If you are a new blogger, you should know about some tools for your blog which will help to make your blog more popular. Check out some essential tools which any new blogger should include in the blog.

RSS is one of the crucial tools for any blog. There are several blog platforms which have it already done for their new bloggers, but in other websites where it is not set up you should at first set this up. RSS means really simple syndication which is a format that shall help to publish updated blog content in places like Google Reader. If you are worried how to set this up you need not worry as this can be done very easily. You are just required to use Feedburner.com. This is a completely free service which offers many good features and important information like how many subscribers you have in your blog, your different feed statistics and the most viewed blogs.

New bloggers should compulsorily add social bookmarking and share different icons which appear after every post. Social bookmarking is very similar to the favorites in our own computer; here the only difference is that all such bookmarked pages are stored in a page. In this way, your blog can be shared by your readers with everyone else who might have interest in the blog. This is a good tactic to get some extra exposure for your website and get more traffic to the site.

You have to make your blog look very interesting and appealing and to make this happen, you have to make huge initial efforts. You should ideally integrate as many photos and videos you can in the blog. Videos are now becoming an integral part of blogs. You need the adequate tools so that you can include videos in your blog to make it more attractive.

Remember that web statistics are very important for any blog. You should have this tool in your blog. There are many self hosted blogs which have this in their cPanel but in case of others it becomes very necessary to install it. You can also use Google analytics which is a free tracking system so that you can view the reports on the progress of your website.