Where to get 554,597 poker content ideas instantly?

That one’s easy, actually. Visit a popular poker forum with that many threads. (I used an actual count from a popular poker forum when I came up with that number.) Every single discussion on that forum is a potential article for you. And if people are discussing those subjects in a forum thread, then it makes sense that they’re going to be searching for those subjects in a search engine.

I did a quick search for “poker strategy forums” in Google just now and clicked on the first result. Then I opened up the first forum on the board, without even looking at the subject, and started looking at the names of the threads. All of these threads looked like good poker article ideas to me:

1. Poker Sites for US Players – What to write for this page should be obvious to anyone familiar with the online poker industry.
2. Top 10 Poker Sites – Surely you’ve played enough online poker to know which poker sites are in your top 10. You could do multiple variations of this topic though: top 10 online cardrooms, top 10 Texas holdem sites, top 10 poker blogs, etc.
3. Free Poker Coaching – I can see all kinds of ways to put together an article on this topic, but it’s as simple as asking the 5 W’s and 1 H. What is free poker coaching? Who offers free poker coaching? Why would someone offer free poker coaching? When did free poker coaching become a trend? Where can I find free poker coaches? How can I best take advantage of a free poker coaching offer?
4. Evaluating Villain’s Stats – I actually had to click through to this thread to see what they were discussing here. The person who started the thread has some kind of HUD which displays several of his opponents’ stats while they’re playing: #hands, V$PIP, preflop raises, etc. You could easily write an article discussing the significance of each of those stats and what kind of conclusions you can draw. You could even come up with a more search engine friendly, keyword-rich title for your article on the subject.
5. -EV – Okay, so this isn’t a great thread title, but the subject matter makes for a great article. The poster has played 5000 hands of $5 no limit and has lost $4.39. What advice would you give someone in that situation and why? There’s your article.
6. Hey! – Another nondescript title, but the poster talks about a “how to play poker” app he bought from iTunes. Go buy the app, test it out, and write a review of it for your site.
7. Checking in…- Yet another nondescript title, but the initial post is about a person who took a break from posting and from poker. He’s started playing poker and discusses confidence versus complacency. An article describing the difference between confidence in poker and complacency in poker could be a really interesting subject.

There is no shortage of poker content ideas on the Internet. Finding the glue to apply to the seat of your pants so that you’ll actually sit down and write the content is a whole other thing though.

And yes, I’m still going to post 21 times in November.

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