Does your mind draw a blank when you sit down to write an article?
Do you often stare at a blank computer screen?
How do you constantly generate new article ideas?
Writer’s block is when no ideas come to your mind when writing an article. You know you must write an article if you want to continue to generate traffic to your website but you keep staring at a blank computer screen. It gobbles up your time and gets you frustrated. Even good writers experience this phenomenon.
How to generate a constant flow of ideas for article writing success
1. Visit ezinearticles
http://www.ezinearticles.com
Use the search feature of this popular article directory by entering the keyword related to your niche in the search box. It will return hundreds of articles. When you read some of them it will stimulate new ideas for your own article. Don’t copy the content from any of the articles. Every article on the Net is automatically copyrighted.
2. Use the title suggestions feature
http://members.ezinearticles.com/tools/article/title-suggestions/
Ezinearticles has a title suggestion feature in the membership area that returns a list of suggested headline titles when you insert your keyword in the search box. This saves you time trying to create the best title for your article plus gives you ideas for creating new articles.
3. Visit forums and blogs
Enter keyword+forum or keyword+blog to find forums and blogs related to your niche. Look for questions and comments people have left then answer the question or expand on the comment by writing an article.
4. Yahoo answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/
Type in your keyword to view all the questions people are asking about that keyword. For example when I typed in “link building” one of the questions appeared was “What is the most important factor in link building?
5. Keyword questions tool
http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/
Wordtracker has a keyword questions tool where you simply insert your main keyword and it will return the most popular questions people are asking related to that keyword.
6. Google alerts
http://www.google.com/alerts
This enables you to monitor the latest news in your niche by receiving email updates. Create a list of topics you want to write articles about then create Google alerts for each topic to receive the latest updates. This will help you discover new ideas to write about.
7. Survey your customers
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
The best way to please your readers is to give them content that provides answers to their problems. A great way to find out what their fears, frustrations and desires are is to ask them to take an online survey. Surveymonkey dot com enables you to create online surveys for free.
The article writing myth: I don’t know what to write to write about” has been busted. Now you have no excuses for not being able to generate any ideas. Create a plan to write 3 new articles per week then syndicate them on your website and to article directories. If you do this consistently you’ll increase your website traffic and make more sales.
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Herman Drost is the owner and author of
http://www.DrostDesigns.com
Web Design, SEO, Article Marketing
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