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8 Geeky Tools Every Blogger Must Use

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Last updated: December 9, 2012





There are so many reasons to blog; you can express your opinion on hot topics, raise awareness for something you care about, deliver really helpful information to readers and make money all at the same time. Whatever your reason, the blogosphere has grown into quite a complex place and keeping up with the competition is a big job. Stay ahead of the game with these new, geeky tools every blogger must have:

1. W3C Link Checker: Everybody hates dead links. Especially when those links lead to something important or interesting. However, if you are a one man or one woman blog, then continually scanning all your posts and pages for dead links is not feasible. W3C Link Checker is a web-based checker for dead links that can quickly scan your entire site for broken links at regularly scheduled intervals.

2. CloudFlare: CloudFlare is a relatively new web based tool that uses some really advanced technology to protect your blog from hackers, spammers and other evil web bots. If your blog has ever been hacked, then you know how important a tool like this can be. Bloggers using platforms like WordPress and Blogger, with common passwords can easily have their account hacked – and this does happen frequently. Hackers can then delete and steal all your precious content, reposting it later elsewhere on the web, among other malicious things. CloudFlare offers enhanced security for all blogging platforms and is free! They also do a great job at minimizing those weird, annoying comments left by spam bots.

3. PunchTab: PunchTab has been around for a while now, but has only recently made its way into the mainstream blogosphere. With PunchTab, you can build a rewards program for your visitors in minutes. A rewards program typically offers to give something away for free to chosen returning readers who make the most comments, visit the most often, etc. You think up and provide the reward – PunchTab spits out the code for the interface for your readers to sign up to the rewards program. This is a great way to build a loyal readership, which is the key to every great blog.



4. Pando: One thing that more and more Internet users hate is slow load times. With everything digital getting faster, our patience has grown thinner. If you have, say a photography blog with several large flash animation files, your site may take quite a while to load. This could result in a significant number of users hitting the back button on their browser before your stuff even had a chance to load. Pando is another service that will streamline and minimize the load times of large media files.

5. Bloapp: Bloapp is a new tool that allows you to create an iPhone app for your blog in a few easy steps. Bloapp creates the app, uploads it to the App Store, and generates the QR code for you. This amazingly is a FREE service, a service that you could spend a good amount of money on hiring an iOS developer to provide.

6. Fast Blog Finder: One of the best ways to promote your content and blog is for you to comment and leave a link on other, relevant blogs. The keyword here however, is “relevant.” Searching out other niche blogs that are highly pertinent to your own blog is time consuming. Quick Google searches often return a number of related blogs, but Fast Blog Finder analyzes your site, searches out the absolute most relevant blogs and returns you the results. This is also a great way to keep an eye on the competition and see if a particular title or angle you’re working on has been done to death already by other bloggers in your niche.

7. MicroPoll: People love taking polls for some reason and polls are a great way to make your site more interactive and community oriented. However, unless you’re a fast and adept web developer, polls are not easy to build. However, MicoPoll does all the work for you in creating online polls. All you have to do is come up with the poll question, plug this data into MicroPoll’s web based CMS and the code for the poll is generated for you in seconds.

8. Watermark Tool: Bloggers tend to use a lot of images and videos in their posts. If you don’t want someone else to copy your images and claim credit for it then using an watermark on your images could be a good solution. There are a few watermarking tools out there. I like the free online watermarking tool from watermarktool.com.

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Comments (11 responses)

  1. Kevin says:
    August 11, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    Thanks again for the great info. I just finished setting up CloudFlare and am excited to gauge the results.

    Another good tool is the w3c validator. It checks your site for errors in the code that may harm your ranking:

    http://validator.w3.org/

  2. Free Stuff says:
    July 27, 2011 at 1:19 am

    Are these WP plugins or tools to use in addition to the blogging platform?

  3. Webdesign München says:
    July 25, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    Thank you very much for this list! I’m a totally new blogger. It’s very helpfull to read your blog.

  4. SEO says:
    July 25, 2011 at 1:33 am

    Wow, Bloapp is really something I need. My geeky followers on my blog has been requesting the possibility to in a smartphone read my stuff easier 🙂

  5. M.K. Safi says:
    July 19, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Hey, Thanks for this list!

    I use FindBroken to check for broken links. It’s truly set & forget. It’s been very useful for me. And it’s made by the same person who developed the popular WordPress plugin Broken Link Checker.

    Now all I need is a plugin to do markup validation for all my URLs! Maybe the great devs of Tips & Tricks HQ are up for the challenge?! 😛

  6. Bill Gram-Reefer says:
    July 14, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    Apparently Bloapp does NOT support self-hosted WordPress, yet..

  7. David says:
    July 13, 2011 at 4:18 am

    The W3C Link Checker is a fantastic tool.. didn’t even know that a tool like this existed.

  8. Erin says:
    July 12, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    Thanks a lot, great tools !!

  9. Roberto Lebron says:
    July 12, 2011 at 11:23 am

    Thank you for this very handy list. I will put it to work forthwith. Keep up the good work!

  10. Ivan Blatter says:
    July 11, 2011 at 4:56 am

    Nice list, thank you!

    To check for broken links I use the plugin “Broken Link Checker”. So I see always in my dashboard if there a broken links or not.

    I think deleting broken links is a everday-task for a blogger.

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