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Make Blogging Easier with Blog Publishing Tools like Scribefire

September 29, 2009 // No Comments »

I’ve been using the Scribefire plugin for Mozilla Firefox for several weeks and have found many benefits for the entrepreneurial/small business blogger. If you’re just reading up on Scribefire, in a nutshell it is one of many free blog publishing tools that makes posting to your blog easier.  Of course, we all want to do things a little quicker and want convenience, and I’ve found this tool helps both ways.  There are two distinct ways to use Scribefire.

1) As a blog editing tool
2) As a blog publishing tool

Specifically the Scribefire Blog Editor Enables you to:

1. Create draft blog posts in a jiffy and save them to work on them later (without having to log in to your blog publishing platform)
2. Write your post in plain text with a user friendly word processor interface
3. Customize your content in the html editor (you can also use css for content style)
4. Preview your blog post as it would appear right on your blog
5. Import all of your published blog posts into scribefire so that you can easily reference previous posts
6. Preview your published posts just in case you want to copy an excerpt from it into your current blog post
7. Copy the URL (link) to your blog post to easily link it to your current post (by clicking on a "copy" icon)
8. Save your published notes in order to re-purpose your content (i.e. write follow up blog posts as a part of a blog post series)
   

I particularly appreciate the ability to quickly draft a post without the hassle of logging in to my favorite blog publishing platform - WordPress.    When you have a sudden burst of inspiration, you can quickly save your draft in Scribefire or export it at the click of one button save it as a draft on WordPress or your preferred blogging platform.

A view of the scribefire word processing interface is below.

You have a few tabs on the left, one of which is the green share button.   From there, you can bookmark your posts on delicious as well as share them on Digg, StumbleUpon and some other social bookmarking sites.  Additionally, you can share your post as soon as you are done via Facebook.

On the right of the scribefire blog editor you’ll see:

1. The blogs you have added to Scribefire
2. Draft blog entries
3. A list of your blog’s categories
4. Options.  From here you can decide when to publish and what tags to use as well as link to any non WordPress sites and enable some ping services, which will notify the search engines of new content on your blog.  For a cool thorough list of ping servers read Cenay’s Giant List of Ping Servers article .

Also, Scribefire integrates with the Zemanta plugin , a plugin (also for Mozilla Firefox) that easily allows you to add value on your blog, by providing related content you can link to at the click of a mouse button to increase your value for your readers and provide quality linking sources to help build your SEO and authority.  (See this post below for examples).

You can categorize your blog posts with the categories on your blog as you can with ScribeFire.

Scribefire also integrates social media components to help you promote your content (or help it travel further).

The Blog Publishing Limitations of  Scribefire:  SEO and Images

There are a few limitations to using this tool from an SEO standpoint and webmaster.

You’ll have to log in to WordPress to update your title, keywords, blog description.  Although you can add tags in Scribefire.

A second limitation to the tool, especially for new bloggers who are less code savvy is working with images.   You will have to get into some code to add title and alt tags and some SEO tweaks here.

However, if you don’t know html, you could use one of my favorite free blogging tools - Zemanta - to help with getting cool images for your blog articles.

Overall, I highly recommend any serious blogger to use this tool for its ability to help you easily:

• draft
• post
• link back
• re-purpose blog content

The Scribefire blog publishing tool gets a B+ from the Dali Blogger.  Get it and tell me what you think!

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