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Sometimes it is just too hard to think of what to post. I know many people give you ways on how to find inspirations for your next post. Simple contents can get you through for a short period of time but I don’t think your readers will want to read such articles for long. They want your opinion on things, they want fresh posts and red hot ideas!

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They will be pushing you over the edge if you don’t have many resources to come up with high quality article. You can’t blame them because this is their rights as a reader. I find this a trouble for myself as well but I have just the right solution for you - Blog what others are blogging about, but upgrade the post.

Where to get written articles?

You can get them from these places:

• Blogs - Don’t bloghop just to leave comments and to read for fun. Look at the contents. Do you have any extra knowledge on the topic? If so, it is a blogging topic!
• Articles database - Sites like Ezinearticles have millions of articles waiting to be read. Hop over, dig out articles related to your blog and read it.


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• News sites- What is happening in your community that will have an impact on your blogging topic? These news can be great materials for a opinion article.
• Social media - Social media sites like Digg and StumbleUpon offers tonnes of sites which are getting a lot of traffic. An opinion post on the contents submitted will nick some traffic for you because your article link might be appearing below the contents as pingbacks.

I am sure there are more sources out there that you can find articles for you to ride on. It is up to you whether to write about these contents or not.

Found it! How to Produce My Own Articles With It?

I will give you 5 steps to complete your piggyback article that will eventually become a quality post on your blog.

1. Find more related articles
   You can have your own article with only one article written by someone else but different articles offer different values. If you have more articles to form your own article, you will be get a synergy post out of the articles.
2. Read through
   Check them for items that is unavailable in the articles but you would want to add. The best is always trying to add something to the articles. It can be an opinion, a disagreement or even an add-on of points. Another reason for you to read through is to keep you from being ashame for repeating the points already mentioned.
3. Write it
   You are already getting ideas from these posts so when you are writing your own article, try not to use the jargons and words that are being used by these articles. Write in your own words. Write down their links for linking later and close down the pages will be a good way to avoid yourself from copying directly.
4. Credit your inspiration source
   It is always up to you whether to credit them or not because I understand that short-minded readers will think that you are copying without seeing the fact that you are actually adding value to the source. Remember, credit by using permalinks within your article, not by using the “via” and “from” tags as it might send your readers away.
5. Nudge the writer of your source
   Tell them about your linking and ask them about what they think about the points that you have added on. This will lead to a linkback to your site because the author might have something more to comment about your opinion. See how a linkbait with a post on someone’s post can be done?

Rounding Up the tips

To sum up the whole thing, such contents can be a wonder content because you are still writing your own content but at the same time, you are interacting with bloggers within your niche. This might get you traffic as well as links which is important for a blogger.

Just have these golden rules in mind when you want to write such posts:

1. Don’t copy and paste (even images) from the inspiration site.
2. Write in your own words.
3. State the source within your article.
4. Put in your style of writing.
5. Don’t be afraid of false plagiarism claim (if you did not copy).

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Other benefits of building on posts of others

Some bloggers don’t know that they have produced a world-class linkbait item. You know, you rewrite it with the ways above but with a difference, you market them by baiting other top blogs or submit them to social media sites. The original source will still get credits upon your action because I do say “Always credit your source”. The evil part here is, “You got your blog twisted into the bait for doing nothing”!

Feedback from you

What to you think about this way to find a posting idea? Have you done such a thing before? I would like to hear about other evil posting ideas that you have done before. Share with me and maybe I will have the chance to build on it.

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