Hello , ed here . Yes , it's New Year's Day when this is being published , so happy New Year to everyone out there . As it's the time of year where most of us take a well-owned break , including myself , I'm putting out some of my favourite episodes from earlier in the previous year . These are some of the more avagrant episodes .
Even if you've heard them before , I think you'll enjoy them second time around , and if you're a newer listener , then these are the ones I'd not want you to have missed .
Today's episode I chose because it's New Year's Day and lots of people will be thinking about resolutions , and if there's one thing I could pick to suggest you try this year , then this would be the one how to have great ideas . I hope you enjoy . Hello and welcome to . Seo is Not that Hard . I'm your host , ed Dawson , the founder of KeywordsPeopleUsecom .
These solutions find the questions people ask online . In today's episode , I'm going to share my tried and tested process for coming up with great ideas .
A common theme I hear from people regularly when looking at where to get started in business with websites , with SEO , is ideas when to start , what to do , what ideas to work on , how to have good ideas , and this is something that .
Yeah , I struggled with myself back in the day , but I overcame that by realising there's only one way to have good ideas , and that's to have lots of bad ideas too . It's only by having lots of bad ideas that eventually , the good ones will come to the surface . The fact is , you'll be having ideas all the time , but you probably just forget most of them .
That's basically what happens with me . So the process I developed was I started recording every single idea I ever had , when it came to business , when it came to websites , when it came to content , when it came to any idea related to the work I was trying to do . I recorded the idea . Now I did this quite simply .
To start with , I just got myself a little Moleskine notebook and every new idea , I just wrote on a new page a brief headline , what the idea is .
If there's any detail I've got , it might only be a few lines of notes that explain the idea , put a date on it and then I wrote at the front of the notebook the first few pages I saved and just put some lines in so that every idea , I just wrote down the headline of the idea and the page that it was on .
Now this meant I started to build up over time A big list of ideas , talking hundreds of ideas , and some of them most of them would be rubbish . They'd be rubbish because I didn't have the skills , I didn't have the money or I didn't have the time . But within that big cluster of ideas , there are a few little gems that started to appear .
And as I would go over the book again and read it , read the headlines , go through and read the ideas , some of them would start to sort of come up again and again and those ideas were the ones I would work on and I would build out more .
And I can now look at that book and look at the websites and the income streams I've got now and they came from those ideas If I hadn't written those ideas down . Ideas are fleeting . If you don't write them down , they tend to go . So what you need to do is literally just start writing all your ideas down . You don't need to act on them .
Often , just the act of writing them down removes them from your brain and you forget about them . The bad ones just go away , but the good ones you can come back to , you can see them in there and you can revisit them , and that's how you start to surface the good ideas . Now I've taken this process one step further .
Nowadays with , for example , with keywords people use , I'm constantly having ideas about new things . We can implement , new ideas for content , and so what I do is I will record each of those ideas in Trello . So we use Trello the keywords people use to manage our processes and ideas and the workload that we're working on and new developments .
So I just have a column in Trello with ideas and any new ideas that come up for related to keywords people use . I'll stick in there and they're there for anyone on the team to comment on , to say they're a good idea , a bad idea . I always say these are just ideas , don't get hung up on them . This is stuff that we might want to think about .
If you put those ideas out there , then the good ones will start to rise to the surface and the bad ideas tend to get shut down or disappear . But if we don't write them down , if we don't record them , then those ideas are fleeting and they get lost . So this is the real core thing about having how to have great ideas is just to record all your ideas .
We're all having ideas all the time , and if you don't record them , then you're going to , you're going to lose them and those , those real gold nuggets can get lost . So what you've got to do is dead simple just write them down . You don't have to use a notebook , like I did .
You don't have to use Trello you can use whatever system works for you but just record them or write them down . This podcast came from an idea let's do a podcast , wrote it down , thought about it , came back to it , eventually decided let's give it a go , let's give it a shot .
And here we are now , and you know we've got people listening , I'm getting feedback . It's brilliant and I'm really glad I did it . But if I'd never written the idea down , I might never have acted upon it . And then again , keywords People Use .
That was another idea that just got written in the book and it was one that I eventually came back to and we built out . So it's dead , dead simple to have good ideas just have loads and loads of bad ones . So start doing it , start recording your ideas . You'll be amazed . Over time you will start to build up such a list of ideas .
You'll find the good ones and then you'll take them forward and you'll have great success with them . Thanks for listening . I really appreciate it . Please subscribe and share . It really helps . Seo is not that hard . It's bought to you by KeywordsPeopleUsecom . These solutions are finding the questions people ask online . See why thousands of people use this every day .
Try it today for free at KeywordsPeopleUsecom . If you want to get in touch , have any questions , I'd love to hear from you . I'm at Channel 5 on Twitter . You can email me at podcast at KeywordsPeopleUsecom . Bye for now and see you in the next episode of SEO . It's not that hard .