As a blogger, you know that sometimes the hardest thing to do is come up with content for your blog. So I thought it might be useful to offer up 25 ways to use the web to find content for your blog. Have a look and see what’s there, and use them to build your own content from. Delicious is a great resource for finding blog content. You can land on some great content that will give you your own ideas for your blog. You can find authors and bloggers based on niches, and this can really help you target content to get inspiration from. Here they are. MORE >>

'Content marketing represents the most fundamental and widespread rethinking of marketing practices in decades. Unlike other modifiers attached to the discipline (consumer marketing, b2b marketing, trade show marketing, digital marketing), the term “content marketing” doesn’t describe an audience, tactic, or channel, but rather a completely different approach to marketing. Content marketing turns the dominant paradigm of the last half-century—interruption-based mass marketing—on its head. What types of content are most valuable to my sales prospects? MORE >>

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Sponsored content in various forms is growing in popularity as publishers seek additional sources of revenue. This topic has been in the news recently with Google first issuing a reminder that any links within sponsored content should not pass PageRank. Then in a second reminder Google made it clear that they do not want sponsored content indexed in Google News, and sites that mix in promotional articles with their regular news content could be excluded from Google News entirely. Sponsored Content Compliance. Be Careful with Ecommerce Partnerships Too. MORE >>

Content marketing can take place on your website or offsite. But where do you find your offsite content marketing sources? Here are 4 suggestions for offsite content marketing, places where you can publish your content or have others publish content on your behalf. You can write guest content for other bloggers within your niche or that serve the same market. Social media websites – Social media websites are some of the best places to publish your content. Directories – Not all directories are created equal. MORE >>