13 Best Tech Tools for Bloggers

When you are writing an actionable article for readers, there is a delicate balance between selecting relevant information and sharing what is most impactful.

If you are an attorney or law blogger, there are dozens of great tools and resources that can help you manage your blog, identify trending topics, and improve the overall quality of your content.

Of course, we cannot include all of these tools in a single post, so we will focus on several of the ones we consider indispensable.

Staying Ahead of the Game

Staying ahead of the game with your "blawg" (law blog) is important—you don’t want to waste your time writing about topics that no longer capture anyone’s interests.

To stay up-to-date, you can use different tools to monitor news sites such as law.com and other law blogs. Feedly is a tool that offers you a single interface for tracking recently published news stories and posts. It’s available for both mobile and desktop.

If you are serious, NewsWhip provides you with insights into the next breakout story on social media, even before an article goes viral. The tool measures and predicts content engagement in real-time, and also tells you what has worked in the past. But with an annual starting price of a couple of hundred dollars per subscription, it may not be the most affordable option.

Knowing What Works

Another way to know what works and to learn about the type of content that has the potential to go viral is through BuzzSumo, which is a subscription service that helps you find the most shared, most trending, and most linked content on the web.

You can filter content by type—e.g. infographics, how-to articles, list articles, videos—by language, by publishing date, and other criteria. Additionally, BuzzSumo allows you to follow other law bloggers that create viral content on a regular basis and also provides a monitoring feature.

Staying OrganizedEstablishing a blog and following a strict publishing schedule often requires you to use tools to stay organized. You don’t want to accidentally publish two articles on the same topic, and it’s a good idea to take notes whenever you think of a topic for a new article. In fact, one great feature of Evernote is the ability to access your notes while you are on your computer at home or at the office, as well as while you are on the way to meetings using your smartphone. Because all data is stored in the cloud, you can share your notes with your friends and colleagues.

Conducting Keyword Research

Keyword research helps you to learn the exact queries people type into search engines to find what they are looking for on the web.

Google holds by far the biggest market share, so you can limit your keyword research to it and ignore Bing and other search engines.

Content Quality

The key to a successful law blog—one that has articles that rank high on Google, generating additional traffic, and that gets lots of engagement on your Facebook and Twitter—is to consistently provide content that has value.

Conclusion

The above-referenced tools are trusted by keynote speaker on reputation management

, our strategic partners and clients. Some of them are paid or require a subscription, while others are free. Test and consider the application of each tool to improve the efficiency of your writing and content production.