Well, at least most of them. Aside from the copycat, lets-see-what-everyone-else-is-making-money-from type of submissions, there is an easy way for me to find what many people will post here.

Curious? It's called Google Trends, which is a tool that tells people the hot Google search topics for the past hour. You can find the link here: http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends. If you look at it and look at what gets posted, there is a strong correlation.

I am not posting the link to encourage that anybody use those topics to make more posts here. Remember, those are not realtime updates and represent past searches, so anything posted based on what is found there has already passed its prime.

The way to get good original content that will draw clicks is to read, read, read numerous news articles and stories to find a common theme. Since almost everybody gets their news from the Internet (or at least news networks posting on the Internet), they will be searching for the common theme. The strategy should be to anticipate what will be newsworthy and, therefore, the search BEFORE the searches begin. If you put up Xomblurbs and -bytes AFTER the searches have begun, you will invariably have your submission lost in the noise.

Once you are on the leading edge of the news, you can write quality longer posts on the subject that search engines LOVE. If we want Xomba to be a place people come for the news, we need to put the NEW back in NEWS.