Writing a series of related posts is a great way to market your blog. Sometimes it’s a bit of a stretch to get the content all lined up so that it flows and stays on target.
At last night’s InternetMasterMind meeting, we were introduced to a really neat Google tool: the Wonder Wheel. It was presented as another tool to your keyword research arsenal but I looked at it and thought that it is an excellent tool for scoping out and planning out your post series on a specific topic.
To show you what I mean, below are the screencasts for Blog Income:
1. Just above the number one spot, there is a plus sign and a “show options” button. Click that on.

2. The resulting drop down will look like this:

3. Click on the Wonder Wheel – this is the result I get for Blog Income. See all the possible related topics that are an expansion of “blog income?” To go even further, you can click on one of the “spokes” and generate another wonder wheel to expand on that topic.

How you can apply this to your own blog is to search the keyword of your blog and go through this process. What I really like about this is that you can do this for every keyword and come up with a lot of different “series” … and that should keep you busy for some time to come.
I think this is an excellent way to make progress on your own blog and to cluster series on a given niche within your topic.
To Your Awesome Blog Income Life!


#1 by Ryan on April 20, 2010 - 12:46
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Awesome tip Valentina! I never knew about wonder wheels.
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#2 by Valentina on April 20, 2010 - 16:43
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Ryan … neither did I. Cool huh.
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#3 by Invest It Wisely on April 20, 2010 - 19:08
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This is pretty cool… I never even knew this existed!
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#4 by Valentina on April 21, 2010 - 08:06
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Hi Invest -
Yes, I find that I get a lot of small tidbits from my mastermind group.
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#5 by Dave Doolin on April 23, 2010 - 13:53
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I’ve seen the Wonder Wheel before, but I haven’t use it yet. Looks like something I should spend a week or so working on.
I can definitely see the benefit of the tool.
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#6 by Valentina on April 24, 2010 - 08:21
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Dave,
I’m thinking that it’s one way to keep on topic and write shorter posts … one of my challenges
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#7 by Gabe | freebloghelp.com on April 24, 2010 - 19:16
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Many blogger run out of topics. The wonder wheel can do, erh… wonders, for those looking for related material to write about.
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#8 by Valentina on April 25, 2010 - 13:27
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Hey Gabe …. good to see you. Thanks for stopping by.
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#9 by Des @ Affiliate Progress on April 27, 2010 - 02:40
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Thanks Valentina, it’s a new one on me also. Amazing what free tools there are out there!
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#10 by Valentina on April 27, 2010 - 18:51
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Des,
I’m always amazed at the little things that we pick up here and there …
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