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Tools You must use as a Blogger

“Weblog” a webpage used by an individual to post content of his interest for the intended readers. A good blog is a one which has attractive/quality content for the intended readers. Blogging tools play an essential role to keep regular readers and to attract new readers. Natural growth for weblogs takes the writer to create his identity in the form of domain name and weblog platform. Following are the few essential blogging tools one must use in his weblogs.

1. Subscription tools and News aggregation service – A very important route  to reach your regular readers and update them on latest posts.
   1. FeedBlitz
      • Zookoda
      • Aweber
      • Yutter
      • RssFwd
      • Feedburner’s Email Subscription Service
2. Updater to attract your contacts
   1.  Google Reader - Although I still prefer reading blogs directly, there’s no doubt that a RSS reader helps manage all the news happening around the blogosphere. If you want to stay on top of the game, it’s an essential tool in your blogging arsenal.
   2. Tweet this in every post, and Twitter update for every post
   3. Status updates in IMs like Gtalk, MSN, ICQ, and AOL
   4. Link in your signature
3. Blog promotion through social networking sites, in places were bloggers meet and interact, for example blogcatalog, mybloglog, blogger forum
4. Visit other bloggers websites and comment about their posts. Contribute to blogger community by writing one or two posts related to blogging.
5. Feature rich widgets to felicitate the visitors, like Google friends connect, blogcatalog visitors gallery, country from the visitor widgets etc
6. Site visitor statistics and metric tools
   1. Google analytics
   2. site meter
   3. AWstat
   4. webalizer
   5. stat counter
   6. mint and web-analyze

Other Blog Tools

1. • Pingoat – pinging service
   • Pingomatic – another pinging service
   • BlogRolling – a service to manage your blog roll
   • TalkDigger – ‘find, follow and join conversations evolving on the Internet.’
   • Blog Flux – Stats, Pinging and Directory 

   • coComment – Keep track of the comments you leave on different blogs in a central place
   • co.mments – Similar name to coComment but not to be confused with it – a way of bookmarking and following comment threads via RSS
   • Digg – Another major Social Bookmarking site
   • TagCloud – produces Tag Clouds for your blog from RSS feeds
   • Tiny URL – Turns long URLs into tiny manageable ones
   • YouTube – a tool for putting video on your blog
   
   

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