More Of My Favourite Online Tools

These are quality products which I can recommend from personal experience. Some of them do ask for a monthly subscription, but there are no affiliate links in this article, so I do not receive any reward.

Content Samurai

Your script is reviewed, cut into a series of slides and the text is formatted. It recommends video from a huge library of over a million images. Your video is edited from start to finish with a single click.  Content Samurai

Photopin

You can search through millions of photos and insert them into your blog post easily. The photos are sourced through Flickr and there are Shutterstock images as well for which you pay a fee. The photos come in ten different sizes with an attribution already in place.  Photopin

Yoast

Yoast's aim in life is to make your website as search engine friendly as possible. This WordPress plugin allows you to control titles and meta descriptions, set targeted keywords and track them. It analyses your posts  and prepares a report on each one in your WordPress admin area.  Yoast

Textbroker

Preparing great posts is very time consuming, so having the opportunity of outsourcing this task to a respected company cannot be ignored.  Textbroker has a wide range of writers, who specialise in specific subjects. The completed copy is available in up to 10 languages.  Textbroker

WP Clone

The loss of a website through your computer crashing is a devastating experience. If your site uses the WordPress platform then a plugin called WP Clone is the answer. It works best on smaller sites or there is another version, 'Duplicator', which can deal with hundreds of posts.  WP Clone

Pixlr

If you want user friendly photo and image editing tools then Pixlr is the answer. You also have the capability to personalise and manipulate stock photos to create images for ads. Pixlr

Problogger

Being a member of an online community of fellow bloggers, who provide you with constant support and encouragement, can make the difference between success and failure. Just glancing at their homepage tells you the kind of services you can expect.....'Make Money', 'Build Community', 'Start A Blog', 'Be Productive', 'Understand Technology'  Problogger

Manage Flitter

Manage Flitter enables you to schedule the timing of tweets to ensure they are posted at the best time. It will show the people to follow and unfollow, those people who are not following you back and inactive accounts. You can then target your tweets to reach the people who are most likely to respond.

Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck displays real time activity on Twitter in a series of columns, which enables you to stay organised and up to date. The column headings I use are as follows... Home, Notifications, Messages and Activity. This is an invaluable tool if you are marketing products or services on Twitter. Tweetdeck

Buffer

You can schedule your posts, videos and images using Buffer, as well as sharing them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Reports tell you the response your tweets receive. Buffer