Hello ladies, how you gals doing today? Today's podcast episode looks at the top 20 tools used by successful blogs and how we can use them to our advantage. I have broken down these 20+ tools into 5 categories including: a. Writing/Creation b. Design c. Plugins d. Engagement e. Video A. Writing/Creation When it comes to writing or creating a blog post I am not referring to your blogging voice or creative flair I am more looking at the tools that you can use to polish or enhance the piece that you created. Here are six tools that are used on successful blogs to achieve results: Google Keyword Planner I have used this for many years to help me create content for blogs, videos, podcasts and even books. It would make sense for you my fellow blogger to use this one to complete some research especially since our blogs don't exist in a vacuum but because we depend on the Search Engine Results Pages to display our blogs when someone is searching for one of our relevant keywords. this keyword tool is great for getting keyword ideas, monthly searches and the level of competition by other businesses for these keywords broken down by country or city. Wordtracker This tool is very similar to the Keyword Planner except that it gives what I called the commercial intent ranking of each keyword. This would be good for a business selling products online. Buzzsumo This precious tool is good for giving content creators an idea of what is popular right now so that you and I can take advantage of the latest trends. You can also connect with key influencers so they can help you promote your relevant content. See an example in the screenshot below: The statistics they have on influencers are nothing short of amazing. It is looking at someone's bio or clout before you meet them in person. See screenshot. Hubspot's Blog Topics Tool I find this very handy as it allows me to take one main topic like Facebook Marketing and break it down into several segments so that I can have content ideas for several months completed in just one click of a button. CoSchedule's Headline Analyzer As the name suggests this handy tool helps you to do a proper analysis of your headline before you hit the publish button so that you can take advantage of the best headline possible for your post. Check out the score for this blog post below: Grammarly After you spend so much time writing and editing your blog post the perfect 2nd pair of eyes would be using a tool like Grammarly to double check or even triple check that you have used the correct grammar all the way through. I have it switch on even now as I am writing this post. B. Design Next up is the design element and I have 5 tools to share with you that successful blogs use to improve the user experience. Smartmockups This is a tool that is definitely too cool for school as it lets you do mockups of your products, books, software or almost anything you can imagine. It is super amazing because it allows your prospects to experience the product somewhat even before the click the buy now button. Here is an example for you: Photoshop or Canva These two design applications are great for so many things. Canva is free and you can design all your social media covers, posts and pins in here but if you would like a more professional finish as well as the freedom to really customise then take a look at Photoshop. Creative Market As the name suggests this a market for creative people as it offers you the ability to buy templates, fonts and creative packages to save you time and the stress of starting your projects from scratch. Thrive Themes
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