5 Awesome tools to help you write your best blog posts
It’s 2024 and the competition in blogging is touching the skies, there are more than 1.5 billion websites on the web right now, so it become crucial that we use everything we can to rank higher.
So take a look at 6 tools that will help you write awesome blog posts in 2024.
1. ChatGPT’s Scholar AI Bot: It is by far my favourite bot it searches over 200M research papers and gives you statistics with references for your blog post, so no need to spend a lot of time searching for research Papers, this bot does the job for you.
How to use it
1) Just go to ChatGPT 4 (It is paid but makes things very easy)
2) Click Explore Bots
3) Search ScholarAI- Press Start Chat
4) Sign in
5) Search for the things you want stats for like if I am writing a blog post on Depression I will add stats related to it, so I would ask “How common is depression in the whole world”
It will give a response with stats and their sources:
Takeaways of Scholar.AI
PROS
1) GIVE YOU STATS RELATED TO ANY ARTICLE YOU’RE WRITING ABOUT (✓)
2) GIVES CITATIONS WITH STATS SO JUST COPY-PASTE (✓)
CONS
It’s a Paid tool (X)
2. Grammarly: I use this extension all the time, so basically it detects all the grammatical and spelling errors, it also suggests better words that you can use to make your article more interesting.
The best thing it is free to use
Takeaways of Grammarly
PROS
1) Corrects spelling (✓)
2) Corrects Grammar (✓)
3) Corrects Punctuation (✓)
4) Free Tool (✓)
5) Detect Your Writing Tone (✓)
CONS
No Cons Just a awesome free tool
3. Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO is a free plugin available on WordPress it will help you to optimise your post and cover all the basic SEO points plus it is extremely easy to use.
You can see it covers all the basic SEO objectives but one thing to keep in mind Yoast just covers basic SEO, to make your post rank even higher you need to know advanced SEO.
How to use it like a Pro
- Go to WordPress plugins
- Chick Install New Plugins
- Search “Yoast SEO”
- Install It
- Once it is activated just write your blog post and at the end of the page it will show an SEO analysis of your post.
- Work on all the red dotes and do what it says to make them green.
One thing to keep in mind you’re not required to turn all red lights green just the the once in-green which does not take much of your time as it won’t affect your ranking too much
Takeaways of Yoast SEO
PROS
1) Do basic SEO for your blog post (✓)
2) Beginners Friendly (✓)
3) Comes with a checklist of basic SEO(✓)
4) Help your Post Rank Higher With Minimal Effort (✓)
CONS
Does Not Cover Advance SEO
Running Short on content while writing a blog post then this bot is for you it is capable of creating 1500+ words SEO optimised posts with proper headings and FAQ.
I basically use it for inspiration as this bot will give you a great outline, titles, and meta description I use those with my knowledge on the topic to write a blog post full of value for reader
How to use it
1) Just go to ChatGPT 4 (It is paid but makes things very easy)
2) Click Explore Bots
3) Search Fully SEO Optimized Article including FAQs– Press Start Chat
6) Search for the topic you’re writing on be precise.
7) It will give a response with a full outline, meta-descriptions and FAQ
Here is a demo: I asked it to write a post on depression.
It gave me a full outline
All the Headings, Subheadings and meta-description
Also the FAQ’S now I can take inspiration from these and run short of things to write on topic plus I can answer those FAQ at the end of post to further add value to post.
Takeaways of Fully SEO Optimized Article including FAQ’s bot
PROS
1) It will have tons of content to write on so you never run out of sub-topics (✓)
2) It’ll give you catchy headings, and great meta descriptions that you can just copy and paste(✓)
CONS
1) You can’t write a whole post just by copy-pasting its answer as its mid content is very general in nature and it’ll be better if you use it’s heading for inspiration. (X)
2) It requires Chat GPT 4 Subscription.
I am not the first person to say this and going to be the last person to say this Canva is an awesome tool for adding visual value to your blog post.
So Canva is a drag and drop-designing beginner-friendly software which has tons of elements that one can use to create awesome visuals for your blog.
What can you use it for
- To create awesome blog thumbnails.
- To create and add visually appealing infographics in your posts.
- You can create quote pictures that can add value to your post
Takeaways of Canva
PROS
1) It will help you create very appealing thumbnails for your blog posts(✓)
2) You can create your theme-based infographics on canva(✓)
CONS
A lot of the elements in Canva are free but there are also many elements available which require Canva Pro to use
These are our favourite tools that if used correctly can add a lot of value to your blog posts