5 Basic Tools That Will Change Your Blogging Game As A Beginner

Do you want to know the basic tools you need as a beginner blogger to start or improve your blogging skills?

The truth is,

There are a lot of tools out there for different purposes and you do not really want all of them or majority of them especially when you are just getting started.

In this article, I will reveal to you the basic tools that you need to getting started as a blogger so that you do not waste your time and energy on tools that you not need yet.

 1. Canva

Canva is one of the talk about and also one of the most important web-based tools to help you in your blogging journey.

It is a tools that helps you to create and design images for your post. 

It comes with paid-version as well as free if you just a basic functionality.

Here is some of the things you can use canva to do:

• Upload images or use their stock images (both free and paid options)
• Add text overlays, charts, and icons
• Save files as either images or PDFs
• Copy your designs and change sizes
• And more!

2. BeFunky

If you are looking for an easy way to resize your images and reduce the file size, this tool is perfect for you.

Canva is good at editing images but Befunky is the one made simple for resizing them into small sizes even though Canva can also do it but it might require you to be on a paid plan in order to do that.

Another useful benefit is that you can actually capture screenshot live with it and resize into your post.

3. Optimizilla

This tool is also about images.

While canva and Befunky helps you to edit and resize images, Optimizilla helps you to compress your images.

Sometimes, resizing does not reduce the size of the image to it's lowest size, this where coptimizilla comes in.

When images sizes are big, they take too long load and this might annoy your visitors and potential lose them.

4. Grammarly

Grammarly helps you check your writings for spelling mistakes and grammar errors automatically.

When writing sometimes, it makes it hard for you to proof-read you article to catch spelling errors and grammar mistakes, but with the help of grammarly, you don;t have to worry about it again.

5. Ubbersuggest

Want to rank well on google search results?

Let ubbersuggest hep you.

With this tool, you can potential look up your competitors high ranking keywords so that you can write better articles to beat them.