If you have a new blog you may be facing a common problem. You got all amped up with your original idea and before you know it you are all out of ideas for posts. Chances are your blog is going to have others like it… Why not use your competition for inspiration?

AideRSS is a tool that analyzes a given RSS feed and then determines a ‘PostRank’ on the given posts in the feed. Each post will also get some other info drawn such as how many comments it had, number of Diggs, number of Tweets, and more. What this will do is give you the top performing content on the site. Go and read some of their top posts and while reading be looking for ideas that you can expand on or build on… Keep in mind your not copying them, rather looking for ideas that have not be touched upon. Staying up to date and current within your niche is also very important. Be on top of new delvelopments that may be taking place in your industry, read the news, and keep tabs on various related blogs.

Using these ideas you should be able to keep the ideas going. Another method that works is guest posting. As long as your site is of some sort worth being featured on, finding people to write a relevant post with a plug to them in it should not be too hard. Just make sure you are posting as well, after all your readers are there for your content and that’s why they come back. Your persona and view combined with the information you give is why your readers essentially do (or don’t) return.