Top 5 Tools for Blogging

Blogging could be a really easy process. First of all, blogger needs to do a little research, then put thoughts together and afterwards add some images and screenshots.

Do not forget the search engine optimization that includes selection of keywords and sharing the content on the Web, so others can view and share it. With the help of these steps, your blogging could be rather simple and not time-consuming, and there are a lot of bloggers who get burnt out very quickly while doing these things on everyday basis.

As blogging is very popular nowadays, people use various tools and applications for making their blogs successful. Following are some tools that you can use for making your blog a success:

Important Tools for Your Blog

Focus Booster

Focus Booster is an app which many bloggers use for increasing writing productivity. Those people who have got really short attention span are advised to use it, so, their creativity will thrive in activity’s short spurts with frequent breaks. With the help of Focus Booster you may concentrate on turning your ideas into the great pieces of writing.

The application is based on Pomodoro technique that recommends people to break up their work time in 25 minutes chunks that are separated by 5 minutes breaks for improving mental agility. The most important aim of this app and technique is the reduction of the impact of external and internal interruptions on flow and focus.

Immediate benefit of Focus Booster is blocking out of normal and common distractions to something productive, like constantly checking of social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter or e-mail. Although technique of Pomodoro recommends you 25 minute intervals, users may require to experiment for discovering their optimal session lengths.

Diigo

Diigo is the one for bloggers who are seeking a good way of keeping track of informative and interesting articles for using them later in their blog posts. This useful application enables writers to store and highlight the interesting content for quickest retrieval down the road. You may even embed notes to the saved content. This app supports mobile devices such as Andriod, iPad and iPhone.

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InboxQ

InboxQ is a great tool of blogging, it helps in coming up with much better topics of blog. InboxQ helps in finding questions people ask on the social media network - Twitter. InboxQ enables its users to create campaigns with various keywords. Normally, the best thing to do is create campaigns with the keywords from the topics you are specialized in.

So, whenever someone asks a question using those keywords, you would be updated about that and may answer that question. You are able to work on those questions and come up with much better topics for your blog in the area of your focus.

For instance, a blogger has got two campaigns: one is on white papers having keywords like ‘whitepaper’ and ‘white paper’, and the other one is on social media having keywords such as ‘Facebook’, ‘Pinterest’ or ‘Twitter’.

When people type tweets with this keywords, an update is received. If it is found interesting and it is thought that the audience would like them, the blog posts are written on the basis of those questions.

Content Idea Generator

Content Idea Generator v2 is the Google Document which would automatically find the news and the related stories for the blog from a number of sources like public Facebook updates, tweets, Reddit and Google News. This amazing tool also works for YouTube videos, e-mail newsletters and podcasts. It is used by a large number of people for generating fresh ideas for their blog content.

Disqus

Disqus 2012 is a very powerful blogging tool that is the new version of Disqus. It helps you in creating a remarkable community around the blog. A visitor can up-vote and down-vote the comments, can see the recurring commenters and can have much better threading than the old version.

In addition to that, everything is in the real time and it feels like the comments and posts are better connected with each other. One last point that is loved by users is that one may show related articles at bottom of post and view top commenters at a glance.

   Linda Waters

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Post by Linda Waters. Enthusiastic blogger with passion for mobile tech innovations, social media trends and cutting-edge blogging techniques. Marketing executive at http://www.mspy.com/, provider of top cell phone monitor tool.