Blogging Tools: The Best Free & Paid Tools For Your Website

I get this question daily, “Sue, how do you…” (fill in the blank with the latest problem that has been causing you to tear your hair out).

So I decided to create a list of the best free (or low cost) blogging tools that answer that very question.

And, yes, I use 67 of these tools.

My newest addiction?

A membership site that you can put in a course for FREE – yes, membership software that’s forever free for unlimited courses (up to 50 students).

So take it for a spin without spending a dime.

Check out my MemberVault site here and sign up for the absolutely free course, Blog In A Box.

And I have a deal for you if you already offer courses and have more than 50 students.

Erin at MemberVault has a special code just for my readers.

Use the code Insider100 for a free month of either the pro/base monthly or $100 off the first year of pro/base annual).

So, let’s get started!

PicJumbo: Totally free photos
StockUp: Search 16 free photo sites at once
PikWizard: over 100,000 completely free images
Unsplash: Free high-resolution images
Jay Mantri: Free pics
Good Free Photos: Free images
Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos
New Old Stock: Vintage photos (free)
Pexels: Free high-quality photos
StockSnap: Free images with a lot of business images
MorgueFile: High-resolution stock photos (free)
Death to Stock Photos: Free monthly photos for all your creative needs
Pixabay: Free high-quality images you can use anywhere
Free Digital Photos: Free images
Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images each week emailed to you (free)
Picography: Free high-resolution pictures
Stokpic: Totally free photos
A Prettier Web and Ivory Mix: Great feminine images
Iconfinder: Free icons
Canva: Currently my most-used image tool. Great tutorials. (free)
RawPixel: Inspired Design and Beautiful images (free)
BeFunky: Photo Editor
Minimography: royalty-free images
Stock Snap: beautiful, free images
CreateHerStock: Images curated for female bloggers, creatives, and online influencers of color
Snappa: Great marketing graphics in a snap
Burst by Shopify
PicWizard for free photos

Keyword Tool: Find out what your audience is looking for on the 4 main search engines. (free).
ToolsISeek: Page Rank Checker
Twinword: for SEO long tail keywords
SEMRush Site Audit Tool: the most popular SEM tool

Wri.it: Distraction-free writing tool with a spell checker and text formatting (free)
Evernote An all-in-one tool that acts as your dedicated assistant (free)
NewOldStamp: have a great signature for your regular email address
Trello: Keep track of all of your tasks (free)
Noisli: Improve focus and boost productivity (free)
FocusAtWill: Music optimized to boost your focus (free 30-day trial)
WiseStamp: A free signature for your email that links to your blog and social profiles
Coffitivity: Ambient sounds of a cafe (free)
Kill Newsfeed: A Chrome plug-in that makes your Facebook feed vanish
Bookafy: Free online booking service for meetings, demos, and appointments.
Clockify: ?Completely free time tracking and time management app that lets you keep track of time spent on various tasks and projects, calculate billable hours, export reports, and so on.
Easy PDF: Totally free online PDF converter.

LeadPages: I use LeadPages every day for landing pages, opt-in pages, sales pages, etc. (starts at $25/month)
Sumo: Use a heat map, scroll bar, hello bar, pop up for your blog. (get one tool for free)
Create an eBook: The Complete Guide: Create a lead magnet or ebook to sell
Peek User Testing: See a 5-minute video of someone on your website navigating around
Instapage: creates landing pages and wonderful sales pages (easy to use, also!)
Pushmaze: to send mobile and push notifications.

Feedly: Keep track of your blogger outreach bloggers’ new posts. (free)
Klout: Social media influence score (free)
NinjaOutreach: Efficiently search and keep track of your interactions with other bloggers.

Buffer: Share all your content on social media, timed out for prime interaction. (free)
Social Warfare: Share the correct sized image on every social media channel from your blog post ($29)
Triberr: Join tribes where other tribe members share your blog posts on social media. (free)
WriteRack: Divide your blog post into tweets (free)
Bit.ly: Create and track shortened links (free)
Click To Tweet: CoSchedule’s tool to get more shares (free)
AddThis: Social sharing buttons (free)
Digg Digg: All in one social share buttons (free)
Lumen5: Make free videos for social media

e-Junkie: Shopping cart and affiliate program (free to start, then just $5/month)
SendOwl: Shopping cart that uses PayPal with the ability to offer your own affiliate program (starts at $9/month_

Fiverr: You can get anything you want for your blog – graphic artists, virtual assistants, anything for $6 (yes, they now charge a service fee – should they change their domain to sevener.com?)