If you want your site to rank high and get maximum exposure? Then your content must be-
• Search engine friendly
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• Relevant
• Organic
• Valuable to the audience
So how do you make contents like it consistently? It’s not rocket science but neither bread and butter!
Storming your brain out will be a daily thing for you if you want your content to go viral!
So to ease it out, I am going to list 90 content creation tools by which you can market contents like an Alpha!
Easiest content creation tools for keyword analysis
1. Google Trends
A Google freeware to analyze and see the trending keywords.
Gives an up to date insight on the trending stories worldwide!
Really helpful for researching topics and finding information for free.
One of the top-rated content creation tools used widely worldwide.
2. Twinword
Twinword Ideas is a great keyword tool for SEO and PPC marketing. With it’s smart filters that are powered by A.I., it groups keywords by user intent, popular topics, and other patterns. The keyword tool has many great features that make it easy to find the right keywords!
Twinword Ideas has three different pricing plans, including a very affordable Plus plan.
3. Keyword Finder
This is a helpful freeware to find out long tail and low competition keywords to build your content marketing strategy.
This is a handy free keyword analyzer that can be an added weapon to your arsenal.
4. keywordtool.io
Allows you to see top related searches on your keywords. Moreover, it allows you to see tending keywords and questions on You Tube, Bing and also in mobile app stores.
It’s one of those easy content creation tools that gets you effective keyword suggestions!
However, it has a paid tool as well with more functionalities. See the pricing list below-
Nevertheless, a very effective and popular tool to use for keyword research.
5. Keyword Eye
Not entirely free but has a free version which allows 10 keyword searches per day, up to 100 keyword suggestions per report, and 25 Google country keyword databases.
It has both free and paid versions.
Here is the pricing list-
6. Ubersuggest
This is one of the easiest content creation tools online!
You just put the keywords, select language, select source and click on suggest.
Then immediately it displays suggestion that suits best to your search term.
There is a plus sign that gives you the option to add keywords to your list and then export them via copy and paste.
Its completely free for the users and shows good result by breaking down both long tail and short tail keywords.
7. Wordstream
One of the most popular free content creation tools that allows up to 30 free searches.
Just put the word into the search bar and it will show other related keyword ideas.
It also offers an option which allows you to email all the keywords directly to your mail account.
Here is the pricing and features list-
Having an upfront free ad word performance grader, this tool surely can extract key findings that can elevate your PPC campaign.
8. SEO Book
It offers ideas on daily search volumes of market for Google, Bing and Yahoo.
However, a free registration is required for using this tool.
9. Keyword Discovery
One of the lightest content creation tools for basic keyword analysis.
The free version offers a list of keyword suggestions for a chosen term.
It simultaneously displays the search volume of the listed keywords for the previous year.
It has paid version as well which adds more options to its free functionalities. Click here view the pricing table.
Must use content analysis tools, Free and paid
10. BuzzSumo
One of the most widely used content creation tools in the world, BuzzSumo has everything you need for content ideas.
It’s a tool that tracks content on all major social networks and ranks them based on the number of shares. It uses advance search to deliver accurate results and screens content by topic or users.
However, only the first page results can be seen for FREE.
Further results are for paid versions. Here is the pricing table-
A user can select either yearly or monthly billing method.
11. Venngage
Its one of the most user friendly content creation tools to create infographic content for FREE.
However, the free accounts can’t download the infographics in PDF or PNG neither has privacy control.
The best thing the free version can do is show ideas and themes that can be customized by yourself.
If you want a complete customization feature, the paid plans can be a good option.
Here is the pricing table-
Overall, a cool tool for info-graphics and ideas.
12. Evernote
A large number of writers are using its free version every day!
You can write articles, research notes and store all your ideas safely.
It automatically syncs data from its mobile, desktop and webapps making it safe enough to keep your ideas.
Depending on requirement, writers use the paid versions.
Here is a list of the pricing and features of Evernote-
13. Cofftivity
Changes your background completely by its artificial but near realistic background music!
It generates café background sounds and gives your thinking a sweet leverage.
You can use Cofftivity for free. However, you can upgrade to premium music subscription by $9 only.
14. Word2cleanhtml
If you are someone who is comfortable with MSword, Evernote or google docs and not with your CMS, word2cleanhtml is your best friend!
It eliminates formatting issues while transferring your content from docs to HTML.
This is one of the simplest content creation tools, which applies multiple filtering options for converting results in a perfectly formatted HTML version.
15. Site: Search
This not a tool but a hack in to google search system!
All you got to do is go to google and in the search box put this in “site: blog.copywriter.com SEO resources”
Now instead of copywriter, place the name of your competitor or anyone whose content you want to follow.
This formula pulls out results on specific keywords you entered from a single domain or website.
Innovative content idea generator tools for higher CTR
16. Portent content idea generator
A free user friendly tool to generate content ideas, titles and subhead lines.
It does not do any magic but at least lets your brain take some rest.
17. HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator
The tool is super easy to use! Just type in 3 keywords you want to work with and proceed next.
The tool will display a list of similar good topics.
You may not find all suitable but few of them may win the race.
18. Ahref’s Content Explorer
While Ahrefs Content Explorer doesn’t come for free, its large content index is worth every penny.
It currently contains 915 million pages, and roughly 1.8 million new pages are added to the database every day.
Content Explorer provides a variety of ways to research content – by traffic, links, shares, etc.
If you play smart with content filters, you can discover low-hanging fruit in your niche fast.
Here’s a cool trick to try. Filter traffic to 1,000+ and referring domains to <5.
That way, you’ll see content that gets a ton of traffic, but has very few backlinks. Such topics are easy to compete with.
Besides Content Explorer, Ahrefs’ toolkit includes Keywords Explorer.
With 5.9 billion keywords in its database, this tool will help you to find juicy terms, for which to optimize your content around.
19. Tweakyourbiz
A very easy tool for content idea generation.
There are huge number of posts everyday published here.
You can see titles of relevant posts and create idea easily from this place.
However, a little bit of brain storming is needed.
20. Buzzfeed
It’s not entirely a tool but contains highly rich and unique contents.
While creating a content, you may visit this site to get ideas on tittle and how to make your content more readable.
21. Coschedule
One of the most used free tools online which analyzes headlines and scores them according to its ability to rank on social networks, search engines and increasing traffic.
You can review your headline and make changes according to its results.
Top content readability tools for testing and quality check
22.Whitesmoke
It will ask you for your email to use it first. However, it’s completely worth it!
This tool is easy to use and gives a diversified result.
You just copy and pest the contents here and press check.
It will give an elaborated result on punctuation, rendered, spelling, sentence structure, rich words used, repetitive words and grammatical errors.
You can do a lot of content correction with free version.
Nevertheless, the paid features are also top notch!
Here is a list with pricing-
23. Grammarly
Grammarly’s editing and plagiarism-detection resources checks for the adherence to more than 250 grammar rules.
It has a free extension that can be installed with browsers that automatically detects grammatical errors whenever you write!
Moreover, it gives suggestions on how to fix it.
24. Onlinecorrection
This is a free tool which detects spieling errors, basic grammatical errors and stylistic mistakes.
This is a user friendly easy tool to use for basic correction and curation.
25. Spellcheckonline
Another easy and light spell checker that detects errors in your writing and gives suggestion.
It’s free to use as well!
26. Paperrater
A great tool to improve and correct your content.
You can do spell and grammar check as well.
However, the plagiarism check is with the paid version only.
The free features are for basic needs.
It has a paid service for plagiarism check of $7only.
27. Grammarcheck
Another good free tool for basic grammar and spell checks.
28. Gingersoftware
It has booth free and paid version.
The free versions has limited features and only tests texts to certain limit.
The paid version has more functionality to check your text.
However, the pricing starts from $5 to $14 per month.
29. Languagetool
It’s an open source proof reading free tool supporting multiple languages such as English, German, French, German, Polish and more than 20 other languages.
For basic needs a great free tool for the writers 🙂
Easiest content image sourcing tools that saves your time
We live in an era of visual culture all around.
People like to visualize to imagine and to believe!
So images on blog posts or any other content is a must!
However, it’s really time consuming to find the right image which must be royalty free as well. (If you are not creating images by yourself)
So save your time and energy!
Here is a complete list of free and royalty free image sourcing sites, enjoy-
30. Xtensio
Xtensio is one of the most amazing platforms that let you create, share and present live documents with ease. Using this, you can create any business document and can also work together with your teams from anywhere. Xtensio can also help you boost sales, improve marketing, help you build your brand, improve communication and a lot more. It will not only simplify your work, but will also make things accessible and easy for you and your clients.
31.Penji
Your website needs visuals, and while it’s easier to use a do-it-yourself graphic design service, it’s best to leave the design work to the professionals. Penji is an unlimited graphic design service that will help you with your content creation strategy. You can request visuals such as social media graphics, blog graphics, ads, and so much more.
Check out their pricing page here
32. Writer
Writer’s free plagiarism checker is a simple, AI-powered assistant that makes sure your text is original, clear, error-free, and easy to understand.
It scans your text for every type of mistake, from silly punctuation errors to nuanced grammatical mistakes, irregular verb conjugations, misspelled words, and more.
Writer goes beyond standard grammar checks and guarantees your copy is free of common and not-so-common English grammar errors.
Eliminate punctuation and grammar errors and take advantage of Writer’s one-click proofreading for tone and style.
Caption Free Images –
33. Plash
34. New Old Stock
35. Superfamous
36. Picjumbo
37. The Pattern Library
38. Getrefe
39. IM Free (requires attribution)
40. Jay Mantri
41. Women of color in tech
42. Public Domain Archive
43. Magdeleine
44. Foodiesfeed
45. Picography
46. Raumrot
47. ISO Republic
Searchable Photo Stock –
48. Dreamstime
49. Free Digital Photos
50. Free Images
51. Free Range Stock
52. Free Photos Bank
53. ImageFree
54. IM Free
55. Morguefile
56. Pixabay
57. Public Domain Pictures
58. Stockvault
59. Rgbstock
Free Photo Collection-
60. Ancestry Images
61. BigFoto
62. Gratisography
63. Death to The Stock Photo
64. FreeMediaGoo
65. Hubspot
66. iStock
67. Little Visuals
68. New Old Stock
69. PicJumbo
70. Pickupimage
71. Superfamous
72. Unsplash
73. Wikimedia Commons
Photo search sites
74. Can We Image
75. Compfight
76. Creative Commons Search
77. Foter
78. Google Advanced Image Search
79. Every Stock Photo
80. Image Finder
81. PhotoPin
82. TinEye
83. Wylio
84. Canva
Brilliant duplicate content checkers that actually works
85. Small SEO Tools
This is a tool which is used in a very large number by content creators.
If you type “duplicate content checker” on google this tools comes first!
However, it has a limit of 1000 words per check.
You have a content exceeds 1000 words you have to repeat the checks with this tool.
86. Copyscape
A very simple and easy tool to use for page content check.
You just got to put a pages URL and VOILA!
You get the results immediately if that has duplicate pages or not.
87. Grammarly
One of the most comprehensive plagiarism checker online!
It searches pages for over 8 billion on the internet to compare your text.
88. Duplichecker
A very user friendly free tool for duplicate content checking.
After registering you can do up 50 searches a day.
Per search the world limit is 1000.
89. Plagiarisma
It supports 190 languages and allows you to check both text and URL.
This is handy for those who generate contents on multiple languages and seek instant free duplicate checks online.
90. Articlechecker
This is a handy free duplicate content checker tool that allows you to track who copied your content online!
You can also check your page URL by this tool.
Conclusion-
I am sure all you guys must be using one, two or maybe more of the tools I have listed here already!
I have just tried to get everything in one place so that you don’t have to surf through internet all day long.
Your content can be the key to unlock unlimited traffic to your website.
So make the most use out of these tools and save your time.
Publish and create your dream content like a boss! 🙂
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Hi Sayed, I really enjoyed your post! It is really clear and plenty of very helpful information. Personally, I found Keyword Eye the best among the keywords tools as you can choose for a free plan while wordstream despite being free does not show the search volume and the competition if you don’t subscribe. I use coschedule.com to generate better titles and it is really helpful. Highly recommended! In terms of grammar check you can also use http://www.hemingwayapp.com. In terms of images I also love freepick for vectors and http://www.tryspruce.com/ to generate text on images. I also used plagiarism checker for my scientific reports and it is really easy to use and pretty accurate.
You are awesome Stefania !
Thank you so much for mentioning some more tools in your comment. Thats very kind of you. Stay in touch 😉
Best,
Sayed
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