Disclosure: This is something that I did not think of myself, but read about it elsewhere. It’s SUCH an awesome tip that I must share with you.

Here are a few ways you can use Google to get content ideas, or even ideas for new niches.

Getting content ideas

Suppose your niche is “home decorating” and you are looking for a few ideas for articles. Note I said ideas, not keywords, which you would find using the Brainstormer. Once you have a few good ideas for content, you can always find a good matching keyword in your MKL or even brainstorm for a new one.

So here is how to do it:

Go to Google, and type “home decorating *” (without quotes). Note the asterisk. Now scan the results page, looking for phrases that jump out to you. Here are a few that I came up with:

1. home decorating fabric
2. home decorating tools
3. home decorating styles
4. affordable home decorating
5. home decor products
6. home decorating ideas
7. green home decor
8. home decor trends
9. traditional home decor
10. simple home decorating
11. home decor tips
12. home decorating service
13. home decorating fanatics
14. home decorating courses
15. home decor items
16. home decorating accessories
17. home decorating software
18. home decorating industry
19. home decor stores
20. home decorating and feng shui

I am sure I could find several more, but you get the idea. You can repeat the process for other keywords in your niche and build up a huge list of ideas for your next articles.

Finding new niches

You can use the above technique to find as many niches as you want by just applying a small twist to the technique.

Go to Google.com and search for “how to *” (without quotes). Once again, note the asterisks.

The sheer number of ideas you will get for niches will drive you crazy. You will find everything here – boring and mundane, technical and geeky.

More niches than you imagine… no change that. More niches than you CAN imagine!

And if you want to really go crazy, you can use phrases like:

• how to get rid of *
• how to avoid *
• how to get *
• how to find *
• how to create *
• how to get *
• how to prevent *
• how to stop *

And so on. You can come up with any number of phrases to feed into Google and get a huge list of niches. They don’t necessarily have to be “how to” related phrases. You can use anything you want.  For example “how can i *”

One step further

If you input “how * [niche] *” in Google (without quotes, and replace [niche] with your own niche), you will get several more ideas.

Here’s what I found for our example of the home decorating niche.

I typed “how * home decorating *” in Google and got the following ideas:

1. how fashionable home decor was influenced
2. how to organize my home decor ideas
3. how natural light affects home decor
4. how bookcases help in home decoration
5. home decorating specs

You can come up with even more ideas by using “what,” “why,” “when,” etc. instead of “how.”

One important point though: Always run the keywords/niches you come up by the Brainstormer. Sometimes a keyword may look promising, but have very few actual searches done for it.

With that said, why are you still here? Why not go and see what new keywords, content ideas or niche ideas you come up with?

If you like the ideas in this post, or came up with your own unique twist or related ideas, please add your comments below.