15 Killer Blogging Tools We Use To Make Money Blogging

So you love blogging or are about to start blogging and want to know what blogging tools successful bloggers use to make money blogging?

We’ve been blogging for profits for a few years now and totally rely on particular blogging tools which we recommend you use too in order to make money blogging.

So, if you’re serious about making money from blogging, and want to know which blogging tools we use and recommend, then read on. We hope you use the same blogging tools as us too.

Let’s begin with the blogging tools we use to build our blogs:

[1]     WordPress

WordPress is awesome. It’s one of THE best blogging tools because it’s free, it’s easy to use, you don’t need to know computer programming language to use it, and Google loves it. Every blog we’ve built are self-hosted WordPress.org blogs.

If you’re really serious about making money blogging you need a self-hosted blog, because you control it, and ‘own’ it outright. So no-one else can dictate what you put on it or what you blog about.

[2]     Aweber

Aweber is an online service which allows you to build a database of people interested in what you blog about. We believe it’s the best autoresponder on the market today so ranks very highly in our list of recommended blogging tools.

The only way to maximise your blogging is to grow your list and interact with your new subscribers.  Aweber allows you to do that, starting with a $1 trial period, then it’s $19 per month for up to 500 subscribers. You can then send unlimited emails to your followers, including more valuable information and some compelling offers.

[3]     LiquidWeb

LiquidWeb is the hosting service we’ve used for nearly four years now. They’re another of the great blogging tools because they allow unlimited domains to be hosted in one account, their customer service is open 24/7, and it’s exemplary! We nearly all our domains hosted with LiquidWeb because they take security seriously – you need to call them up to install a new domain, which means they're reviewing each and every site and site owner for integrity and subject matter. We recommend LiquidWeb entirely as one of our preferred blogging tools.

[4]     Digital Bloggers platform

If you’re just starting out making money blogging, the simplest of blogging tools to use is the Digital Bloggers platform, which comes as part of The Six Figure Mentors marketing training platform (the Six Figure Mentors teaches you how to make money online working from home – so you can work where you want, when you want, and with who you want).

The great thing about the platform is that it’s already an authority site which means the keywords (common search phrases) in your blog posts will start ranking on the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo – so your posts will be found by people looking for your content. Your own authority site will take time to rank with the search engines, so the platform gives you a head start.

Also, you don’t need to worry about what plugin functionality to build into your blogging platform, as it’s all done for you, including the best keyword plugin on the market today.

What’s more is, you’ll also learn valuable marketing knowledge from Six Figure Mentors training.

The next area of blogging tools are research tools to use when preparing blog posts:

[5]     Article Builder

Imagine you’ll get stuck thinking what to write about? Article building is another of the blogging tools of your dreams. It does cost, but then it saves your heaps of time and frustration too. With just a click of a button, you produce a professionally written, unique blog post on your subject of choice. All you need do is copy, paste, and publish! Simple! Job done!

[6]     Notepad

Notepad is a free text editor that comes with Windows. It’s better than Word processing programs because it doesn’t contain any formatting coding at all, which WordPress doesn’t like – making it another of the best blogging tools to copy and paste blog text direct into your WordPress blog.

[7]     SnagIt Photo Editor

SnagIt  is one of the fantastic blogging tools for capturing screen images and editing them as you choose.  It’s fairly easy to use but it’s not free, although you can download it and try if for free for 30 days. Once you love it and rely on it, it’s a one off fee of $49.95.

We blogging tools like this to make images, banners, and widgets for our blogs, plus status updates for Facebook.

[8]     YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website where all public videos are in the public domain so can be used in your blog posts – which is why it's in our list of blogging tools. You can record your own videos, upload them to YouTube, then embed them in your blog posts – but if you’re just starting out blogging, why not use someone else’s videos to your advantage?

First though, make sure a public video doesn’t have any weird advertisements showing up, or an obvious link to someone else’s blog. Some popular video’s to leverage are self-development video’s, like ones done by Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Napoleon Hill and Joe Vitale.

[9]     PayPal

PayPal is a quick and easy way to get paid. Their payment platform is free to use, but they make their money by charging a tiny percentage of each sale you make. Most people have a Paypal account so it’s one of the most acceptable blogging tools for collecting money because people trust it’s secure, so are more than happy to pay via Paypal.

Then there’s the blogging tools we use to distribute our posts, as follows:

[10]    Onlywire

There really is little point writing a blog post if you don’t distribute it around the web so that more and more people can find it and learn from it. Onlywire is the best of the blogging tools for doing this as it collates the best of the web2.0 authoritative properties all together to make it easy to distribute your blog post in one easy effort.

OnlyWire is the king of blogging tools as it auto-submits your blog post content to 47+ social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and WordPress.com with speed and simplicity. It does cost $10 per month if you want more than the 300 free submissions, but you do get a big bang for your marketing buck for $10 per month.

[11]    IMAutomator

This is similar to Onlywire but distributes your blog content to an additional 15 different authority sites and costs $2.99 each month.

[12]    Buffer

Buffer makes posting to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn a doddle – scheduling your posts for the best times when your friends and followers are likely to read them.

We use their free plan as it lets you schedule ten posts a day to three social network accounts, but when you refer someone to Buffer they give you another post for free. If you need more, it only costs $10 per month with unlimited updates for up to 12 social profiles. It ranks highly as one of the free blogging tools

[13]    Facebook Post Planner

Facebook is, in our opinion, THE best way to promote your blog posts, either to Groups you’ve joined or to pages you’ve created – to share your helpful information with friends and fans.

But . . . Facebook can sap your precious time if you let it. To overcome that niggly issue, you can set up posts in advance to autopost – to as many groups as possible.

Post Planner is one of our favourite blogging tools to schedule Facebook posts in advance, so that we don’t need to be on Facebook 24/7.

Finally, we have two blogging tools to recommend to make your life as a blogger so much easier.

[14]    Roboform

Ever forget your passwords? Or lose the piece of paper you write them on? Keep your passwords in order to save you so much time, avoid confusion, and allow you to set different secure passwords for each site you visit.

Roboform is very secure, and you only need one master password to log in to Roboform to access ALL of your passwords. It’s also great for storing stuff like Bank Account details, Product Licence Keys and so on.

What’s best is that Roboform Everywhere lets you can log into your password database from ANY computer ANYWHERE in the world. A must have, as one of your blogging tools!

[15]    GraphixCreator

Want to be professional, look professional and have professional images you can crank out yourself, with no tech or design skills? You absolutely need GrpahixCreator.

This tool takes ANY image (like a website screenshot or personal picture) and immediately turns it into a “Digital Packaging” shot.

All you have to do is:

Step 1: Store an image onto your computer

Step 2: Upload it to GraphixCreator

Step 3: Select the style 3D graphic you want (a CD, DVD, Kindle, iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro, HDTV etc . . .)

Step 4: YOU’RE DONE! It instantly renders a highly professional 3D image for you!

Professional 3D images toake 10 secs to create. Seriously!

If you’re wondering what else you can create with GraphixCreator – the templates include iPads – iPods – iPhones – Macs – tablets – smart phones – video players – HDTVs – paperback books – hardback books – spiral bound books – ring binders – brochures – CDs – DVDs – CD cases – Software boxes – roller banners – membership cards – greeting cards ==> all in varying angles.

Click here to see examples of the images we created in 10 seconds each.

That's our top 15 killer blogging tools. Now some of the above links are our affiliate links, some a free tools, and others aren’t associated with any affiliate program at all.

What other blogging tools do you use?

If you’re a seasoned blogger, let us know what blogging tools you swear by – those blogging tools which make life easier blogging for profits. Please share them in the comment box below.

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