No matter how passionate you are about something, you’ll alway find you need a little inspiration every now and then.

Whether you’re experiencing writer’s block or simply searching for the hottest topic of the day to really help pull in those endless lines of visitors to your blog, you’ll need a planned out approach to finding your inspiration.  Especially if you’re looking for consistent results.

So here are 4 resources you can use to find the inspiration that you seek.

1. Alltop

Alltop is the “Magazine Rack” of the blog world.  It’s a place where all the top blogs in each niche are placed so others can easily access the plethora of information that leaders in the industry have to offer.

With the potential for over 100 different blogs that post 1-2 times a day in a specific niche, you are sure to find something that sparks creativity inside you.

I use alltop frequently to help inspire a few of my blog posts.  I’ve also been listed on Alltop in the Blogging directory, so that’s social proof that even successful bloggers use the same resources we suggest you use.

2. Feed Readers

The blogs you subscribe to should include a large majority of blogs within your niche.  These blogs don’t have to be the most well known blogs.

There are only 2 requirements you should look for before subscribing to a blog as an inspiration producer.  The first is how often it’s updated.  It doesn’t do you a lot of good if the author doesn’t update but once a month.  The second is the quality and depth of the content.

Is the author a free thinker, or a content scraper?  Does he create controversy among topics that cause someone to really begin to think?

The more creative they are, the better source of inspiration they can be.

I recently wrote an article on Battling Blogger’s Block Using Google Reader in which I highlight a special way of setting up your feed reader to handle inspiration based subscriptions.

3. Twitter

Twitter can be used in so many unique ways to help resource inspiration that it’s absolutely amazing that more and more bloggers aren’t tapping into the power it provides.

Twitter is like a glorified blog comment area, an Alltop middle-man, and a Feed Reader all packed into one small but powerful social media tool.

With it’s limit of 140 characters, users creatively fit only the most important things they have to say in a single tweet.  Whether the tweets cover the banana they ate for lunch or the latest blog post that went viral on the interwebz.

Twitter has the power of being an Alltop middle-man in the easy search feature that’s provided and a third party tool called Twitterfeed.

Just like the website says, you can “Automatically post the feed of the Alltop news blog to your Twitter account like 494 other people.”

So create a twitter user, add the specific alltop category to it using Twitterfeed, and set up the search feature to watch everything that account tweets.

Using this method, you basically setup Twitter to be your alltop source of inspiration.

4. Comments

When bloggers begin looking for content inspiration, often the most important place is overlooked.  That place is your own comments section below each and every one of your posts.

Your readers will tell you what they’re interested in reading.  And they’ll also let you know if you begin writing articles they don’t care about.

People love helping others.  It’s in our nature.  And when given the opportunity will do it more often than not.  Use that to your advantage.  Ask for input and  listen to the input you’re given.

All too often I see people being given great advice, only to turn around and forget everthing they just heard.  Build your community, and your community will help to build you.

Comments on other blogs in your niche are also great sources of inspiration.  Don’t think you can’t poach on someone else’s readers.  In fact, that’s what your ultimate goal is to do.  Bloggers share readers.  There aren’t enough for us to all have our own.

What do you use for blog post inspiration?