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Blogging Tools To Help Your Blog’s Success
Every blogger needs some tools to help them succeed. Here are some blogging resources I recommend for your blog today to make it easier and more effective for you.
As a matter of fact, blogging takes time and effort. Furthermore, the tools on this page can help relieve some of that time and effort for you.
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Blogging & Website Tools You Can’t Live Without!
Hosting Companies- Hosting is very important for your blog or website today. Hence, you need to be sure you have the speed and tech support available. This guide on hosting companies will help you decide which one is right for you!
Of course, if you have been following my blog for the past decade you know I love Hostgator with their 24/7 support!
Triberr – I still recommend this one for bloggers thought it’s not as great in 2020 as it used to be. You can join tribes of like minded bloggers and help each other share your new posts (via RSS feeds) on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can follow my tribe Inspiring Bloggers Here.
Agorapulse – My favorite social media management tool to save you time scheduling your social media! You can also respond to engagements right on their dashboard and see who are your Twitter ambassadors and much more.
They have new reporting that is absolutely fabulous easy to generate and view! You can view mine in this blog post —-> Check out my 3 top reasons for using it today.
Yoast SEO Plugin – This WordPress plugin makes SEO (Search Engine Optimization) so much easier to do for your blog or website. Therefore, I use the premium edition and highly recommend it!
Viral Content Bee – Is an online community that shares their blog posts to various social networks. Read my review on them here when they were called Viral Content Buzz.
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Great Blogging /Website Tools You Need
Video Captioning with Zubtitles – You can try out this app for FREE with 1 video. If you edit it you can try it a few different ways. Change the font, style and size of your captions and titles.
You may edit the one video as much as you want and not be charged for it.
(The videos may be up to 30 minutes time with captions.)
But if you want to make 10 videos a month it is only $19/month. You can choose to add 30 for $49/month. (Those videos may be edited as well!) Now, if you want to save BIG you can refer a friend to get 50% OFF. Your friend will get 50% OFF as well. You may use my referral code here: Code WTQ128. Learn more about it here on my Zubtitles blog post.
Do you need help making videos for YouTube? My friend Dana, I’ve met through blogging years ago does a fabulous job with YouTube videos. I saw one she did for real estate agents that was just awesome. Do check her out if you need help with videos for your business.
UnderConstructionPage – You can read my review on the post 6 awesome plugins help with your online blogging.
Social Media Tools
Want a social sharing tool that keeps count of all your shares? Social Warfare does just that. Likewise, Social Warfare shows the share count by each of the social networks you choose and a total share count for each post or page.
You can customize how these share counts look. To demonstrate, you can see this plugin in action on Inspire to Thrive.
Not only does it do share counts but it includes a fun click to tweet tool with it! You can pick from various designs to include the click to tweets in your blog posts.
Another great feature of this plugin is the Pinterest application. You can customize your Pinterest images for Pinterest with this plugin in one easy step.
Brand24 is another awesome tool to monitor your brand on social media and on blogs. Regular Google alerts will not show you those! This social media listening tool is so easy to set up and use. Now they feature monitoring for podcasts and hashtags 🙂
You can even monitor it on your mobile device or if you choose have emails sent to you immediately when you or your brand is mentioned. I’ve also done a review on this tool for more information.
Canva is one of the most used programs I use today to design graphics here on the blog and for social media posts as well as infographics.
It’s a must have tool today for any blogger!
I’ve tried a few other graphic creating tools but Canva is the easiest to use. It even replaced my old photoshop program. You can click on the banner below to learn more.
Websites -Do you need a new website?
A website is your home. It should look fabulous and make people welcome.
Because I manage social media I like clients to have the best website as social media oftentimes takes them to their website. A website is your property that you own.
Social media sites are like rented property!
Luxury Presence – Fabulous real estate websites. I’ve worked with Drew from Luxury and they offer a great package for realtors.
MoPro Website Designers – These folks came highly recommended from Tony Giordano, the author of The Social Agent. You can even use his promo code: VIPAgent to save a few dollars.
Other Convenient Tools
Install and access your important work applications and software no matter where you from any device(PC/Android/i OS) with a cloud desktop from CloudDesktopOnline – For cloud related business software such as SharePoint, Office365, try Apps4Rent.
Tools To Help You Make Money From Your Blog or Website
Influencer Programs – Make Money!
Webfluential – Another great way to earn money as a social media and blogger influencer!
Folks You Can Hire To Help Your Blogging Business:
Mayura4Ever – Technical Support is a must! Mayura is my go to person whenever I run into technical difficulties. Why spend time on them when you need to generate new content and stay engaged on social media? He is absolutely the best! I’ve known Mayura for 9 years.
Cori Ramos – Cori has a flare for design with her website designs and graphic designs. She has done several designs for me including my latest Facebook page header. I’ve known Cori for at least 8 years as well.
Reginald Chan – from Marketing Lancers offers affordable SEO services for your blog or website. I’ve know him for years via the blogosphere and he came highly recommended as did Deborah Norton.
Blogging Resources via Books!
Finally, learn from Ryan Biddulph’s Blogging Mistakes – I’ve read this great eBook “10 Disastrous Mistakes Newbie Bloggers Make and How to Fix Them”. Do check out his other 100+ ebooks too!
Other Blogging Tools and Books
Last but not least, is the Free HEADLINE Analyzer for your blogging resources. Check out this great headline tool to make your headlines stand out for all of your blog posts! Not to mention, you can test different headlines to see which will work the best.
Of all the tools you mentioned here, I only use Yoast. Thank you for sharing, I will check the others out especially the Viral Content Bee
Hi Ludiah, welcome to Inspire To Thrive. I hear Yoast has a main competitor now. (I believe it’s RankMath) I do love Yoast still and have had the premium version for years now. What other tools were you thinking of trying here Ludiah? Thanks for coming by and have a great day!
Many thanks for the shout out, Lisa! Always happy to help! Muwah!
Hi Lisa, I am blogger working for one year. Now only i started using tribber a fantastic marketing platform for me which saves a huge time in business. Thanks for giving a great ideas. Great job Lisa!
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for the tools. I actually use the headline analyzer quite often, and I refuse to publish a post without first analyzing the title. CommentLuv Premium, I absolutely love this tool and probably am in luv with it. I’m actually working my way towards purchasing it. One thing I absolutely love about CommentLuv is its community building strategy and its structure. Say I publish a post about fashion, and other comment on the post with their fashion blog posts, twitter handles, etc. all of these links have just made the blog post even stronger. I am about $30 away from purchasing CommentLuv. So far as the other tools, I’ve not tried them out yet but definitely will. Thank you so much for your suggestions. 🙂
An artist is as good as the tools he uses, same goes for bloggers.
If you are doing everything manually, it will take way more time as compared to using some simple tools.
I’ve been blogging for around 2 years and I know how beneficial tools have been for me and how much time they save.
Thanks for the list 🙂 Keep going.
Hi Rachit, having the right tools is key to almost anything 🙂 Thanks for coming by and have a great day!
Hey Lisa,
I am using Buffer for my blog and it’s really a great tool. I never thought that I would be able to save this much time in marketing my posts. It’s REALLY a great automation tool.
Thanks for sharing other tools for blog success. Will give them a try! 🙂
Hi Nikhil, It’s probably my favorite tool Nikhil. I use the Bufffer to share others too so I’m not tweeting more than 2 things at one clip. I use the Pro for $10/mo, definately worth it! The other favorite tool of mine would be Triberr. Are you a member there? Thanks for coming by Nikhil and have a great day!
Tribber is something that I am still trying to figure out. It seems a bit confusing to me but maybe I just have a mental block.
Hi Renee, welcome to Inspire to Thrive. Sorry it took so long- was making sure you were not spam. Did you reach my other posts on Triberr? One of them is here https://inspiretothrive.com/2013/08/triberr-reader/ I hope it helps. Let me know if you have any questions. I’ve been using it for years and love it. How many tribes are you in?
Very nice tips and you must generate great quality content regularly and keep on learning new things which are happening in your niche.One should always blog about useful content which might be useful for your readers and this will gradually increase your authority and increase traffic to your blog
Thank you Rohit – that is so true and having the right tools can help you get that content out there easier and quicker!
There are indeed thousands of plugins available but it is imporatant which one to choose for your blog. Thanks for this guide.
You are most welcome Charmie, thanks for coming by and checking it out too.
Hi Lisa, commentluv is the greatest of the tools you mentioned! When you install it on your blog, everything takes off…it’s just like magic…all you have to do is reap the benefits!
Yes, is sure is Akaahan, I truly love that tool for blogging.
Lisa, I won’t comment on blogs that don’t have Commentluv. Not because I’m a spamming piece of garbage. But because I use it on mine, so you should use it on yours. Disqus I have tried and I don’t like it one bit. It doesn’t load correctly and just makes me upset. As a normal person I run into Disqus and I couldn’t even sign in and use it. Yeah, that bad. – Scott Craighead
Scott, I do have CommentLuv Premium here. Disqus is okay, I used to comment on blogs with that interface. Do you use any of the resources here?
It is not the Sevin theme, it’s a hand made theme I purchased. Thanks- it shows int the footer, the designer Emma. (Vanita Cyril)
Hello Lisa, I really love what you did with this theme..is this the “Sevim” theme? I love the header grafix so much its so so coooooollll!!!! I really would love to have a header pix like that for mine too…still learning the hang of it… I learn alot whenever I visit…Trust me, I got this blog bookmarked for life! Way to go Lisa!
Cheers!