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Quick Content Ideas From Popular URLs

If you’re stuck for ideas about what to create your content on to make it compelling for your readers, I want to share with you one of my favorite sites which I go to for ideas. It’s popurls.com.

I like this site because it forms an aggregator of a lot of different well known sites in their own rights. There are bookmarking sites, ones that list other popular pages.

It’s always kept up-to-date and it saves you from going to lots of different places.

The top stories are about what’s popular now and these are a great place to start if you’re the kind of person who just wants to write about the latest news which is a great thing to do. More importantly, you get directly to Reddit, Chime-In, Digg and other sites. There’s a lot to filter, so I’d recommend that you just scan read these sites.

You can look at some popular videos to inspire you. You can check out what’s in Google News.

There’s a search option as well, so if there’s a particular area you’re interested in.

Just looking at the main stories from when wrote this post has given me lots of ideas for content and products, especially looking at the technology developments now that technology is such a big part of internet marketing.

You need never get stuck for ideas for stuff to write about. I think it’s an excellent place to inspire you to create great content which compels your readers.

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The post recommends popurls.com, an aggregator that pulls together popular stories from sites like Reddit, Digg, and Google News in one place.

Thom Lancaster

Writing about internet marketing that doesn't require an apology. Building information products, promoting tools he actually uses, and putting generative AI to honest work.

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