HitTail Gave Me Hot Topics: A Blogger’s Real Story

Hi. I’m a real blogger with a real blog. Here is a personal story about how HitTail worked for me.

I’m always looking for hot topics to blog about. I’m also always on the hunt for the “edge” that will allow me to break stories first. HitTail has given me the tools to do both.

Here is an example of what I mean; this really happened! I blog mostly about comic books and popular culture. Using HitTail, I found out that one of the popular phrases to find my blog was “who will play the Joker in Batman 3?” Now, I never wrote a post about that subject; but somehow the search engine in question found some combination of those words in my blog.

What this result on HitTail told me was that there are readers out there who are interested in this topic. Now I have a great story idea with a confirmed potential audience!

HitTail even has a “to do” feature that lets me move the phrase or words in question to a separate page for easy reference. So when the well is dry and I’m jonesing for ideas, I can take a look at my HitTail to-do list.

Next time, I will reveal an even GREATER secret about using HitTail for your blogging needs – how to not only find hot topics, but actual story “leads” to investigate further. I really got the edge using this – you can too.

Finding Writing Topics

In this video blog post, I answer one of the most asked questions about HitTail: How can we find writing topics to suggest for you based on the traffic from your own site, if you haven't written about the topic yet? Part of the magic comes from the unique way blogging software works. It lets you find perfect writing topics related to things you've already written about, but offers up the magic word combinations actual searchers are using. Curious? Watch the video.