One of the biggest problems writers, bloggers, and freelancers struggle with is finding the right topic to write about in order to get their writing seen by as many visitors as possible. The first thing most writers try is performing Google searches on phrases such as: “what to write about”, “picking the right topic”, “what should I write about” and “how to get lots of blog views”. Most of the websites that come up will say that writing about personal knowledge and experiences is one good idea because the writer will already be an expert on the topic. Then there are others sites that will provide a list of the top ten blogging topics, but most of those topics are way overused. How can you find topics to write about that are popular now?

Google Trends

Google Trends is a public online website that is based on the statistic of Google Search; this allows the site to provide information about the topics that are getting the most views. Google Trends provides a list of the topics that are getting the most views at the time the user opens Google Trends. Each one of these popular topics has not only the topic itself, but also the tags, other popular search terms for the same topic, and a graph that shows the progression of the number of views on the topic during a twenty-four-hour period. In addition, a search bar allows users to search terms and topics of their choice in order to see how many views that topic has gotten in different parts of the world over time.

All of this makes Google Trends the absolute best place for bloggers and writers to investigate in order to figure out what topic(s) they should be writing about to get the most views. The only problem is that for bloggers who are in a specific niche topic, many of the most popular topics might not fall directly into their niche, but the search bar will allow those bloggers to search for topics in their niche that are receiving a high number of views.

KWFinder

KWFinder is a keyword research tool that allows users to search the popularity of up to five terms free every day. This site is not as good as Google Trends for finding the best topics to write about in order to get views, because it limits the number of free searches and because it only works off searches. However, this makes it a good site for bloggers who wish to remain in their niche because it allows them to type in the topic of their blog and instantly get twenty-five topics which fall under their search term and the number of searches those topics have received in the previous year.

Overall, KWFinder is better left as an SEO tool, unless the writer or blogger is searching for new topics to blog about within their niche. However, this does require the user to already have an idea of the type of topic that they wish to blog about.