If you're new to blogging one of your major dilemmas will be what to blog about.
Don't worry you're not alone. You know you need to blog daily, you know you need to create valuable content so you can drive traffic to your blog, so you will always be plagued by the question of what to blog about.
The answer is simple. You need to blog about what's POPULAR. So where do we go?
We've compiled 7 excellent resources for you check out.
If you don't know what Alexa is you need to check it out really fast. Alexa analyses world wide web traffic and computes it's findings into rankings. It analyses data and sorts it into meaningful information for website owners.
It also sorts out what's HOT right now.
Take a look at this screen shot. Every 5 minutes this data is updated.
By the way, Bon Jovi is NOT dead! But it's interesting to see he can still make it to the Top 20.
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Next on our list of resources is a site called Rrrewind. It allows you find the most popular content shared on social sites all over the Internet. You can find out what has drawn the most attention on Delicious, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, iTunes, Hacker News, Flickr, Hulu and more.
Next we have Digg. Digg is awesome! It's a place where people share the best the web has to offer and other people get to vote on it. The more a piece of content is "dug" the more popular it is. Digg is all about sharing and discovering the best content for the community.
Here you're going to find what's trending really fast. Sometimes you'll get news on Digg much faster than mainstream media. Here's a sample taken from today.
So if you're stuck with what to blog about, here's a great place to looking for ideas.
Check out Technorati
The question: "What to blog about?" will easily be answered by checking out Technorati.
Technorati is a blogging search engine that ranks blogs on their popularity and compiles a daily list of the Top 100 Blogs.
Here you'll find the most popular content, most popular tags and even the hottest blogging blog posts. Blogs about blogging. How awesome is that?
Google News
If you're still stuck for ideas on what to blog about go to Google News where you'll find up to the minute news items, aggregated from all over the world. Great for keeping your finger on the pulse of what's happening in the world.
Google Alerts
With Google Alerts you can subscribe to receive email updates on subjects that interest you the most. So if you're wanting to keep an eye on a particular industry, person or product you can submit this as your search query criteria.
Subscribe to RSS Feeds
If you're STILL scratching your head on what to blog about then you definitely will benefit from subscribing to RSS Feeds.
If you're wanting to keep track of more than one website have instant feeds sent to you daily - all to one location.
You can use Google Reader or FeedReader to track trends on your most frequented sites.
These 7 ways to track what's HOT right now should keep you busy for a while.
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