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Share your best blogging ideas or tools of the trade.

Do you create an editorial calendar and schedule blog posts to publish in advance? Or do you have any research ideas on how you write informative articles for your readers?

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I watch current items in the news relating to my topics. People tend to search for new info if there has been new research, a new study, a news report, and so then when they search, they find my blog postings!

Newspage is a great plug in to bring news to your site, and ideas for articles.

For research you might like scirus.com.

Good tip!

Hum.. for me.. the best way for me to blog is search areas where users haven't had anyone answer their questions.. then I write a blog based on my response to them (indirectly of course) Thou my blogs have been scaled back due to plagiarism.. I still have many ideas and thoughts.. and because of questions like yous.. This only keeps me active.

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I write topics as and when I feel; like something I have to share with others. Some fascinating incident..but I usually keep them fixed to 1-2 topics per month.

List three seasonal topics related to your blog to add to your editorial calendar in the next couple of weeks.

really great ideas

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