As bloggers, it is important to be resourceful and leverage on tools that help improve your workflow. While there may be several tools out there, browser extensions are also practical and useful tools that bloggers often overlooked.
Here are 8 useful extensions for bloggers:
- Bit.ly: We know that blog links can get long sometimes. This is why Bit.ly was created to help to shorten the web links and make your links customizable. This makes sharing your links by emails, Facebook and Twitter so much easier. Furthermore, Bit.ly also collects data so that you can track who clicked on your links or even shared your posts.
- Grammarly: As a blogger, you are always producing content for your blogs, social media sites and many others. You are constantly vetting our pieces for grammatical and spelling errors. With Grammarly, it acts as a spell-checker where it will automatically highlight your grammar mistakes, show edit options, describe word meanings and offer the alternatives to use instead.
- Buffer: Buffer is a quick and easy way for you to share and publish your content/blog posts across various connect profiles from any websites at once. Schedule posts and buffer your queue based on your own preferences.
- Boomerang: When liaising with clients or sponsors, use Boomerang to send pre-scheduled emails, even when you’re offline. This extension also lets you track your emails so you can see who has/hasn’t read your messages and send follow-up messages.
- Gmail Offline: If you are travelling but fearful that you might lose possible sponsorship opportunities, Gmail Offline allows you to read, receive, and reply to emails without a network connection.
- Mercury Reader: As you craft your blog posts, you might look at other blogs or websites for inspirations. However, the information on these sites might be too overwhelming. Readability makes reading web pages easier by getting rid of the clutter and saving it in a comfortable view. It also saves and organizes your reading content.
- Bloglovin’: It is normal for bloggers to refer to other bloggers for reference or purely because you adore them. BlogLovin’ makes it easy for you to follow all your favorite blogs and notifies you when there is an unread post from the blogger.
- Gmail to MailChimp by Toolny: If you have been using MailChimp (a email marketing service) to connect with your followers/fans, you would have had some experience managing the different lists on your account. Instead of navigating between multiple tabs to add new subscribers to your lists, you can now do it by Gmail. With this Gmail to MailChimp extension, you will be able to easily add any email address to your lists within MailChimp without leaving Gmail.
This is definitely not an exhaustive list of useful chrome extensions but I do hope that this would help you in one way or another. Happy Blogging!
