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ways to make your blog unique, 14 blogging tools every blogger should be…
ways to make your blog unique
Blogging has become an effective way for businesses to gain more business, provide information to the masses and to create a stronghold in a particular field.
BE AN EXPERT ON A PARTICULAR NICHE
The broader your blog posts are, the more competitors you’ll have.
CREATE CONTESTS OR OTHER ENGAGING MATERIAL
People dives in online even when they are bored, so keeping your visitors alive by providing or conducting a challenge or any type of activity in your blog will make them engage.
USE IMAGES & VIDEOS
Your blog has to have mixed media in order to gain and retain traffic from those who naturally aren’t keen to just reading text on a page.
Images and videos are a way to get the viewer engaged on a level where they want and crave reading the entirety of a blog post.
CONDUCT INTERVIEWS
try to interview others who are true experts and professionals on the subject matter
FEATURE GUEST WRITERS.
Allow other credible bloggers the opportunity to create guest posts on your site
When others are able to showcase their craft or knowledge in other places, then you’d best believe they will assist in driving traffic to it.
14 blogging tools every blogger should be using
Buffer (Free & Paid)
If you need to schedule a post on any of your social media accounts – Buffer is the go-to tool.
TweetDeck (Free)
he best tool for Twitter monitoring – and being owned by Twitter means it will very likely stay that way.
things to track are:
Your mentions
All your notifications
Your home screen
Certain hashtags you want to get involved in
Your favourite bloggers
Shares of your blog
Canva (Free & Paid)
Images are extremely important for bloggers, from in the blog posts themselves to social media posts and more.
Evernote (Free & Paid)
it can be simply in its basic note-taking form all the way to the ability to capture anything from Web pages to images, text, and voice notes.
Thrive Leads (Paid)
Thrive Leads offers a complete solution for creating forms on your blog to collect email subscribers.
MailChimp (Free & Paid)
MailChimp offers an easy-to-use platform to create & send emails to your growing database and the paid subscription (from only $10 a month) gives you a huge amount of potential too.
Trello (Free)
Trello is essentially a project management tool focused around improving your workflow – which makes it perfect for creating an editorial calendar for your blog.
Google Keyword Planner (Free)
Google’s Keyword Planner lets you enter a series of keywords, and Google returns results on search volume and popularity as well as related keywords that might spark an idea for you.
Buzzsumo (Free & Paid)
Buzzsumo lets you find blog posts that have been highly shared on social media.
You have your keywords chosen from the Google Keyword Planner. Now, you need to come up with some different blog topics and titles focused around those keywords. That’s where Buzzsumo comes in.
Grammarly (Free & Paid)
Simply copy and paste your article into Grammarly’s online grammar checker to how it performs against checks for spelling,
Yoast SEO (Free)
Yoast SEO is one of the most popular plugins for the WordPress platform and with good reason – it’s a one-stop-shop for all your onsite SEO needs!
Google Analytics (Free)
Google Analytics can help you learn what works best on your site and where to concentrate your efforts – if your readers love a particular theme of posts then you can make sure you produce more of them.
you can learn from Google Analytics
Your most popular articles
Your most popular visiting country
Best performing traffic days
Best converting sign up page
Where your traffic is coming from (Google? Facebook? Etc.)
Whether your visitors are on mobiles, desktops, or tablets
Gleam (Free & Paid)
Gleam creates easily embeddable giveaway forms with multiple entry methods including following on Twitter, signing up to a newsletter, referring friends to the giveaway and about 20 more.
Sumo (Free & Paid)
Sumo plugin can provide:
Social sharing buttons
Email list building forms
Heatmaps
Contact forms
Social sharing buttons on images
And much more.