Essential Tools For Blogging and Content Marketer

Blogs and content, is now not only used for ideas and opinions. For owners of online businesses, blogs can be an effective marketing tool.

If you include the use of blogs seriously as a means of business, of course, you need a proper professional equipment anyway. Here is a list of tools for blogging ..

The equipment I list below consists of different categories, ranging from hosting and domains, platforms and equipment, organizing, writing, and promote the content.

If you have other tools recommendations, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Hosting and Domain

HostGator

One of the best shared hosting providers that exist today. HostGator is also relatively cheap, for the first month you only pay $ 0.01 or one cent.

BlueHost

Alternatives other than HostGator hosting are great for beginners. For those of you who do not understand at all how to create a website, BlueHost provides a tool to create a WordPress-based website in one click.

NameCheap

As the name implies, NameCheap is relatively cheaper than other providers but still with high quality.

GoDaddy

Today's most popular domain registrar. GoDaddy quality is unquestionable because it is already used by many large websites. But the price is slightly more expensive.

MaxCDN

Most popular CDN provider that is already used by many large websites. Use CDN to a website with a large scale for faster loading and saving bandwidth usage

CloudFlare

CDN service is free for the basic package. Very good to save bandwidth.

Platform, Plugins and Templates/themes

WordPress

Free, open source, lots of plugins and templates are available, as well as a large user community. No doubt that WordPress is the best blogging platform. Of all websites in the world more than 50% using WordPress.

ThemeForest

Points of sale of Envato template for WordPress (and other CMS), the largest. There are more than 4,000 sold in the WordPress template Themeforest, not including others.

CodeCanyon

Buying and selling of Envato sites as well, but for WordPress plugin and other scripts. Not less than 3,000 premium plugin for WordPress sale in CodeCanyon.

StudioPress

Genesis Framework sold by StudioPress is one of the best templates for WordPress framework. With a bit of coding skills, we can make any template easily because Genesis.

File Sharing & Backup

Dropbox

If your blog is managed by more than one person, Dropbox could be an effective tool to store and share files of documents, images, and others. Dropbox also be a place to backup important files.

Google Drive

Has the same features plus Dropbox sync with Google Docs. Google Drive is more fitting used for sharing files such as documents.

BackWPup

Free plugins to backup your WordPress automatically. The backup file can be saved in Dropbox, FTP, email, or computer. Another alternative with a more complete feature that BackupBuddy and VaultPress.

Digging Content Ideas

BuzzSumo

Looking for what content is much favored by the readers through social level of the share. You can use the 'BuzzSumo to create new content that is better than an existing idea.

QuickSprout

QuickSprout is basically a tool to see the performance of a website. But we can use this tool to find the most popular content on a website.

reddit

Reddit is the largest international community sites. If you can access the Reddit, you will find a lot of quality discussions on various topics that you can use as material content.

Quora

One of the biggest question and answer site that contains questions and answers quality of those professionals.

Feedly

RSS Reader is best at this time. I'm using Feedly to subscribe to blogs that appeal to me.

Scoop.it

Scoop.it is a content curation tool. By registering on Scoop.it you can make your own board that contains content from various websites. Interestingly, you will be given the appropriate content on topics of interest.

Organizing Ideas Content

Evernote

I use Evernote to write the content frame before starting to write (WordPress). Making the content framework aim to make the article more neat and more weight.

Trello

Trello more often I use to organize projects or activities but is also used to accommodate ideas blog content.

Todoist

To-do list apps available for Android, iPhone, Windows, Chrome, and others. Todoist can be used to make scheduling in content writing.

optimizing Content

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the best tool to analyze your website. With Analytics, you can see the number of visitors, bounce rate, the source of visitors, and other data that is important to optimize a website thoroughly.

Google Keyword Planner

Tool from Google that actually made to advertisers but very powerful to find what keywords are searched by Google users.

Google Trends

Looking at the trend of a keyword. Google Trends can be used to determine whether the interests of a keyword reduced or increased.

Yoast SEO Plugin

WordPress plugin that can be used to optimize the title and content of the article to be focused to the keywords used.

Image & Design

Pixabay

Complete set of images, can be used and modified for free without giving backlinks.

Photoshop

Software for editing photos and images and make other design.

Adobe Color

Tool from Adobe to find the right color scheme and create a beautiful design.

Dribbble

Largest gallery of the best digital designers on earth. Dribbble could be a source of inspiration in designing.

promoting Content

buffer

Free tool that can be used to perform updates on social networking schedule. Buffer allows you to schedule publication of content to the network from the browser, computer, or smartphone.

Click to Tweet

With this WordPress plugin, your readers can easily make sharing certain sentence of your blog in one click.

SumoMe

SumoMe is a WordPress plugin that contents assortment ranging from the share button to email the registration form to build an email list.

Easy Social Share Button

Social media share button that has complete features. Even though the setting is not easy for beginners, but this plugin can be used to make the share button in any form.

MailChimp

Email marketing is one of the best ways to promote content. MailChimp helps you build an email list and send scheduled emails. Free, to 2,000 email subscribers.

AWeber

Alternatives from MailChimp. AWeber does not have a free version but has the rule that the more 'easy', suitable for affiliate marketers.

IFTTT + Zapier

IFTTT and Zapier has similar functions that integrate between applications. Bloggers can take advantage of one of them to publish new content from WordPress to various social media automatically.

More?

If you have any recommendations very useful tool for bloggers and content marketers that I have attached to this article, please notify the comments field.