Where do you go to find out what your readers want to read? In other words how and where do you research for content that they actually want and need to read? Here are a few of the main areas you can look at for giving your audience exactly what they want to read about.
These areas are through keyword analysis, your list of subscribers, and the all the places where they hang out, such as forums, chat rooms and similar online sites.
Keywords searches.
Google keyword analysis tool is amazing, and free.
You can subscribe to various membership sites, and software that'll undertake a keywords analysis for you, but my suggestion is that you use the AdWords select tool from Google, which you'll find quite easily in a search.
Another way is to check the source code of popular articles to see what your competition is using.
Your list of subscribers.
You're the one whose job it is to provide your subscribers with information, based on the questions they're asking you.
But that's not to say you can't ask them questions too.
Find out what aspects of their niche they need most help with, and what 's preventing them from progressing towards their goals.
Social sites.
Social sites offer such a vast goldmine of potential research for article writing material.
You've really no excuse for not being able to mine deeply into these sources.
There'll be at least a couple of forums, social book marking sites, bulletin boards etc, for any niche - any niche that has a hungry market, that is.
So get going now, don't waste any more time wondering how and where your next article idea is coming from - it's all right there in front of you!