Blogging, as we all know, is becoming a successful passion turned career. Through a blog, you can share your experiences, adventures, wisdom, and musings with the rest of the world in diary-style text entries. The best part about blogging is that your blog is your own, so you don’t have to follow any specific style. It is the peculiarity of each blog that makes it stand out and attract readers. That said, sometimes, just the content of your blog doesn’t help gain readers, no matter how interesting your content might be. And since most of the bloggers out there start blogging as a hobby, it becomes difficult to set aside enough time to regularly update the blog. So, we have put together five apps for you to start, run, and manage a successful blog, right from your phone. This will make your blogging journey super-easy as well as fulfilling.
Blogging Platform: WordPress or Blogger
The first task before starting a blog is to figure out the blogging platform that you will be using. A blogging platform is where you will publish your site. Now, there are several free and paid options to choose from, however, you can decide between the very popular WordPress and Blogger, as these are easy to use, especially if you are a beginner in the blogging game. Both of these platforms allow users to create, edit, and publish their posts, even on their mobile phones.
The main difference between WordPress and Blogger is that while Blogger is simple to use and configure, WordPress offers a lot of customization options, and it eventually transitions over to a self-hosted site once you cross their free offering limit. Whichever you choose, both the platforms have official apps available for Android and iOS that too for free use.
Text Editor: Google Docs
How will you feel when all your work is deleted after hours of concentration and determination? Sad right? Well, this is what can happen if you compose your text posts within your blogging app. These apps do provide all the options for creating and editing, but they don’t provide any backup. So, an accidental hit on the Erase or Delete button, and you will lose all your work.
That is why it is always a good idea to write all your posts in Google Docs so that your content will always be backed up, just in case. You can access Google Docs on Android and iOS devices for free.
Photo Editor: Pixlr Express
Beautiful and engaging images are what attract the readers to your website on the first page. So, a successful blog must have related images to support the text and to provide the readers with a base to imagine. The best part is that photo editing is no more a professional task. All you need is a smartphone and a photo editing app, which can be easily downloaded.
While there are a countless number of photo editing apps available, Pixlr Express seems the best one so far. This app has an easy to use and understand interface, so you can quickly adjust, correct, crop, apply filters, and more to your image. With Pixlr, you can also create collages, whiten teeth, fix red-eye, and apply artistic looking focal blurs. Also, Pixlr Express can be used on Android and iOS devices.
Social Networking: Buffer
What makes a blog successful? A huge number of readers and their engagement with your blog site. Now, how do you increase readers and their engagement? Interacting with your readers is the key to gain readers on your blog. To do so, you will need to build relationships with your readers or potential readers on social networks. That said, it can be difficult to stay active and post regularly on all the highly used social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Polyvore, LinkedIn, and more. Here come the apps like Buffer.
Buffer is a remarkably useful web app that queues up social network posts for a variety of sites and posts them automatically at specific intervals, making your life easier. Luckily, Buffer is available without any charge for all Android and iOS devices.
Traffic Analysis: Google Analytics
Google Analytics is an essential tool to understand your readers’ habits and activities while on your site. This understanding will help you interact with your readers and win their interest in your blog site. Google Analytics can be used on Android and iOS devices for free.
With some creativity, determination, and the above tools, you can create and manage a successful blog, right from your phone.
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