Who else needs more content for their website or blog? Do you find yourself STUCK when it comes to coming up with new ideas to write about? Perhaps you’ve tried one of those auto-posting RSS feed plugins or other “secret software” and realized they DON’T work… and can actually KILL your website instead of growing it?
The good news?
If you are serious about building your blog, your brand, your business, and your bank account… and find content creation challenging, then this article was written with YOU in mind! I’m going to share 3 very simple techniques that we use every day… and that will help you become an authority site in YOUR niche, very cheaply… even if you hate writing!
Filed Under: User Generated Content Rocks
All 3 of these tips and techniques involve leveraging or reusing user-generated content in a totally ethical way… and will help you quickly and easily create content for your community, and do it in a way that makes both of your users happy. , and the search engines smile too.
1 – Build it with Buddypress
Buddypress is a free and open source social media and community plugin for WordPress. It costs NOTHING… and you can quickly and easily transform your site into a social networking powerhouse… giving your users the ability to post updates, share news, exchange messages, and much more. How much more content do your hoodies create? The LESS you have to write yourself, right? If you have a good niche with a lot of passion, you can literally “set it and forget it” and just watch your readers BUILD their community on autopilot… for free, while you sit back and strategize to benefit from your prose!
(Note: I did this years ago at a psychic market, where I simply asked readers to share their experiences… and hundreds of people wrote these long, emotional posts about their crazy paranormal experiences, and then others commented on them, and so on.) go ahead…in a matter of months I had a thousand new articles on my Buddypress blog that I didn’t have to write).
2 – Q&A Communities
Again, with a free plugin, you can literally give your readers the ability to create questions (and offer answers) to pressing issues, customer service issues, or general niche knowledge they’d like to know or offer. Many POWERHOUSE sites have been built around the question and answer model, and there are great free WordPress plugins that will allow you to do this yourself and allow your audience to interact and create your content for you, 100% free.
3 – Take it to Tumblr
I love Tumblr. It feels like a teen blogging platform when you first poke around… but Tumblr is literally the LARGEST blogging community in the world. And it is based on the idea of content curation. Sharing, republishing, and reusing content is literally built into each and every blog, and unlike WordPress (where content curation can be controversial), you are EXPECTED to clip, crop, and curate content as a Tumblr blogger. (in fact… this is how you attract followers and get noticed)
The truth is, if you’re struggling with content curation and want to quickly and easily get noticed in your niche… TUMBLR is your answer. It’s free, fast, and a lot of fun, and while you need more than that just to build your business… it’s the best platform for people who want to focus on what they do best and let their content write itself.
