Creating new blog ideas for your website can be a daunting task and also quite time-consuming. You may have been searching for hours, trying to figure out what topic to write about for your blog website.
While there are different social media platforms, like Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, etc. to share posts, these do not help form new ideas for what topics to write about. But Reddit is a great site to help you find amazing blog post ideas.
Reddit has gained a massive reputation among video gamers, web geeks, and more. And if used correctly, even bloggers can make use of this platform as a great content marketing and research tool. After all, Reddit is a great forum with 330 MAU (monthly active users) sharing their views and content that can be converted into interesting blog post ideas. However, you need to know how to find it the right way.
How does Reddit Works?
Reddit is considered the ‘front page of the internet. According to the stats, it is visited over 1.27 billion times every month by over 300 hundred million people. It consists of a series of forums and sub-forums, also called subreddits, that various users use for discussing, as well as sharing links, pictures, and videos of a particular subreddit topic. There is a subreddit for almost every topic you may imagine.
When you submit content on the Reddit subreddit, it is moderated by a community and upvoted/downvoted by subreddit members. If your submission gets more upvotes, it’s likely to appear higher on the subreddit feed.
This platform makes use of the ‘Karma Points’ system to establish content credibility on the platform. The more you engage on Reddit (or a subreddit), the more Karma points you earn. And the better performing submissions are likely to get more views, attention, and Reddit karma. It is vital to create the most compelling quality content that is engaging and genuine.
Why Reddit is great to find new blog post topics?
Here are the top three reasons that make Reddit a great platform for finding new blog posts:
- It is very popular
Reddit is the 6th most famous website in the world, according to Alexa. Also, as per Google Trends data, its growth is consistently increasing. Moreover, you can find many subreddits on trending topics on Reddit. Therefore, it is a great platform to find blog topics on the latest happenings around the world.
- Users consider it engaging
Not just the traffic, but Reddit also shows how the traffic is engaged. According to statistics published by The Next Web, average users on Reddit spend around 15 minutes, 47 seconds on this platform every day, compared to more than 11 minutes on Facebook and 6 minutes 23 seconds on Twitter.
Therefore, this platform is known to be growing at a rapidly increasing rate. Plus, the conversations on Reddit are highly active and there are many hot topics to easily find on this platform. You can use some of those hot topics to build your new blog posts.
- There is a topic on almost every subject on Reddit
No matter what niche your blog belongs to, there is almost every topic or subject discussed in subreddits. According to Statista, there are around 1.2 million subreddits.
Given its massive size, depth, and engagement, Reddit is likely to offer something valuable for you to come up with different content ideas. However, the key is to figure out ways to navigate this massive site and know how to pick the most powerful and engaging topic for your blog.
How to do keyword research on Reddit (in 5 steps)?
Here are the five steps to follow for doing a keyword search on Reddit:
- Find the relevant subreddits
You have to begin with finding the relevant subreddits, which are already hosting various discussions about a specific topic. You can use the search box (on the top right) of the Reddit page to search for the exact topic or keywords for a certain topic.
To ensure that your browser does not become messy with too many tabs, it is best to save the links of relevant subreddits to find the selected topics in one place.
- Looking for struggles of people s
Next thing for proper keyword research for blog topics is to find subreddits on your niche-related problems faced by different people. According to that, you can create content for users to solve their problems.
Using the available search feature, you can look for certain phrases indicating that something is suffering from something.
Some of the ways to begin your search are to type the given texts:
“How are you”
“I can’t stand”
“How can I”
“I’m struggling with”
“Figure out”
“Can someone help”
“Tips”, and more.
Once you have found the problems, start digging in to get the relevant information to solve the reader’s problems.
- Dig deeper
If you have picked a topic for your blog content, you will need to dig deeper into that conversation to learn more about:
What solutions have failed?
What other issues do Redditors have that are relevant to the core problem?
What solutions have already worked for other Redditors?
Understanding all that information will help you create more detailed and richer content.
- Create your content
After completing each step, you have almost everything for the next piece of content for your blog.
But don’t just stop here.
Once you have created a nice blog post, think of how to repurpose every idea to drive the most ROI for your brand or business.
For instance, you may use a certain blog post as a foundation for your:
YouTube video topic
Instagram post
Tweetstorm
Facebook Live suggesting your tips
- Do share it
When you have finally created the content, share it on different social media channels to promote it. Also, don’t forget to go back to the Reddit thread that influenced you and share the articles with that community.
You can even consider sending a direct message to the original poster to let them know about your post that may offer them a good solution.
Conclusion
Now that you’re aware of how to use Reddit as a valuable source to find appropriate content topics, consider it to create different blog topics that are trending, relevant, and engaging. We hope these steps won’t let you run out of blog topics anytime soon.