20 Google Products And Services That Top Bloggers Use To Build Successful Blogs

When you hear the word "Google," where does your mind go first? I'm sure it is "Google search"!

Google search has just been so popular to thousands of people that they aren’t even aware that there are still many other products and services by Google that is sum up to 206.

Yes, you read that right - Two hundred and six Google products and services, according to this source

And this interesting part:

When you create a single account, you automatically have access to all the 206 products and services. That is, you won't have to create an account on "blogger" or "YouTube" anymore when you already have a "Gmail" account.

Well, I don't expect you to be aware of everything too. But as a blogger or a webmaster, you need to know these 20 Google products and services.

Why? Because

• It differentiate you from a novice on the web;

• It improves your Internet experience;

• It makes your blogging career very easy when you use most of them (that are offered for free)

After this list, I would need you to be sincere. You gonna tell me how many of these products and services you have used before (or that you use continuously).

20 Google Products And Services That Top Bloggers Use To Build Successful Blogs

Each of these products or services has a particular advantage for bloggers and webmaster, and that is why I extract the most useful 20 out of 206.

However, I will not be giving you a well-detailed explanation on each of this products or services because each is even enough for each blog post.

But I got you covered! The brief explanation would explain what you need to know. In case, if you must know further, do your own research like I did to get this post written.....lol

Here they go:

#1. Google search

This is the mother of all other products. It is this name that gets most people familiar with the word "Google."

It is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day.

I don't think I need more description or it's usefulness to bloggers and webmasters.

• Direct link: www.google.com

#2. Google mail

Google mail or Gmail is a free email service developed by Google. Users can access Gmail on the web and through the mobile apps for smartphones, as well as through third-party programs that synchronize email content through POP or IMAP protocols.

• How To Set Up Custom Email Address In Android Smartphones

Google mail allows you to send electronic messages (emails) to your customers or blog readers. It has a 15Gb storage of emails.

Read: Internet Users; Why You Need To Have A Gmail Account

• Direct link: www.gmail.com

#3. Google plus

Google+ or Google Plus is an internet-based social network, like Facebook, owned by Google. It makes use of the Google search engine, Google Profiles, and the +1 button.

You can use Google+ to let people know about your blog and engage with your readers when you connect your Google+ account to your blog.

If you are on Blogspot (blogger), you can set your posts to automatically post to your Google+ account (I don't know much about Wordpress). This can also boost your traffic when someone who follows you on Google+ searches for a keyword that you have written a post about. This is a sample below:

This post appeared on the first page when I searched for related keywords

• Direct link: plus.google.com

#4. Blogger

This is our favourite free tools for creating blogs that allow users to create up to 100 blogs per account.

Blogger was developed by Pyra Labs and was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com but this can be changed when you buy a domain name.

• Direct link: www.blogger.com

#5. Adsense

Adsense or Google Adsense is an advertising placement service by Google. The program is designed for website publishers who want to display targeted text, video or image advertisements on website pages and earn money when site visitors view or click the ads.

Adsense is a platform for publishers i.e. those people that have a website or blog, and want to show Google Ads on their blogs.

Ads are shown in the websites that participate in the Google Adsense program.These people are called the Adsense Publishers.

• Direct link: adsense.google.com

#6. Adwords

Google Adwords is a platform for advertisers, i.e., those who want to advertise their products or services on Google.  Unlike adsense which is for publishers.

The AdWords program enables businesses to set a budget for advertising and only pay when people click the ads. The ad service is mostly focused on keywords.

Smart bloggers and webmasters have now taken advantage of Google Adwords to find the best keywords for their posts (or products) and get more visitors and the right audience to buy the products.

• Direct link: adwords.google.com

#7. Admob

As the name implies - advertising on mobile - is Google’s mobile advertising platform specifically designed for mobile apps.

I believe you have come across ads being displayed when you open an app on your smartphone devices when you leave your data switched on. These are exactly Admobs "mobile advertisement."

Advertisers pay Google to use AdMob as a platform for promoting their products from within existing mobile apps. This also enables the existing apps to generate AdMob revenue, even with a free game, by allowing other apps to display advertisement within their game.

As an app publisher (owner), you can earn income with your app each time an ad is served to your app and is viewed by a user.

• Direct link: www.google.com/admob

#8. YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website that allows its users to create, upload, stream, and share videos online. It was created by Alphabet Inc. in 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006.

YouTube has made sharing of larger sizes of videos that cannot be sent via email very easy, by allowing its users to upload the videos and sharing the links to the videos with anyone.

YouTube has proven to be a means of livelihood to many video bloggers. Video bloggers make lots of money every day on YouTube. Users can also apply for Adsense through YouTube.

• Direct link: www.youtube.com

#9. Google Trends

Google Trends is a facility that lets you find out the trending topics by location, time, and category. Its work is to analyze a portion of Google searches to calculate the numbers of searches that have been done for the terms entered, relative to the whole number of searches done on Google over the same time. It was launched in 2016 by Google Inc.

Google Trends shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search volume across various regions of the world,

As a blogger who always sucks at writing, Google Trends is an awesome tool for you to find interesting and trending topics based on your location (or targeted audience) and stating a particular period of time.

• Direct link: www.trends.google.com

#10. . Google search console

Google search console (formally called "Google webmasters tool") is a service by Google that allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their blogs or websites.

It has many tools like submitting Sitemap to Google for more search visibility and traffic, and many other tools useful for bloggers and webmasters.

I, personally, am a fan of Google search console for checking the status and the well-being of my blog. It is a more-than-essential tool for serious bloggers and webmasters.

Direct link: www.google.com/webmasters/tools

#11. Google Analytics

Google Analytics or GA is a free web analytics service offered by Google that tracks, analyze, and reports website traffic data.

Google Analytic consists of data like site visits, page views, bounce rate, average time on site, pages per visit and percentage of new visits.

In addition to the data mentioned above, it can also track referral traffic including search engine, direct visits, website referrals and marketing campaigns (Pay Per Click, Banner advertising, e-mail marketing, etc.)

Knowing how to use Google Analytics will help you measure site traffic, SEO, site engagement, ad revenue, and even activities on social medias.

• Direct link: analytic.google.com

#12. Google tag manager

Google Tag Manager or GMT is a user-friendly solution for managing the tags, or the snippets of codes that send information to third-parties, on your website or mobile app.

Don't you understand my grammar?

I mean, GTM allows you to quickly and easily update tags and code snippets on your website or mobile apps, such as those intended for traffic analysis and marketing optimisation.

From the Tag Manager user interface, you can add and update AdWords, Google Analytics, and 3rd party or custom tags instead of editing your blog template or your site code.

This will reduce errors, and it frees you from having to involve a developer when configuring tags.

• Direct link: www.www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/

#13. Google help forum

Google help forum (sometimes called product forum) is a great gathering place for users, developers, and anyone else who has an opinion about Google or its products.

It is a platform where users ask questions, and other users provide answers to those questions. It lets you post questions and get advice from other people who are more knowledgeable than you.

The best part of this help forum is that, when you search for a solution to a problem on Google, you can get the perfect solution that has already been provided by a forum user when someone posted about the same problem.

• Direct link: productforum.google.com

#14. Google web designer

Google Web Designer or GWD is a software from Google that can be installed in PC computers for creating interactive HTML5 ads and other HTML5 content.

It makes use of some standard design tools, such as a Text tool that integrates with Google Web Fonts, a Shapes tool, a Pen tool, and 3D tools. It is based on HTML 5 and CSS 3 and allows cross-browser support that makes it a useful tool.

GWD can also be used to design text and animation banners.

• Direct link: www.google.com/webdesigner

#15. Google Chrome

Google Chrome is also a free web browser software that can also be installed in PC systems and smartphone devices.

It is used to browse the web, just like other browsers like Firefox.

• Direct link: www.google.com/chrome

#16. Google Drive

Google Drive is an online file storage and synchronization service developed by Google that lets users store, synchronize, and share files in the cloud.

Google Drive is also available for PC systems and smartphone devices.

It offers users free 15gb of storage to store files, with bigger sizes of data for (optional) paid plan.

I explained in one of my previous posts, how Google Drive could serve as a solution to hanging and freezing of Android smartphones.

Read: Why My Android Devices Hang And Freeze, And How I Solved The Problem

• Direct link: www.drive.google.com

#17. Google translate

Google Translate is a free multilingual translation service that is used to translate text, audios, images, videos, or websites from one language into another. It is developed and owned by Google.

Google Translate can be accessed on the web, and it is also available on PC systems and smartphone. It can also be integrated into blogs (as a gadget) for translation.

Using a Google translate in blogs makes it easy for visitors who doesn't understand your blog language to translate it to languages they know. Thereby, increasing your visitors and decreasing your blog's bounce rate.

• Direct link: www.translate.google.com

#18. Google Docs

Google Docs is an online word processor, just exactly like offline Microsoft Word, owned by Google, that is used to create, edit, and format documents.

Google Docs lets you choose from hundreds of fonts, add links, images, and drawings to make your documents look smart. You can import, create, edit and update documents and spreadsheets in various fonts and file formats, combining text with formulas, lists, tables and images

Like I do, you can also use Google Docs to type and edit your blog posts and other contents.

• Direct link: docs.google.com

#19. Feedburner

Feedburner is a service that is used to manage website/blog feeds and tracks people who subscribe to your blog using RSS. It also allows you to send automatic blog updates via RSS feed reader or email.

There is a customized subscribe button on this blog's sidebar that, when you click, let's you subscribe to this blog updates by email. This service that I use is brought by Feedburner.

It is also an essential tool for bloggers. Using Feedburner for your blog can increase your visitors by the number of people who follow (or subscribe to) your blog.

• Direct link: feedburner.google.com

#20. Google URL shortener

The Google URL Shortener is a service that allows you to squeeze long URLs into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends.

For example, the original URL for this particular post on this blog is easymadeblog.com/2017/04/full-guide-to-set-up-free-custom-domain-for-blogs.html. At the same time, when you use this shortened URL (https://goo.gl/zRgJ5L), it takes you to the same page.

Most bloggers and Internet marketers make use of URL shortener because it makes it easy to get the basic all-inclusive data like the number of clicks, the location of the website visitors and also which social media platform the content was clicked.

• Direct link: goo.gl

Conclusion:

Like I said earlier, this is just the top 20 Google products and services I consider as the most useful for bloggers and webmasters; the list continues.

I believe that knowing and using these 20 Google products and services will have a positive and notable impact on your career, as a blogger or a webmaster.

I hope you don't forget yet; I asked you a favour:

How many of these top 20 Google products and services are you already using?