26 blogging tools to simplify your life: an a-z list
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26 Blogging Tools to SimplifyYour Life: An A-Z ListBy Melanie Nelson
Published March 25, 2015
Do you have a company blog?
Are you looking for ways to improve it?
Everything counts in blogging.
In this article I’ll share some must-have tools for yourbusiness blog to help you do all of that and more.
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Arqam is a different kind of social toolbar. It doesn’t share your post; it shows thenumber of followers you have on each platform and provides a link to the relevantplatform.
What’s neat about Arqam is that it’s dynamic. It shows the real-time number offollowers you have on a given platform. Arqam is available on Codecanyon for $15and works with your mobile site as well.
You can quickly see how many follow ers the w ebsite has and follow them yourself by clicking
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#2: Block Comment SpammersThe WP-Ban WordPress plugin allows you to block spam commenters based on theirIP address. You can even customize a message for people visiting from that IP.Melissa Culbertson of Blog Clarity explains more about how the plugin works andoffers a few other options for blocking spammers.
#3: Conquer SEO, Open Graph and TwitterCards in One PlaceWordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most popular WordPress plugins because itoffers so much functionality in one place. You can double-check that your targetkeywords are mentioned in the right places in your article, set FacebookOpen Graph images and text for each post and set up Twitter cards.
You can even incorporate Webmaster Tools from Google, Bing and other sites. I’vefound the Bulk Editor feature to be quite useful. You can edit the titles and metadata of your posts or pages in one place , rather than having to open each article.
#4: Discover Quality ImagesYou’ve likely heard about Shutterstock, iStock and other similar sites. Here are a fewoptions you may not know about.
Flickr has been around forever. I like Flickr because you can look through users’photos to find ones with Creative Commons options.
Do a specif ic search on Flickr for images w ith clear Creative Commons.
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There are several options for Creative Commons, so be sure you check therequirements of the photo you want to use . Some photographers let you usetheir pictures with attribution as long as you’re not using it commercially.
Pixabay offers free, beautiful images you can “copy, modify, distribute and use,even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission and withoutpaying attribution.” But there are a few exceptions you’ll want to be aware of.
If you don’t mind sharing your email address, you can save yourself the hassle oflooking for images by signing up with Unsplash. It’s free and once you sign up, you’llget 10 new images in your inbox every 10 days.
#5: Edit ImagesIf you find yourself needing to create, edit or enhance an image but don’t have accessto software like Photoshop or Illustrator, don’t stress. PicMonkey and Canva are two ofthe most popular (and easiest) ways to get the job done.
PicMonkey is hugely fun to play with. Most users come to PicMonkey for the variety offonts available. You can even upload your own if you have a font that’s associatedwith your company. You can also add effects (à la Instagram), do a little skin touchup,add a frame and much more.
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Canva lets you work in layers (much like Photoshop does), which means you canchange out backgrounds, text, images and so forth really easily—you just edit thelayer it’s on!
#6: Facilitate SharingCheck your Google Analytics and see where most of your traffic is coming from. It’sprobably from one of the major social platforms—and that’s why you need socialsharing toolbars on your blog.
Social sharing is important to growing your audience because of its organic nature.The social proof a share provides lends itself to improving your credibility andauthority (not to mention your traffic).
The SumoMe Share app by AppSumo offers a lot of functionality for free. It’s super-easy to set up with its drag-and-drop interface and looks good on desktop andmobile. Plus, you can see which pages you’re getting clicks and shares from.
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Tw o different articles on Social Media Examiner have different numbers of shares on different
platforms.
The SumoMe Share app automatically orders the toolbar based on shares.
#7: Generate Intriguing HeadlinesPut your blog post’s topic or keywords into Portent’s Content Idea Generatorand it will spit out a snazzy new headline for your article.
When I typed in “tools for bloggers” I got “Why Would Our World End If Tools forBloggers Disappeared?” It may not be 100% accurate, but it would probably turn someheads. If you don’t like the first title, refresh or try new keywords.
#8: Highlight Previously Published ContentMost blogs have evergreen posts—posts that are as relevant today as they werewhen you originally wrote them (even if it was a year or two ago). The problem is thatthose posts aren’t as visible to your readers because they’ve been pushed down bynew content.
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To revive them, add a related posts plugin. A related posts plugin links to additionalposts that are related to the current content someone is reading.
With Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), you can choose to show either athumbnail or list view of your related posts, pages or custom post types. Youcan even display related posts in your RSS feed.
If you want to share SEO juice, check out WordPress Related Posts. It not only links toyour content, it also links to external content (and includes your posts in other sitesthat use the plugin).
Just be aware, though, that using a related posts plugin may chew up a lot of memoryand slow down your site. Try them out and see how they affect your site and go fromthere. (You can check your site load time with Pingdom, which I talk about later in thisarticle.)
Juliverse.com uses Top 10 to promote her most
popular post to garner even more clicks.
A third option is Top 10, which keeps track of the posts that are getting the mostattention and displays them in your sidebar. You can customize Top 10 to includeor exclude specific categories, set the timeline for curating posts and more .
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Pro Tip: Since most related or popular post plugins include a thumbnail from therecommended posts, it’s important to make sure your images are attractive andinclude the title of the post. Think about whether your post image could standalone. If you see it on Pinterest or Facebook, would you immediately know what thearticle is about?
#9: Improve Your WritingShane Snow did some basic testing and found that the most effective writing is at aneighth-grade reading level. His conclusion is that as writers, we “should aim to reducecomplexity in our writing as much as possible. We won’t lose credibility by doing so.Our readers will comprehend and retain our ideas more reliably. And we’ll have ahigher likelihood of reaching more people.”
This is especially important when writing online. We already know that people rarelyread an entire article—they skim. If they stumble across ten-dollar words, they’re lesslikely to keep reading. People want easy, short sentences with easy words so they canget the information and move on.
If you want to quickly assess your own writing to make sure it’s clear and easy tounderstand, head over to Hemingway Editor.
Test your w riting before you publish to ensure it’s optimized for your audience.
Simply paste in a section of your writing and let Hemingway do its work. Theapp highlights complex sentences, passive voice and words you can simplify—allthings that can slow down your reader. You’ll also be able to see the readability of
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your work.
If grammar isn’t your strong suit, Grammarly may be your new best friend. The toolclaims to find and correct 10 times as many mistakes as your word processor. Itcan also help you improve your own word choice and detect plagiarism.
It’s not just w hat you know , it’s how you w rite it. Grammar counts!
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You can check your work for free on Grammarly, but if you want to correct it, you’llneed to sign up. They have paid plans that include monthly, quarterly and yearlyprices.
#10: Jot Down Ideas On the GoGreat ideas pop up unexpectedly and if you’re like me, you can’t rely on yourself aloneto remember them. It’s easier and more reliable to make notes to ourselves—especially if we’re having a rush of creativity.
One of the easiest ways to keep track of article ideas is to open up your mobiledevice and use the voice memo feature . Talk to yourself. Expand on the ideaso you know exactly where you were going. When you listen to your ideas later,you can refine them and build off your original premise.
If you’re more of an app person, you have no shortage of choices. Pocket List,Wunderlist and Workflowy are options I’ve used or that have been recommended tome. All are basic to-do list apps, but they’re an easy way to keep track of ideas as well.Everything can basically be made into a list, right?
Use one of these apps to create new lists, incorporate subtasks or lists,prioritize them, assign due dates and share with others. Pocket List lets youcolor-code items, while Wunderlist and Workflowy let you add notes to your ideas orsubtasks.
Pocket List is an iOS app, but you can also access your lists via the app’s cloud. Thisapp is the flashiest of them all if you like a little panache with your productivity (see thevideo below).
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Pocket Lists for iOS: To-do Lists + Checklists + Reminders from 1312 on Vimeo.
You can download Wunderlist to all of your devices, as well as get the add-on forChrome and Firefox.
Workflowy is available as an online tool, an offline desktop app (but you have to haveChrome installed) and as a mobile app. It has a no-nonsense black-and-white design—there are no frills here, but it’s functional.
Finally, look at the editorial calendars mentioned in this article. Many of those haveplaces where you can put ideas as placeholders for articles.
#11: Kick Time-sucks to the CurbStay Focused is a Chrome extension that allows you to set the amount of time youcan spend on time-suck websites. Once that time is used up, you can’t get to thatsite until the next day. So if Facebook is your downfall, you can set Stay Focused toallow 30 minutes of Facebook browsing. Once those 30 minutes are gone, they’regone. No more Facebook for you today.
Of course, people know that nothing is stopping them from opening Firefox if Chromewon’t let them through. So I looked for a Firefox version and found LeechBlock. Ihaven’t tried it yet, but it has a good rating.
#12: Look for Popular Topics
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What’s the key to traffic? Giving your audience the content they want when they wantit. Writing about current hot topics doesn’t have to be a chore. Google Trends can tellyou what’s trending in search and on YouTube, as well as compare search terms tosee how they stack up.
You can see how topics have performed over time, how regional interest inthe topic varies and see related searches. All of those help you hone your articleideas so you appeal to as many readers as possible.
Been there, done that and still looking for something? Use BuzzSumo to look atwhat’s working for others in your niche .
By typing in a domain (e.g., a competitor) or a topic, you can see top-performingarticles, how many social shares the article received, who the majorinfluencers were that shared the articles and more . If something’s popular withyour competitor’s audience, there’s a good chance it will be popular with yours (just besure to put your own stamp on it).
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#13: Make Webmaster Tools AccountsGoogle and Bing offer Webmaster Tools that help you make sure everything’sgood to go on your site so you’re being found in search results. And they’refree!
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Both Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools help you identify anyissues (e.g., broken links or load time) that may hinder your performance in searchengine results pages.
You can also keep tabs on what pages are popular with visitors. The dataavailable to you via Webmaster Tools is unbelievable. The website Search EngineWatch offers an overview of Bing’s tools and Google’s tools. Each article explains howto set everything up and tells you what data you can expect to find.
#14: Nofollow Questionable LinksWhen you link to another site, you’re telling search engines that you approve of thewebsite. Every time you link to someone, you essentially help his or her rank a little bit.The bigger the website and the more authority it has, the more juice it gives to thesites it links out to. Think of these links as dofollow—this is the default for all of yourlinks.
But what if you don’t want to necessarily endorse a site that you link to (maybebecause the site is suspect or the link is paid for)? You can make it a nofollow link
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and withhold your endorsement.
I know it sounds like nofollow involves some HTML and looking under the hood, butthere’s a much easier way: NoFollowr.
With this plugin, when you look at your published post, you’ll see a green checkmarknext to dofollow links (which means you approve of or recommend the site you’relinking to). If you click that checkmark, it changes to a red circle, which means you’vechanged that link to nofollow.
Only admins can see the checks or circles.
#15: Optimize Images for Faster Loading TimeDo you take the time to optimize the images you use in your blog posts? There are alot of bloggers out there who snap a photo, upload it to their blog, put it in a post andhit Publish. That can have a huge effect on how your page loads (which in turn affectshow you perform in search, not to mention whether people stick around).
When you take a photo with your digital camera, or even your mobile device, the fileitself is pretty big—both in dimensions and file size.
If you open the original photo in, say, Photoshop Elements, and put it at 100%, you’llsee how big it is. Depending on your blog design, you usually don’t need an imagethat’s more than 500 x 500 pixels. Many blog designs are better-suited to even smallerdimensions.
If you upload the full-sized image to your blog, the web browser has to resize theimage to fit the space it’s in (your blog post). That takes time. It makes much moresense to resize your image using image-editing software before you upload it.
And it’s not just your blog that needs smaller images. Most social networks haveoptimum dimensions as well, and it’s easier to create one image to rule them all(including your blog) instead of ending up with pictures that are cut off and ruin theeffect.
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Check out this Social Media Examiner article to f ind out how to optimize your images to w ork across
social netw orks.
As for file size, there’s a lot of extra digital data in your pictures that you just don’tneed. When you take it out, the file size shrinks and the photo loads faster online. Youcan remove that extraneous data by choosing Save for Web in a program likePhotoshop Elements.
With smaller dimensions and file size, your images will load a lot faster—and so willyour site.
But what if you haven’t been optimizing your images all this time? There are a fewthings you can do. First, optimize your images from here on out. Second, download aplugin that will reduce the file size for you.
You have a few to choose from (and I’m sure you could find more): Smush.it, EWWWImage Optimizer and CW Image Optimizer.
Each of these plugins optimizes your image file size as you upload them (they don’tresize them, though). They do what’s called lossless compression, which means thequality of the image doesn’t suffer. You can also shrink image files you’ve alreadyuploaded.
#16: Pre-populate Tweets
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Whenever you can, do the work for your reader. Most social sharing tools let you pre-populate Twitter shares with a customized message or URL. That makes it easy foryour visitors to share your blog posts because they don’t have to stop and think ofsomething to say in their update.
Click to Tweet WordPress plugin by CoSchedule is an attractive way to drawattention to the content you want tweeted most. You can create a customizedmessage with a shortened link to the content, and then provide that messagewithin your text.
theCentsibleLife.com uses Click to Tw eet to encourage more people to participate in the Clutter
Aw ay Challenge.
It creates a nice visual call to action within your post. You write the message and allthe reader has to do is click the tweet box to tweet.
#17: acQuaint Yourself With Auto-SharingOptionsBuffer and Hootsuite are the usual suspects for scheduling social media shares ofyour blog content. You can schedule batches of items in advance and choosethe days and times items are shared. Both give you details on what’s gettingtraction so you can do more of what works.
Another option for scheduling your newest blog posts is SNAP by NextScripts (anotherWordPress plugin). It lets you plan social shares when you create a new blogpost and works with all of the platforms you’d expect: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest,LinkedIn and Google+.
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And yes, you can post to your Facebook and Google+ pages (rather than yourpersonal profile). Just specify the page IDs during configuration.
SNAP’s setup is a bit more intense than most plugins—it may take a bit to figure out,but the people I’ve talked to say it’s worth it. The website walks you through all of thesteps.
#18: Recirculate Old PostsAnother way you can bring attention to your evergreen content—and keeppeople on your blog—is to share it on social platforms.
If you don’t have time to flip through your old posts and promote them, automate it.Revive Old Posts shares your previously published articles (and new ones) via yoursocial channels (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn). You schedule the time andnumber of posts and Revive Old Posts does the rest. You can even includehashtags if you like .
#19: Simplify Scheduling and MoreWhether you’re blogging for your company, multiple clients or just for your ownpleasure, an editorial calendar will help you keep your sanity.
The most popular way to use an editorial calendar is to schedule when posts willpublish. An editorial calendar gives you a quick overview of what’s publishing when.You can also use one to keep track of topic ideas and upcoming events so youcan write related articles. If you’re part of a team, you can assign articles anddue dates.
You’ll never be at a loss for WordPress calendar plugins—a quick Google search willgive you plenty of choices (like WordPress Editorial Calendar). But if you’re notlooking to add another plugin (after all, too many will slow down your site), you maywant to consider a tool like CoSchedule.
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CoSchedule is a website that offers a drag-and-drop calendar for easy organizationand it syncs with your WordPress blog. Not only does it serve as a content editorialcalendar, you can schedule social sharing while you’re writing your post. Whenyou publish the post, the social shares are activated. CoSchedule costs a flat fee of$10 per month per WordPress blog.
If you’re looking for a free option, Google Calendar, Excel or Google Sheets areperfectly acceptable solutions, and they work great. I like Excel and Sheets becausecreating multiple customized tabs is handy.
Take a look at Ian Cleary’s list of editorial calendar tools and their benefits ifyou’d like a few more choices.
#20: Test Site Load TimeSite load time is important for SEO reasons, but it’s also important to your readers. Ifyour site takes too long to load, visitors click away and move to the next thing. If youwant to see how your site (or a competitor’s) performs, Pingdom can help you out.
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Just type in your URL and click Test Now. You’ll get a short report about howyour site is performing and what may be slowing it down. In the example below,Combine External JavaScript is 35. That means JavaScript (usually plugins or ads) isslowing the site down.
Check how fast your site loads w ith Pingdom.
You can sign up for a free or paid account and you’ll get alerts if your site is down.
Pro Tip: If you find that JavaScript is slowing you down, try installing the JavaScriptto Footer plugin. It moves JavaScripts to the footer so they load after your content.
#21: Understand Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytics is a must-have for any blog. It offers data from basic page views andunique visitors all the way to in-depth funnels and goal tracking. If you’re just using itto see how many people are visiting your blog, take the time to learn more about thepower of Google Analytics so you can find and focus on what’s working for your
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audience .
#22: Visualize User Hot SpotsUsing a heat map, Crazy Egg lets you see where people are clicking, how fardown they’re scrolling, where they’re falling off in the buying process, wherethey’re coming from and more .
Crazy Egg can show you data about how your visitors are using your blog.
Crazy Egg boasts a 30-second setup. Just copy and paste the tracking code,select the page you want to analyze and off you go. You can try Crazy Egg forfree for 30 days.
#23: Write Without DistractionsOmmWriter bills itself as a way to “[r]e-connect with your old friends Concentration andCreativity, and discover the bliss of single-tasking.” If you’re having trouble getting inthe writing zone, you may just need to shut out distractions.
OmmWriter provides gentle music and chromatherapy. The developers worked with anexpert to create backgrounds that “subconsciously promote tranquility as well asstimulate creativity.” And the incorporated tracks “reproduce background soundsthat promote concentration.”
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Watch OmmWriter in action.
Don’t worry. The clicking of the typing isn’t nearly as loud as it is in the video. I couldbarely hear it with the music playing.
You can save your work as a text file or as a PDF. It’s available for Mac, Windows andiPad (requires iOS 3.2 or later).
#24: eXperiment With Basic Code ChangesFirebug is handy for those times when you want to make changes to your websiteand see what those changes look like in real time without actually overridingyour existing HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
When you have the code tweaked to your liking, you can then copy and paste it intoyour theme to implement the changes on your site. You can install Firebug onFirefox or you can use Firebug Light for Chrome .
#25: Yield More Attention for OffersHello Bar is a banner that appears at the top of your web page. You can add a call toaction and a button that allows visitors to complete that action. I’ve seen manypeople use Hello Bar as a way to promote their new book, but you can also use it todrive traffic to a specific social page or web page or grow your email list.
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Use Hello Bar to promote your book, special discounts and more.
Hello Bar is completely customizable. You control the font, color, text and URL.You can even determine who can see it. A little A/B testing will tell you what getsyou the most conversions.
#26: Zero in on Specific ResourcesI covered some options to collect ideas for your blog posts, and Evernote falls into thatcategory—but it deserves its own section. This tool is crazy useful.
Sure, you can write notes to yourself and save topic ideas, but you can alsotake and save pictures and save articles you want to read later or use forresources for future posts. You can even share your Evernote stuff withothers.
But what’s really cool is that you can search everything—including text in yourphotos. Let’s say you take a picture of your whiteboard with lots of post topics listed.When you search for one of those topics, Evernote looks for that text in notes andimages and returns them in the results.
Plus, Evernote works on all devices—including your web browser—so you can saveanything from anywhere and access it wherever you are . If you have a fewarticles that have piqued your interest and would make a good jumping-off point foryour next article, save them in Evernote.
Conclusion
A few plugins and tools can help you streamline your blogging process so you’re moreefficient and can spend time on other projects and deadlines as well.
What do you think? Have you used any of these blogging tools? Do you haveothers you love? Tell us your experiences in the comments below.
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Mark Evans • 20 hours ago
I'm a big fan of Grammarly - it's a must-use. I also use Compressor.io to reduce the size of photos. Atomic Reachalso has a free plugin to check structure, grammar, spelling and tone.
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Such Is Touch • 20 hours ago
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ckwrites2 • 14 hours ago
This is the best single post on this topic I have ever read. Chack a block full of goodies. Thank you! 2△ ▽
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Brent Jones • 14 hours ago
Nice job @Melanie . Thanks for the point about recirculating old blog posts. It's something I have been meaning todo, but have been putting off.
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Thanks Brent! As bloggers, don't we always have good intentions? haha :) So many things to do and so littletime. Deep linking (and tweeting, etc.) to the evergreen content in your new posts is so helpful for keepingpeople on your site.
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Gordon Inglis • 14 hours ago
Really appreciate the work you did here. Got some great ideas and tools. △ ▽
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Melanie • 11 hours ago> Gordon Inglis
Thanks Gordon. I appreciate the compliment. We here at SME give it our all to make sure you get the goodcontent. :) I'm so glad you found it useful!
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Kartik Jasani • 12 hours ago
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Nunzio Bruno • 10 hours ago
I'm pretty sure this list just saved me lots of hours a week in content creation, planning and sharing! I knew myroutine felt a little clunky. Thanks for all the awesome resources and helping to save me from having to put in latenights working on client business strategy work because I spent too long trying to get my content out into the world :)
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Melanie • 8 hours ago> Nunzio Bruno
Thank you, Nunzio. This is great to hear. Let us know how your process is streamlined! △ ▽
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Abdullah Al Mahamud • 10 hours ago
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naan chutney • 9 hours ago
Amazingly well crafted piece. I wish you the gift of longevity and constant renewal, as you have a tangible gift incraftsmanship and detail.
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Kim Matheson • 8 hours ago
Wow Mel I wonder how long it took you to write this epic blog. I love the information about reviving old blog posts. I douse canva a lot, and have checked out buzzsumo. I have not come across grammarly. I am guilty of using largeimages so will make sure I check the size for my blog posts and test my site load speed. Thanks for sharing. All thebest. Cheers Kim :)
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Melanie • 8 hours ago> Kim Matheson
Thanks for commenting, Kim! I'm glad the tips and tools are useful for you. Definitely check your images --they're a big drain on loading time. Cheers!
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Ed Troxell Creative • 7 hours ago
Very good article! Lots of great tips and sites to check out! △ ▽
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Kelly • 5 hours ago
What an outstanding article! Thank you for all of your hard work. △ ▽
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jeannettepaladino • 4 hours ago
Thanks, Melanie, I knew about some of these tools but not all of them. I will check them out for my blog. Page speedis always an issue. With the focus more on images than text nowadays your have to decide how much speed you'rewilling to trade for readability.
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Salman Sharif • 4 hours ago
Gzip ninja is also a very good plugin for compression, btw a very good article Melanie looking forward to more fromyour side.
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Virtualify • 4 hours ago
Thank you for this wonderful article @Melanie! Most of these tools are a must for employee that are on social mediaindustry people also forget that these are free! Images are also a good thing to show your viewers about yourservices, business etc. Some viewer/reader will just scroll the page some of them don't even wait for the image tofinish especially when it's loading so slow because of the unnecessary high def.
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kreativi • an hour ago
Great article Melanie,
There are lot of wordpress plugins and at times it happens that we miss some important one. You have done thegreat job by compiling this check-list.
I personally use evernote even to jot down ideas. △ ▽
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