When it comes to blogging you’re not alone. Any issue you may encounter, any add on you’d like to include or program you’d like to connect with most likely has a plug-in to help you. Blog tools are plentiful in today’s growing community of bloggers and they can really help you set up a professional and successful business blog that meets all your expectations.
While there are far too many to mention them all, here’s a few of our suggestions of what should be considered the most important blog tools to keep in mind when creating a business blog.
1. HubSpot Blogging Software
Why not begin with our favorite blog tool and the one we use self employed database most often. HubSpot’s blogging software is built with business blogging in mind and has tons of great features that prove valuable to people looking to promote their business and drive traffic to their website.
Not only can you create, preview and publish all from one spot but it also has SEO tools built right in so you can make sure your content will rank high in organic searches before you put it out there. As you enter content it keeps a tally of how many keywords your post contains and makes suggestions on what titles would have a better SEO ranking when necessary.
Other capabilities include:
Calls-to-action and landing page templates that allow you to include offers in your post to drive traffic and convert leads.
Create and customize emails to your subscribers.
Track page views and comments so you can determine what topics generate the most traffic among your readers.
Your content is automatically optimized for mobile viewing.
Choose what social sharing buttons you would like to include and position them on each of your blog posts so it’s easy for your readers to share your content.
Offer your readers subscription options so they can choose how often they receive blog updates from you.