7 Tools That Any Blogger Should Know About

These Tools will automate and Improve your Blogging experience.

Blogging is fun.

I started my first blog with Blogger.com which is a hosted platform for bloggers. The only pros of being on blogger.com are that I made money without investment. Honestly speaking, I have zero cents to invest in. Being on a hosted platform is a very difficult thing. You have limited access to automate your jobs.

I bought my own domain and hosting at the first month of the 2018.

I find the privilege when I find out the level of automation WordPress provides to its users. So, spending two years on WordPress and the things I have learned about WordPress plugins, I will share with your a list of tools that will help you to do fun stuff with your blog.

1. One Signal Plugin For Sending Notification

Once I contacted a big website about a paid guest post and they send me their traffic stat. They also listed a number that I never heard. They have 70,000 Push notification followers. What does it mean? It means that, whenever they publish a post, One signal will send a notification to those 70,000 followers.

The average rate of CTR of push notifications is 4% which means for 100,000 followers, you will get 4,000 traffic once you publish your blog post.

Think about the great opportunity you have. You hit the published button and you got 4,000 readers at the same time.

So, how you can add it to your marketing tactics.

1. login into your WordPress.
2. Click on Plugins and click “Add new”
3. Search for “One Signal” push notifications.
4. Configure it.
5. Boom.

If you are missing this great opportunity then this is one of the reasons “Why you are not getting traffic"

Through this plugin, you can convert your one-time reader into a loyal reader.

There are some push notifications service sites that are paid but through Onesignal push notifications, you can get the opportunity to send unlimited push notifications for up to 50,000 users.

If you search for “Best Push notification sites” you will get an idea about the number of push notifications sites.

Try OneSignal.

2. Smush Plugin for Compressing Images

If you want to rank your blog posts on Google search engine then besides the content and other on-page Search Engine Optimization, website load time is one of the most important factors to rank high on the search engine.

It is not just the text that we communicate with our reader but with the help of the image and videos. If you want to insert pictures then it will increase your load time. To improve our page speed time we reduce the size of the images.

The tool we use for this purpose is called “Smush” that will help you to reduce your whole website loading time.

You have to do the same process installing this plugin. Go to plugin and click on “Add new” and search the name of this plugin. Click on the “Install” option and boom.

3. YOAST SEO Plugin

Yoast is one of the most popular plug-ins for bloggers who want to rank their site on the Google search. It has all the required ingredients to help you rank your site. If you are really serious about Blogging then you should installed this plugin as it will help you increase your organic traffic plus will help you in your search engine marketing.

Installing this plugin should be your first step after getting a domain and hosting for your blog.

Yoast has been actively installed by more than 5 million people on their blogs/websites.

4. Easy Table of content

Another plugin to automate your work. You don’t need to add the sub-links to your posts. This plugin helps you add all your “H2” headings into a Clickable link. Your posts appear under search engines.

Your sub-links in your article will appear as the links underlined.

There are other alternative plug-ins available that perform the same function but this plugin is great and works best for every kind of website. It is one of the striking examples of the Wordpress dominance over the Blogger.com, Wordpress gives you automation like this plugin.

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5. Social Sharing Plugins

Social media marketing should be your second priority if you want to get more traffic on your blog. Adding social media icons and increase your social sharing by 10 times. The good thing about WordPress is its automation.

There are hundreds of plugins available that will helps you to add social media sharing buttons on your site with just a simple click.

One of my favorite plugins is “Social Snap.” it has hundreds of social media icons with different sizes and layout.

Keep in mind.

Adding more plugins can reduce your website page loading speed. Page loading speed is one of the important factor for getting rank on Google.

6. Add pins To your Picture

I already wrote a post about Pinterest marketing and why you should reconsider your decision to not use Pinterest for marketing purposes. Pinterest changes the way we see by adding pictures to a site.

Think of a site that lets you add Pictures with a link.

Pinterest is like an Instagram with a clickable images.

But, there is a difference. Your Instagram picture is not going to rank on Google while the same is not true for Pinterest. Pinterest is a way to get organic traffic to your blog posts.

Adding a Plugin of Pinterest that lets you and your reader pin your pictures is going to get you a lot more traffic organically and traffic from people who use Pinterest.

Go and get this opportunity before it is too late.

7. Unsplash

Unsplash is a resource of images that you can use without worrying about copyright. You have a complete right to use images from Unsplash anywhere.

You can add that image to look at your blog looking good. A good, attractive image receives a number of clicks than a link with no or unattractive image.

I hope this will helps you.

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