Efficient User

Even the simplest tool can empower the people to do great things.

If you are a blogger, then this post will definitely help you to prepare and enhance your content & it’s quality. (Pro Tip: bookmark it after reading).

This post is not limited to any particular niche of the blog. Whether you are a travel blogger, tech blogger or in any other niche – at least one of the tools mentioned below will help you to groom your content and traffic in your site.

I have used almost every tool listed, with minimum 1 week of time to explore key features.

I built this ultimate list or cheer sheet based on my personal experience.

Note that the order of tools doesn’t based on any rating or popularity and not doing this post to market any tool. The aim to help the fellow blogger to improve their content and strategy.

I will keep on updating this post whenever I explore new tools and think it is worth to be placed here. Make sure you comment on your favorite in the comments section to grow list into a massive cheat sheet for bloggers.

Cheat sheet of blogging tools

Editors

Notion – One of my favorite tools which helps me to maintain my blog drafts, blog ideas, and various blog management task. It helps me to share the draft with my friends quickly with a quick magic link.

OneNote – If you are working as a team, collaborating with the same document by a number of people is possible. OneNote is mainly a content management tool.

Grammarly – proof reading tool to check the spelling and grammar, mistake-free, and effective.

Images for blogs

Canva – got plenty of templates that can be used as a featured image, blog illustration, and social media stories, etc.

Unsplash – The internet’s source of freely usable images. Powered by creators everywhere. And remember to give credit to the creator.

Pixabay – Find your perfect free image or video to download and use for anything. Free for commercial use.

Blog Reading

Use the following tools to follow fellow blogger as well as to research the content.

Feedly – It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others.

Pocket – is an application and web service for managing a reading list of articles and videos from the Internet.

Reddit – Big database network which got plenty good user data and real-time users.

Content creation

GifCam – simple tool to convert the screen capture into GIFs

Make Web video – is a powerful web video production website which allows you to make Promotional Videos

Camtasia – simple to record and create professional-looking videos on Windows and Mac.

Analytics tool

Google analytics – lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Jetpack plugin – when you WordPress as your hosting platform jetpack is the right tool to check stats and analytics.

Social media marketing tools

Tweet Deck – simple tool to schedule tweets, but can used in browser only

Buffer – one of the favourite social media marketing tools to schedule posts. Supports Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and provides better time to post content on various mediums.

Clicktotweet – Whoever clicks on the link will have the message automatically added to their Twitter status box–they simply click to tweet!

Bit.ly – helps to shorten the long urls.

SEO & Research tool

Ubersuggest – easy to use tool to research the keywords and traffic analysis. Ubersuggest provides an option to perform a site analysis as well, and also connecting with google console is available.

Yoast – is a search-optimization plug-in for WordPress. It has 5+ million active installations and has been downloaded more than 202 million times.

KWfinder – Find hundreds of hidden keywords with low SEO difficulty in seconds.

SEO Extension – Chrome extension to quickly check the page SEO – metrics, backlinks, on-page.

TubeBuddy – the must-have app for any YouTuber, this tool brings a good quality of analytics details and keywords details.

Google Webmaster – Track your site’s search performance with Google Search Console and our additional webmaster resources.

Email Marketing

MailChimp – a marketing automation platform and an email marketing service. Easy to deploy and collect the email of visitors to your site. We can run a campaign and Ads with help of MailChimp.

Time Tracking

TimeDoser – Chrome extension or timer to do the Pomodoro session effectively. (I love this tool, must try)

RescueTime – a time-management tool that provides intelligent insights into how you spend your days.

I will keep on updating this post whenever I explore new tools and think it is worth to be placed here. Make sure you comment on your favorite in the comments section to grow list into a massive cheat sheet for bloggers.

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