You’ve run out of ideas for new posts. You have to meet deadlines and even on your personal blogs, you are unable to get your posts started, due to the lack of ideas. This situation can happen to anyone, even the most creative bloggers/writers.

The challenge of coming up with great posts has challenged bloggers for years, although there is a great way that you can nearly eliminate this problem with just a few visits to other websites.

The most popular content is ranked by users on sites like Digg, TweetMeme (for Twitter), and Like Button (for Facebook), giving you a glimpse into the most popular content on the Web. So much content is being shared at any time that even these sites can be difficult to use when you need new topics to write about.

For the most part, shared content revolves around two main types: original content, such as news stories, blog posts, and photographs, while the second group revolves around collections and remixes, ranging from list posts to edited photographs and remixed songs.

DIYSEO is a company offering budget SEO software for smal business websites. Recently, the company has been releasing a number of high-quality infographics about SEO and social networking on the Web.

While some dispute the value of infogrpahics, they hav ea use as you can quickly visualize statistics and the direction of growth, as shown in the infographics released here. I encourage you to check them out – they are free and you can use them to quickly learn about the various aspects of building your site through SEO techniques.

Relevant Infographics:

• The Case of Disappearing Ink – A look at the demographics of local search and how it is helping to change the market of advertising.
• Ice Cream Social – SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses) have been using social media more actively, and you can clearly see that in this infographic.
• Where Will Marketing Be in 3 Years? – A quick look at the decline of “old” marketing and the increase in “new” marketing, and where the money is going.

Twitter is expected to continue growing at a massive rate. Over the past few months, the service has been processing between 15-17% more tweets compared to the previous months, and this trend doesn’t appear to be slowing down. By some estimates, the service is gaining nearly 300,000 new members each day, while the leading social networking site (with more than 400 million active members), Facebook, is increasing new membership by more than half a million per day.

The social media explosion that began taking place two to three years ago continues to grow, with more tools to integrate them into your blog than ever before.

For bloggers, these tools make it possible to share your thoughts, links to blog posts, as well as continue the conversation through Facebook and Twitter. The times ahead will include even more of the services, although there will likely be a newcomer or two whose features are simply integrated into the leading services.

Pingdom also included a number of other interesting stats about the popular networking service, as outlined below.

You have likely experienced the awkward situations others have placed you in when asked about your blog. Your friends and family want to know what you are doing for a living (or as a hobby), and although blogging is more mainstream than ever before, millions still don’t have a blog. They want to know how it is possible to earn a living “simply” by sharing your thoughts with others, and why someone is paying you to write.

On the other side of the aisle are the “top bloggers” who dictate what type of blog you can make money from, persuading you to fit your new blog into a particular niche. For example, you are told that extremely specific topics generally don’t see as much traffic as a blog that covers a wider range of topics. With less traffic, you won’t be able to make as much income from your blog.

What if I told you that you can break through these “limitations”?

I’ve certainly covered dozens of tips in the past on how to improve your writing, but today I want to provide you with a single tip that will improve your writing from this point forward, and few people put this into practice.

What makes you unique? There are certainly characteristics that you alone possess, ideas as well as personal ideals. There is a good chance that you share them with those around you, even though you might not necessarily pay close attention.

These characteristics should come out in your writing. The key to running a great blog is to only write as yourself. You should never try to imitate the writing styles of others. While you should always try to maintain proper English standards, you should incorporate your experiences into your writing to better get your points across.

Using figurative language like metaphors, personification, and other methods can be included at certain points to better illustrate what you are trying to purvey.