18 Blogging Tools for Writing Blogs
Tools for Topics
Coming up with topics regularly can be tough. You may be able to ease this with these:
Tools for Headlines
Recent tests by Upworthy have found that traffic to articles can vary as much as 500%, depending on a headline. If you don’t engage your reader with a headline, you won’t even scan your blog content. Here are a couple of tools to help.
You are shooting for anything above 50% on emotion and power. Here’s a good exercise to try. Please type in your old post headlines and see where they stand. This is good information to have so you know what to work on. You will also get lists of words and phrases that are good for emotion and power.
The Writing
Blog content has to be readable and scannable. This means that the reading level has to be correct; the text has to be broken up with headings and bullet points; the grammar and punctuation have to be right, and you should have visuals. But you already know this. However, translating these “rules” into great, creative writing is sometimes tough. If you have concerns about your writing, there is help.
Visuals/Media
No content today will attract readers unless it has visuals. The research is very detailed about this. Visuals include photos, infographics, memes, and drawings. Video has become more and more important. People will view explainer, instructional, and “how-to” videos when they will not read text with the same blog content. There are tools for visuals or video, so you do not have to hire a designer to do this. Millions of pieces of blog content are published every day. And some of that is in your niche, created by your competitors. If you intend to stay in the game as far as content is concerned, it has to be creative, engaging, and valuable to your audience. Otherwise, it does not get read/viewed, or shared. These 18 blogging tools for writing blogs should help you be more competitive.
