Now we get to the ideas themselves. How are you going to find 500 ideas for different posts? Actually the answer should not be all that hard. The first thing to do is some keyword research in your niche. Go to Good Keywords or seobook.com’s keyword tool and start typing in keywords. Do not worry too much about competition or the amount of searches at this point but instead write down keyowords that are good. This is a great way to get a list of keywords for your niche. After this you will need to work harder on a daily basis to read all of the blogs in your niche and related niches to try to find more ideas as well as getting articles that you can link to for some good backlinks back and forth from the fellow bloggers in your niche.

Another great way to find articles to add content is to carry a small notepad with you in your pocket or even a piece of paper and a pencil. Whenever an article idea comes to you just write it down with any bit of detail and then just let it go so that you can get the next idea. On Sunday nights I go to the grocery store and with my Blackberry I will just sit in the car before I go in and type out a couple of titles that I thought of on the way to the store. There is seldom a shortage of things to write about.

Finally one last way that you have probably not heard of is to allow other writing to become ideas for your own future articles. Often I will get a bit of an article idea when I am reading a flyer or an article in the newspaper or even when I am surfing around the internet.  In the first two case just circle the words with that pen or pencil in your pocket and stuff the paper in your pocket. On the internet just copy the relevant text and either drop it into a notepad document or copy and paste it into Google Notebook if you are using that plugin with the Firefox browser.

Now you have a lot of ideas for posts. What should you do with all of these post ideas and germs of post ideas? I have found that the best way to organize all of this is to add the articles to a list at your desk or in a book and as you transfer them from computer screen or shreds of paper or torn out pages from newspapers or flyers just start creating titles with three or four bullet points underneath and you will have everything that you need to start writing articles. This should have been the hard part the easy part is the writing of the articles itself that I have written about elsewhere.

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