You’ve probably heard that original online content is the best way to achieve long-term, ongoing success with any Internet business. Even if you don’t want to sell information (products), a website that is full of original content will help you drive traffic and keep Google happy.

Once you have a good flow of traffic, there are many ways to monetize that traffic.

However, to attract and keep traffic flowing, you need to have a lot of good, original content… it’s not an easy task.

So, in part 1 of this article, I’ll give you some ideas on how to generate great and unique content for your website. No matter what topic your website is about… the best way to gain and keep lots of visitors and interested subscribers is to provide them with fresh, new, unique and useful content on a regular basis.

If this is true, it follows that you will need a source for all of this content. Most people just search Google’s main search page when looking for content, but did you know that there are plenty of tools that Google offers to help you with your search?

And… these tools can help you dig into most topics.

So here are the tools and some ideas on how you can use them.

google news

On the Google News site, you can search more than 4,500 news sources by keyword. That is incredible!

Have you heard of resveratrol? Probably not. I chose this keyword because it is something relatively new. Resveratrol is an anti-aging anticancer substance found in the skin of red grapes. It’s also in red wine, which is my excuse to drink it! As an alternative therapy it has recently come to light. I found over 200 sources of information or articles on resveratrol.

Starting with Google News, you can often find good citations to base an article on. So maybe a couple of quotes and then use some of the other sources to build your final content.

You should also take a look at Google Groups and Yahoo Groups.

These groups are made up of people (just like you) who like to discuss a certain topic online. So find your topic in the groups and see what people are saying about it. In these groups you will find people talking about the problems they have in the subject area. Other users will tell you how they solved those problems. Problems and solutions = products and great content. In part 2, I will give you many more ideas on how you can find quality, unique content for your website.