5 Smart AutoPilot Tools For Your Blog

The perfect webmaster’s dream is to have a blog running on AutoPilot – with smart tools making things ticking away nicely in the background. Leaving a blogger with just the job of churning out posts – Perfect world. Let’s face it, the WordPress back-end is an interesting place to be. There is so much to fiddle with, Comments to moderate, Stats to check, Plugins to update, Source code to tweak and so on. But these things eat into your time. Don’t get me wrong these tasks are essential, but wouldn’t it be better if most of it were automated? That is why I love Askimet spam blocker – one less admin task to do and more time to provide value to my readers. Blog Tools Saving valuable time as led me to list 5 of my favorite AutoPilot tools. WordPress Database Backup This backup plugin automatically backs up data on a regular basis. Available options Ability to specify back-up frequency Option to choose where to save back up file Select and choose tables to backup. Get it here Posts Yes, the actual WordPress post functionality. Generally, I tend to write a number of posts in one go, so I have them sitting in a queue waiting to be published at my specified time. Available options Schedule a publish date and time. Update services Update services is a feature within WordPress that automatically notifies submission directories of my new blog post. – It saves me a lot of time. To locate,  go to Settings – Writing – Updates Services Aweber Aweber automatically handles all my email distributions, campaigns and subscriptions on YourBlogTools.com XML Sitemaps This cool plugin automatically notifies Google wherever there’s a new post on YourBlogTools.com Get it here Which auto-pilot tools are you using? Do you have any questions about these tools?