Content is at the heart of any Internet marketing & SEO strategy. Today, it is standard even for regular business websites to have a blog and publish quality content to improve the online visibility of the business and improve the website’s rank on search engine results.

This is the 3^rd and last part of the 3 part series “30 great content ideas for your website or blog”. Here are the final ten  content ideas for your website.

21. Create Podcasts

Many publishers forget to look beyond regular text based content on their website. Like videos, podcasts can be a great way to create content for your website or blog. They are very easy to record and can be done using any standard desktop. You can also use free services such as PodoMatic to convert existing blog posts into podcasts. For best results, you can publish podcasts on your website as well as promote them via various specialist podcast sites.

22. Monitor Trending Topics

Writing about latest trends and hot topics from your industry is a great way to create viral content. Trending hashtags on Twitter or using other free trending services are some effective ways to keep track of trending topics in your niche.

23. Surveys & Polls

Surveys and polls are a great way to create content. You can use free tools such as Google docs to create one and publish it on your website to collect data from visitors. Although the poll in itself is content for your website, you can create a post around the results for best results. Such posts tend to be popular.

24. Profile a Business or Personality

You can profile a senior member of your team, an interesting personality from your niche or an established business from your industry.  Profile posts typically provide a background on the person; their accomplishments and talks about their journey to reach their current position. they are in and write about the characteristics that they have that others in your niche might like to develop to be successful.

25. Write About Industry Events

There are many events hosted both locally and in other cities covering most industries. You can easily research events related to your industry and write about them in your blog posts. Even if you do not attend the event, you can colllect information from a variety of sources and websites.

26. Research Q & A sites

Visit Q/A sites to research common questions related to your niche. LinkedIn Answers, Quora, Yahoo Answers and Focus Q & A are some examples of such sites you can visit for topics related to your niche.

27. Money Related Articles

Articles about making money, investments, savings, etc. are very popular. E.g. “Websites Earning Millions Using Google Adsense” and “Ten Money Making Blogs” are some of the most popular articles on this blog. No matter what your niche, you can find topics relevant topics such as how to save money or increase revenue using one of your services, and so on.

28. Use Google Reader to Get Ideas & Inspiration from Other Publishers

One of the best ways to get inspired and find new topics for creating content is to analyse and learn from other publishers in your industry. RSS readers or news aggregation services such as Google Reader is the most effective way to do this. It will save you time by delivering new content from other blogs you like straight to your dashboard without the need to track each and every blog manually.

29. Use Google Keyword Tool

Google keyword tool is actually designed for researching keywords. However it is also very effective for researching topics to write about. Simply enter a phrase or topic and it will display a large list of suggestions together with monthly search volumes.

30. Ask Your Readers

Although this is more practical if you have an established blog and good connections on social media, it can be a very effective way to get ideas for new content to cover on your website. I have seen many bloggers do this successfully.

What Methods Do You Use to Create on Your Website?

In this 3 part series, we have discussed 30 great content ideas for your website or blog. I have used most of these ideas to create content on this blog, except for asking readers for new ideas. This is definitely something I am hoping to do in the near future.

What type of content do you create on your site? What methods do you use to find new topics? Please leave a comment.