How to Find Content Ideas for Your Website and Social Accounts

Whether you are looking for ideas for your personal account, your company’s social media accounts, or your blog, the first source of content ideas should be your own experiences and your cultural and intellectual surroundings, in a way that reflects your unique signature and the principles and values you stand for.

But by using a few tools, you can gain more inspiration and learn what users are searching for online, then put that to use as you build your content plans.

Here are some tools that will help you discover fresh content ideas:

Answer the public

Enter a keyword on this site and it will show you every question users ask about it, presenting the data in an organized, visual way.

Google trends

A free tool from Google that shows you the topics currently trending, broken down by country and category.

Buzzsumo

A tool that shows you the topics and headlines that earn the most shares on social networks.

Do you know of other tools or ways to find content ideas? Share them with us in the comments.