21 Best Blogging Tools in 2021
- Email/Marketing
- Storing Ideas
- Stock Photo
- Grammar Checker
- SEO Platform
- Design Graphic
Email Platforms
1.Mailchimp
I've been using Mailchimp for about a year, and let me tell you: it's a must-have for beginners. Mailchimp is a free email marketing platform that creators use to design emails and stunning looking campaigns. It also lets you customize your subscription box, so readers can insert their email address to receive notifications. I love using this platform because Mailchimp gives you an in-depth report showing you how many subscribers are clicking your newsletter to read your blog post.
That's AMAZING. Because now you know what your subscribers want to see more in the future. So, continue writing topics based on blog posts that performed well in the past.
For the Free Plan, Mailchimp lets you have up to 2000 contacts and 10 000 emails per month. (with ads)
2. ConvertKit
Convertkit is another powerful email service that allows you to send unlimited emails for free. Similar to Mailchimp, you can collect up to 2000 contacts. Bloggers with a business will love this email platform. Because it helps you promote your products through smart strategies of email marketing.
What's great about this platform is that Convertkit has a 30-day free trial. Users will have access to their many advanced features. It gives you opportunities, such as converting your readers into customers! After the free trial ends, you can pick the basic plan, making the cost $29.99 a month.
3. Get Response
Have a small business? GetResponse provides everything in one: webinar hosting, automated sale funnels and e-commerce features. It's a combination of Mailchimp and Convertkit with additional cool features.
Get Response also offers you a 30-day free trial. It's an all-in-one marketing platform, giving endless creative choices. From their email marketing to landing pages, the GetResponse price is $15/ month. The platform includes automation features.
Storing Idea Platform
Trello
I've used Trello for ages. It's one of the best tools on the market. Don't know where to store your brainstorming ideas? Use Trello. An easy-to-use app that tracks your progress by letting you make save your ideas into colour-coded boards. The boards are next to one another, and you put a title and background colour depending on your blog post topic or daily to-do reminders for a blog post.
Under each board is made of sticky notes where you can place your most urgent task at the top to your optional priorities at the bottom. What works for me is putting my best blog post titles under one board. Afterwards, I will be creating a second board for other blog post ideas that I find interesting. But, more often than not, I might not use them. If I find that the first board has better ideas, I'll throw out some blog post titles in the second board.
Todoist
Todoist is another great free app if you're blogger who tends A) to procrastinates daily B) has too many things on their plate. If you're one of the above, then Todoist is the right choice for you. Todoist lets you assigns a productivity level to your task , motivating you to complete your long o-do list.
Having so much many ideas, but you have no concrete plan on to accomplish it, is counterproductive. Todoist helps you in so many ways: scheduling a deadline, adding notes to your task and labeling your projects.
Evernote
Evernote is one of my all-time favourite note-taking platforms. It's incredibly efficient! With an easy-to-use interface, Evernote enables you to write from anywhere. With multiple notebooks stored in one location, all you have to do is create a new note, write down your blog idea. And then save it to a notebook. Poof. YOU'RE DONE.
No need to worry about losing your files. Because Evernote automatically saves your document after you finish typing. What's more, you can put URL links, insert photos and set reminders for every note.
Stock Photo Platform
Pexels
I used Pexels before, and it is one of my favourite free stock photo platforms. With no attribution required, Pexels has millions of high-quality images. The images are royalty-free, making it easy for bloggers to use the photos. You can use them to design Pins, banners or blog thumbnails.
Not only that, but it also gives a variety of beautiful videos if you want to use them in another project unrelated to blogging. It has everything in one place!
Pixabay
Pixabay has more than 1.9 millions beautiful free images that are copyright free. Regardless of your blog niche, you will be sure to find at least one photo that fits your aesthetic taste. In my opinion, it's of the best free stock photo platform out there, besides Pexels.
Unsplash
If you either used Pixabay or Pexels already, try Unsplash. It's another powerful stock free photo platform, having more than 2 million visually appealing images in their growing library. Every month, it generates more than 17 billion photo impressions.
Grammar Corrector Platform
Grammarly
Want to write like a pro? And not make any grammar spelling mistakes, as a newbie blogger would? Use Grammarly. It's the solution to your problems whether you're writing an important email to a customer or if you need to correct your blog post. Grammarly checks for punctuation, spelling and grammar errors. It's an all built-in plugin that autocorrects your text. When you're writing on-the-go on a platform like Gmail and WordPress, Grammarly proofreads everything.
It gets even better; Grammarly proofreads your text based on the tailored goals you've put in their settings. For my blog, I always make sure that my blog posts are knowledgeable and informative. But a the same time, being engaging for my audience.
ProWritingAid
ProWriting is an all-in-one free app that not only corrects your grammar errors. But, by being a sophisticated tool, it gives feedback to your writing style. Bloggers who tend to focus more on storytelling will enjoy using ProwritingAid.
It makes your writing more engaging and cohesive. I usually use it in combination with Grammarly. After eliminating all my spelling errors on Grammarly. I'll use ProwritingAid afterwards. It optimizes my text; it highlights the misuse of passive verbs, word choices and fragmented sentences.
GingerIt
Ever wonder if you should spend money on a grammar checker? Well, no you should, because GingerIt is so worth the investment. I often use it for school-related projects or long written blog posts. Not only is it similar to Grammarly and ProwritingAid, but it offers sentence alternatives.
GingerIt will modify the whole structure of your sentence. Afterwards, giving you the correct version, if not an even better one! I will often eliminate some of my written sentences, replace them with the recommended ones. Which makes my blog post bulletproof from any error!
SEO Platform
Yoast Seo: the #1 Wordpress Seo Plugin
Need to make your website stand out in the Google Search Results? Yoast SEO is the key to your increasing blog traffic. It optimizes your keywords and keyphrases while giving recommendations to improve your draft blog post.
It makes the understanding of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a lot easier without needing to be an expert in the field. All the tools are at the tip of your fingers because Yoast Seo makes sure your website respects all the technical aspects of SEO. Whether it's your blog title, meta description or sitemap, Yoast Seo optimizes everything! You now have higher chances of getting your blog post ranking in Google or on any other search engine.
Rank Math
Rank Math is another powerful WordPress plugin. You're bound to love it because it has advanced features that show you what you need to improve your SEO. Some bloggers prefer it over the Yoast plugin given that the plugin has more detailed settings.
Displaying a modern user interface, Rankmath has a positive advantage. The complete opposite to the Yoast plugin: Rankmath can assign unlimited focus keywords. While Yoast plugin only allows to input a maximum of up to five keywords.
All in One SEO Pack
This platform is another awesome choice for bloggers who want efficiency. It's not called All in One SEO for nothing. All the settings are found on a single page. Unlike the complicated multiple page settings of Yoast SEO.
It makes it easier for people who want to organize their tools all in one place. Beginners can easily appreciate this WordPress plugin because there's a help button next to each option. A short description is provided, making it easier for the user to understand the full functionality.
Design Graphic Platform
Canva
Not a graphic designer? Don' worry. You can now create eye-catching blog banners, pins and your very own brand logo with Canva! Offering pre-made templates, Canva is a free graphic design platform that lets non-experts designers have access to unlimited easy-to-use features. You can drag and drop shapes and designs on a template already designed by Canva.
Canva also has a wide variety of themes: Halloween, Valentine and Earth Day. The platform will not disappoint you. If you're fast, it will take less than two hours to create your brand logo, a blog post banner and various Pins to post on your Pinterest Board. Canva is simple and easy to use, making it one of the most beloved platforms in 2021.
Visme
Visme is an excellent platform choice for creating in-depth infographics. It's one of the best free infographic makers out there, which, bloggers with no graphic experience can enjoy using at its full potential.
Not only, do users will design infographics, but they can also make powerful captivating videos for their online business. Visme has special settings where you can insert recordings of your voice and add animated elements in your edited video.
Also, you can use it as a collaborative tool for business projects where your colleagues team up together to make visually compelling data presentations.
Crello
Similar to Canva, Crello is another powerful design tool, giving users the ability to design all kinds of templates.
You can design social media templates and promote your blog posts through Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest to expose your blog to a wider range of audience.
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