Module 1 -- 010 Other Tools for Finding Viral Content Ideas

Other Tools for Finding Viral Content Ideas

If you can’t afford BuzzSumo, you can use other FREE or Cheap Tools for finding great content ideas…

For Example:

Manually Spying on a Competitor’s FB pages daily – This works best ? and you get very accurate results and predictions. Just make a list of 10 competitors FB pages and check them daily for most shared articles/images/videos…..

Google Keyword Planner – FREE tool provided by Google, very accurate, but for getting exact numbers you need to run some campaigns with small daily budgets. But you can do a topical search and see the most searched keywords/phrases per topic, and you can include those in your titles and articles you publish on your website.  You can also get some content ideas you never knew were that popular. Trending for the last 12 months is very useful. Video Explanation

We search for example for recipes – we see what is the most searched recipes…and we come up with titles of this style…

Question & Answer Sites – Yahoo Answers & Quora – Those questions that keep coming again and again, those are the ones you need to cover on your website. Video Explanation

Amazon.com – Categories…Best Sellers – you can write about these items and even Earn with referring people to Amazon to buy this item or anything else – you get percentage of the sale, if someone you referred bought something in the next 24 hours. They have a nice affiliate program.

You can write in this style – as you have bought the product yourself – and you have enough amazing information – from the reviews of the people who already bought the item.  You can easily find images of the product on the product page or by Google Image Search. Video Explanation
Video-Alerts: Tool that costs $29.99 and never expires…It searches for new published videos on Youtube according to the predefined keywords. You will get a huge list, and you have to trim it or find someone to help you weed out the bad videos. Very Similar to Google Alerts but best tool for Youtube.com
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Subscribe to a newsletter to a popular topical websites/blogs similar to your niche. You can do a Google search for a keyword/phrase + magazine or blog and get a nice selection of websites. You get daily ideas from professionals in your field on what is popular at the moment.

Using Google Alerts for a certain Keyword/Phrase -- Video Explanation

Using Google Hot Trends for a certain Keyword/Phrase, and see top today’s news in USA…
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