5 Essential Blogging Tools

Do you blog?Are you a passionate blogger like me?Well then you are at the right place cause I am going to tell you abouut 5 essential tools which will help you in blogging.So lets get started.

1. Ping-O-Matic

        Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.

     It regularly check downstream services to make sure that they're legit and still work.

    Make sure to only ping specialized services if they're relevant to your blog, otherwise you'll cause an          undue burden on them.

2.ScribeFire

    ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to all of your blogs.

  You can post to blogs from Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, Windows Live Spaces, Tumblr, Posterous, Xanga, LiveJournal, or any other blog that supports the MetaWeblog or MovableType APIs.

You can edit and update existing posts. You can schedule posts for the future (if your blog allows that). You can delete posts. You can save drafts.  You can tag and categorize. You can upload images. You can edit visually, or you can use HTML or Markdown. You can post to multiple blogs at once.

3. InboxQ

   InboxQ delivers a real time stream of questions related to your business, products, industry or general interests from Twitter directly to your browser.  Questions are the most powerful engagement opportunities on Twitter.  You can use your knowledge to help people while also identifying potential customers and earning targeted followers.  InboxQ is easy to use and totally free.

4.FireShot

   FireShot helps you capture web page screenshots, perform quick editings, add text annotations and save captures as PDF or Image file, send to E-mail, Print or Copy to clipboard, Export, Share on WWW or Upload to FTP.This screen capture tool does not depend on website for saving images to your computer, so captures are instant and produce no traffic.

The captures can be quickly annotated and:

✓ Uploaded

✓ Saved to disk as PDF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP

✓ Copied to clipboard

✓ Printed

✓ E-Mailed

✓ Exported to external editor

This version is working *only on Windows*.

5.Zemanta

   Zemanta improves your regular blogging dashboard. It recommends images, links, articles and tags while you write. It allows you to enrich your own content and link to other media with as little effort as possible — a single click. 

Zemanta supports WordPress.com, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, Drupal and Posterous.

The main features of Zemanta are: 

● insert beautiful images into your blog post

● insert links to related articles (from 300.000 news feeds and blogs)

● link back to your own blog posts

● add affiliate links

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