7 Free Resources for Bloggers
Make the most of these online tools to improve your blog and reach the right audience
For different industries and services, blogs are powerful allies when it comes to reaching your target audience. They allow you to communicate with potential clients and share products, creative processes, and future plans. Or, maybe you want to run one just because you enjoy sharing and exchanging ideas with other people working in the same sector as you.
Discover seven resources that will help your blog grow without needing to be an expert in design, content marketing, or programming.
Optimizing Images: Tinypng
Tinypng will help you compress your images in JPG and PNG format without losing quality (in some cases you can achieve compressions of up to 70%). It’s always advisable to reduce the size of your photos so that your web page can load quicker. It has a Photoshop plugin (plus many other useful tools) that will allow you to preview your images and easily adjust their size.
Free Stock Images
As well as making your content attractive, you should think about the images you’re going to use to illustrate it. In this link, Mercedes Valgañón (@heymercedes) has prepared a list of the best sites to find free stock images that you can publish on your blog.
When You’re Out of Ideas: Portent’s Idea Generator
This digital agency offers up a free “ideas generator” to help you overcome a creative block. Press the button as many times as you like to find your ideal post.
Convertkit
This free tool allows you to automate your content to create newsletters and attract more traffic to your website. Examine analytics for your e-mail marketing and create simple and attractive messages. The free version will help you manage a database of up to two thousand people. Paid versions start at 20 dollars a month.
Reach More Readers by Adding Share Buttons
It’s a good idea to add buttons so that your readers can share your posts on social media. You could start with free options that are easy to install for Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. There are also other tools that you can personalize, such as Click to Tweet.
Change the Look of Your Website: aThemes
For your blog to be eye-catching and attractive, this website offers up free templates for WordPress that are simple and responsive. While the premium options cost 60 dollars each, you can get access to all their current and future themes for a one-time payment of 250 dollars.
For Programming Content: Blogger
The classic platform Blogger is now owned by Hootsuite and works in a similar way. Program your posts, integrate emails and social media, and respond to comments all in one place.
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