We have reached the last quarter of 2020, and trust me; it couldn’t get any more unpredictable than it already is. The global pandemic has changed the landscape of almost every business sector in varying intensities. This also includes our Digital world. Numerous bloggers in the blogosphere have made the most out of this pandemic leading to a positive impact on traffic and driving business.
As WordPress experts rightly say, the use of blogging tools can make or break your blogging business.
When you plan to make it big in the blogosphere, you need to make sure that you use the best tools to make your growth journey easy and traceable.
We have compiled a list of 10 Blogging tools that every WordPress Blogger must use. Let’s begin.
1. Ahrefs
When it comes to one of the famous, recommended by experts and sought-after blogging tools – Ahrefs tops the chart. It is not just an SEO tool; it is an all-in-one SEO toolset that comes with free learning materials with excellent community support. Ahrefs is a toolset that caters everything from website audits, competitor analysis, perform keyword analysis, do content marketing, and track your website’s performance under one umbrella. It is one of the most powerful tools.
2. Google Analytics
The free web analytics tool made by the world’s tech giant Google itself is what every webmaster prefers to use. Be it tracking website’s traffic, tracking impressions, Click-through rates, detecting bounce rates, see real-time traffic, and optimizing your campaigns – you can do everything. These are some critical data that one needs to check and understand when spending a lot of your time, efforts, and money on it.
3. SERP Robot
As the name suggests, this tool checks your website’s Search Engine Rankings, i.e., which keywords of your website are ranking and which are not. This is a free tool that will help you understand your blog’s performance and how you can optimize the low rankings and save your blog from any search engine penalties.
4. Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is an SEO plugin for WordPress CMS available in both Free and the Paid version. But unlike other tools, Yoast Plugin’s free version also helps you optimize and make your blogs better before you hit the publish button. From helping your blogs to be more readable, SEO-aligned, to writing better headlines, managing keyword density, proper use of header tags to writing concrete meta descriptions – you can fulfill a lot using Yoast SEO for WordPress Blog.
5. Buzzsumo
A powerful Content Research blogging tool – that’s what Buzzsumo is all about. You can generate pre-validated blog topics on a given set of keywords, monitor what people on social media are talking about your content as well as real-time mentions. You can monitor and track everything to make your content more engaging and real. Another popular feature this tool provides is the Question Analyzer. It enables you to search for questions people on the Internet ask for a particular keyword. Imagine what crazy things you could pull off using this feature. Half of the time, we research what people are searching for and how they are firing their queries. Getting this data would mean winning half the race.
6. Can I Rank?
The answer to this question is always “YES in between quotes.” The name itself is exciting enough. It is an AI-empowered software that gives the user actionable tips, tricks, and advice on improvising your WordPress blog’s performance. These tips would be in the form of SEO rankings, how to get more traffic, and even blog topic ideas based on trend and search volumes. In short, this can be a go-to tool if you feel you want to capitalize your time in executing rather than just strategizing.
7. Hunter
What could an email address do? How powerful can email ids be? Well, truth to be told, when it comes to driving business, retaining new clients, or finding the right guy to pitch your sales proposal – Hunter is the ultimate weapon. As the name suggests, Hunter seeks down email addresses on the Internet. Not only that, but it also lets you find out all the emails associated with a particular company – just by entering the domain name. It seems like a life-jacket, right? It is indeed. It is one of the most popular tools.
8. Ninja Outreach
Outreach activities are some of the most tiring and time-consuming tasks for content marketing. You have to connect with different types of profiles, including companies, influencers, and bloggers, to request a guest post, especially for link-building and influencer marketing. Ninja outreach is an all-in-one content outreach tool that helps you create an organized pitch, including blog topics, blogs, SEO metrics, data about traffic, and contact details to collaborate with prospects.
9. Convertkit
What is the next step once you have published a significant amount of content and wrote hundreds of blogs? It is to grow your audience, your subscribers, or email list. From automating and sequencing your blogs/Digital Courses/eBooks to send to your subscribers – Convertkit will manage it. Even you can set various email automation campaigns using this tool. Blogging life will become easier.
10. Teachable
Bloggers these days have different ways to monetize their blogs. After all, the ultimate goal is to stick to a niche, write quality content, and grow your reader community. This can happen through various forms, including selling eBooks, Digital Courses, or even podcasts. Teachable here is one such online course delivery platform that helps you serve your content to learners and collect payments on your behalf. All you need to do is connect with Paypal or Stripe account, and you are up for selling your online courses.
Conclusion:
So, here it is – the list of top 10 blogging tools you shouldn’t miss as a WordPress Blogger. There are many more tools which you can explore apart from these ones but, these are the ones any experts would agree to.
Also, if you are looking to hire WordPress developers, it is important they use if not all but some out of these tools.
Bio: Sheryl Jones
Sheryl is the Sr. Marketing Specialist at Uplers who has a great experience in designing well-defined user journeys across the digital marketing domain. She leverages her digital marketing expertise to help businesses draw significant ROIs.
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