10 Great Tools To Write An Effective Blog Post

Writing is an art, a way to express things and narrate a great story. It's evident that perfection comes with consistent practice and learning, however, it requires creativity and knowledge, too.

Those who tell the stories rule the world - A Native Indian Proverb

LinkedIn is one such social networking platform that is helping hundreds of thousands of people to narrate a great story and invoke thoughts and ideas. I believe writing is a way to express your thoughts in word and do not require any particular format. If your writing is good enough to grab readers attention then it is more than enough.

However, when it comes to profession, it requires uniqueness and creativity to stand alone. Over the past decades, companies are using the blog and other forms of content as their marketing strategy to boost their business by creating awareness. Here in this post, I am going to share list 15 blogging tools that can help you work faster, write better and land more readers.

1. Evernote: Have you ever been in a situation when you came up with some new blog topic and later forgot it. If yes, then Evernote is must for you. The cross-platform app lets you organize your work and archiving. It also allows you to create a note that can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note.
2. Google Keyword Planner / Google TRENDS: Google AdWords Keyword Planner is a keyword research tool that helps you to find the right keywords to target for your blog post. While Google Trends helps you to find out what is trending near you. You may also like to check out how to use the keyword planner tool. You can also use free Google keyword planner alternative - The Hoth.
3. Buzzsumo: BuzzSumo is one stop shop for many like me. It is the most important to generate the content ideas or to find out what is trending. BuzzSumo is a complete package in itself. It helps you to analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor. Check out yourself what it can do for you. You may also like to take at PR20/20 post on how to use BuzzSumo for content marketing.
4. CoSchedule Headline Analyzer: Don’t worry! If you are not a copywriter and couldn’t come up with an eye-catching blog title. Headline Analyzer gives you a perfect analytics of your headline, segregating it into four words categories such as common words, uncommon words, power words and emotional words. Still struggling to choose an appropriate word, check out here, Free headline analyzer scores your overall headline quality and rates its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic, and SEO value.
5. Google Doc: If you prefer to use an open source keep things at an elbow's length then Google Doc is the best shot for you. You just need to login into Gmail and you have access to all of your documents. Google Docs brings your documents to life with editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. Check out “15 Google Docs tips everyone should know” by Techworld.
6. Grammarly: Well, I believe Grammarly is one of the finest tool ever created for a multitude of a writer. Doesn’t matter whether you are new to writing or a grammar nazi, Grammarly easily improves any text, eliminate grammar mistakes, typos, and others, the platform has a set of tools, including Small SEO Tools to detect plagiarism. Moreover, Grammarly also provides Free Browser Extension, Plagiarism Detection, Grammarly for MS Office, Grammarly Native Apps
7. Pixabay / Kaboompics / Stockphotos: One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words - Fred R. Barnard. If you are looking for some eye catchy free images labeled for reuse, then these websites are one-stop site for you. In order to avoid copyright issue, even I use these open source platform to source high-quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. The above-mentioned sources are free for commercial use and do not require any attribution.
8. Pixlr / Canva: Quite a times designing a creative image with pictorial message online becomes challenging. However, Pixlr and Canva are some of the great resources to design or edit an effective image for your blog post. Pixlr comes up with two photo editing apps Pixlr Editor and Pixlr Express. Pixlr editor work in layers, replace color, transform objects, and more - all from your browser, while Express allows you to add a personal touch with creative effects, overlays, and borders. Similarly, Canva is one of the finest tools I have ever found free. With Canva, you can easily create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and much more. Check out yourself.
9. Easel.ly / Visme: Well, Easel.y and Visme are one the best online tools to design some of the great infographics. Both the tools have thousands of easy to use templates or you can also design your own. If you are facing difficulties and wondering how to go ahead with it then you might like to check their blog sections or YouTube channels to design some noteworthy graphics.
10. HootSuite: By now, you have all essential tools to create an amazing blog post. It's time to share and promote your content on social media platforms. Pick the platforms where your customers are and are the best fit for your business. Here Hootsuite - a Social Media Marketing & Management Dashboard - plays a significant role. The platform’s interface supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, and much more.

Remember all the tools in the world won’t do the work for you. Just start digging things. The more effort you will put the more you will learn. Here, in this post, I have shared all the online tools that I personally use to write blog posts, create pictorial messages, infographics, and others.

Hope you can now write your own blog without thinking about anything else. If you have any suggestions or queries please comment down let me try to answer.