Blogging can be termed as the most important source of independent earning these days.

Blogging can be termed as the most important source of independent earning these days.

A well-established blog can help an individual to drop out of his or her exhausting and mechanical 9-5 without any backstabbings

But while jumping into Blogging, you need to understand that it is much more than just writing an excellent BLOG!

If you’re looking forward to generating revenue (who doesn’t want LOL) while writing about your favourite topics, then there are some tools you should be aware of.

Those tools are necessary to give you a great headstart and can perhaps guide you to the max potential earnings you can ever think of making.

Without stretching it further, let’s get straight on to discussing tools for beginner bloggers that you require 9 in order to make a rocking debut into Blogging Industry.

1) WordPress:

If you aim to monetize your Blog and later rank it on Google for affiliate marketing or whatever, WordPress is your pick. It’s the main platform on which you will be writing, posting, optimizing your BLOG. WordPress is more convenient than Blogspot in terms of Google Friendliness, ease of optimization, etc.

2) Google Docs:

It’s better to carry your personal E-Notebook instead of a pen and diary always. Who knows when you come across some masterpiece, and it requires jotting down a few points quickly on Google Docs?

3) DropBox

An alternate being Google Drive or OneDrive, DropBox is a convenient tool, when you’re looking to back up your Blogs content-ual or Non-Content-ual components. It’s easily recoverable, easy to backup and easy to restore as well.

4) Moz Keyword Planner

How is Google going to rank your site without finding any suitable keywords? You’re not an AI who can quickly figure which keyword is going to be fitting for your Blog’s niche. Take help of Moz Keyword Planner which is currently one of the best paid keyword planner tool. You can always use Google Keyword Planner for free!

5) MailChimp

One of the foremost step to become a professional Blogger, is to create an email list. Be it of your subscriber or someone else who might be interested in your niche Why? To shoot promotional, value-packed, notifying emails on a regular basis, to keep your readers engaged to your Blog. It’s close to impossible to nurture 100 or 1000+ emails on a daily basis individually. That’s why MailChimp is here. It’s one of the best or rather THE BEST email marketing tool, followed by an alternative HUBSPOT, which I liked personally.

6) Gravatar

Another fabulous tool to make you look more authentic as a Blogger. Does it look anyway authentic when your comment on any blog is replied by Grey-Man Profile? Certainly NO! This tool shows your complete profile in an awesome Avatar when you respond to anyone’s comment on your BLOG.

7) Social Champ

If you’re trying to get loads of organic traffic to your Blog daily and leaving out Social Media strategy in the process, you’re losing the big game mate! Social Media Content distribution, hashtag research, post scheduling and all other social media activities can be manipulated under one roof, by this Social Champ tool.

8) Copyright Free Images

Quality images are damn essential for a BLOG’s proper ornamentation. Nobody is going to read lengthy articles without some crisp and relevant images. Professional bloggers may hire designers to design banners and whatsoever that gives them the privilege for Pinterest marketing. But that’s certainly not the case with beginners. They are on their own and so websites like:

• Unsplash
• Pexels
• Flickr
• Life of Pix
• StockSnap
• Pixabay

Among others, can be used to get free stock images as per your need.

9) Bitly:

Last but not least, we always prefer to give a short link to any weird long and meaningless links. Right? Even twitter shortens every lengthy link so that we can memorize it and manage it efficiently as well. Bitly is just made for such purpose. You can create short and meaningful links, manage and share them all in one!

And there, Ladies & Gentleman, are the 9 tools that make up the startup kit for Novice Bloggers.

Grab all of them and use them at the right place and moment.

Who knows when you can be seen on the beaches of Maldives every Weekend, writing your own BLOG, away from employment-mayhem?

Just make sure, Patience, Consistency accompanies you along with these tools.

Peace!