The best tools for building a successful website and managing it as Professionals
The most important tools for professional bloggers The best online business building tools
Perhaps when you decided to start an online business, you searched for the best tools for building an online business, or perhaps what are the tools that you might need to manage your business, and that professional bloggers and entrepreneurs use them to profit from their blogs and websites as quickly as possible and to appear so professional!
Have you ever wished that your website would look as beautiful as possible, with the best image that would make you look professional to everyone who visits your blog?
One day I imagined myself in this situation, but I did not know what I needed and what tools professional bloggers use to make money quickly! The situation seemed so terrifying that I searched for every tool I might ever need to help me when I started before I even started! Indeed, my knowledge of these tools and how to use them has relieved me of anxiety and made things much easier psychologically. Only hours had passed and I had already created my blog.
Therefore, I know that the most important question that may come to your mind, dear current or future blogger, is what I might need and rely on as a professional blogger? Professional blogging is a freelance business aimed at making a profit. Therefore, a professional blogger is an entrepreneur and owner of an online business, and he must arm himself with all the weapons that will help him make money from his website or blog. These tools are the weapons of professional bloggers in everything related to their blogs, which help them work with the least effort, the best return, and the fastest time!
In fact, I use each of these tools personally on a daily basis, and I am certain of their effectiveness. Each of them played a significant role in making me earn the first $100 from my blog less than one month after starting the blog 🙂
If you are a beginner and do not know what are the best online business building tools that you also need, of course, let me tell you, you need...
- Tools for creating a blog or website
- Content writing tools
- Email Marketing Tools
- SEO tools
- Website analysis and tracking tools
- Tools for creating an online store
- Tools for organizing blog work and time
- Free image making tools
The best online business building tools
In this post, I took into account collecting the best free and paid tools and sources. I always try to collect the tools that give the best quality at the lowest possible cost. Therefore, I brought many free tools that perform the desired functions efficiently, but they are somewhat limited in their capabilities, so you must try the tools yourself and choose what suits you and what is compatible with them. With your business budget.
1. Tools for creating a blog or website with paid self-hosted hosting
Creating a blog or website with the aim of making money from blogging or making money from the Internet is easy and does not take a non-professional person who does not have previous experience in programming and codes more than 5 minutes! Just two steps to get a ready website
1.1 Purchase hosting
Hosting is the safe space on the Internet that holds your digital content and allows you to use all available means to profit from your blog without conditions, unlike platforms that host blogs for free, such as Blogger and Tumblr, which are a bad option for profit for many reasons. The best hosting companies are
Hostgator
It is the hosting company that I use and have tried personally. They have great customer service, competitive price, excellent service, free domain, and more and more great features!
There is also another very good option for those who are on a limited budget and want to create their sites at the lowest possible cost, which is Hostinger hosting.
There are other hosting companies such as Siteground and Bluehost, but I did my research when I decided to start, and Hostgator was the best of them to create a blog and profit from it. I wrote a detailed article about a comparison between the 7 best web hosting. You can read it to learn more..
1.2 Installing the template
The WordPress platform has thousands of free templates to start immediately when purchasing hosting. The free template is a good solution to save the expenses of creating a blog to profit from the Internet, but it is not the best and I do not recommend it, of course. The paid professional template guarantees a good appearance for your blog and is an extremely important element for your image in front of your target customers. It is also added without errors in the codes, which ensures the speed of your site, its responsiveness to different screens, and the speed of archiving the site in search engines. Therefore, if you have a budget, the best investment in the blog after good hosting is a professional template. The best template companies are
Elegant themes
It is the parent company of my current and favorite template, DIVI. It is the best template in terms of ease of use and saving time, which are important for a blogger, especially if you are a mother who is pressed for time.
- Everything on your blog can be done with the drag and drop feature.
- You can design your site using Layouts ready and prepared in advance by their team to suit any site you want to create, starting from a cooking blog to a site that talks about entrepreneurship!
- Everything you might dream of adding to your article or blog pages is pre-prepared and ready for Insert only.
- All the settings for your article can be imported from the already existing article with the click of a button and worked on so there is no need to repeat the effort twice! Honestly, everything you dream of is easy!
A very good place to start with a slightly lower budget is where you start with Elegant Themes. There are templates available at a much lower price than Elegant Themes templates, and a monthly subscription is available to use all their tools, such as a landing page design tool for website designers or for website creation offers. You can browse Thrive Themes here.
2. Content writing tools
What bloggers or those thinking about taking up professional blogging as a freelance job fear most is the content! What will they write and where will they get endless ideas that they will write about for years without running out! Even if you are a professional in your field, there will come a time when you need a new idea or even the appropriate method that will appeal to visitors and prompt them to publish it on social media sites or interact with it. In addition to writing attractive content for the blog or website, these tools are the best and used by bloggers, professionals, and website owners.
2.1 Keyword analysis tools
Keywords are the words that the audience uses in search engines to access your content and which you must put in your articles to attract visitors to you.
Semrush
This SEO tool is originally paid but they have a free plan with restrictions that works for beginner bloggers! It enables you to know how many visitors visit your blog and even competing blogs, in what quantity, and a lot of other analysis data. But if you are one of the owners of large websites or are planning to do so, the paid plan will be better, of course. We will discuss how to use it later in detail, God willing. Use Semrush from here.
Google Keyword Planner
A member of the Google family that needs no introduction, specifically from the Google Ads family. It enables you to know the keywords that visitors search for extensively and that are primarily of interest to advertisers. Use it from here.
Google Trending
Also a member of the Google family, the tool enables you to know the most searched words and topics in the current period. It also shows the results for searching for a specific word and the search results in terms of search intensity and the most searched areas. Use it from here.
2.2 Article writing tools
Of course, even if you are an expert in your field, you will always need ideas! To know what visitors will like and in what format? Later, review this detailed article on how to write valuable articles that attract interested visitors, but for now I will limit myself to listing the tools for those in a hurry and those who love self-learning.
BuzzSumo
A wonderful tool, including a free version, that enables you to analyze the most valuable content that the audience liked by searching for a specific word. Just choose the language of the content you want to appear, write the keyword you want to search for, and the results will appear according to the highest interaction. Use Buzzsumo from here.
Quora
Content Mine: If you want to write content that answers people’s questions, you must first know what they are asking?! Well, Quora will enable you to read the thoughts of the questioners and then write down their answers! Use Quora from here.
WikiHow
The same idea as Quora also enables you to know what people are asking and thus write the content that they ask about, as well as constantly importing new ideas related to the niche of your blog. Use Wikihow from here.
3. Email Marketing tools
Getresponse
The best tool for small business owners, bloggers, and solopreneurs, especially because of the distinctive service it provides and good capabilities, as well as the competitive price compared to other Autoresponders tools, which makes it the best for getting started, especially for those with a limited budget, with obtaining a professional Email Marketing system.
Getresponse plans start at just $15 for 1000 mailing list subscribers, which I haven't found in any other tool.
ConvertKit
The best email marketing tool for ease of use and the ability to create different segments for members of the mailing list and prepare distinctive landing pages for your own products or store. Many people around the world consider it the most important tool for professional bloggers, as it helps them greatly in making profits from their blogs. Their pricing plans vary depending on the number of members of your mailing list. If your pre-planned budget includes Autoresponder. Of course, ConvertKit would be the best choice.
Mailchimp
The best place to start is to save budget 🙂 They have a free plan to start up to 2,000 people on your mailing list, enabling you to send about 12,000 messages. The plan is good for the beginning until you build a large mailing list and then make good profits. Then you can upgrade or transfer to another Autoresponder. The drawback of the free plan is that it does not automate a series of emails when a new member subscribes to the list, which may lose you following the subscriber and opportunities to market your services and products to him. It also does not give you the advantage of technical support or the Help Center. You have to learn everything by trial and error :). Use Mailchimp from here.
4. SEO tools
You need to analyze the site whether your content is compatible with search engines, the site’s performance, the amount of keyword searches, where your visitors are coming from and with what words, backlinks, and so on. These tools are designed for that.
Semrush
As I mentioned before, it is a paid SEO tool originally, but their free plan is excellent for beginner bloggers! It enables you to know the number of visitors who visit your blog by any search terms, and even analyze competing blogs and a lot of other analysis data. Use Semrush from here.
Ahrefs
One of the best SEO tools in the world, but it does not provide a free plan. You can try it for a week for $7 here.
5. Website analysis and tracking tools
Google Analytics
The Google tool, you do not need any other tool with it, as it provides you with all the information you need in terms of traffic sources, the number of visitors from each source, their type, their location, the length of time they spend on your site, the most important pages, and other very many and very sufficient details. Use Google Analytics from here.
6. Tools for creating an online store
Since you are a user of the WordPress platform, this means that you can use the dedicated WooCommerce tool to create a professional online store on WordPress sites for free! When creating your site, you will find that WordPress suggests that you use it as a Plugin when you enter the control panel for the first time. If you do not create your store from day one, you can disable it and then reactivate it when creating your own products.
7. Tools for organizing blog work and time
Planning and organizing time is mandatory if you want to work from home in general and work with professional blogging in particular! Since blogging forces you to play the role of marketer, video and photo designer, data analyst, social media manager, SEO guy, driver, janitor, cook, and mechanic 🙂 and therefore your schedule is crowded all the time, don’t care if you are a mother besides all this! You will find this section in the blog dedicated to helping you organize your time and work! As for business organizations, there are...
Evernote
This organization helps to take notes and collect them in one place with the ability to update them automatically between three devices. The free plan is ideal for personal organization, but if you are one of those who manage work teams, you will have to use a paid plan. Check it out here.
Trello
An ideal model for achieving your daily tasks. The free plan is great and sufficient for personal use. Check it out here.
Google Calendar
One of Google's products, browse it here.
8. Free image making and design tools
There are many tools here, both free and paid. If you are looking for free tools, you have them on Windows
Paint 3D
To make pictures
Publisher
To design images, cards and freebies
Word
To design freebies
PowerPoint
For free design as well
If you are looking for professional tools, here they are
Canva
They have free and paid plans. The free one is a little limited, but in general it is a good program for designing everything that is an image for social media and infographics. Use it from here.
Picmonkey
They don't have a free plan. Only paid and can be operated online or via the application. Use it from here.
The list is long, I know, but it is very comprehensive for every beginner looking for the best online business building tools. It is preferable that you save it to refer to it repeatedly, as I will add sublinks to posts that explain most of these tools in detail, God willing.
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