The best method to get a popular blog is of course to create new interesting content and share your own knowledge. If you maintain several hundreds of niche sites or write several entries each day it will eventually be difficult to create new content.
When you reach this point it’s a good idea to simple rewrite other people’s information into your own language. For an example, if you maintain a niche site about cars from Ferrari you can simple subscribe to blogs about Ferrari in English and then rewrite their information into your own language.
Remember that’s it not about copying other people’s information but to recreate it. You should not try to create a blog with other people’s entries, but it’s a good method to rewrite their information and post it into a small niche site with different language.
How to find good content
You can find great information on blogs, Wikipedia, books, Amazon, magazines, etc. By simple making a search on Google for your niche + blog, you will most certainly find hundreds of blogs with information about your niche.
When you’ve found a good blog, simple subscribe to it with Google Reader and daily get suggestions for great topics to write about.
How to rewrite other people’s content
When you’ve decided for a specific blog entry or articles you need to read the text twice. Write down main points into a piece of paper or notepad. The close the article and try to never look at it again.
Now you have several good main points which you can search more information about or simple try to write a article based solely on them.
You should never try to translate sentence after sentence since this will make your text look weird and “translated”.
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heh , i’ve been here before , commented before ( changed my ‘name’ meanwhile ) but somehow i’ve missed this article …
which is kinda weird since i have a certain theory about blogging which goes really well with this post ( you can read it here : http://www.lifewithinapage.com/2009/07/cloud-blogging-conspiracy.html ) ( and i’m not spamming but if you consider it spam feel free to delete the link or the entire comment . i will not hold a grudge – i promise you ) .
Well I work on other strategies…
I go to listified posts related to my niche..and start writing about individual points in details..this way with few hours of work I can come up with almost 15-20 posts and that too…in a series…
This is also a great idea and a bit similar to what I am doing on this blog. Always when I start to write a new post I find a few things I would like to describe a bit more detailed, resulting in me having to write several blog posts before I finally can end the one I started first.
Doesn’t it make sense to give credit to the blog where you got the ideas for recreating it
I agree with you and it’s always a good idea to credit the real author. You can do this by giving them a backlink or publish the URL. My main idea when I wrote this post was to focus on news and not on personal posts.
Yeah i agree with you too