17 Blogging Tools that will Automate Your Hours of Work

From brainstorming new blog post ideas to updating your blog with new posts to sending weekly newsletters, there are lot of tedious tasks involved in running a successful blog.

But these below tools will automate your time consuming work and will cut down hours of work you put every day into managing your blog.

Let’s explore the 17 time-saving tools you should consider using.

1. ConvertKit (Send Automated Email Campaigns & Blog updates)

With thousands of users, ConvertKit is the most effective email automation tool for bloggers which makes sending your email campaigns effortless.

Their powerful features will help you to send personalized and automated email campaigns without spending hours preparing your newsletters.

Bloggers can notify their latest posts automatically to subscribers, by integrating their site RSS feed with the ConvertKit RSS Campaign.

Unlike other email marketing tools, ConvertKit also allows creators to make money from their work by selling digital products, Paid Newsletters & Membership Programs.

2. Kinsta (Save Time on Managing your hosting)

Thousands of businesses like Buffer, Flippa and FreshBooks use kinsta for their fully managed and hassle-free hosting experience.

If you’re using shared or VPS hosting, then you have to handle time-consuming works like managing, configuring and updating your server infrastructure.

But with Kinsta, you can run your site without worrying about scaling, upgrading hosting plans and updating your CMS. This helps you to focus on running your blog than worrying about your server or site performance.

Key Features,

• Automatic scaling.
• Automatic daily backups.
• Automatic WordPress & server updates.
• Ability to handle concurrent. visitors and sudden spikes in traffic.
• Excellent speed & uptime.

3. Socialsnap (Share posts Automatically on social networks)

If you’re running a WordPress blog, then I recommend you to try this robust and lightweight social sharing plugin to automatically share your new blog posts on social networks.

you can find tons of sharing plugins on WordPress but nothing has powerful features like socialsnap.

Key Featutes,

• Drive more traffic by sharing your published blog posts automatically on Twitter, Linkedin & other social networks.
• Boost your old posts by automatically sharing them on social networks
• View your most shared content with their advanced analytics.
• Make visitors share your content by Adding beautiful & less intrusive sharing icons across your site.

4. NordPass (Store All your Passwords in One Place)

Remembering passwords for all your online accounts is a big headache. But nordpass will eliminate all your password resetting issues by storing and managing all your passwords in one place.

This also saves you the extra time you spend everytime resetting your passwords when you forgot.

With Nordpass, you can log in easier and quicker and set a strong password without worrying about remembering.

Especially this tool will be very helpful for bloggers who have to login again and again to all tools and services they use.

5. Grammarly (Ease Your Writing with Auto Proofreading)

Visitors will bounce away from your site if your posts are hard to read and filled with lot of grammatical errors.

But with Grammarly, you can write engaging and mistake free content in addition to saving your time on checking spelling, grammar and other errors in your content.

This AI-powered tool is a great companion for bloggers, non-native English speakers and editors who want to ease and lit up their writing skills.

Key features:

• Checks spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.
• Improves readability and clarity of your sentence.
• Adjusts your content tone
• Detects plagiarism.
• Word choice & suggestions.

6. Tailwind (Schedule & Repin Posts on Autopilot)

Pinterest is the major traffic source for many bloggers. Some blogs attract over 200,000 visitors through Pinterest alone. Many blogs rely on Pinterest traffic to monetize their sites with ad networks and affiliate programs.

But bringing in tons of visitors through Pinterest is not possible without posting hundreds of pins every day. And it takes hours of manual work to design and publish pins.

But smart bloggers including brands like Shopify use Tailwind to design, schedule and repin their hundreds of pins automatically without wasting their precious time.

Tailwind is your one-stop solution If you want to boost your Pinterest traffic on autopilot.

7. Nitreo (Grow Your Instagram Followers Automatically)

Like tailwind for Pinterest, Nitreo is specifically made for Instagram.

If your goal is to grow your Instagram followers and engagement automatically then nitreo is the highly recommended tool everyone should make use of.

Thousands of influencers & brands use this tool to gain real organic followers to grow their revenue & audience.

You can ask the question how it helps you to grow your Instagram followers, the answer is their advanced bot follow accounts that are relevant to your niche & engage with Instagram stories on behalf of you.

This growth hacking tool saves you more time as well as increases followers for your personal or business account.

8. SEMrush (Generate tons of post ideas in a single click)

If you’re an established blogger, then you may hear about this popular SEO tool. There are tons of ways you can use this tool to grow your blog from keyword research to SEO audit.

But other than this, you can also generate hundreds of post ideas for each topic or term you enter on their search box.

Each keyword & term comes with valuable data like keyword difficulty & keyword volume (no of searches each keyword receives per month) which helps bloggers to choose the right keywords for blog posts.

Next time if you're short of post ideas, then use this tool to uncover more content ideas in one easy click.

9. Publishpress (Create Monthly Editorial Calendar)

Blogging without an editorial calendar is the major reason for bloggers failing to produce content consistently.

Having a monthly blogging calendar helps you to plan & schedule posts strategically & directs you to reach your monthly publishing goals without procrastination.

With Publishpress, you can create beautiful editorial calendar & can accomplish all your blogging goals without missing blog posts.

10. FreshbBooks (Send Automated Invoices to your clients)

Freshbooks is a great resource for independent bloggers who want to manage their accounting, expenses, clients, invoice, taxes & all related things in one place.

If you offer any paid services to brands or your clients, use FreshBooks to send automatic payment reminders, schedule invoices, set automatic late fees, calculate taxes automatically & perform more complex things without any hassle.

With Freshbooks you can solve your both personal & professional accounting needs & can save much time on bookkeeping.

11. Yoast SEO (Auto-analyse On-page SEO for your content)

On-page SEO is essential if you want to rank your posts on top of search engine results pages(SERP).

But Optimizing your posts for Search engines takes some time if you do it manually. but this WordPress plugin will ease your on-page SEO task by doing SEO analysis on behalf of you.

All you need to do is just enter a keyword that your post wants to rank for & then it takes care of everything to enhance your post SEO like keyword density check, readability check, Keyword placement, optimizing for related keywords & other powerful SEO suggestions.

12. Adbutler (Automated Self serve ad platform)

I am really sad about bloggers who are missing hundreds & thousands of ad dollars by not monetizing their inventory with direct advertisers.

Top publishers like financial times & Quartz charges advertisers (direct) up to $190 CPM to display their ads on their sites.

But ad networks like Adsense pay only Small CPM rates for publishers.

With Niche ad networks like adthrive & mediavine, you can make even more than AdSense.

Where Sell side platform (SSP) like OpenX & AppNexus pays more CPM rates for publishers than ad networks. But they are only open for high traffic generating blogs & sites.

Only with Direct Ad sales, your blog has the potential to skyrocket your ad revenue from each ad impression than through ad networks.

But finding, negotiating, billing & setting up ads with your advertisers takes a lot of time & also a big headache for bloggers.

But with Adbutler self serve ad platform, your advertisers can buy your ad inventory in real-time & run their ad campaigns on their own & everything is automated including billing.

All you need to do is just attract advertisers by adding an 'advertise' page on your blog or pitch to brands related to your niche.

13. Trello (Manage all your tasks in one place)

From top organizations to individuals uses Trello to organize & manage their all tasks & projects in one place & to improve their work productivity.

This tool improves the productivity of bloggers by helping them to work collaboratively with teammates & finish their tasks on time without delay.

With their superb features like Trello cards, boards & lists you can create, assign & track your monthly blogging tasks on your own or with teams.

14. Google docs (Productive Writing Tool for Bloggers)

For the first two years, I used a WordPress classic editor to write content but after switching to google docs I could able to write fast & save huge time on creating each blog post.

It’s absolutely easy to use & comes with stunning features like Autosaving, real-time collaboration, clean formatting, Free templates, Spell check, numerous font style & the ability to share & comment on your content.

This productive tool will make your blogging easy & let you work from anywhere & anytime. If you’re not utilizing this tool yet, then you’re wasting a lot of time on content creation.

15. Evernote (Take Notes Anytime & anywhere)

Evernote is highly recommended for bloggers to take notes, write ideas, set reminders & create to-do lists.

It let you access your notes anytime without the requirement of an internet connection.

Unlike most note-taking apps, it comes with wonderful features like saving your favorite web pages, scanning & storing your important documents, taking rich notes like images & audio, integrations with your favorite platforms like Gmail, Slack, salesforce & google drive.

16. Canva (Create stunning graphics for your posts)

With Canva, you can create beautiful graphics for your blog & social media handles within minutes by using their prebuilt templates.

You don’t need to be a graphic designer, their beautiful templates make your work easy & save enormous time on creating colorful infographics.

If you’re looking for a graphic designing tool, then canva is an effective & time-saving tool you should consider using.

17. Shutterstock (Save Time on finding Beautiful images)

Creating high-quality blog posts consumes plenty of time, this also true for picking the right images for your posts. But with Shutterstock, this process becomes highly easy.

Free stock photo sites like pexels, pixabay & Unsplash are good for finding basic images.

But if you want to take your blog images to next level, go for Shutterstock which is home to millions of high-resolution images, illustrations & vectors.

Their eye-catching images attract your visitors, improves your blog authority & saves you massive time from discovering stunning images & illustrations.