Blogging tools – what to use?

I have already discussed in my previous articles how to blog and how to increase traffic. Now, I will discuss the different tools that most of the bloggers used.

Most of the bloggers used some blogging tools to help bloggers to improve their blog. There are blogging tools that are used to track visitors, some are to display your blog stats, and many more.

This article is primarily for bloggers and not for commercial organizations or products. And I won’t include those blog templates either.

Here is the list of different blogging tools that a blogger can use.

1. Tools for your blog statistics.

# Sitemeter – A tracking tool that can give you instant access to some vital information from your blog. Sitemeter will let you know the weekly performance of your blog with useful information about your visitors.

# Google Analytics: a free tracking device from Google. Like sitemeter, it also provides detailed information about your blog visitors.

# Stat Counter – Another free tracking device that tracks your visitors. It’s something called an invisible web crawler.

# My Blog Log – this service is now part of yahoo. It also keeps track of visitors, you can also add some widget where you can see the list of visitors who are also members of Mybloglog.

Other tools for statistics are:

# web analytics

# performance metrics

#awstat

# Extreme

# Webalizer

# Meter map

#SlimStat

# Mint

That stat counter allows you to embed your codes so they can track your visitors. Some will send you a weekly report and other stat counters can give you a graphical representation of your traffic.

2. Next is the blog editor tools. Blog Editor tools are tools that allow you to edit your post on any blogging platform you have used. These are some of the blog editing tools that are available online and free to download.

# Windows Live Writer’s Blog

#WBEditor

#Qumana

#JetBlog

#Zoundry

#W.Bloggar

#Blogdesk

# Type fire

# March Edit

3. News aggregator tools is where your post is automatically saved and you can easily share it with others. News Aggregator tool is also known as feed reader and news reader. By using the aggregator, the user or the reader can easily check the updates of specific websites.

# Blog Lines

#feed the demon

# Technorati

# Google Reader

# Website Watcher

#BlogPulse

#blogarithm

4. Email Subscription Tools

#Feedburner

# rssfwd

# Feed bombardment

Those are some of the blogging tools that are commonly used for blogging. There are many blogging tools that are not mentioned here, but you can easily search for them over the net.