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Perhaps the most ideal approaches to get perceivability and traffic to your blog entries is to compose on ideas that are prominent and being shared via web-based networking media stages. One motivation behind why to craft blogs on trending topics is to get more traffic as such topics are generally progressively searched by users across the globe for a noticeable period on search engines.
Here are ten marvelous sites which can help you discover trending subjects for your blogs:
Feedly
Feedly is a great tool to research trending content. The tool allows you to follow some of the top blogs in your niche with just one click. You can simply search for the relevant publications by choosing a category. Just subscribe to their feed and get all the latest content in your Feedly dashboard. Feedly is a freemium app available on desktop and mobile.
Medium
Another cool place to find trending content in your industry is Medium. Medium is a free-to-use content publishing platform. It’s a great community for finding some truly remarkable content pieces. You can use category search on the platform to search for some popular blog posts and pick those that you wish to write about. You can log in and create your free account and use Medium on your desktop or download its mobile app. You can follow individuals and categories on the platform. Once you do, you will see the latest stories from them in your feed. Another section that’s worth checking out is “Popular on Medium”.
Quora
I think Quora is one of the best communities for finding trending content. Whenever I’m ideating a content piece, I would check out popular questions on Quora. The platform provides you the option to follow the relevant topics in your niche. Once you do so you’ll keep seeing the ‘Top Stories’ (questions) in your Quora newsfeed. You can also check out the ‘New Questions’ option to see the latest questions. The community is full of interesting questions to find inspiration for your next blog post.
Google Trends
Google Trends is another free tool with a host of interesting features. It helps you to do comparative keyword research to find out which ones are being talked about the most. The tool provides you with an option to analyze trends for web, images, videos as well as Google shopping. You can also look for trending stories for a particular category and location.
Buzzsumo
There are many content pieces that get widely shared on social media channels. There is something unique and valuable about these pieces that make them unique. You must catch hold of these content pieces to know more about what’s doing well. Buzzsumo is one tool that will help you to find niche pieces which have the highest social shares. Type in a sample topic or keywords and you’ll get the URLs of all those pieces along with their respective number of shares on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, etc.
Some communities may not be as popular but definitely quite valuable. Reddit is one such community that can help you to find some fairly exciting content to help you ideate your next blog post. The community helps you view content based on its freshness and popularity. Look for the relevant subreddit for conversations related to your niche. You’ll find tabs like hot, rising, and new to look for trending topics.
LinkedIn Pulse
LinkedIn Pulse helps you to find some of the top stories and professional conversations on a daily basis. These stories are curated by editors of LinkedIn and include stuff that’s published on the platform and off it. Check out the “What People are Talking About Now” section to get your dose of trending content.
Epic Beat
This another cool freemium tool to find trending content in your business vertical. You can simply use the search bar in the tool to look for a topic URL or author. EpicBeat has a unique search assist feature that gives you suggestions of keywords, authors, and websites based on your interests. The tool also provides you with an advanced search feature to make your search more accurate. It lets you analyze the top content pieces and shares while it also gives you the list of those who have shared the pieces in the past week.
Social Mention
This is another cool web app to find the latest content in your industry. Just type in your keywords and find real-time content in your niche. It gives you the option to look for content pieces of all formats (Blogs, Microblogs, and Videos, etc.) or just one of them. The tool gives you the option to search for exact key phrases so you can find results that are more relevant. You can use the tool to look for content that’s as recent as the last one day, 12 hours or an hour.
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