If you’ve just started blogging then this post can help you.Here I’ve listed few useful tools for better blogging.These tools will help you to manage your blogging job more efficiently.
Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is probably the best tool you’re going to try.Just try this and feel the difference.If you’re still using those in-house blog editors you’re wasting a lot of your time and energy.I’ve written a post 6 Reasons To Use Windows Live Writer For Blogging.
Download Windows Live Writer.
Firefox Browser
If you’re a blogger and still not using Firefox browsers then you’re actually not helping your cause.With so many useful plug-ins Firefox can make your lot of jobs easier-Firefox Plug-in ‘NoDoFollow’ helps you find whether a blog comments use no-follow attribute or not.Commenting on do-follow blogs gives little bit of link juice to your blog and helps your blog improve search engine ranking.
Download the latest version of Firefox.
Blog and Social Networks
Blogging is all about networking.Your success heavily depends on your ability to network with your fellow bloggers and your readers.I’d recommend using these networks-
Mybloglog
Technorati
Twitter
Facebook
Blogcatalog
These are the five networks you should use regularly.These networks can give you traffic,you can find link partners for your blog,learn a thing or two from the blogger community.
There are many more social networks you can use.The more you use the better.But logically it’s not possible to use all those social network regularly for a ‘human’ .So,it’s better you choose few of them.
Traffic Tools
Traffic is the soul of any blog.There are many sources to get traffic to your blog.SEO is the ultimate option for any blogger to get long term sustained search engine traffic.
Social networks and social bookmarking sites like Digg,Stumble upon, Reddit, Sphin are very good for a blog to get traffic.You can use blog traffic networks to get free traffic.
Entricard
Link Referral
Website Visitor Tracking
Tracking your visitors very important.It’s not about knowing how many unique visitors or how many page views you are getting.But,the most important thing is to analyze visitor behavior on your blog.How the visitors are navigating your blog,which are the pages that getting most page views.
There are many free web visitor tracking system available.I use these three in my websites.You don’t need to use all of them in a single blog.However using all of them is no harm.Remember one thing, since visitor tracking is done by using cookies,so you can expect somewhat different results from different trackers.
Google Analytics
Statcounter
Third Party Comment Systems
These third party comment systems actually makes blog commenting more attractive for the readers.
Disqus
Intense Debate
Feed Distribution
Giving the readers a option to subscribe to your feeds is very important.It’s not possible for anyone to visit there favorite sites everyday.Feeds gives them the option to track the updates on their favorite sites without visiting them everyday.
Feedburner
Feedbliz
Feed Reader
The most successful bloggers are most avid readers too.That’s how they get information to write.If you don’t read a lot you can’t write more quality articles,which is the only secret of a successful blog.A feed reader can save your valuable time and aggregate all of your subscription in one place.I use Google Reader.To me that’s the best.
Google Reader
Bookmark and Subscription Tools
Give your readers the opportunity to spread your content virally using these bookmarking tools.And also provide them with the opportunities to subscribe your blog feed into their favorite readers.
Add To Any
Add This
Translation
Certainly not the most essential of the tools.But,if most of your readers are coming from the countries where your blog’s language is not first language,then it’s a very handy tool to have installed in to your blog.But,again most of the web users these days use translation tools right from their browsers.
Google Translation Tools
Convey This
Anti Plagiarism Tools
If your blog is few weeks old and you provide quality content then you’ll have to face this menace of plagiarism.This is one of the biggest problems online publishers face.You can find your content are sp[read all over the internet.This can hart you badly if not stopped.There are many tools you an use to detect whether you’re content has been plagiarized.
Copyscape-Use this tool to find which websites are copying your content.
CreativeCommons-Don’t forget to put a CC license on your blog to show the world that your content is copyrighted.
Blog Email Contact Form
These are very useful tools that you can put on your website.This let you get messages from your readers without disclosing your email addresses.Thus preventing potential spam emails.
123 contact
Free Image Editor
Sometime you need to edit your images.Photoshop is costly.So you need to have an alternative to that.
GIMP is one of the best free Image editors around.But,there are few other quality free image editors as well.
Image and File Hosting
If you’re blogging on the free blogging platforms like blogger then these are most important tools.Free blog hosts often dose not allow file hosting.
Mediafier-A free file hosting site.
Photobucket-Free image hosting.
I hope this post will help you and make you more equipped so that your blogging becomes easier and you can become a better blogger.
Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is probably the best tool you’re going to try.Just try this and feel the difference.If you’re still using those in-house blog editors you’re wasting a lot of your time and energy.I’ve written a post 6 Reasons To Use Windows Live Writer For Blogging.
Download Windows Live Writer.
Firefox Browser
If you’re a blogger and still not using Firefox browsers then you’re actually not helping your cause.With so many useful plug-ins Firefox can make your lot of jobs easier-Firefox Plug-in ‘NoDoFollow’ helps you find whether a blog comments use no-follow attribute or not.Commenting on do-follow blogs gives little bit of link juice to your blog and helps your blog improve search engine ranking.
Download the latest version of Firefox.
Blog and Social Networks
Blogging is all about networking.Your success heavily depends on your ability to network with your fellow bloggers and your readers.I’d recommend using these networks-
Mybloglog
Technorati
Blogcatalog
These are the five networks you should use regularly.These networks can give you traffic,you can find link partners for your blog,learn a thing or two from the blogger community.
There are many more social networks you can use.The more you use the better.But logically it’s not possible to use all those social network regularly for a ‘human’ .So,it’s better you choose few of them.
Traffic Tools
Traffic is the soul of any blog.There are many sources to get traffic to your blog.SEO is the ultimate option for any blogger to get long term sustained search engine traffic.
Social networks and social bookmarking sites like Digg,Stumble upon, Reddit, Sphin are very good for a blog to get traffic.You can use blog traffic networks to get free traffic.
Entricard
Link Referral
Website Visitor Tracking
Tracking your visitors very important.It’s not about knowing how many unique visitors or how many page views you are getting.But,the most important thing is to analyze visitor behavior on your blog.How the visitors are navigating your blog,which are the pages that getting most page views.
There are many free web visitor tracking system available.I use these three in my websites.You don’t need to use all of them in a single blog.However using all of them is no harm.Remember one thing, since visitor tracking is done by using cookies,so you can expect somewhat different results from different trackers.
Google Analytics
Statcounter
Third Party Comment Systems
These third party comment systems actually makes blog commenting more attractive for the readers.
Disqus
Intense Debate
Feed Distribution
Giving the readers a option to subscribe to your feeds is very important.It’s not possible for anyone to visit there favorite sites everyday.Feeds gives them the option to track the updates on their favorite sites without visiting them everyday.
Feedburner
Feedbliz
Feed Reader
The most successful bloggers are most avid readers too.That’s how they get information to write.If you don’t read a lot you can’t write more quality articles,which is the only secret of a successful blog.A feed reader can save your valuable time and aggregate all of your subscription in one place.I use Google Reader.To me that’s the best.
Google Reader
Bookmark and Subscription Tools
Give your readers the opportunity to spread your content virally using these bookmarking tools.And also provide them with the opportunities to subscribe your blog feed into their favorite readers.
Add To Any
Add This
Translation
Certainly not the most essential of the tools.But,if most of your readers are coming from the countries where your blog’s language is not first language,then it’s a very handy tool to have installed in to your blog.But,again most of the web users these days use translation tools right from their browsers.
Google Translation Tools
Convey This
Anti Plagiarism Tools
If your blog is few weeks old and you provide quality content then you’ll have to face this menace of plagiarism.This is one of the biggest problems online publishers face.You can find your content are sp[read all over the internet.This can hart you badly if not stopped.There are many tools you an use to detect whether you’re content has been plagiarized.
Copyscape-Use this tool to find which websites are copying your content.
CreativeCommons-Don’t forget to put a CC license on your blog to show the world that your content is copyrighted.
Blog Email Contact Form
These are very useful tools that you can put on your website.This let you get messages from your readers without disclosing your email addresses.Thus preventing potential spam emails.
123 contact
Free Image Editor
Sometime you need to edit your images.Photoshop is costly.So you need to have an alternative to that.
GIMP is one of the best free Image editors around.But,there are few other quality free image editors as well.
Image and File Hosting
If you’re blogging on the free blogging platforms like blogger then these are most important tools.Free blog hosts often dose not allow file hosting.
Mediafier-A free file hosting site.
Photobucket-Free image hosting.
I hope this post will help you and make you more equipped so that your blogging becomes easier and you can become a better blogger.
No comments:
Post a Comment