10 Important Tools To Become A Successful Blogger

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Starting a blog is the easy part, unfortunately success doesn’t come so easily, thats why I decided to share 10 important tools to becoming a successful blogger with you.

Finding the right tools to build your blog and make it successful takes a little bit more work.

 After starting my blog, I wasted a lot of time not promoting or using the correct tools to help me succeed.

So, after some trial and error I’ve finally found some tools that will help and blogger to be successful, and I’ve made a list just for you.

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Hosting

Hosting is a service that is purchased through a company like Bluehost, that helps your blog be accessed by everyone on the internet.

It also helps to speed up your website and protect it.

And hosting is extremely important if you want to monetize your blog.

I purchased my hosting from Bluehost and have not been disappointed so far. They have excellent customer service and is so easy to set up.

Blogging Courses

Blogging course are really important when it comes to being a successful blogger.

When I started blogging, I tried to learn everything by myself with YouTube & Google.

It would take me hours to find the answer to one question and I wasted so much time.

Blogging courses are a great way to cut that time in half, this also helps you to set up your blog correctly.

Here are some course that will benefit you:

Start A Blogging Business 5-Day Crash Course – This course help you set up your blog for monetization.

Legally Blogs – Legal Course for Bloggers – This is a course that helps you protect your blog legally.

Boss Girl Bloggers – Blog Traffic Challenge – This course helps you drive traffic to you blog.

InstaStrategy with Ell – This course is for planning out a instagram strategy for success.

The Blog Plan By Suzi At Start A Mom Blog – This course is about planning out your content and blog.

Blogging Blastoff 2.0 – This course teaches you everything you need to know about blogging from the beginning to making money.

SEO Search Tools

SEO or Search Engine Optimization tools are very important if you want your blog to be successful.

There are so many tools that can be used for this but a lot of them cost a lot of money and starting off as a new blogger you may not have the funds to purchase a program for this.

Here are some free programs that you can use to find the right SEO words for your blog posts.

Google Keyword Planner – When signing up for this I may look like you have to sign up for ads but you don’t

Ubersuggest – This one you don’t have to sign up for you can just start using

Email For Blog

It’s always helpful to have an email that is associated with your blog. It gives your business the look of legitimacy.

And helps your readers to connect with you. You don’t want the emails from your blog to get mixed up with your other personal emails.

You also want and email address that business can connect with you if they would like to work with you.

It really easy to set up an email with your hosting company, which is what I did. It’s also free.

Pinterest Business Account

After you have your blog set up and everything is running smoothly in that area you want to promote your blog post for people to come to your blog.

The best way to do this is to create a Pinterest business account, which is completely free.

This is the best way to promote your blog as Pinterest is a search engine and not a social media network.

People can easily get to your blog posts from your Pinterest pins.

It’s easy to set up a business account and you can do it right from your regular account.

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Canva

After you set up you pinterest business account you need pins to post to your account so people can be redirected to your blog.

A great free tool that helps you create pins is Canva.

Canva can also help you create a. bunch of other types of graphics like Instagram posts, Instagram story posts, Facebook post and so much more.

You can sign up for free and use the free version or you can upgrade to the pro version, it’s really up to you.

But it’s totally not necessary, I have been using the free account since I started and have been able to make many pins that do well.

Canva is an amazing free tool for all bloggers but really great for new bloggers that don’t have a lot of money to spend.

Tailwind

Tailwind is a great tool for helping to minimize your work.

This is an app that automatically pins your pins to the boards you specify on Pinterest.

The great thing about Tailwind is that it picks the best time to pin to Pinterest, so you get the most views/ eyes on your pins.

This is a paid app, but you can try it for free for 14 days.

I thought this app was unnecessary but after using it and not using it I saw a huge difference in my Pinterest numbers and engagement.

Social Media Accounts

So, the first thing you want to do right after you start your blog is get the social media accounts with your blog names so no one else can take it.

Even if you don’t start using your social media account you want to make sure you have the names for when you’re ready to use it.

After you have your blog running and posts are consistent and pinterest is also running smoothly that’s when you start on social media.

With social media you want to pick one and then move to the others.

For instance, start with Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and once your established well on one move to the next.

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Facebook Creator Studio

After you have your social media accounts and you’re ready to post consistently Facebook Creator Studio is the tool for you.

This helps you to schedule Instagram & Facebook posts ahead of time so they can go out according to plan. This is great for saving time.

You can take a couple of hours and plan and schedule your post and relax after your done.

This is a great tool and the best part about it is that its free!

Facebook Blogging Groups

Facebook blogging groups are a great way to bring traffic to your blog and also help with your other social media content.

These groups help to share your content with other people which ensures that your content is seen by many more people than it usually would be.

Before discovering Facebook blogging groups and how beneficial they could be I hardly had any traffic to my blog.

These groups have really made a difference, here are some groups that I am a part of that are very helpful:

Blogging For New Bloggers

Blogging Boss Chicks

Newbies & Expert Bloggers Unite

Start A Blogging Business

Final Thoughts

I hope these tools were helpful to you, they were extremely helpful to me when I first started blogging.

These tools give you the edge you need to hit the ground with a running start instead of being behind.

That was me for a long time. I was happy to find these tools to take me to the next level.

Let me know in the comments below if you’ve used any of these tools if so which ones were most helpful to you?