steal my tools
Every blogger needs a good toolkit. And I absolutely love all the tools, platforms and services I use to help me create content, share it with the world, and connect with incredible people.
These tools, platforms and services are ones that I love using, and I recommend checking out.
to help you build your blog
lyrical host
Lyrical Host is a hosting platform that is more than a hosting platform.
As well as superb customer service, an incredible bank of additional resources, and super fast hosting, Lyrical Host takes it a step further. Part of your spending goes to world-changing causes such as saving coral reefs, tree planting, supporting education for girls Mozambique, and more!
elementor
Elementor is an easy way to build your WordPress site. You can use its drag-and-drop interface to create beautiful layouts in minutes. The best part is that you don’t need any coding skills!
I had been blogging for a long time before I jumped on this bandwagon, but it was easy to pick up. Now, most of my pages are created with Elementor.
wordpress.org
I’m a big WordPress.org fan.
While it can be a bit of learning curve if you’ve moving to WordPress from another platform, it’s well worth it. The customisation means you can literally create whatever you want.
Note: This is different to WordPress.com, which is a hosted platform. Dot org is self-hosted.
to help you promote your blog
tailwind
Tailwind allow users to schedule fresh Pins ahead of time
Get Pinterest working for you with this epic scheduler. I love using Tailwind for Pinterest and scheduling my Pins far out in advance. Add titles, descriptions, boards and links right there on the site.
As an approved Pinterest partner, Tailwind is my favourite Pinterest tool out there.
metricool
One of my favourite things about Metricool is the cross-posting aspect. It’s really well-designed and simple to use, but it lets you cross-post to various platforms and tweak the text or images as you go.
You can also schedule SO FAR in advance, which is the downside of the Meta scheduler – you can only schedule about 28 days ahead.
manychat
ManyChat is a DM automation tool, and you’ve probably seen it in action on platforms like Instagram. You can get people to comment a word on a post, story, or in the DMs and ManyChat will automatically send links and messages to that person. Makes sending blog posts and freebies super fast and easy!
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to help you write your posts
link whisper
Part of writing a good blog post is linking up between your other blog posts, but also externally to other websites that you think are helpful for your readers.
Link Whisper is a brilliant tool that essentially helps you organise those links. You can find broken links (which are good to fix!), and also swap out links. It’ll also suggest links for each blog post, too.
grammarly
You could be the best speller in the world, and Grammarly would still be one of the best tools you get a hold of.
As well as a fantastic spell checker, Grammarly points out grammar mistakes, suggests better turns of phrase, teaches you how to construct your sentences, and provides feedback on your writing.
Hands down one of the best ways to improve your writing.
ubersuggest
One of the important things about blogging is getting your keywords in order. We need to know what people are searching for so that we can get traffic to our blog posts.
Ubersuggest is a great tool to help us discover keywords for our blog posts.
It’s simple to use but powerful in its result, and I definitely recommend checking it out.
to help you create content
canva
Canva is the easiest design tool out there, hands down. I absolutely love everything about it and use it for all my social media and Pinterest content. I also use Canva for book blogging, creating presentations, Instagram stories, and course promotions.
Canva is perfect for beginners and also those who don’t have access to tools such as Photoshop.
descript
For long-form content, like course material or masterclass replays for The Blogging Room (and the like), I love Descript. It’s one of the coolest video editing software programmes I’ve used, and it’s so simple to edit film as you’re using it like a text document.
“If you can edit text, you can edit videos” is what it says on the homepage.
dupe photos
A great option for free images to use is Dupe Photos. They also have a great bank of videos that you can use for your Reels or TikTok videos.
There are tons of beautiful images on this website, and they’ve been collated for content creators, especially.
get the full list here
There’s more where that came from! You can grab the full list of tools I use as a blogger here. You get immediate access to a Google Doc where I’ve got them all listed.
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