Content Generation Idea: Controversy, Debate and Dispute!

Content Generation Idea: Controversy, Debate and Dispute!

You know, every industry has hotly debated topics, topics that are held in a lot of controversy, debate and dispute! I'm talking about controversies that are within your niche industry. Most industries have these hotly debated or hotly disputed controversies, debates and discussions. If you're quite knowledgeable about your niche and industry, you probably know how to find them. You probably already have them with the people that are within and connected to your niche industry already.

How to find Controversy, Debate and Dispute in your niche for content generation ideas?

Well it's not always easy since not every niche has hotly debated controversies and stories. But they don't have to be life and death debates. They just have to be something that gets people hot and bothered under the collar and then either start a conversation or create some content around that argument, debate or controversial subject.

To find these sorts of things one would need to search your niche industry keywords and use keywords like "debate", "controversy", "argument" etc etc. Example: "Dog training + controversy". This would likely return lots of results where people have been discussing those controversial and highly debatable subjects and topics that they're passionate about.

You'll likely find forums and blogs mostly since these are places where people can post comments and replies to something controversial or highly debative that someone has posted. The good thing about these types of stories is that they really do get people hot and bothered and people just can't help but read it word for word and responding to it!

For example, just searching for "Dog training controversy" I found this interesting article on the Daily Mail site that said "Yes, I give dogs electric shocks and use spike chokers... but I'm NOT cruel, says Hollywood's favourite pet guru Cesar Millan". That one article has 264+ comments on it!

Now I ask you, (as a dog lover) do you think it's right to use electric shock collars and spike chokers? That's a whole content idea and story just right there on its own! You see where I'm going with this right? This can be applied for YOUR niche industry.

Controversy Sales!

This is a great method for not only coming up with new content ideas and topics for things that are super hot to write about, but since they are so, these types of articles can go viral very fast! If you are very controversial and say things that wouldn't normally be able to sit right (can't swallow) with normal people. Those same articles will get more shares and could go viral just from how controversial it is alone!

But that's Content Generation Idea 20: Controversy, Debate and Dispute!

Do you use Controversy, Debate and Dispute for content generating ideas?