A great subject is important for every article, of course you know that. If you find the right subject for your article and it is interesting for your audience as well, your article will most likely have success (of course, with promotion) and that success is usually the goal you are aiming for.

After I have wrote an article about the writer’s block everyone could face, I thought of the subject “problem” I had to deal with some time back.

In this article you will find a couple ways and places to find the inspiration for your new article subject.

1. Subscribe to Related RSS Feeds

You should always know what the “competition” is writing about. Their blog topics interests you (or you should choose a different niche!), but also to gain ideas for articles. I don’t mean just copying their subjects and write a slightly different article, but seeing related articles can be a good source of inspiration.

2. Social Media

Are you an active user of Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious or any other social media site around? Browse around your Diggs, Stumbles and saves and you will find articles related to what someone in your niche (in this case yourself, because you liked those articles) want to read. Reading and looking on their titles might inspire you to produce an idea with the quality anyone in your niche likes.

3. Browse Your Older Articles

Usually in the beginning of your blog you know some subjects you want to write about or else you wouldn’t have started a blog. When you browse those articles again after some time, you might find a subject that you wanted to write about before, but you just forgot about it. Or maybe you just want to extend an article you’ve wrote in the past because your knowledge has grown.

4. Ebooks or browser bookmarks

My Firefox bookmark map ‘Resources’ is packed full of information because I tend to bookmark everything I see. If you bookmark all articles that interests you (or don’t have time to read it in full), you will have a tons of interesting information you can read. The same goes with those hundreds of Ebooks you have lying around but never had time to read.

5. Google Alerts

Google Alerts (BETA) is a cool tool you can use to get the latest ‘related to a keyword’ articles in your mailbox once a day or once a week. Currently, I have three different keywords I use to gather all different articles about your niche. If you order all those emails in one map in your mail-software, you will have a bunch of information you usually shouldn’t be able to find or know about.

6. 37 Viral Ideas

Skellie Wag has written an article packed full with ideas you can use right away. These 37 ideas can be used in all different niches and therefore this source is very valuable for anyone. You will find ideas you have also thought of, but many new ones. I just found this post and I will definitely check it out when I run out of ideas! Visit the article.