101 Blogging Tools For 2015 + Expert Tips & Guides

Though the list is long but every tool have it’s own story and don’t forget to see my one line comment for the tool. Blogging is an art and using the right blogging tool will make your art rise and shine. This epic list of blogging tools consists of resource for all kind of bloggers (professional, part-time or personal) and I have structured them in different section.

This is an epic list of blogging tools which you can refer (hint: bookmark it. This way, you can pick the right tool for right purpose. I have used atleast 75% of these mentioned tools and remaining 25% are suggested by the bloggers I read and I trust. and find new tool for your blog or to enhance your blogging.

Note: Some of the links have my affiliate link ( I will buy coffee for myself later), but I swear all are great products.

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet of blogging tools

Desktop blog editors :

• Desk: This will put you away from all the distraction and help you focus on writing. Available for Mac OS and cost is affordable.
• Windows Live writer: Best desktop editor for Windows OS, and you can publish directly from your desktop.
• Blogo: Desktop publishing tool for Mac and supports WordPress.
• Evernote: I use this to take quick notes on my iPhone and it’s available via cloud syncing.

Content idea generation tools

• BuzzSumo: Enter a website or enter a topic to find most shared & engaged content.
• Quora: Search for your keywords in search box of Quora, and you will get unlimited ideas for your blog content.
• Blog topic generator: Enter your keyword and it will give you post ideas.
• Google Trends: Check the currently trending topic or find the search trend for any keyword of your choice.

Blog post title tool:

• EMV tool: Checks the emotional marketing value of a title. Higher the EMV score is, better it will perform on social-media channels.
• Headline Analyzer : This is the best tool in this lot. It doesn’t matter how dumb you are, you will end up churning out the best title for your blog post.
• TweakBiz Title Generator: A comprehensive title generator by TweakBiz.
• Potent C idea generator: Call it content idea generator or title generator, it works both the ways.
• UpWorthy Title generator: The only viral topic generator which you need.

Proof-reading tool:

• Hemingway App: Free web-based tool to improve your writing. I’m sure you will end up bookmarking this.
• Grammarly: Saviour for a non-native English speaker like me. Helps in proof-reading, suggest words & perfect companion.

Stock image and images for blog resource: 

• Flickr Advance search : Use Flickr Advance search to find images with creative common license.
• Google image search: Use images with appropriate license which you can use on your blog.
• Image Suite : WordPress plugin which searches 9 different sources to find free to use images. Best part, you don’t have to add image credits.

Blog reading and content discovery tool:

• Feedly: Subscribe to any blog feeds or search for your interested topic to discover new blogs to subscribe to.
• Zite : A content discover app for iOS and Android. One of my favourite.
• Prismatic : A content discovery app for iOS and Android which is based on social recommendation. Fewer content than Zite but high-quality.
• Pocket: Read it later app which is also a productive app. Integrated in all the above reading app and let you save articles for reading it later.

Desktop Image/video recording + editing tools:

• Camtasia: Available for both Windows and Mac OS, and let you record screencast. Offers one month free trial.
• Snag it: Image capturing and editing tool for Mac and Windows OS. One of the best and highly recommended for bloggers.
• Image Optim: Mac Image compressor tool which optimise your images for web.
• MPEG Streamclip : A powerful desktop video convertor software for Windows and Mac. You can use it to convert, cut, trim and join videos. I usually use it to convert video format to reduce size of the video.
• Audacity: A sound recorder tool for all major desktop OS. Useful for podcasters, as you can record and edit your recordings.
• Google plus hangout: This is one underused free tool by bloggers. Use it to co-host a webinar, or run a Q&A session with your readers. Streams & record everything on your Youtube channel too.

Visitors stats and analytics tool: 

• Google analytics: The best solution to see advance details about your blog traffic. Also shows live traffic status of your blog.
• Jetpack plugin: Offers a module call WordPress.com stats, which let you see traffic details from your WordPress dashboard.

Outsourcing websites:

• Fiverr: Outsource things like youtube video intro, buy social media like & many more for only $5.
• oDesk: Great place to hire virtual assistant or freelancers to get job done.
• 99designs: Crowd-sourcing website for your web-design needs. Cheap and quality is high.
• Problogger Job board: Need content writer?.. This job board is the right place to find authentic writer. Cost $50, but you will find the best of the writers here.

Productivity tools: Take control of your time

• Headspace: Tired of blogging constantly? Use Headspace and meditate for 5 minutes. You will thank me later!
• Wunderlist : Manage your to-do with Wanderlust. Available on all platform and store data on the cloud.
• Trello: A card based task management tool. I used to use it in the past, but now shifted to Wunderlist. Still Trello serve different purpose & is very popular.
• Rescuetime: Sends you weekly stats (Configurable) of which site you spent most time on. A good idea to start noticing your counter productive time, and save your precious time. Install, configure & it runs in background.
• Selfcontrol: App for mac which let you block access to certain site. Try blocking Facebook, and notice how productivity increases for you. I bet!

Keyword research tools:

• Google Keyword planner: Free and easy to use keyword research tool.
• LongTailPro : Desktop based (Windows & Mac) Keyword research tool. Perfect for those who have little experience of Keyword research.
• SEMrush: Non-typical keyword tool, let you find keywords which a website is ranking for. Use it to find long-tail keywords which are easy to rank for.

SEO tools:

• Google Webmaster tool: Free tool from Google which shows various data such as links to your website, duplicate content, keyword ranking.
• Bing webmaster tool: Similar as Google Webmaster tool, but it’s for Bing search engine.
• Integrity: Desktop tool for Mac which checks your blog for broken links (Internal and external).
• ScreamingFrog: Desktop SEO tool which let you check your blog from web-spider point of view. Available for Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS.
• KWfinder: I discovered this tool while researching for this post. Guess what? I fallen in love with it. Will share a detailed review soon, for now you should try & bookmark it. Free plan let you make 5 searches in 24 hours, which is pretty neat.

Social Media tools:

• BufferApp: This will never let you social media profile run out of content. Also offers mobile app call Daily, which let you add high-quality content to your social media profiles.
• Hootsuite : Best Social media dashboard tool which let you manage all social media channels from single dashboard. Supports Google plus and you can auto post content from your blog RSS feed. (Free 30 days trial)
• Postplanner: Post scheduling tool for Facebook which is constantly updated with new feature and help you to take care of Facebook edge rank algorithm.  (Free Trial)
• ClickToTweet: Create single link to tweet. You can use it within your blog post to increase number of tweets.
• SocialPilot: New kid in social media tool, but I love it as they offer iOS app. (Have Android app too). Doesn’t support Google Plus, but offer support for Facebook group.

Images for Social Media tool:

• ShareAsImage: Create beautiful image and download or share it directly to your social media channels. Easy to use and require zero experience.
• Canva: The most talked social media image tool. Offers images of various size based on specific social-media platform.
• PicMonkey: Online photo editing and photo design tool. Also let you create photo collage.
• Pictochart: Infographics are most shared content type on social-media & Pictochart is best free Infographic tool you can use right away.
• QuotesCover: Create visually appealing quotes images.
• ButtonFactory: Create call to action buttons & download it to use on your blog. Useful for increasing CTR.
• Pablo: This free webapp is by Buffer. Let you add text over images, and share it on social media sites with single click.
• Vid to gif: .gif images increases CTR and sites like Google plus & Twitter support .gif image. Use this to create .gif from any online video.

Blog Monetization:

• Google AdSense: Best contextual advertising network, easy to manage and pay in time.
• Infolinks: In-text advertising solution which offers various ad formats.
• Chitika: A good alternative to Google AdSense and lower minimum payout.
• VigLink: Perfect for bloggers who uses the commerce words in their article. Search engine friendly and let you earn money from outbound link.
• Po.st: Earn money from social media sharing buttons on your blog. They pay based on CPM & used by many top publishers.

Affiliate marketplace for Affiliate bloggers:

• ClickBank: The popular affiliate marketplace for bloggers in any niche. You will find various affiliate product to promote.
• ShareASale: Another popular affiliate marketplace with tons of affiliate program to choose from.
• Impact Radius: Gaining traction lately as many popular companies like MaxCDN, Media Temple uses IR to run their affiliate program.

Email marketing tools for bloggers:

• Feed burner: Free service by Google which let you optimise your blog feed, and you can use it’s newsletter feature to send daily updates to your subscriber.
• Aweber: Best email marketing software for bloggers which offers email automation, personalisation and offers pre-built template to send beautiful Email newsletter.

Landing page tool for WordPress:

• LeadPages: One of the most trusted landing page tool for WordPress or other blogging platform.
• OptimizePress: Offers WordPress plugin and theme, you can use either one of them to create a landing page on your blog. Also a great solution for creating membership WordPress site.

Webhosting resource for bloggers:

• Bluehost : Recommended as #1 hosting by official WordPress.org hosting resource page. Cheap and affordable shared hosting with one free domain name.
• Siteground: Looking for non-EIG shared hosting, give a try to Siteground. Not the cheapest, but certainly one of the best in this lot.
• Cloudways: Want to host your WordPress site on Cloud (Amazon or Digital Ocean). Look no further then Cloudways. Makes it easier for non technical users to host their website on cloud.
• KnownHost or Linode : Looking for a managed VPS for your blog? Pick either one of these and you will not be disappointed.
• WiredTree: Looking for managed dedicated server? WiredTree managed Dedicated server starts at $150 and offers one of the best customer support in the hosting industry.
• FileZilla: Desktop FTP tool which is available for all desktop OS.
• MySQL WorkBench: An advance tool for desktop to manage your WordPress database from desktop. (Recommended only for technical users)

Blog promotion tools:

• Flipboard: Create your own magazines and curate articles from the web or from your own site and it can drive targeted traffic. You can use their bookmarklet to add content to your magazine or use their mobile app.
• Triberr: Create your own tribe and connect with like-minded people. Or you can join existing tribe to amplify your post reach on social-media platform. Recommended by blogging pros.
• MakeWebvideo: Use Whiteboard style videos for your blog intro or for any topic that you writing upon. See an example here.
• Whats new: Show your blog new updates after last visit. Great idea for blog which gets tons of returning visits.
• Wisestamp: Add visually appealing signature after your email. Better use Wisestamp RSS addon & show your latest blog post in every email. A clever technique to market your latest post. I use it to gain subscriber to my social-channels. This is an addon for browser.

Content marketing tool:

I have covered many content marketing tool above, and here are few which doesn’t fit above.

• SumoMe: Offers various tools to enhance your blog. Do check out heatmap, content analytics to start with.
• Inbound: A community driven site to discover best of inbound marketing content. A website to find content worth reading.
• BuzzStream: For bloggers outreach. Not a free tool, but this is absolutely amazing tool for serious bloggers & marketers.

Miscellaneous blogging tools:

• Roost: Enables Web-push notification for your blog. A new and innovative way to let users subscribe to your blog updates.
• ZohoMail: Let you create free domain specific email address.
• Speechpad: Offer transcription services for audio or video.
• GtMetrix: Check your desktop & mobile site loading speed. It also suggest how to improve loading time.

This list will never be complete without your contribution. You can make this epic list of tools more useful by adding your favorite tools in the comment section below. Help me make it 150+ list….

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