5 free tools that will make you a great blogger

You cannot challenge the human mind but you can surely supplement it. This is what good writers are learning. They do not have to struggle with ideas and words as they did in the past. They can create awesome blogposts with some stunning free blogging tools that are available on the net.

You too can overcome the blogging blues by taking advantage of the following free blogging tools:

  1. Content Ideator 

Don’t have an idea to write? You need not worry. Content Ideator can help you “generate ideas in a click”.

All that you need to do is to enter the topic in the keyword field. The Content Ideator will do the rest. The Content Ideator will also save your selected ideas for future reference.

Content Ideator

  1. Higher Readability

Your next big worry is readability. How do you create copy that will be read widely? Surely, you don’t want to create content that is a reader’s nightmare.

You would like readers to come back to your blog. For this to happen, you should create highly readable copy.

This is where the FRES Scale can be your best friend. FRES was developed in 1948 to check readability of government documents, school textbooks etc. Today, it is a quick and easy way to check your blog post.

The FRES scale rates your copy on a 100-point scale. The higher the score the higher is the readability of your copy.

Score Readability
90-100 Very Easy
80-89 Easy
70-79 Fairly Easy
60-69 Standard
50-59 Fairly Difficult
30-49 Difficult
0-29 Very Confusing

 

You can check the readability of your copy by visiting Readability-score.com. The website diagnoses your copy’s readability. It tells you the average length of your sentences and the average character count of words that you have used. It also tells you how many sentences are in passive voice.

It is now for you to correct these mistakes. You must make sure that the readability is more than 60 if you want your copy to be read.

readability

 

  1. The Free Dictionary

Negotiating idioms is like stumbling across a minefield. There are over 7,000 idioms in English language, and they trip you at every turn. The best way to neutralise them is to use the Free Dictionary.com. You can clear your doubts by visiting the idioms section of the Free Dictionary.

 

right idioms

 

  1. Headline Analyzer

You now have a tool that analyses your headlines and tells their emotional quotient. Visit Coschedule.com’s Headline Analyzer page, and analyse your headline. You will learn how good your headline is on a scale of one to 100.

You must rewrite headlines that score less than 60%. Please remember that headlines are like virtual gateways. Your best blog post will lie unread if your headline does not motivate a visitor to click on it.

The Headline Analyzer also tells you the keywords that you should use, and also displays the way the headline will appear on the Google search page.

headline writing

  1. Visual Text

Your blog post is incomplete without a smart visual. You need to arrest the eye movement of the web visitor, and make him stay on your page. For this you need visual text that can also work as a smart snippet on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

Two free tools that can help you create highly appealing visual text are Quotescover.com and Recitethis.com. Make sure you use them to create smart visual images before you post your blog report.

visual text Recite this

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About Sunil Saxena 334 Articles
Sunil Saxena is an award winning media professional with over four decades of experience in New Media, Social Media, Mobile Journalism, Print Journalism, Media Education and Research.

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