20 Lesser-Known Tools for Smart Content Creators

20 Lesser-Known Tools for Smart Content Creators

Headline generator and analyzer tools 1. Impact blog title generator (free) Designed by BlogAbout, Impact blog title generator helps writers generate awesome headlines for blog posts. Just enter a keyword and it will create unique titles for your post. You enter a keyword and look though a good list of headlines while discovering various angles for the subject you are researching. The tool includes useful templates and drag-and-drop options that make the process easy and fun. Easel.ly (free and fee versions) Easel.ly is an amazing tool for “design-challenged” content creators. We know that a visual representation of data is a crucial thing to help us present the results of our projects. The tool is not only easy to use, but it produces great results. Other content marketing tools 16. You can easily augment your visual content using text, audio, images, and video.

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Steve Jobs once said “Real artists ship.”

If you want to make your content marketing strategy successful, you need to regularly ship (i.e., deliver) great content. Using the right tools is crucial to maximize productivity. The right tools help you create more and better content with ease.

Though 56% of marketers have a bunch of content marketing tools in their arsenal, discovering the best ones for your specific needs can be a challenge.

I am going to show a list of little-known tools (free and paid), from headline analyzers, research resources, meme-makers, and more that will help you make your content research and creation easier and faster.

Headline generator and analyzer tools

1. Impact blog title generator (free)

Designed by BlogAbout, Impact blog title generator helps writers generate awesome headlines for blog posts. It is easy to use: Just add your topic, click a button, and get a lot of awesome titles for your posts.

When you find a proper title, press the heart icon to save this title to a notebook. The generated list with picked titles can be sent via email.

A creative way to help writers generate fantastic titles distinguishes it from similar tools. The tool also has a “writer’s block” that allows you to visualize your thoughts.

2. CoSchedule headline analyzer (free)

Every content creator needs to have this tool in their arsenal. Just enter your title to start headline analysis. CoSchedule gives your headline a score out of 100.

CoSchedule analyzes the following things:

  • Headline type (e.g., a “list” post can increase the overall score)
  • Character count (e.g., titles with more than 55 characters typically get a higher level of clicks)
  • Word count (e.g., an ideal title should be six words or fewer to get the most clicks)

The tool also provides insights about which words stand out from the crowd and shows keywords based on your titles.

3. Thrive Headline Optimizer (fee)

Thrive Headline Optimizer is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that helps you find the most click-worthy titles to boost user engagement on your site and decrease the bounce rate. The tool helps analyze different headlines until you find the perfect one for your post.

The tool is easy to use. Just enter different variations of the titles in the WordPress post editor screen and let the plugin do the testing. The plugin also optimizes titles on older posts to find winners.

4. Sharethrough (fee)

Sharethrough is a powerful headline analyzer that shows the quality score based on a multivariate linguistic algorithm using the rules of behavior model theory, and the neuroscience and advertising survey of Sharethrough.

The tool has an extremely user-friendly interface. It discovers the strengths in your headlines and suggests how to make more impact on the target audience.

5. Portent Content Idea Generator (free)

Portent’s Content Idea Generator is a simple, creative blog title generator. The tool also generates topics. Just enter a keyword and it will create unique titles for your post.

Another great thing is the tool breaks your headline into chunks allowing you to easily tweak and refine. It also explains why certain elements should be used in a headline and the reasoning behind the suggested words.

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Research and discovery tools

6. Google Trends (free)

The Google Trends tool is one of the most useful tools available for the content creators who want to get quality links and traffic. The tool tracks the popularity of the keywords in Google Search. Use the Top Charts feature to develop content ideas that people are interested in. When creating a content calendar, look at the seasonality of certain trends. You also can search for ideas by searching for different trends across similar terms.

7. ContentIdeator (fee)

ContentIdeator is a great content intelligence solution that provides data-driven insights into content performance via crucial channels. This nifty tool not only generates attractive titles but gives ideas on what you could write about in the future.

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