Having great content on your journal or blog is essential if you want to attract readers, build trust, and ultimately drive impact and citations. But, even if you have excellent content, it will be of no use unless you can get that content in front of the right audience.
BuzzSumo
Buzzsumo is one of the most sought content research tool. Using BuzzSumo, you can find top performing articles from anyone blog, or you can also find most shared posts under any topic. If you are looking for something more, you can always find top influencer, titles that are most shared to get started with. They do have a pro program, but you are good to start with their free version. You should check out these videos by Harsh & Ileane on how to use BuzzSumo.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a great, little-known free tool from Google to research deeper on topics related to science and technology. Enter your keyword and it will pull up article links from major publications, theses, books, abstracts and from universities worldwide. You can choose to create alerts from this tool and get them delivered right into your inbox. Wondering how to harness the power of Google Scholar?
Feedly
Feedly has taken over the RSS reader scenario with the shutting down of Google Reader a couple of years back. With over 7 million users under its belt, Feedly is a great tool to discover great content from all around the world, under a wide range of genres. Add your favourite blogs to it and discover new ones by adding their feeds into this little tool. Feedly is available for all the platform (The web and mobile) so you will never miss out your content.
Content Idea Generator
Portent’s Content Idea Generator is a fun and creative blog title idea generator. Just enter your keyword and watch the tool emblazon your day with some of its irreverent and cheeky suggestions. Though not very much of a useful tool, it is worth giving a shot if you are having a bad day getting title ideas to write upon.
Blog Topic Generator
Upon entering three nouns, which are your keywords, you will get five suggestions of blog titles to start working upon.