{"id":2219,"date":"2006-02-16T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2016-08-19T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T02:12:37","slug":"what-blog-tools-do-you-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/what-blog-tools-do-you-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What Blog Tools Do you Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Do you Want to Improve Your Blog? <a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/subscribe-to-problogger\/\">Subscribe to ProBlogger Today for Free<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/blogging-for-beginners-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/blogging4beginners.jpg?resize=144%2C106&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"106\" width=\"144\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\nAs I mentioned yesterday, it seems that a new blogging tool or service is being released every day to help bloggers add a new feature to their blog. It can become quite overwhelming to choose between them all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a result I thought it&#8217;d be worth having an open mike discussion on Blog Tools.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not talking about blog platforms (we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/choosing-a-blog-platform\/\">covered that in this series<\/a> but add ons that you might like to use on your blog.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat do you use?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are a few categories of addons with some of the things I use &#8211; but I&#8217;d love to see yours also. To contribute to the conversation either leave your list of blog tools in comments below or write a post on the topic on your own blog and leave a comment below with the link (or trackback this post).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Statistics<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemeter.com\/\">Sitemeter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mybloglog.com\/\">My Blog Log<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<strong>Blog Editors<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/ecto.kung-foo.tv\/\">Ecto<\/a> for Mac<\/li>\n<li>I know others who use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\">Qumana<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjet.com\/\">BlogJet<\/a> and <span class=\"forgotten-link\">w.bloggar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<strong>Plugins<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/ill-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours-wp-plugins\/\">my WP ones are listed here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News Aggregateor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines\">Bloglines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s all that is coming to mind at the moment but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll add more later as I think of it. What blog tools (not platforms) do you use? Feel free to give your reasons and links to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you Want to Improve Your Blog? Subscribe to ProBlogger Today for Free. As I mentioned yesterday, it seems that a new blogging tool or service is being released every day to help bloggers add a new feature to their blog. It can become quite overwhelming to choose between them<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/what-blog-tools-do-you-use\/\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Blog Tools Do you Use?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you Want to Improve Your Blog? 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