• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Social Media Examiner

Your Guide to the Marketing Jungle

  • 🔥 Free Newsletter
  • 🎙️ Podcasts
    • Social Media Marketing Podcast
    • AI Explored Podcast
    • Social Media Marketing Talk Show
    • Our YouTube Channel
  • 🌟 AI Society
  • 🗓️ Marketing Conference
  • đź‘‹ About Us
    • Marketing Events
  • Search
  • Embrace AI & MarketingGet Ongoing Training & SupportBEGIN YOUR JOURNEY NOW

    3 Blogging Tools to Improve Your Content Quality

    by Eric Sachs / August 3, 2017

    social media how toWant to publish more polished blog posts?

    Looking for free or low-budget tools to help?

    In this article, you'll discover three blogging tools that will help you catch typos and improve readability of your blog posts.

    3 Blogging Tools to Improve Your Content Quality by Eric Sachs on Social Media Examiner.
    3 Blogging Tools to Improve Your Content Quality by Eric Sachs on Social Media Examiner.

    #1: After the Deadline

    After the Deadline can be best summarized as a “language checker for the web.” This free tool offers contextual spell checking, advanced style checking, and intelligent grammar checking.

    Many spell-check tools seem oddly ignorant of any contextual relevance for words. After the Deadline stands out from the competition by using artificial intelligence to look at context and make an appropriate recommendation.

    It's not just an editing tool, though. It can also help you avoid the common mistake where you use one word when you meant to use another. With a database of over 1,500 of the most commonly misused words, it checks that the words you're using fit with the surrounding text and suggests words that may work better.

    If After the Deadline finds a word you might have misused, it suggests the word it thinks you meant to write.
    If After the Deadline finds a word you might have misused, it suggests the word it thinks you meant to write.

    While misspelling and misusing words are certainly issues, how you write is just as important as what you write. Clarity and brevity are the order of the day for blogging, something that After the Deadline seems to understand perfectly.

    The style checker has thousands of rules and relies on context to make an appropriate suggestion. Among other things, it makes a point to identify complex phrases and suggest simpler ones, flag passive voice, and find clichés and biased language in your blog posts.

    After the Deadline's style checker will flag a variety of style issues, including complex expressions and passive voice.
    After the Deadline's style checker will flag a variety of style issues, including complex expressions and passive voice.

    Whether you're tech-savvy or not, After the Deadline has an installation option for you. It's available as a WordPress plugin, Google Chrome extension, and OpenOffice extension.

    To keep things simple, we'll focus on the most straightforward option: the Google Chrome extension. Click Add to Chrome to install the extension and automatically enable it in your web browser.

    From now on, most text-focused boxes will look like the example below. To proofread your content, click the ABC icon in the bottom-right corner or use the designated shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+S, by default). If you don't see the ABC icon in a text box, you can't use the tool to proofread your text.

    If the tool finds a potential issue with your text, it flags the word with a colored underline (red for spelling, green for grammar, and blue for style). Click the underlined text to see a pop-up menu with suggestions.

    Click the ABC icon or use the keyboard shortcut to activate After the Deadline in a text window.
    Click the ABC icon or use the keyboard shortcut to activate After the Deadline in a text window.

    To change the keyboard shortcut or other tool settings, click the After the Deadline icon in your browser toolbar and choose View Options.

    AI Business Society

    Ready to Unlock AI Marketing Breakthroughs?

    If you’re like most of us, you are trying to figure out how to use AI in your marketing. Here's the solution: The AI Business Society—a new AI marketing community from your friends at Social Media Examiner.

    The AI Business Society is the place to discover how to apply AI in your work. When you join, you'll boost your productivity, unlock your creativity, and make connections with other marketers on a similar journey.

    I'M READY TO BECOME AN AI-POWERED MARKETER

    Discover Proven Marketing Strategies and Tips

    Want to go even deeper with your marketing? Check out the Social Media Marketing Podcast! Publishing weekly since 2012, the Social Media Marketing Podcast helps you navigate the constantly changing marketing jungle, with expert interviews from marketing pros.

    But don’t let the name fool you. This show is about a lot more than just social media marketing. With over 600 episodes and millions of downloads each year, this show has been a trusted source for marketers for well over a decade.

    CHECK OUT THE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING PODCAST NOW
    Click the tool's icon in the browser toolbar and select View Options.
    Click the tool's icon in the browser toolbar and select View Options.

    Then enable or disable options to customize the tool for your needs.

    Customize After the Deadline to check your blog posts for issues that matter to you.
    Customize After the Deadline to check your blog posts for issues that matter to you.

    #2: Clarity Jargon Buster

    Clarity Jargon Buster helps you identify and eliminate jargon from your blog posts. The tool was designed to calculate a jargon-density score, which is the number of buzzwords found divided by the total number of words in your text.

    You can use this tool to find jargon not only in your marketing content, but also in white papers, brochures, and any other business content. It relies on its own jargon dictionary of 800+ words, focusing on overused professional lingo. So if words like “actionable” or “bandwidth” show up too frequently in your blog posts, this tool brings it to your attention so you can improve the integrity of your content.

    To check your text, paste your content into the text box and click the Check button. The tool then calculates a jargon-density score and lists the buzzwords it identifies.

    Clarity Jargon Buster will check your blog posts for jargon and buzzwords.
    Clarity Jargon Buster will check your blog posts for jargon and buzzwords.

    You don't need to install anything to use Clarity Jargon Buster's free online tool, which lets you check up to 800 words of text at a time. If your posts are on the shorter side, the free version should work well for your needs. If you're creating long-form content or want the full experience, you can buy access for as little as $2.99 per year.

    #3: Grammar Checker

    Grammar Checker offers one of the most in-depth spelling and grammar check services available. It's an online tool that's free to use and surprisingly thorough. You can use it to check entire blog posts. From common mistakes to complex, nuanced errors, it is designed to let you fix multiple mistakes with one click.

    To use this tool, paste your text into the text box at the top of the page. Then select the check box to prove you're not a robot and click Check Grammar. If you see a pop-up box, click OK to submit your text for review.

    Paste your text into the Grammar Checker text box and click Check Grammar.
    Paste your text into the Grammar Checker text box and click Check Grammar.

    The tool will then check your spelling, flag potential errors in your writing, and suggest changes to improve your content. Click underlined text to see why it was flagged and view recommendations. You can then accept the suggested change, type in your own word, or ignore the suggestion.

    Click an underlined phrase to see why it was flagged and view recommendations for improving it.
    Click an underlined phrase to see why it was flagged and view recommendations for improving it.

    Conclusion

    Time is money, and your business invests a lot of time and effort into creating valuable content for your blog. However, if your posts are full of typos and grammatical errors, it weakens the credibility of your blog and your content.

    The three tools above can help you check your writing for potential errors and offer suggestions for improving your posts, maximizing the effectiveness of your content.

    What do you think? Have you used any of these tools to review your blog posts? What apps would you add to this list? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

    AI EXPLORED

    Curious About How to Use AI?

    Our newest show, AI Explored, might be just what you're looking for. It's for marketers, creators, and entrepreneurs who want to understand how to use AI in their business.

    It's hosted by Michael Stelzner and explores this exciting new frontier in easy-to-understand terms.

    Pull up your favorite podcast app and search for AI Explored. Or click the button below for more information.

    I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AI

    Tags: Blogging, Social Media Tools

    About the authorEric Sachs

    SEO virtuoso, CEO at Sachs Marketing Group. Focused on being of service to business owners - helping to better position them in the eyes of their audiences.
    Other posts by Eric Sachs »

    Get Social Media Examiner’s Future Articles in Your Inbox!

    Get our latest articles delivered to your email inbox and get the FREE Social Media Marketing Industry Report (43 pages, 50+ charts)!

    Industry Report Cover

    Worth Exploring:

    Facebook

    Marketing Help Explore More →

    Instagram

    Marketing Help Explore More →

    YouTube

    Marketing Help Explore More →

    Linkedin

    Marketing Help Explore More →

    AI

    Next Frontier Explore More →

    Social Media Marketing Industry Report

    Get Free Report →

    Social Marketing Trends

    The data you've been missing!

    Need a new plan? Discover how marketers plan to change their social activities in the 17th annual Social Media Marketing Industry Report. It reveals what marketers have planned for their social activities, content marketing, and more! Get this free report now and never miss another great article from us. Join more than 385,000 marketers!

    Simply click the button below to get the free report:

    Footer

    Your Guide to the Marketing Jungle
    Copyright © 2025 Social Media Examiner®
    All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy.

    Helpful Links

    • About us
    • Our content via email
    • Our podcasts
    • Our YouTube channel
    • Our live show
    • Our social media marketing industry report
    • Our generative AI marketing industry report
    • Sponsorship opportunities
    • RSS