The Best Blogging Resources For 2020
So, you want to start a blog in 2020 but there are so many resources and tools out there that you feel totally overwhelmed about where you should invest your money. Right?
Don’t worry because today, I’m going to list out a few tools that I personally find really useful. Investing in these resources will surely propel your business forward, make you super productive, and save your precious time.
Without further ado, let’s begin: the best blogging resources every blogger needs!
The Best Blogging Resources For 2020
For ease, I’ve broken down the list in several categories.
Productivity/Organization
1. Evernote
It’s a note-taking app that’ll help you to keep things organized. You can save notes of your future blog post ideas, topic researches, things you want to learn, and much more on this app.
2. Trello
It’s like a collaboration tool that organizes your different projects into specified boards. It’s really useful especially if you have a team.
3. Google calendar
This Free tool allows you to create events, multiple calendars, manage tasks, and even share them. Plus, you can sync it across multiple devices.
4. DropBox
It’s an online cloud storage tool. With this app, you can store, organize, and find all files that you need across multiple devices.
Stats tracking
5. Google Analytics
This is a totally free tool that provides you detailed data of your website visitors. This can help you to track which posts on your blog are doing better than others.
6. Statcounter
Allows you to check who has visited your website, where they’ve come from, and much more.
Graphic designing, images and video creation
7. Canva and Pic Monkey
They both are really great graphic designing tools that’ll allow you to create beautiful graphics for your blog and social media quickly and easily.
8. Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash
They all provide beautiful, free images and stock photos that you can download and use for any project.
9. Animoto
With this tool, you can create professional-quality videos for your products/services or content and share it everywhere for marketing purposes.
Content creation/keyword search/SEO
10. Grammarly
It helps you to find grammatical errors in your content and allows you to correct it. Plus, it also suggests better words and sentence formation that can further enhance the clarity of your article.
11. Coschedule, Sharethrough – Headline analyzers
As the name suggests, it tells you if your blog titles are good enough or not.
12. Google Keyword planner
A tool created by Google itself to find relevant keywords for your articles.
13. Yoast SEO Plugin
A WordPress plugin that checks your content for ideal SEO practices.
14. Semrush and Ahrefs
Powerful SEO tools that allow you to research your competitors, find keywords, and much more.
15. Ubersuggest and Keysearch
They’re the most affordable keyword research tools.
Social media management
16. Meet Edgar, Buffer, and Hootsuite
These tools help you to schedule and post your content at the best possible time throughout the day (The time when your audience is active online most) across various social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
17. Tailwind
Another powerful scheduler but ideal for Pinterest.
Email Services
18. Convertkit, Flodesk, and Mailchimp
They are all easy to use email automation tools. It’s fine if you don’t spend money on other tools if you’re just starting off but, don’t skip on this one.
Misc.
19. Teachable
It’s all in a one course hosting solution to sell your digital courses online.
20. Buzzsumo
It lets you find the most popular content for a given keyword.
21. Surveymonkey
It lets you create attractive survey forms for your readers and customers for free.
22. Google Alerts
It allows you to monitor the web mentions of your name, website, or even business. It’s really simple, you just enter a name or phrase and you’ll be alerted via email when Google finds a new mention on the web.
That’s all folks! Have any other useful blogging resources which you use to uplevel your game? Do mention your answers in the comments.
