Writing a blog on a consistent basis and promoting it to drive traffic is what will happen when you start your own blog. This might seem simple in words, but takes a lot of effort.
What if I say that there are many tools where every blogger can make use to manage their time efficiently and reduce the burden of their work?
You will be the happiest person right?
So, in this blog I will be discussing a few such blogging tools for beginners, which will help them with their blogging.
The best part is, all these tools are free for beginners to make use of them.
So let’s dive into them.
Best Blogging Tools For Beginners:
1. Grammarly
Grammarly is a tool which will help you check your grammatical errors while writing your blog posts.
They have both free and paid version. For beginners, free version will suffice, paid version will come out with other advanced features.
There a free chrome plugin for Grammarly, where you can install. Once this plugin is installed, it will start suggesting you accordingly while you are writing.
Hence, this tool will make your job of proofreading blog easily and helps in creating more reader-friendly content.
2. Google Analytics
As the name suggests, Google Analytics is a tool which will help you with various analytics data of your blog site.
This free tool will provide you with a code to be added to each of the page in your website at the head section.
Once this code is added, you can now login to Google Analytics tools and find various analytics date like: how many users are coming to your site on a daily basis, what are the top performing pages, which channels drive traffic to the website, what is the average time users are spending on each page of the website etc.
These are only a part of what this tool provides, there are many other dimensions and metrics this tool can provide you with.
Hence, if you are a beginner blogger, then I would highly recommend this tool.
3. Yoast SEO
This tool is a very important and highly recommended blogging tool for beginners, if your site is designed in WordPress.
This is an SEO tool which will help you to optimize your website for various SEO factors like title tag, meta description, canonical tag, XML site etc.
Optimizing your website for SEO will help you with more traffic coming from search engines.
Hence, if you want your website to perform well in search engines like Google, then this is a must have tool.
4. Email Marketing Tool
As a beginner blogger, if you are trying to collect email Ids of your website visitors, store them in a proper place and use them for promoting your blogs or products by sending emails, then your blog should have an email marketing tool.
There are many good email marketing tools available in the market:
- Aweber (Paid)
- MailChimp
- Sendgrid …Etc.
If you ask me to choose one among them, then I would recommend MailChimp as it is free to a certain extent. If you have some money to afford, then you can go with Aweber.
5. Tools For Images
As a blogger you might need to use images in your blog. But if you are a beginner and have no knowledge on how to get images to be used in your blog, then are some tools which can help you with.
- Canva – Very user friendly tool which help you customize your images.
- Pixabay – This website will offer you lots of images for free which you can directly use in your website
6. Ubersuggest
This is a tool which can help you with competitor analysis or find out new keyword ideas for your blogs.
This is again a free tool.Other than just getting keyword ideas, this tool will also help you in finding out any SEO issues existing in your website.
This tools is again a free one to use, but need to login with your respective email id to use it.
Conclusion
As a beginner blogger you might be struggling a lot to maintain your blogging site. The blogging tools listed here can help reduce your burden to a certain extent and can help you focus your time in to other necessary work.
What are the various tools you are using in your blog, that can help lots of beginners? Please feel free to share them in the comments section below.
Happy blogging 🙂
