Blogging tools are the backbone of any blog. Yesterday I got an idea of making my own favorite blogging tool, I researched some article on the web and I landed to my favourite blogger Darren Rowse Blog’s Problogger where I found that Darren already made a huge list of blogging tool. Though all the tools which Darren described are very useful but on those list I choose my own favourite and made my own list. This list is categorized as:
Blogging platform
WordPress: Most famous blogging platform present till date
Blogger: The second most famous blog platform offer free hosting for their subdomain
Writing an article offline
Windows livewriter for Windows
Ecto for Mac
Blog Statistics
Google analytics: Used for tracking the number of visitors on any blog.
Sitemeter: There are some interesting option available to track the stats.
Statpress: A wordpress plugin to track the visitors of blog.
News Aggregator and reader
Bloglines: Famous news aggregator and reader
Google Reader: Most famous news reader till date.
Email subscription tool
Live Mobile Blog tool
Other Tools
Google Webmaster Tool: Register and see the change in traffic comes from Google. Awesome tool for webmasters
Feedburner: RSS tool for burning blog feeds and send to news readers.
Flickr: An image collection tool. Store your image and share it to others. Also if use effectively it brings potential traffic to your blog.
Copyscape: A tool for save your blog from blog plagiarism.
Favicon maker: A favicon generate tool
Pingomatic: Ping your blog.
Twitter: A microblogging tool.
Adobe Photeshop: An awesome image editing tool.
Youtube: Watch videos, share videos and strengthen you reach and knowledge.
Stock.xchng: You can get image for your blog.
Google blog search: A blog searching tool.
Backtype: See what people says about your blog in comments
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you forget mention about plugins for the blogs(esp wordpress) they make a lot of difference for every blogger..
Nice find dude, actually there are lots of articles already available on Wordpress plugin and this article is not only for Wordpress bloggers, thats why I hadn’t mentioned any Wordpress plugin, I’ll try to write a detailed post on Top Wordpress plugins.
Definitely useful and informative and newsletter both are not free versions and i personally use feed burner which is free and good above all great post and lookinfg forward to see more posts from you friend
Its nice..interesting post and informative. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Malini, Welcome at Blogtechnika
hey himansu good list, wordpress is best blogging platform and Windows livewriter is best tool to publish post.
@Mostlyblog Thanks mate for the kind words.
Very good list buddy. I would also like to add more tools to this tools, one of them is easyComments Firefox plugin and Kgen add-on.
@Ricky Thanks buddy, I think you are talking about easyComments Wordpress plugin.
Good collection of tools.
Jott is new one for me.
This is a very comprehensive list. Great stuff!
Great list dude…Bookmarked it for future
Ecto sucks !
Can you suggest some other Writing tool for Mac?
None !, If you are used to live writer then Ecto is a puny in front of them.
I am thinking of using scribefire
Yes , I am totally agree with you, at least there is something better than Apple in Windows exist
Good list of tools my friend. I will try to compile my own favorite blogging tools for blogger users.
By the way, I noticed that you visited and posted comment on my blog. I really appreciate your effort. I am also love to learn more from you. I also like your blog design… I hope we could be good friends.
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Sure friend! Thanks for appreciation, I have bookmarked your blog, will wait for new articles.
Great resource Himanshu. A title like 25 Killer Blogging tools would have yeild great result. Just my 2 cents
Thanks Harsh for your kind suggestion, next time I will take care of it.
i love windowslivewriter….it makes publishing my posts very very easy
Beautiful collection of tools …I like the way you write the posts..
Nice tip…
Great list Himanshu. Though in Email subscription you missed the most widely used Feed burner..
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