Content Writing Tools

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Content Writing Tools
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What is Content Writing??

• Content writing is the process of planning,
  writing and editing web content, typically for
  digital marketing purposes. It can include
  writing blog posts and articles, scripts for
  videos and podcasts, as well as content for
  specific platforms, such as tweetstorms on
  Twitter or text posts on Reddit. In other words,
  content writing skills give you the ability to
  write clear, consistent and relevant content that
  delivers an engaging experience for your
  company's target audience. The use of effective
  content writing directs them to visit your
  company's website for more information.

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Tools for Content Writing

• There are a large number of tools to assist you
  in content creation and simplify the work. It
  will help you polish everything you write and
  avoid if any mistakes are there in every piece of
  your content. Here is the list of different tools
  for different categories of work in content
  writing.
• 1) Brainstorming Tools
• These tools help you to brainstorm ideas and
  topics. Some examples are
• Portents Content Idea Generator -
• If you need an attractive heading, then can
  definitely go for this tool. If the topic
  changes, It will change the way you intended to
  deliver your ideas at the beginning. You can
  search any word related to the topic.

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• Ideaflip -
• This tool gives you a visual, interactive
  environment that enables you to write down,
  manage, and develop your ideas. The design of its
  user interface removes visual constraints, which
  means you are free to do anything that will help
  your ideas spring to life.
• HubSpots Blog Topic Generator -
• If you are in search for a new topic idea on a
  regular basis, then this tool will help you out
  in different ways.  It enables you to enter up to
  three keywords, after which it will do its magic
  and come up with a long list of subjects that
  will be ready to use right away or which will
  help point you in the right direction.

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• 2 ) Writing Editing Tools
• Grammarly-
• It is the best spelling and grammar checker tool.
  Apart from being able to spot errors, it will
  also help you optimize your text and make it more
  readable.
• StackEdit -
• It is a great tool for converting text into .html
  or copying it from WordPress, Google Docs or Word
  without any formatting. It ha many themes,
  layouts and shortcut combinations to customize
  your content writing. It has a spell-checker that
  supports many languages, and you can sync it with
  Dropbox and Google Drive.

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• Hemingway -
• It highlights sentences and phrases that are too
  complex ,suggests eliminating, excessive adverbs
  and turning passive voice constructions into
  active voice. Furthermore, the tool has document
  style settings and even shows a texts
  readability score. It has a counter showing a
  total number of words, characters, paragraphs,
  and sentences so you can tweak a texts structure
  if it lacks readability. The editors standalone
  version is available for PC and Mac. Once you
  finish editing, you can export a file in a
  markdown or .html format.

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• 3 ) Social Media, SEO Promotion
• Hootsuite
• This tool is used for enhancing the social media
  management. The system's user interface takes the
  form of a dashboard, and supports social network
  integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
  LinkedIn and Youtube. You have an option for
  scheduling your posts in advance, not having to
  worry about forgetting to publish them.
• Ahrefs
• It is a massive SEO toolkit you can use to propel
  your writings toward the first page in search.
  Running the largest content index, it discovers
  what other tools overlook. 5 million posts a day
  is its record mark no one has surpassed yet. With
  a flexible filtering system, you can keep only
  valuable topics on your radar. The rest can be
  filtered out by time,

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• traffic, shares, referring domains, word count,
  etc. Each post comes with social and SEO metrics
  visualized on charts. It will let you track its
  ups and downs over time.
• Buzzstream
• It can help you in finding stuff like contact
  information and social media accounts of the most
  influential players in the industry, which
  provides you with the opportunity to establish
  any collaboration with them and promote your
  work.
• Google Search Console
• Google Search Console provides detailed analytics
  on the frequency of your blog visits. They allow
  sorting out data by country and device and find
  out what search queries your blog guests usually
  type in. You can

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• also choose posts that lack traffic and beef
  them up by adding links to them from other
  websites.
• 4 )Multimedia Tools
• These tools are used to create images, memes,
  infographics, videos, etc to increase the
  engagement of the post. 
• Canva
• It allows you to create visual content such as
  presentations, posters, infographics, and cover
  images for all of your social media accounts. It
  has a wide variety of templates.
• Infographic Video Maker
• You can easily create stunning animated
  infographics with the help of Infographic Video
  Maker.

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• Easel.ly
• Designing an infographic to visualize certain
  data or an entertaining message can be
  time-consuming. But infographic is also worth the
  effort because this type of content has proven to
  be highly shareable if done well. To simplify the
  process of its creation, Easel.ly offers many
  pre-made templates. You can add, remove and edit
  each infographic element the way you need it. The
  tool allows applying a grid so you can position
  each object or text symmetrically. After you make
  all the tweaks, you can download it as a .pdf.
  Should you need to change an already published
  infographic, just head to your account and
  upgrade it.

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• 5 ) Planning Scheduling
• To do list, calendars, workflow organizing, file
  sharing, all you need to keep your editing
  process on track and on time. Make sure you meet
  all the deadlines.
•  Trello
• Divide your digital cards with notes into four
  categories ideas, to do, doing, done. Drag and
  drop them the moment their status has changed.
  The tool has an intuitive user-interface and
  allows uploading files from Google Drive, DropBox
  and OneDrive. You can also set a date and time
  for when a card is due.
• Wunderlist
• To get into the habit of planning your blogging
  activities well ahead is crucial. Digital
  organizers can help you tackle many tasks with
  ease. Wunderlist is among such tools. It can keep
  your ideas well structured and remind you of
  other tasks you need to do. Wunderlist can also
  transform your emails into to-do lists, move them
  between folders and add notices. Share your lists
  with others, or print them out with just one
  click.

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About Henry Harvin

• Henry Harvin is a leading career and competency
  development organization with focus on value
  creation. We are into the business of training,
  skill development, assessment centres, content
  services and higher education. Our dream is to
  establish 'Henry Harvin' in line with the vision
  of Mr.Henry Dunster 400 years ago which now
  resonates in the form of a prestigious
  educational institution respected worldwide.

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• If you are interested to know more about content
  writing, join the Content Writing Course by Henry
  Harvin.