Top Blogging Tools List
List of the top 100+ best blogging tools according to popularity that bloggers should use to start and run a blog that users and search engines love. They include CMS platforms, writing software, web hosting platforms, landing page builders, SEO tools, etc. Open source and free tools maintain the top positions of the most popular blogging tools
Overall, in my over 10 years of career as a blogger, I have found that selecting the best blogging tool boils down to price, features offered, performance, scalability, onboarding process, integrations, and customer support or help resources available.
1. WordPress
WordPress.org is an SEO-friendly free and Opensource content management system (CMS) platform that has been used to build over 31% of existing websites. WordPress.org CMS is majorly used by bloggers and small businesses to create blogs. WordPress.org has three main building features core files, plugins, and themes.
Website: Wordpress.org
2. Google AdSense
Google AdSense is a blog monetization platform used for displaying ads. Publishers can display Google AdSense ads on their blogs and earn revenue. It is one of the most popular and reliable ways of monetizing blogs. Once your blog has started receiving traffic and has enough unique content (about 50 posts), you can apply for an Adsense account. Approval or rejection takes about two weeks. The good thing is that you can re-apply after rejection.
Website: google.com/adsense
3. Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a tool that is used to measure and monitor a website’s Google Search traffic, performance, errors and crawl status. Search Console is available for use for free.
Website: search.google.com
4. Canva
Canva is a free and powerful graphic design web-based software. It can be used for creating logos, book covers, posters, infographics, postcards, thumbnail photos, cover photos, etc. If you want to make use of all the premium features offered by Canva, then upgrading to the Pro plan is recommended. Canva also has a mobile app for Android and iOS
Website: canva.com
5. Bing Webmaster
Bing Webmaster is a free web application that is used to measure and monitor website performance, SEO and search traffic from Bing Search Engine. Bing Webmaster can also be used for website sitemap submission if you want your website to be automatically crawled and discovered by Bing Search Bots when you update or publish a new page.
Website: bing.com
6. Cloudflare
Cloudflare is the most popular free content delivery network (CDN) service provider. Cloudflare's free plan provides website security and improves page performance. Some of its key features include mitigating DDoS attacks, optimizing web experience, easy to use DNS, load balancing, web application firewall, image optimization, page rules, bot mitigation, free SLL certificate, site analytics, audit logs, etc.
Website: cloudflare.com
7. Amazon Cloudfront
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network operated by Amazon Web Services.
Website: aws.amazon.com
8. Grammarly
Grammarly is the most popular software that is used for grammar editing. Its free plan comes with basic features like spelling errors correction, grammatical errors correction, and punctuation mistakes correction.
Website: grammarly.com
9. Godaddy
Godaddy is one of the largest web hosting and domain registration service provider for small businesses and bloggers. Godaddy is used by both small and large businesses for domain registration. You should consider using Godaddy for domain registration because it is easy to verify your website with services like Gsuite email, Office 365, Google Search Console, webmaster tools, among other top software.
Website: godaddy.com
10. Zoom
Zoom is one of the most popular software that is used for holding online meetings and conferences. It can be used on major web browsers, installed in your computer or through mobile app.
Website: zoom.us
11. Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is the most popular and powerful word processing software that can be used offline and online. It comes with a mobile app, web app, and desktop app. To get Microsoft Word software you have to buy a license from the Microsoft.com store. It however comes free if you have an office 365 License.
Website: microsoft.com/word
12. PayPal
PayPal is one of the most reliable and popular payment Gateway. It can be used for sending and receiving online payments worldwide. PayPal has a simple and effective API that you can use to build a credit card checkout page on your website.
Website: paypal.com
13. Amazon Associates
Amazon Associates is an affiliate marketing platform that bloggers can use to monetize their blogs by earning a commission when blog visitors click their affiliate links and purchase a product on Amazon.
Website: affiliate-program.amazon.com
14. Amazon S3
Amazon S3 also known as Amazon Simple Storage Service is a platform that is used for the storage of data on the cloud. It is one of the most affordable and reliable cloud storage service providers. Amazon S3 is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Website: aws.amazon.com/s3
15. Mailchimp
MailChimp is one of the best email marketing platforms that is used by small and large businesses to send email campaigns and newsletters. It is known to have high email deliverability.
Website: mailchimp.com
16. QuickBooks
QuickBooks is one of the best online accounting software owned by intuit that can be used for tracking business expenses.
Website: quickbooks.intuit.com
17. Kindle Direct Publishing
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is the most popular platform for selling ebooks. KDP is free to publish ebooks but you will earn about 35% to 70% of the total sale you make from each book. Books published using KDP are available for sale at amazon.com.
Website: kdp.amazon.com
18. Shopify
Shopify is one of the best paid eCommerce content management system (CMS) platform.
Website: shopify.com
19. Zoho Expense
Zoho Expense is an online expense tracking software owned by Zoho Corporation that targets mid-sized companies.
Website: zoho.com
20. Wix
Wix is a freemium content management system (CMS) platform that is used to build websites easily through drag and drop.
Website: wix.com
21. Themeforest
Themeforest (also Envato Market) is one of the best websites to buy and sell WordPress Themes, plugins, and HTML templates. You can also buy Drupal, Joomla, Hubspot CMS, Shopify, and Magento templates on Themeforest. All the WordPress themes sold on Themeforest are premium.
Website: themeforest.net
22. Evernote
Evernote is one of the best mobile applications that is used for note-taking. Evernote has a free and paid version.
Website: evernote.com
23. Trello Tasks
Trello is one of the most popular platforms that is used to collaborate and manage projects. It makes it easier to organize your work into cards.
Website: trello.com
24. Squarespace
Squarespace is a premium website builder that is used by small businesses, photographers, bloggers, artists, musicians, weddings, and students to create their websites. The unique thing with Squarespace is that most of its features are inbuilt. For example, it comes with an advanced built-in membership area that you can use to create members-only content without installing any app.
Website: squarespace.com
25. Bluehost
BlueHost is a web hosting company that is good for shared WordPress hosting. WordPress.org recommends Bluehost as its first choice for web hosting. It is part of Endurance International Group (EIG).
Website: bluehost.com
26. Notion
Notion is an application that is used for note-taking, task management, and organization.
Website: notion.so
27. Hootsuite
Hootsuite is one of the most popular social media management and communication platforms used by small and mid-sized businesses. Some of the networks it supports include Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Website: hootsuite.com
28. Shutterstock
Shutterstock is a website where you can sell and buy stock images, footage, music, and 3D models. It is one of the most popular stock image websites.
Website: shutterstock.com
29. Unsplash
Unsplash is a free stock image Website. You can download images from Unsplash and use them for commercial and non-commercial projects.
Website: unsplash.com
30. Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is a collaboration software that is used to create documents, communicate and store files. Office 365 collaboration apps include excel, calendar, bookings, forms, one Drive, Outlook, planner, PowerPoint, project, SharePoint, stream, teams, to do, word, Yammer, etc.
Website: office.com