A blog is a platform that allows internet users to showcase their ideas, art, opinions, research etc. Initially, blogs were used to provide a platform for individuals to express themselves, just like the regular social media platforms. But now, blogs have come a long way & the popularity of blogs has seeped into every domain possible. Blogs can be used for e-learning, for promoting a company’s products or services, for spreading awareness targeting a common cause & much more.

Let’s have a look at the top 20 blogging tools that are contributing to the advancement of blogging.

WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools & occupies the first place in the list of top 20 blogging tools & platforms. Using WordPress you can create documents with ease & also include a variety of multimedia content such as audios, videos, images, gifs etc. Blogs in WordPress are made interactive by allowing readers to comment on posts or message the author. The functionality of WordPress can be extended using the ‘Plug-ins’ provided.

Feedly

Feedly is an RSS reader or aggregator which compiles online content such as audios, videos, blogs, podcasts & newspapers from various sources which can be accessed by the readers & shared with others.

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is largely used by companies for digital marketing. In BuzzSumo, you are required to enter an important keyword or topic of the content you want to promote, & then the website returns a list of trending articles based on the keyword. This tool also lets you know the popularity of posts by showing the number of times the post has been shared. By doing so, BuzzSumo helps you look for ideas to make your posts go viral.

My Stock Photos

Bloggers can use My Stock Photos to find thousands of high-quality images free of cost relevant to their content.

Grammarly

Grammarly helps find grammatical & sentence formation errors in your content. Place your article in the editor which will then analyze & point out the mistakes in your content.

Video to Gif Converters

Gifs have become very popular & your audience would prefer watching Gifs over videos. These converters help in transforming your videos to Gifs. All you have to do for this is paste the video link in the text box provided.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics lets you analyze & understand the performance or popularity of your blog. It lets you know the number of visitors on your page, time spent by visitors on your page, sources which brought them to your page etc. In short, it lets you track the traffic on your blog.

Pablo

Most readers don’t have the patience & find it boring to read plain text. Pablo is a tool that helps visualize your content, like placing text over images.

PopSurvey

PopSurvey lets you create attractive online surveys which are a great way to understand the interests, needs & opinions of people visiting your blogs. PopSurvey along with the recorded responses also provides response statistics to analyze the preferences.

Disqus

Disqus is a comment system that helps connect readers in blog communities. You can give upvotes & downvotes to comments, see the top commentators, get notified via email when your blog receives a comment etc. Disqus works in a fashion similar to Facebook.

Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a plug-in that allows bloggers to add social media buttons to their blog pages to share content directly from the blog pages instead of logging in to social media platforms every time.

Canva

Canva has templates that help create blog images, logos & graphics with ease.

Readability Test Tool

This tool analyzes & helps understand the level of readability of your content, i.e., the tool shows you the age group which is capable of understanding your content. It also shows statistics of the number of words & sentences in your content, a number of complex words & average words, average words per sentence & average syllables per word.

BeFunky

BeFunky is a great tool for editing & resizing images for your blogs.

Optimizilla

Optimizilla lets you compress your images to smaller sizes in order to suit your blogging needs. You can upload up to 20 images at once to compress from the website.

Broken Link Checker

Broken links in your site will lower your ranking in search engines. Broken Link Checker helps discover the misspelt & invalid links.

Dropbox

Dropbox works similar to ‘cloud’. It is an online platform for storing & sharing files. You can directly store your blog files in Dropbox. This will also save your computer’s storage space.

LastPass

If you are someone that uses multiple blogging platforms, you would have difficulty remembering passwords. LastPass keeps you from resetting your passwords every now & then by storing all your account passwords at one place.

Trello

Trello allows you to organize your work & projects using lists, cards, boards & coloured labels. Trello is like the online digital form of sticky notes which can be shared & work reminders can be set.

Google Trends

Your blog content is likely to go viral when posted at a specific point of time. Google Trends will help you identify this time period. For example, the topic ‘Easter Eggs’ is more likely to go viral during the Easter month.

Hundreds of blogging tools have been developed so far. But utility wise, the above mentioned top 20 blogging tools are the most popular. Kolkata School of Digital Marketing is the best digital marketing training institute in Kolkata