Be Invincible with these 5 Tools for Generating Endless Content Ideas

Having trouble generating content ideas that’ll resonate and connect with your audience?

In this blog, I am going to talk about 5 content idea generation tools that’ll help you generate hundreds of content topics for free, within seconds.

Millions of content pieces are uploaded every 24 hours. Be it podcasts, videos or blogs, the competition in every industry has surpassed limits. Mediocre content doesn’t persuade people anymore.

Unfortunately, the content economy doesn’t care about who’s new or who’s a professional in the industry today. The one who gets their hands dirty with popular content ideas that engage and persuades people gets rewarded with social shares.

What happens when you come up with a content idea and realise that it has already been taken by someone else? You panic and give up on it.

Well, no more friend. Why reinvent the wheel when you can just remodel, repurpose or refurbish it?

In other words, why risk coming up with content ideas that might fail to garner attention, when you can just look at what’s working for others and then remodel it to make it work for yourself.

This way, you will save endless hours that would've been spent behind content research.

So without further ado, let’s get right into it.

What are Content Ideas?

Content Ideas have been here since the dawn of civilizations. Be it the pre-historic sapiens, Romans or colonists — content ideas shaped their actions.

And that’s exactly how content ideas or topics shape your content piece.

Some generic examples of popular content ideas on Google :

• 5 Ways to Make Money Online

• 12 Magnificent Cities to Travel Before You Die

• 4 Dieting Tips that Help You Lose Weight

But, the 21st Century is far better than its ancestors.

Today, we don’t need to reinvent the wheel to find content ideas or go on a content ideas hunt.

There’s ready-made content available for use on the Internet and all we got to do is some research and pluck them right out of their sources.

But make sure you use these content ideas as inspiration to double down on them, without copying them from others.

People and Search Engines have one thing in common.

They reward authenticity and quality. Come up with content that stands out in the crowd of generic content.

And the 5 platforms that I’m going to show you today are going to help with exactly that — finding content ideas that please both, search engines and people.

So without any further ado, let's get straight into it.

5 Platforms to find Unlimited Content Ideas

Udemy

Being one of the world’s largest online course platforms, Udemy is a great tool to find content ideas. How? By simply entering your keyword in Udemy’s search.

You’ll come across a dropdown list of all the courses that have your keyword in their course titles.

Those titles are your content ideas. Guess what’s better?

You get access to content ideas that people pay to watch and learn. This increases their worth and value.

You can use those exact keywords to create multiple content ideas.

You can use these for your blogs, youtube channel, podcasts, social media posts, ebooks and whatnot. The sky is the limit.

Amazon

Being the largest e-commerce marketplace comes with its perks. With millions of products and thousands of buyers purchasing products every second, Amazon is a treasure chest of content ideas.

But not many know the correct way to use it. The best category for getting tons of content ideas is none other than the “Books” section.

You’ll find a majority of content ideas inside Books in your niche. Look out for books that let you have a “look inside”.

In this way, you can fetch a lot of ideas from the “Contents” section itself.

Want an extra layer of whipped cream along with content ideas?

Head over to the Book’s review section and notice what are people’s opinions on it. Some will worship it, some will like it and others would hate it like hell.

Grab as many pain points as you can from these reviews. They’ll help you shape your content along with provide solutions for your audience.

Helpful isn’t it? Hitting two targets with one arrow.

You get to create your desired content along with providing solutions for your audience.

People find your content trustworthy and share-worthy and engage more with your other content pieces. They’ll bookmark it, save it, or share it with their friends.

Quora

Quora is the largest question and answer platform today. With over 500+ million visits per month, leveraging Quora has never been so profitable.

There are two ways to find content ideas on Quora

• Questions — People ask questions to solve their doubts. These questions are potential content ideas.

Questions such as “how to make money online?” or “how to lose weight in 30 days” can be converted into super detailed blog posts, YouTube or Podcast videos.

Don’t answer the question right away. Make it your content’s headline and answer it on your blog, podcast, youtube channel or ebook.

Next, grab your content’s shareable link. Write a brief answer and stick your link at the bottom of your answer.

There you have it. Free traffic for your content.

Once you have your content piece ready, go ahead and answer the question briefly. Drop your content link at the end.

That’s free traffic for your content.

• Answers — People often include detailed information in their answers.

These answers eventually become hotbeds for content ideas. Unlike “Questions” on Quora, you’ll likely get more content ideas.

I prefer and highly recommend Quora for hijacking ideas for your content piece.

BuzzSumo

Buzzsumo is one of the largest content marketing platforms out there.

With features such as Content Analyzer and Content Ideas generator, Buzzsumo has helped millions of content creators find, monitor and generate content ideas for their business.

For the time being, you can use BuzzSumo’s free Content Analyzer to generate content that gets a lot of shares on social media.

Now that you know how to find popular content ideas on BuzzSumo, let's look at another popular and in-demand free platform.

Google Trends

Owned by Google, Google Trends is a tool that helps you find trending keywords or content topics.

A lot of creators prefer Google Trends as they want to rank their content on Google itself.

Frankly, Google Trends is all you need to find content that's trending on Google.

You can filter your Google Trends search with demographics such as location, time, web search and categories.

Make sure to use the “time” and “location” filters for detailed results.

Final Step + Takeaway

To summarize, I’ve listed 5 free content marketing platforms that will generate thousands of content ideas for you, in seconds.

Begin with Google Trends. Find content keywords that are trending on Google and copy them somewhere.

Enter those keyword(s) on BuzzSumo and look out for most-shared content topics. Note them down.

Next, enter those keywords in Quora. Make a list of all the questions that pop up.

Alternatively, you can use Amazon or Udemy to find books and courses related to your content keywords.

Start making content on the questions or keywords that you acquired from Quora, Amazon or Udemy.

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