Blogging phenomenon has emerged in a rapid phase in last few years with the development of web technologies and Social Media marketing. According to technorati, new blogs are created at the rate of one per second which shows the increase in the number of blogs. Blogs are developed in various topics and there are thousands of blog directories, traffic exchange programs available in Internet which have gained immense popularity.

Top 5 Blogging tools for bloggers

Different blogging tools and resources are available for improving blog’s search engine visibility, increase traffic and build back links with related niche websites or blogs.

SEO and keyword research

SEO optimization and keyword density are important for every blogger to improve search engine rankings and Google page rank.

Tag Clouds

Tagging has now become an essential part of blogging and browsing in Internet. Even though this concept is mainly considered by search engines while calculating website content and rankings. Tag clouds are not used by many bloggers but they use labels which play a good role in search engine indexing.

Meta tags

Meta tags are most important for every website or blog. Major search engines like Google and yahoo rate your blog or website based on the keywords, Meta tags description, robots Meta tag. Most important tag is the title tag which should be present in the head section of your website template. Adding your post title to your Meta tag title improves your search engine visibility more.

Blogroll and widgets

These play a major role for linking your website to other blogs which contain similar niche. You can add your favorite links to blog rolls, start adding comments to blogs which have similar content of your website, enable guest blogging and participate in link exchange programs.

It is preferred to write a small paragraph and then have a link exchange rather than to have a link in the blog roll which gives the reader an idea of what you site or blog is about when they reach your website. In this way you can get the targeted audience to your blogs.

There are similar tools to check for plagiarism, protect your copyright so that no others would copy website content from your website.

Blog feed or smart podcasting of their feeds enables bloggers to reach out to different social communities by configuring their feeds. Examples of feeds which are very prominent today are feedburner which provides new subscriptions, email delivery of your latest blog posts and provides your recent activity in social communities.

Email marketing has emerged recently which helps bloggers in providing information regarding their website or blog in a simple fashion. Though email marketing is most powerful, it is the least used as it is understood by only a few bloggers and so least optimized for websites.

Here are some resource:

weblens.org tools for blogging
incomediary.com Blogging resources
swishit.com Blog tools

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