Blog writing is a very lucrative venture when it comes to content marketing. It is an excellent tool for marketing owing to its long-term benefits and relatively low investment costs.
However, precisely because of those reasons, it is very trendys popularity has resulted in tense competition.
This means that blog writers are always on thon edge,g to push out a new article to stay ahead of the competition.
This situation is good for motivation since competition can spark innovation. But too much of anything is not good.
There are only two ways to deal with this situation. One is to take a long break, and the other is to get some help. Most writers opt for service…which is in the form of writing tools. We are going to look at five such tools which can help in blog writing.
Five tools to Help in Blog Writing
1. Paraphraser
The paraphrasing tool by Paraphraser.io is very helpful for blog writing. It allows you to rewrite articles and paragraphs to make them look different than the original version.
It comes with multiple modes that paraphrase text in different ways.
There are four modes available, two of which are free (Standard, Fluency), and two are premium only (Creative, Smarter).
Standard mode rewrites text in a simple manner. It only replaces a few words with their synonyms.
Fluency mode, however, makes much larger changes, and its focus is on increasing the readability of the text.
This is particularly useful for blog writing, as blogs have to be written in a very simple and easy-to-understand way.
Blogs have to be easy to read because they are accessible to many different people some of which may be children and others who may be foreigners.
The tool is free to use and does not require an account. You can paraphrase up to 500 words on each use.
2. Grammarly
Grammarly is a great writing assistant tool. It is available in multiple forms such as an online version, a browser plugin, Microsoft Word plugin, and a Windows version.
It is a free tool that offers grammar correction. So, any spelling mistakes, tense discrepancies, and confused homonyms will be corrected.
There is a paid version available as well which extends the basic functions and offers plagiarism checking as well.
The free version of Grammarly can be used after creating an account.
The Windows version works in real-time, so as soon as you make a mistake, the tool will underline it in red.
If you don’don'te to be interrupted in this way, you can simply use the online version which checks your entire file at once.
In the end, the choice is yours and you can use Grammarly the way you like best.
3. Rephrase
The paraphrasing tool by Rephrase.info is another great paraphrasing tool. Paraphrasers are more necessary in blog writing than any other tool because they provide multiple functions.
The paraphraser by Rephrase.info also comes with multiple modes. In this tool, however, two of them are still free, while the third (Creative) is premium only.
The Standard mode rewrites text by using the synonym exchange technique. This technique uses both difficult and easy words so the final product can be difficult or easier to read.
The Fluency mode is much better. It rewrites the text while simultaneously making it easier to read.
The synonym and phrase choices are made while keeping reading difficulty in mind.
Writers can use this tool to make their work both unique and easy to read.
In blog writing, easy-to-read content is necessary to increase user engagement and dwell time, and reduce bounce rates.
If your readers cannot understand your content, they will leave it alone. This can result in reduced dwell time.
This isn'tngood for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and antithetical to the purpose of a blog.
4. Hemingway Editor
The Hemingway editor is a great tool for blog writing. This tool lets you write your blog content in its editor, giving you some valuable feedback.
You can act on that feedback and improve your write-up so that it becomes better to read.
This tool is geared towards blog writers in general, as most of the feedback that you get is related to making your writing easier to read.
The feedback is provided by using colored highlights. Once you are done writing your content in the editor, it is highlighted in multiple colors.
There are five colors available and each color signifies a specific problem in your write-up. The details are as follows:
- If your text is yellow, then it means that it is difficult to read and understand.
- If the text is red, then it means that it is very hard to read.
- Blue shows the usage of adverbs.
- Green shows the usage of passive voice.
- If some text is purple, then that means that there is an easier word or phrase available for it.
Along with the feedback, you can also see the overall readability grade of your write-up..
The grades are given'from 1 to ‘Po't Graduate’ (which c'me' after ‘15’).
When writing blog posts, your goal should be to keep this grade around 5 or 6.
The color-coded feedback lets you know where you should begin editing to make your text easier to read.
5. Linux
The paraphraser by Linguix is a great tool that comes bundled with a grammar checker. To use Linguix, you need to make an account first because all its good features are locked behind it.
The account is free, and you do not need to submit your credit card info at all.
Linguix lets you create a blank document in which you can write or paste your content. The grammar checker starts working on it automatically, and the mistakes present in it are underlined in red.
To correct them, you can hover the mouse over them and the correction will be shown in a small window. You can click on it to apply it.
The paraphrasing is done manually. You need to select the parts of the text that you want to rewrite.
Once you select them with the mouse, a small Linguix logo pops up.
You can click on the logo and a drop-down menu will show up. This menu shows multiple variations of the sentence you have selected and you can apply the variation you like best.
Conclusion
Blog writing is popular for various reasons, but the biggest reason among them is content marketing. Writers who have to create content for these blogs can use a variety of tools to improve their write-ups.
The tools mentioned in this post can help writers avoid spelling and tense mistakes. Some of them can increase the readability of the write-ups by rewriting them.
Other tools provided feedback on the readability and issues in writing.
Using these tools, writers can improve their blog writing skills.