Best Blogging Tools You need ( Canva, Rank Math, Buffer + more)

Over the past 4 years of my blogging journey, the major problems I have seen a lot of bloggers including myself face is the ability and time to brainstorm content ideas, create quality content and market to the right audience. And all these are necessary factors to make your blog a success.

Fortunately, you do not have to go through those tedious processes any longer in this modern age and time, as numerous highly rated blogging tools can help make your journey much easier.

In this blog post, I am going to share with you a list of my favourite blogging tools that will help you in almost all areas of blogging which includes, improving your content quality, optimizing your website for proper ranking, and sharing your blog post on social media in other to reach more audience.

1. Canva

Canva is a free/paid web-based graphic designing software that allows bloggers with little to no graphic designing experience to create eye-catching graphics for their blogs. Whether you’re creating a featured image for your blog post, in-post illustration or social media graphics to promote your content, Canva has it covered.

Canva is fully loaded with over 250,000 already-made free templates that are suitable for all sorts of designs and also gives users the ability to resize graphics for every social media platform and this could help fasten your design process.

2. Grammarly

Grammarly is a powerful content editor that checks your grammar, spelling and punctuation to make sure your content is error-free. A blog post that’s filled with grammatical errors can quickly chase readers away as it offers poor readability and this will also force search engines to either de-index your blog post or rank it lower.

To avoid grammatical errors, simply copy your yet-to-be-published blog post into Grammarly and see it highlight all errors and give suggested words to replace them or simply download the Grammarly Chrome extension which checks your content while you type. This could also help cut short the time you spend editing.

3. Rank Math

Rank math is one of the most popular SEO plugins for WordPress that can help you optimize your blog post for ranking and also help do all your on-site/on-page optimization to boost your website ranking.

It also offers a wide range of features which include, keyword optimization, schema markup, meta tags and content analysis. It also helps better optimize your content by analyzing your blog post and providing suggestions that will help improve your content for both users and search engines.

You can download Rank Math directly from your WordPress plugin bank. They also make available a step by step instructions on how to set rank math up so you can get the best result out of it.

4. Keyword Everywhere

Keyword Everywhere is a browser extension that helps speed up your keyword research process by providing data such as keyword difficulty, search volume and trends for a specific keyword.

This tool can be a very useful tool for both beginner bloggers and pros as it is free to use and also provides related keywords and long tail keywords that are associated with any term you search using the browser its extension.

In addition, This tool also has some advanced features that are only available to users who purchase credit to join their premium plan.

5. Hemingway Editor

Writing clear and concise content is very crucial to keep your readers engaged. Hemingway Editor is a free tool that analyzes your content and highlights passive voice and complex sentences with suggestions for simplifying your content and making it easier for your audience to read and understand.

With Hemingway Editor you can be sure your content is clear and easy to read and understand.

6. Buffer

Buffer is a social media management tool that helps you schedule and publish content across multiple social media platforms in other to keep your social media account active when you are not actively posting.

With Buffer, you can also track your social media performance to see what’s working and what’s not so you can adjust your strategies accordingly.

In addition, Buffer offers both free and paid plans which makes it accessible for beginner bloggers who don’t have funds to invest in buying tools. By using Buffer, you can cut short the time you spend publishing content on social media and channel it to create quality content for your audience.

7. Notion

Is a powerful and multi-purpose tool which can be used for different tasks including blogging. Notion allows you to create and organize your content using tags and tables, making it easier to locate your content and making it a great option for people who want to streamline their workflow.

If you’re someone who is not fun of writing your blog post directly into WordPress or your CMS, this tool could be a great help to you as it enables you to write blog posts and embed multimedia content like videos and images.

Notion is user-friendly and also has a desktop application and mobile app that you can download onto your device and use effortlessly.

8. GetResponse

Email marketing is very important for bloggers because it enables you to directly communicate with your audience and also market products to them which in return will increase your blog revenue.

GetResponse is one of the most popular email marketing platforms that enable users to create custom forms for collecting email leads and create automated email marketing campaigns making it easier to stay in touch with your audience.

Additionally, GetResponse provides a range of professional-looking email templates that are ready to use and also provides insights about your email performance.

9. Google Trends

Google Trends is a free tool that allows you to check the popularity of a particular keyword/topic and compare it to related search terms in a given time frame and by geographical area.

This tool can be very useful if you want to create content that resonates with your users and the accuracy of this tool can be rated 90/100 as it fetches its data from Google directly because is owned by Google itself.

10. Google Analytics

Nothing is more important than understanding your blog traffic and audience when it comes to growing your blog.

Google Analytics is a free tool that provides in-depth insight about how your blog is performing organically, and socially and also shows you the most performing pages on your website.

It also helps you to better understand your audience demographics so you can best tailor your content to serve your audience with what they need at the right time.

11. Social Snap

Social Snap is a WordPress plugin that allows users to add social media share buttons to their website so that audiences who read and enjoy your content can easily share that post to their social media walls with just a click of a button.

This is an important tool every blogger should have in their toolkit, and I believe you have personally seen these buttons on almost every website you visit including my website.

Social Snap offers both free and paid plans so regardless of your budget, you can use this tool to get the results you want.

12. JetPack

This is a powerful WordPress plugin that helps you to protect your website from hackers or brute-force attacks.

Jetpack also comes with other useful features like a website visitors analyzer, and basic search engine optimization settings. Also, it allows you to automatically publish your blog post across multiple social media platforms within the blink of an eye.

Jetpack is a must-have plugin for every WordPress website and it also offers a free plan which is okay for your basic needs and a paid plan with more advanced features.

Did I miss out on your favourite tool?

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