Blogging Tools Worth the Money
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Online Blogging Tools that are Worth the Money
Rob Is Empowered
Blogging tools, if you have the right ones, can make the difference between struggling to run a successful blog, and running one with ease.
If you’ve been a reader for awhile, you know that I don’t normally send out emails recommending blogging tools, and that I’m quite content to just display the ones I use here in the sidebar or on the recommendations page, and let curiosity do its thing. It’s worked out pretty well so far.
But now that BizChickBlogs has transitioned into the new site, I’m not going to take as many opportunities to write about blogging as I did last year. This is one of the few times I’ll do this. There really are some fantastic, can’t-live-without-em blogging resources out there that I have spent money on and highly recommend.
This isn’t fluff, and there are no 24 hour sales here. The reality is that there are some costs associated with running a business efficiently, and if your business is blogging, you should have the tools to make it successful.
Anyway, without further ado, here are some things that I would recommend you get your hands on (or feet into) and rock your blog in 2011. These 5 cover all the main bases, too: hosting, theme, SEO, strategy, and monetization. Please note: Links to recommended products/services are indeed affiliate links.
Recommended Resource #1: Scribe SEO
Why I Can’t Live Without It: Because it’s just that good. Not only does it teach you best practices, so that over time you actually start to compose optimized posts naturally, but it goes beyond just analyzing posts to helping you with Keyword research and link building ideas. It really is a top-notch application. I use it on multiple blogs, articles, guest posts, and regular website content.
If your blog doesn’t have any readers, and you have very little following in your social networks, SEO is your friend. Utilize it. If you can’t find your own blog doing some keyword searches, no one else can, either. You don’t have to be a link building whiz in order to get search engine traffic. But you really need optimized content if you want any chance of search traffic without a great deal of link building.
This is for serious writers who face tough, competitive SEO positions and who want to experience the long-term benefits associated with excellent on-site optimization.
Recommended Resource #2: MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate
Why I Can’t Live Without It: Because it’s “set it and forget it” monetization and internal linking for your blog. It’s a MUST if you have a multi-author blog or have a lot of guest posts. You set up affiliate links, or target URLs (such as your own internal links, or links to your Facebook or Twitter accounts), and then you associate keywords with them. Then, whenever that keyword is displayed, whether in a post or in someone’s comment, Ninja links the keyword to your affiliate link or target URL. Presto. So simple. AND, these kinds of links get published with your feed, so when you syndicate content, your affiliate links are syndicated too (it’s really brilliant).
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Robert Kivett rob@robertkivett.com
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