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Over 501 Blogging Tools (Free & Premium) You’ll Ever Need

Blogging Tools 501 Bloggers can't live without tools! I mean, without their favorite blogging tools. And you probably know that there are hundreds of thousands of free and premium blogging tools on the web that lets you streamline your research, writing, and publishing process. Over the past several months I have published a variety of tools lists: Productivity Tools 101Social Media Tools 101Internet Marketing Tools 101Content Marketing Tools 101Search Engine Optimization Tools 101, etc. But today, I just want to focus on only one thing --- "Blogging". The idea is to list some of the best blogging tools out there. And the good thing..... most of them are free or freemium or at least comes with a free trial (there are exceptions too, btw). Also, you almost definitely won't need all the tools that are listed here but over time you will see yourself trying many of them (as they are all related in one way or the other). And that's why I have perfectly organized all of them into categories and subcategories --- to make the list easy to scan.

The Best Of The Best Blogging Tools — Curated!

A few years ago I tried to come up with a similar list, as a web directory for bloggers and marketers, but then I found it difficult to update as the list was not properly organized or categorized. And that's how I started working on this list. It's your ultimate blogging tools and resources (or at least I think so). However, it's very, very likely that I might have missed your favorite blogging tool as most of the tools that I have mentioned on this list are my personal favorites or something that I already knew existed.

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Why 365 Blog Posts (Or Even Less) Is All You Need To Become A Successful Blogger

Why 365 Blog Posts (Or Even Less) Is All You Need To Become A Successful Blogger

Ever wondered how many blog posts you need to become a successful blogger? Well, I will show you why 365 blog posts is all you need for traffic, income, and probably fame.

If you’re planning to start a blog then people might have recommended you to write once weekly, twice weekly or maybe one daily. Yes, it’s true if you want to make your blog hyper-active, engaging, and would like to increase the number of subscribers.

But it's also true that you can become a successful blogger and increase your blog traffic without following any publishing schedule.

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30 Things I Absolutely Love About Your Blog

I hate your blog. I love your blog. I have already published 30 Things I Absolutely HATE About Your Blog --- since then I have been thinking to come up with its reverse topic as well. That is, I wanted to publish a list of 30 things that I LOVE about a blog. Once again, it’s just my personal view and hence there’s a good chance that you would disagree with me — with some or all of them. :D And I also tried to cite other blogs and blog posts as examples for "things" wherever it's possible. Also, when I published the previous list, none of the "things" were actually technical in nature but on this list there are so many technical "things" that are not easily fixable (if it's a problem). However, it doesn't really mean that I absolutely hate your blog. It's just a perspective and I could be totally wrong.

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30 Things I Absolutely Hate About Your Blog

I love your blog. I hate your blog. Whenever I visit a blog that I haven't come across before, I try to find out how different it is from others or what makes it interesting. Not just that. I also notice things that I don't like in it. Your blog might be very popular. But it wouldn't stop me from finding things I don't like. I can't stop myself from doing it. Over the past few months I started curating such a list in my Evernote and I'm sharing it here. And I believe most of them can be fixed (if you think it must be fixed) as none of them is technical in nature (if it's a technical problem then it's you who created it). But hey, it's just my personal view and hence there's a good chance that you would disagree with me --- with some or all of them. :D

Don't Miss: 30 Things I Absolutely Love About Your Blog

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101 Things After Starting A WordPress Blog

101 Things After Starting A WordPress Blog You can’t start a WordPress blog in 10 minutes. And you can’t start one in 10 hours either. You know why? Because it takes countless hours to customize WordPress and get things done and make things look like the way you want (unless you are a WordPress geek). And hey, I didn’t even count the time required to actually create content. That’s the real purpose of a blog, right? First things first. I'm going to assume that you have already purchased a domain name, web hosting plan, and have installed WordPress (either manually or automatically via your web hosting control panel). If not, you should. ;) So, I have just installed WordPress at http://www.minterest.in (a demo WordPress site that I have temporarily created to write this very blog post). And the idea is to reverse engineer Minterest (this blog) --- by installing and customizing the WordPress theme and the set of WordPress plugins that I'm using on this blog. However, there are few limitations as the demo site doesn't have (real) content. I have tried to replicate as many things as possible from this blog on the demo site so that both look identical.

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27 Things Before Starting A WordPress Blog

Starting A WordPress Blog

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So you want to be a blogger? That's great! Blogging is simple and fun but not easy. Definitely not easy. Even though you can set up a WordPress blog in less than 10 minutes, it takes countless hours of focus and patience to make things look the way you want. When I wrote the blog post You Can't START A Blog In 10 Minutes. Period., I not only wanted to highlight that it's not easy to start a blog but also wished to create a series of posts to list everything you need to take care of while starting a new WordPress blog. First things first. What's your story? Why do you want to start a blog? Over the years, I have noticed that almost all full-time bloggers have published a "How To Start A Blog In 10 Minutes" kind of tutorial and they make the entire process sound so simple. Since starting a blog seems easy, almost everyone today wants to have a blog without really thinking about its purpose. In reality, it doesn't work that way. So before you do anything else, think about why you want to start a blog. (Do I see you putting on your thinking cap? :))

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The Best Dictation (Voice To Text) Software Is Here (And It’s Free!)

“Voice typing…” on Google Docs I'm a desktop kind of person who almost always prefer a computer over a phone --- unless I'm away from my desk. I have already mentioned on several blog posts that I take a lot of time to create a blog post --- from researching to writing to editing to formatting. And that's why I'm always trying to find a way to streamline my content creation process --- to make it more consistent, stress-free, and efficient. Obviously, the biggest task involved in publishing a blog post is actually the writing process itself. Once the first draft gets done, the rest happens like magic!

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Over the past several months/years, I tried several dictation or voice to text software --- including the super-popular Dragon Speech Recognition Software (but I tried it several years back) --- and nothing really worked for me. Not anymore!

Meet "Voice typing..." On Google Docs

I was an active Google Docs user until few months back and then almost stopped using it. A couple of weeks back I noticed that Google introduced "Voice typing..." to Google Docs. However, it's not supported in its iOS (on iPhone and iPad) apps, yet.

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Hey there, I’m Mahesh Mohan (@maheshone) — Your friendly neighborhood blogger and an organic marketing evangelist. I write about tech, marketing, and everything in between that excites me.

Outside of that, I love to work with small businesses to help them get the most out of the web. And I’m equally passionate about the financial markets. Oh yeah, I also spend A LOT of time doing random things (check out 181 random facts about me).
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