Recommend Tools for Blogging?

This is jumping ahead a bit, but once you start publishing your blog articles, make sure you have 'share' buttons in place that will allow readers to easily share your content with their friends/family and set up social media accounts for your blog that will allow you to connect with more users and help funnel more traffic back to your blog.

Best of luck!

I would recommend this: Sharing Tools with ShareThis Social Media Buttons and Widgets

Not much,, Autoresponder... Others you add later when you need.. But getting email subscriber from day 1 would be one of the most important thing you could do for your online business. There are no specific must have.. just start your blog and you will learn more from time to time what you required. Simply adding "must have tools" used by others will not help you if you don't need it.

I am assuming that you will be using WordPress, as most people do for their blogs.

Here is a list of plugins, themes, and tools that I would be lost without.

Plugins:

Akismet
Jetpack
Yoast SEO
Updraft Plus (for backups)
Wordfence
Pretty Link Lite
Shortcodes Ultimate
TinyMCE Advanced
WP Opt-in Boxes
Google XML Sitemap
WP Super Cache
PageBuilder by SiteOrigin
WP PostViews
WP Legal Pages
WP Squeeze Bar


Theme:

WP 7in1 - This theme allows you to easily create 7 different kinds of sites. It's a premium theme and I believe it is currently priced at $37.


Tools:

SumoMe - It's a fantastic service that has list building tools, social media sharing tools, and more. It's free to use but there are also premium features if you want to upgrade. If you are looking for a great pop up opt-in form they have one that you can use for free.

Google Analytics - I think it goes without saying you need this to see vital stats for your blog.

Feedburner - A great way to add blog subscribers if you are just starting out and cannot afford an autoresponder. They have an opt-in box you can use to capture blog subscribers and ever time you post they will get an email with the post inside.


Content:

We all get writers block from time to time, and so here are a few places where I find good content when I need it fast.

Constant Content - https://www.constant-content.com/

Swarm Content - A Marketplace For Exclusive Articles and Blog Posts

Ghost Bloggers - Buy & Sell Unique Content - GhostBloggers™


I love blogging and I hope that info helps you all out!

Yoast SEO
Google XML Sitemap
Pretty Link Lite
TinyMCE Advanced
Akismet
Jetpack

This Is Plugins
Akismet
Jetpack
Yoast SEO
Updraft Plus (for backups)
Wordfence
Pretty Link Lite
Shortcodes Ultimate
TinyMCE Advanced
WP Opt-in Boxes
Google XML Sitemap
WP Super Cache
PageBuilder by SiteOrigin
WP PostViews
WP Legal Pages
WP Squeeze Bar

If you are going to be using WordPress as your platform - then I recommend these tools (plugins):

AdRotate
Akismet
Better Click To Tweet
Better WordPress Minify
Bottom of every post
Broken Link Checker
Comment Redirect by Yoast
CommentLuv
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
Easy Lightbox Wordpress
Easy Tynt
Facebook Open Graph, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags
Hide Trackbacks
In Depth Articles Generator
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Lazy Load
Monarch Plugin
Opt-In Panda | BizPanda
OptinLinks Professional
Page scroll to id
Pretty Link Lite
Rublon Account Security
SEO Smart Links
Social Locker | BizPanda
Srizon Responsive Youtube Album
StyleRoller Add-on
WP Smush
WP Super Cache
WP Widget Cache
WP-Optimize
Yoast SEO

These are the plugins I personally use for my blogs.

Now, here are some external tools that are helpful for bloggers:

Buzzsumo
GetResponse
CoSchedule Headline Analyzer
Piktochart
Reedsy
Optimizely
BuzzStream
ContentIdeator
Feedly

Just google each tool to get the link to it

These are very helpful tool for bloggers!

I hope this helps!

Cheers!

BuzzSumo - Quara - Google Trends - WordPress Distraction-Free Writing Mode - WordPress Mobile Apps - Editorial Calendar - After the Deadline - Google Webmaster Tools - Google Keyword Planner - Mailchimp - Buffer - Google docs (if you're colloborating with others) or Asana

Here're the basic tools I'm using (hope I didn't forget anything):
Google Analytics
Pingdom (It offers you uptime reports, error analysis response time reports)
Google Ad Manager
Aweber
BuzzSumo
Quora
Google Keyword Planner
Mailchimp

Good luck!

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