Writer’s Block Tip – Re-use Recycle The News!
We all know that the blogosphere is a massive newsy place, with all manner of content being re-hashed and recycled all the time. Sometimes, it’s hard to stay ahead of the curve and be inspired to write anything novel. If you are experiencing writer’s block, which comes to us all sometimes, here’s a handy tool that helps you stay on top of the news related
to any of the topics or themes your write about or to keep affiliate programs you promote interesting and relevant to your readers.
All you need to do is visit this helpful Google site and for instance, put in the search
terms, “forex online,” “bear market,” “day trading,”
“dealing stocks” or what-ever other term you could be using to
promote your products or services and the Google bots will send you the latest news for your preferred key terms via email as material is released.
Your daily / weekly Google Alerts can be signed up to here: http://www.google.com/alerts
How is this to your website’s advantage?
Your primary resource? Your TIME of course! This will save you time in terms of not having to go searching, and researching content and makes copy-writing much easier! Do the smart thing: Re-use and recyle the news! Let someone else do half the work occasionally!
If it is positive news, you can post it online to your website to
update your visitors. Google rewards your for your uniqueness and relevance remember, so tie this content into the product or service as it applies to you. Now make it your own… Ask your readers for comments or put your own slant on the information.
Studies and testing shows that some people are much more apt to purchase a product based upon “just released” news. Your early adopters will love you and love showing off to their buddies and forum friends about how ahead of the trend they are!
You may have to get creative in tying the recent news
to your promotion, but with a little tweaking of what has already been written means that for little brain-work, your results will be more effective.
This free version of Google Alerts will notify you as soon as
the news becomes available across the web. They also have
a paid version which has a couple more advanced features.
Personally, I don’t think you can go wrong with either.
Freebies are always good and I have used this on and off (more off than on!) for a few years.
There is some great inspiration in there for those brain-dead days! Just be judicious in its use… Stay unique and don’t get complacent! You have a duty to deliver quality content, for the sake of those visiting you and to ensure the spiders from Mars like you too!




