As a blogger, there are many ways to make your life easier. If you use some of these helpful tools, you can write better blog posts and maximize traffic to your blog. Basically, you can make your life easier by saving more time and doing less work.
Keep reading to find out which 5 tools you need to use!
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1. A Headline / Title Analyzer Tool
My pick: CoSchedule's Headline Analyzer Tool
All you have to do is enter your email and you'll have free access to this helpful tool.
WHY? > This tool will help you write better titles that are better for SEO and ranking on Google. This is a tool to use if you want MORE TRAFFIC to your blog right now.
The tool will give your title and headling a score from 0-100. The higher the score, the better it is!
It will tell you what sentiment your headline conveys.
It tells you how many characters long your headline is - the recommended length is 55
It also analyzes how many words you are using and tells you if the title is too wordy or too short
Tells you the word balance, letting you know how many common, uncommon, emotional, and power words you used
Basically, this tool optimizes your headlines for search engine optimization purposes for free
Here's what a good title needs to contain:
20 -30 % common words
10 - 20 % uncommon words
10 - 15 % emotional words
1 or more power words
2. CANVA for Creating Graphics
This is a tool many bloggers are familiar with. The FREE version of Canva is all you need to create graphics for blog posts, as well as cool pins for PINTEREST, and social media posts for FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM.
Canva is full of free templates to use for any kind of graphics you need as a blogger.
You can create custom graphics by using the custom dimension tool where you can start from scratch, template free
This tool has lots of font and color options plus many of the extra graphics like shapes and stickers are free, as well as an integrated stock photo tool from Unsplash.
You can find free Pinterest templates or buy a pack and edit them in Canva.
Tip: If you want to import some royalty-free stock photos, check out my list of FREE STOCK PHOTO WEBSITES.
3. Google Analytics
You really need to use a free analytics tool like google analytics. It will tell you a lot about your blog, your readers, and what you're doing right and what needs improvement.
I still see many bloggers who aren't using Google Analytics and they're missing out on crucial data.
Here's what google analytics tell you:
what posts are bringing the most traffic to your website
see what people are searching for on your site
the return on investment for campaigns
how many views you get
find out what the worst-performing posts are
user experience
so much more, so make sure you create an account
Once you begin to analyze the data, you can start to set goals based on your blog's performance. This information also helps you plan future blog posts and see what your readers want more of. It's a great way to prepare your site for more traffic.
4. Grammarly for Spelling & Grammar
This is probably the most important tool for bloggers!! Let me tell you why...
Blog posts full of typos and incorrect grammar are a nightmare to read. Grab the free Grammarly app, and it will check all your writing for you, and trust me you will definitely see an improvement. It's little things like comma splices that can take your writing from great to blah...trust me when I tell you that people NOTICE ERRORS!
I personally upgraded to Premium Grammarly but that's because I write for a living and it makes my life so much easier, especially since I type too fast sometimes.
5. Keyword Suggestion Tool
Try UBERSUGGEST by Neil Patel. This is a great SEO tool for all bloggers because it tells you lots of free information about keywords and how they are being used.
Just type in a keyword you want to use and it will share insight with you...
As the website tells users:
From head terms to long-tail phrases you’ll get hundreds of suggestions from our free keyword tool. You’ll also see volume, the competition, and even seasonal trends for each keyword. Give this tool a try and my suggestion is to keep refreshing and starting over with each new keyword you search.
It shows you the keyword difficulty - meaning how hard it is for you to rank for that particular keyword - the higher the number, the more competitive is so aim for lower competition keywords.
also shows the search volume which is how many people search for that keyword, the higher the search volume, the better, because it means people are looking up that topic
I hope you are using these free tools to get more traffic to your blog!
We LOVE Canva! I have been using Photoshop for over a decade and once I tried Canva, it is RARE fir me to even boot Photoshop anymore! Thanks for great tips!