: He Switch Off his T.V. and Get inside his blogging room & Starts blogging�.

11:30 pm: Blogging Day Ends. He Turn Off his Machine and Goes to Sleep for Next Day blogging�

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More than millions of Bloggers are posting their blog post daily but only 10 percent of them are success in blogging world but rest of them are still working hard to achieve their Goal of Success...

Why peoples want to become a blogger?
If the time they spent in the blogging are used in other profession then they may have got a fixed monthly income but they still sticking with their computer screen and typing all the time, tweeting, commenting, digging, stumbling, reading the popular bloggers success and many more activities that gains traffic, popularity and quality content to their blog.

The Blogging platform is chosen by the maximum users because blogging is the most easiest way of earning by just sitting in front of the home computer. And if we talk about the money amount then i must say you that you can earn much better than your job or much more than that!

But to reach in the position of high earning money from the blog, you must reach to that level that the blogger like Darren of Problogger or the Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com . These mentioned bloggers earns more than $10,000-$30,000 per annnum, which is really a big amount. Just think if you live in India and you earns $3000 per month then you will receive around Rs. 137,399.56 INR. There a blogger named Harsh Agarwal of ShoutMeLoud who earns such amount of money through blogging.

I can't say that only the popular bloggers earns money but the money also generates by the small bloggers too... they use Adsense, Chitika, and others different Advertisements and combines them to receive a sufficient amount of money. But do you think that earning a normal amount can compare with your Salaries? And who knows that later in the future Bloggers competition may keep you back and unsuccessful!

So, the money is generally the main thing that the bloggers wants to achieve in his or her blogging carrier. But in spite of money, the blogger also wants Popularity, Followers, Interviews in many popular blogs and at last but not the least- The Quality Contents.

I just want to say- always write the Quality Posts on your blog, so that your readers starts trusting on you and always ready to do anything for you- even can buy your products.

Do you think that bloggers like to read writing or he is needed to read articles for writing? It is really an interesting question i generally ask myself, so i thought of writing a post on it. I am not so popular blogger but can tell you that other popular bloggers also do not read for writing and even they don't like to read, Rob Sutton also wrote a post showing his dislike for reading . I can also say that they don't left no time for reading, after publishing a new post.

Without Reading how can they write about the product or the things?
Bloggers don't need to read a lot to write the article because they just gather the information from different sources and write about that article on their own words. Even i do the same.... Whenever a product or a news came off, i straightly start experimenting on it and write about it. Writing about anything after performing an experiment is a perfect idea for writing, by doing so, you can have the full idea of what you are writing.. You will have the full independnce of expressing your own words on that topic as you experimented on that thing.

You can add more extra spices to it by adding more sub-topics on it. As experiments gives your more topic which reading cannot give you in full force. You can write about how did you worked on that product and what are the requirements needed? this sub-topic comes under the procedure and you can add the observation by adding words on what the result came....

Total writing skill is similar to the school chemistry lab, where you experiment and make the observation and quickly write on it... Similarly, you need to recheck the writings you wrote because when you are about to publish your writings, you need to have a good impression towards your readers as like to a chemistry teacher have the impression on the Student's Practical Book.

I started blogging without any guidance from any- "If i had read the Ebook like Problogger, DailyBlogTips' ebook earlier then i didn't have to face such a big time to learn blogging". Blogging Knowledge is endless and its consist of SEO, writing skill, marketing ideas, designing for perfect blog design, and many more... A blogger need to have the knowledge of all those things to create a perfect blog.

The mistakes that i committed is a general things that every new blogger does:
I started blogging with a photoblog and was running in the way of gaining traffic only. I know "gaining a traffic" is the dream of every blogger whoever it is - the popular blogger or the new one. I did my best to gain traffic... I contributed over the different social bookmarking sites like Digg, Propeller, IndianPad, reddit, StumbleUpon and many small SB sites..

Digg was the site, which took my maximum time and i contributed everyday and everytime whenever i came online. I kept myself online over the Digg Pages for 24/7 and at last i succeded to touch the front page of it, I was feeling a joy of wining but later i discovered that i loose my most important thing, for which i am doing for...

What i loose?
You might have thought of what i lost... It is the content and the time i lack on my blog. My blog was on blank and i didn't spend a little over it, only for Digg. No matter i reached the half steps of the Digg Power user but i lost the value time for the contents which i was going to publish over my blog.

Re-back to blogging:
I started to write content at that time but a sudden i found a blog which is gaining a lots of traffic and i discovered that the blog is a photoblog and gives out daily celebrity photos and in the same day i again visited a blog which a blogging out some amazing photos daily. I was totally influenced by the traffic gaining by the photoblogs.

I published a little photo post and started to experience effective traffic to my blog. "No more stopping" - i started giving more posts and in one year i brought about 1,500+ visitors. I was posting in the dream of earning huge money but i experienced no change in my Google Adsense revenue...

Reading Ebooks:
One day i was gifted an ebook of the famous blogger Darren Rowse. The book "Problogger" was full of his experience and he told some secrets about blogging. This inspiration of reading book attracted me toward another ebook which was in the tip of making money from Adsense.

There i discovered few lines which changed my path of doing photoblog and got the real answer of less revenue. It told me how adsense works, "Adsense works good in the textual contents and photo posting is an unparallel with Adsense revenue." And unfortunately i was running a photoblog.

So, i refer you to read the ebooks before you take any step on your daily blogging... It increases 35 percent of your Blogging idea.

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Many Questions still floating over the world of blog and many answered this question... What makes you a perfect blogger? Ask yourself whether you are a perfect blogger? Do you have all the basic quality that a blogger needs to have?

There are millions of blogger live daily over the web and two third of them are totally confused about the blogging.. They are not perfectly aware of the blogging and they start a blog with a very common, boring and non effective contents. They too spend the same time as the top blogger like Darren Rowse, Piti, Jhon Chow etc.. spends or may be more then them but even then they are not getting sufficient revenue.

What the things they lack?
I was also suffering from such lack of pure blogging tips and now i got it from Problogger Book... Darren has very effectively described the way of blogging and what is the need of it..

When i was visiting the blogs around the web, i discovered the things that these small blogs are lacking- the lack of quality writing contents. I found that most of the blogs are depend on the photo contents and some blogs are of linking contents.

Linking Contents: With this word, i meant to say the blogs who are referring other site's product with a link to that product or the blog which is copying others content and giving out different source links.

Not all the blogger do such activities but there are some blogger who write their own content but they can't express the real feelings with which a reader will be attracted. A reader always search to read those writings which can touch his heart and can clearly understand what the writer is about to say.

Writing Open to everyone mind.
Just think if a speaker speaks some worth things over the microphone and the listener faces problem to understand it then do you think it can attract those listener to listen it further? No, they will straight move away from that place and the crowd will disappear from that place.

Similarly, the blogging is of that kind. A Worthless writing can make your readers mind to leave your blog. You might be thinking of what to write to attract your readers on your blog? As a blogger i must suggest you to express your writings with your own writing style.. like you talk. Blogging is a medium through which you free to express your own writing style.

Keep your blog content written like you talk so that the readers can comment you back and can direct interact with you. Make your writing clean and easy to understandable.

I suggest you to keep your readers in touch with your blog through the micro blogging service like twitter. Reply all the tweet you get from your readers....

When we blog, we give our maximum effort on our blog for giving good content and getting good revenue amount from it. And if you are a daily blogger and you daily publish your post then you are doing good karma. Everyone knows that more you post content more the traffic you can get, that is why some blogger started to create blogs in the topic of "Photos blog", where he always publish posts with photos because uploading photos are much more easier than writing articles. I am not discouraging you for creating a photo blog but telling you the experiences about it.

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Time Factor:
We think that, writing articles takes much more time then uploading photos but its not the truth because you need to sit and spend a lot of time in uploading photos as there are lots of photos needed to be uploaded over a single post (a post with one photo will not make any sense. Minimum amount of photos, you need to upload is 20 post.) In such a time you can write a good article.

The Amount of writing Content:
The important thing of a blog is the good writing content of it, not the photos. Google and other search engines mainly crawls the content written on the blog post. It takes out all the important keywords from the post to make the post listed over the search result on a particular keyword or many keywords.

Even maximum of the active visitors are a good readers and they need a bigger writing content for getting good impression toward your blog. They spent a greater time to read rather than watching those photos you posted. Ya, i agree the users like to view good photos but viewing photos takes a very less time and the users who are spending very less time on your blog can't be said as the active users.

Advertising Revenue:
As i told you that the user active on your blog has the maximum possibility of clicking your advertisement which your inactive users rarely does. Actually, the best readers of your blog, on the search of new good contents, it clicks your advertisement.

There is also a great problem of good keyword ads display. If you are using Google Adsense, then its very hard to earn money on the basis of good keyword from a photo blog. A photo blog contain much of its content are photos and less amount of text as a result good content keywords is unable to display.

There is a solution of the good ad display and search engine listing on a photoblog. [tips]:
Use the alt"" test on your photo and put the appropriate keyword for the listing of your images over the image search of Google, Bing and Yahoo....

These above problem occurred with me on one of my blog - DailyLinked, which is actually a photo blog and gets a good amount of visitors but very less amount of revenue is generated monthly unless some specific day. I left that blog and started using the writing blog "MReaders". :D

What do you think of photo blogs? If you have any tips to increase the quality of the photo blogs then please comment it over here...

This year 2009, many upgrading blogger has left their daily blog and started to create the blogs related to the Indian Education and mainly Indian Exam Results. I asked a blogger, who left his daily blog left and started to create a new Indian results blog.

Why Indian Results Site?
Many asked him and i too asked him to solved my problem. According to that blogger - "Google always crawls for new contents and it chooses the daily updated sites. Actually, the "Indian Results" keywords always keeps it updated and In India almost daily the results of different exams are announced. So many students search about that exam results giving page over the Google. The users cannot get the page directly as he need some medium to know which site is providing the most appropriate exam result information."

How the Indian results sites works?
The Indian results sites works on the simple exam notification and simply gives the link of the sites to the source by mentioning some brief description about it. As, when the post about it is published then it is pinged though some ping services like Pingometer and others.... This helps their content to get listed over the search engine in a short period of 5-10 hours.

From Where they get the most of their Traffics?
Indian Result blog always depends upon the Search Engine, mainly like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc... The students of India takes the helps of these Search Engine to find their result giving site.

The blogger whom i asked about these is a Person From Kolkata (one of my friend) and he runs a blog on the Indian exam results. He told me that he is getting Unique Visitors of around 10,000 daily and earns a good amount of revenue from the advertising.

When i first started to write my own post, i thought that i can write 2-3 posts at a time and i too did it. I wrote 2-3 articles in one hour but as a result i found a lot of mistakes and less descriptive. And sometimes many writings appears like boring and meaningless.

I also found many blogger who are doing same mistake which i did. I experienced that if we post more than one post at a time.. Our brain feels some stretch and face problem to thinking for a new topic to write.

So, i must suggest those quick blog poster or writer to make a routine to write their new article. I am mentioning a time management to write a quality article :

If you are a full time blogger

then you select your time like, in morning you take 1 hour in writing a mega post, as at that time your mind will be fresh to write a new article.
in afternoon, you keep one hour to write another article.
And at night one post. You may also write 4 post a day or five according to your capacity for betterment of your blog.

The remaining time, you can spend for market your blog, social bookmarking, tweeting and others....

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If you are a Part Time Blogger then,

Fix a particular time for blogging and write article in an interval of one and half hour or more... if you have time.
Keep a special time for writing a valuable content.
Rest timing spend in marketing like - Social bookmarking, Tweeting your link and publishing link on the social network like Facebook...

If you can do in the above following time management I think this will make any sense in your Blogging. These are just my idea.. If you have any idea on yout mind then you can share with me through comment.

The second Highest traffic of Mashable Blog comes from Facebook after the Twitter. So, today while i was watching my updates over my Facebook status i found a recent update of Mashable on its page (having 40K+ Followers). The update was not its usual update because today the link was not to its post but a link to the Feedburner's Email Subscription.

why it pushed its Email subscription link?
They are in the need of having more email subscriber in a very short time and Facebook is the Quickest way to spread it.

Mashable is in a Challenging mood to have more subscribers than any other... So, they took the medium of the World's two Biggest Social Media for sendng the subscription link.

Blogging with one category is best for your blog rank and traffic. It is very helpful in SEO for putting your blog's post in appropriate keywords. The visitors who are viewing your content is going for the post on which your blog is categorize for, then good but when a visitor want more categories content then i don't think that it is possible for a person for write the content above his category. Therefore, to reduce such problem these blog network were introduced.

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In a Blog network, many bloggers comes together and grabs posting in each category, This attracts the visitors of different interests, which too give your blog many new users.

Many times, blogging network helps blogger to earn a huge money. This actually happens when the bloggers gives their advertising place to the Blog Network and blog network takes the benefits of it and ask their advertisers for putting the Ads in package on Different Blogs.

The Bloggers gets a good reputation in a Blog Network and a huge number of revenue is generated can be from it.

Example of a Network (blog):
Problogger is in the Blog Network of b5media.com .

Now, Posting your writings on your blog with Google Sidewiki is very easy and fast. When you want to post any posts over your blogspot blog, then posting the content from your sidebar is the best idea!

There are 5 Easy Steps for Updating your blog:
1. Just click on the Sidewiki button of your Toolbar to open a sidebar, where you will find an option "Create an entry".
2. They will give you the login panel for your Google account where you should sign in. If you are not.
3. Click My blogs on Blogger below your entry.
4. Select the blog(s) that you want to update. (Quick)
5. Now Click to Publish the content.

An interesting was of adding quote from a webpage to your blog posts by just highlighting the lines before "publishing".

I Found this site named as "Vakow", which is a social SMS Sharing Site where a registered user can share his SMS, Picture Msg, and other mobile stuffs of here!! they named such type of sharing as "SMS blogging".

The Interface is quite like Twitter, as the user can follow other user and can make his/her Followers just like twitter!! I created an account over here i discovered many text messages, Shayari, Jokes and many more... which are shared by its active users.

Check my Account "arijit57", which i recently created after discovering it... But after seeing the contribution active it shows that the users are not so much active.