Indispensable tips/tools for your blogs
Indispensable tips/tools for your blogs
We have talked about many things so far, niche research, keyword research, blogging seo, traffic building and other things. So far what I have not discussed is the tools of trade you should be using.
Let me start from the beginning. Most of the tools are free but you won’t go wrong with some of these paid tools.
Wordtracker : You should have a subscription to wordtracker. It’s one of the best keyword tools available online. I think there are nothing like it. I’d suggest you to get a week’s subscription and study wordtracker. It kicks overture’s arse in every department. I’d never ever use overture tool. It isn’t worth it.
Another product that you should buy is Wordtracker magic. This is an ebook written by John Alexander. You’ll be able to harness wordtracker’s full potential by this guide. Again its highly recommended and it should be in your library.
Wordpress : Wordpress is your best blogging platform that you can get for free. Don’t forget about its Huge fanbase. Plus you can get almost any plugin you can think of to automate your blogging task.
Wordpress Plugin – Sociable : Some create a Wordpress plugin called socialable. You can download this for free at http://push.cx/sociable .From the site : Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.
Again this is one tool you just cannot forget. Your readers’ll be able to add and share your blog posts in a jiffy. Remember we are writing our content to be shared and consumed in blogosphere.
Onlywire.com : Another nifty tool is onlywire.com. It allows you to add your posts manually to many social bookmarking sites in one go. It has a facility for adding to digg.com, flurl, del.icio.us, technorati and many other sites.The major difference between the plugin and this website is that the plugin allows your users to add your post in their sharing network. But this tools allows you to share your posts.
Again the main idea is about sharing and link building from all these social networking sites.
Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin: This is another one of plugins for wordpress (sorry I only prefer wordpress that’s why I can only refer to wordpress plugins). This plugin will help you create tags for your major sites like technorati, icerocket etc. Again this is a must have plugin for your blogs.You can download this plugin at http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2007/06/30/ultimate-tag-warrior-fin-the-end/
Again every bit of these will go towards optimizing your blogs and getting traffic. So they are worth wasting your time over. Read my article on tagging.
Google Sitemaps: Download your plugin here http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final . This plugin will generate sitemap in xml which you can upload to google sitemaps. Another good method to ensure proper indexing of all of your posts.
Podcasting plugin: If you like to talk then you’ll be delighted by this plug-in. This is great plugin for wordpress where you can publish podcast with ease. PodPress makes it really easy to post podcasts, also includes an inline media player.Here is your plugin URL http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress .Read my article on podcasting for more info.
Subscribe to comments: Another Nifty plug-in you can use is Subscribe to comments. It helps your reader to subscribe to specific posts so that they can track the conversation. Helpful tool http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
Akismet : Last but not least, one of the best spam killing tool for you. This is a really great plug-in for killing spammy comments in your wordpress blog. It also learns from your behavior and automatically deletes the spam comments.
You can notice so far, in my top 10 list, I have only listed 2 tools which are paid. Which basically means that you can start your blogging career without much start up costs. So what’s stopping You?
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