No matter the rock-solid content marketing strategy you have, chances are you sometimes feel creating content has become a chore.
When your creativity falls into a dead zone, luckily there are web tools that can help you regain creativity, workflow, and jumpstart your stalled content development.
I found a great article about idea generation written by Jason DeMers at Search Engine Watch. The article recommends web tools that can help any business owner or marketer generate ideas for good quality content.
Most marketers are familiar with Google’s Keyword Planner, Google Trends, and Google Webmaster Tools. Let’s look at other web tools that can help you discover, develop, and test content ideas:
1. Quora
Quora is a question and answer site. You can review thousands of Q&As about topics of interest in different categories. You learn how people (your target audience) describe their problems, how these issues affect their lives, and how they want to solve the issues–factors will help you develop content ideas to generate effective results.
2. Delicious
Content marketers select Delicious to find fresh ideas for new posts about topics related to every industry you can think of. You can create a customized discovery, or perform a keyword search to find articles related to a certain topic or industry.
3. Evernote
While similar to Delicious, the Evernote app allows you to save entire articles and organize them, including all text, infographics, photos, videos, etc. Everything is tagged, so when you’re writing an article on a specific topic, you search for your key terms to review collected information.
4. Trapit
This tool is “the bomb” for content curation. No more hours spent searching the web for the perfect content to share with your followers. Trapit lets you choose a subject that’s relevant for your audience, browse through related articles and “trap” significant ones to share via your social networks or in an upcoming email newsletter. You can also test how content you share resonates with your customers.
5. Trello
Trello is a project management tool that helps you organize ideas, create an editorial calendar, and track your progress. You can choose to share project information with your team as well. It’s also great for tracking multiple writers working on a project or maintaining blogs or social media accounts.
6. InboundWriter
Keyword suggestion is how InboundWriter helps you create SEO-friendly content, but that’s not all… it also rates how well your writing is optimized for search. You can analyze how your content performed with your readers, too… nice!
Use these tools to explore different optimization strategies and experiment with content development.
James Woodard says
Make really good content is complex. Better to turn to a professional writer who will write to you with no problems of any content on any topic. And if you need an essay or term paper, you can search here http://bestpaperservices.org
Hongly says
The medical school admissions process has become incredibly competitive. Applicants should begin the preparation process upon entering college. Applicants can learn more about effective application strategies here. http://www.assignmentmountains.com/buy-research-paper is able to provide us quality and on time writing services with guarantee which is best service from others any providers.
buy research paper says
your own encounter in the course of helping learners creates a person a respected corporation even though This come to be able to giving learners in what to post powerful entry documents.
Leesa Dercyke says
Great post! For project management, I would like to add one more tool in your list is proofhub.
Sahil Parikh says
Hi Julia, good post and thanks for mentioning InboundWriter. Hadn’t heard about it before. Another project management app specially designed for content marketers is Brightpod.com – check it out – lets you see all your content pieces and even allows for recurring tasks. Cheers.