Blogging can be a daunting and all-consuming project. There’s the market research, initial setup, organization, writing and more research, maintenance, promotions, networking…the list goes on.

As a web marketing agency, we manage many blogs at the same time – for ourselves and clients. So it is especially important that we stay organized and on top of things. In order to do this, we’ve found several useful online sources that we’d like to share with you.6 Websites Every Blogger Should Use | Blogging | Social Media Marketing

Here are the 6 websites we think every blogger should use:

Netvibes

Highly recommended, Netvibes is a personalized start page and RSS feed reader that allows you to organize all your favourite blogs into folders. Latest post titles are displayed in individual modules so they are easy to skim for relevant information. Just click on titles and the full article opens in a separate tab of your web browser.

CoComment

This is a great tool for tracking your comments and discussions across the web. Under one interface, you can see where you’ve commented and what you’ve said. Other capabilities include notification of current comments in a discussion stream and the ability to display on your own site comments you’ve made elsewhere.

Google Analytics

How do you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been? Google Analytics allows you to clearly see the results from your online marketing efforts. Track who comes to your site, where they’ve come from, how they found you, what keywords were used to find you, what days and times are most popular, and a few other surface facts about your traffic. When you finally master analyzing the information, you can figure out the why’s and strategize changes that will net you better results.

Digg

Social media sites help make a successful blog by exposing its content to hundreds of thousands of people in one place. Rather than waiting for a trickling of people to come to you with search engine optimization, a social media site like Digg is a meeting place for the public. It allows you to give the public a taste of what you have to offer and if that taste turns out to make them hungry for more, then you’d better hope your server can handle the mob!

StumbleUpon!

This is a personalized web surfing tool that helps you discover high quality websites that match your interests. The websites in StumbleUpon have been voted on and syndicated by the public. In reviewing the analytics, it is clear that search engines value websites chosen by the StumbleUpon community. In essence, it is free marketing to a targeted audience. We suggest that every blogger offer a StumbleUpon chicklet on their blog for reader’s easy access.

Google

Participating in online conversations, especially in your niche market, carries a lot of weight and is integral to catapulting you into blogger stardom. Use Google to find authorities in your market and add your personal insights to their posts. Build a network of influential people within your industry and learn from them so you can become a thought leader yourself. If you build your network naturally, you will eventually drive huge amounts of traffic and legitimize yourself as an expert – landing yourself into problogger status!

There you have it: six websites that will help you keep track of your blogging efforts.

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