I thought to post this much time earlier but never could find time and any good references to link to, so finally decided to post what all is in my mind. This list consists of all kinds of things, like tools, web resources, scripts, plugins, ebooks etc. which once you get in touch with, will make you a complete blogger who has some good talent and knowledge in blogging.
It is not just writing which would help you become a good blogger and make you money from the blog. There are many 3rd party things which you have to take care of and they would help you make some money.
So here it goes –
Blogging Platforms –
I had written about the platforms for blogging earlier, but will refresh it in short –
WordPress plugins – Although there are various blogging platforms, being a wordpress user i am sharing my favorite wordpress plugins, which one must use to make their blog run better –
- All in One SEO Pack
- WordPress Database Backup
- Wp contact form
- Sociable
- Akismet
- Subscribe to comments
- Crawl Rate Tracker
- WordPress Related Posts
- OIOPublisher plugin – Paid
- Max Banner Ads Plugin
- Democracy poll plugin
- Commentluv plugin
Blog Search tools, Search Engines and directories –
- BlogPulse
- Technorati
- Google blogsearch
- Gnoos australian engine
- Bloggeries
- Blogflux
- Blog Universe
- Blog search Engine
- Blogs.com directory
- Blogarama directory
- Bloglines
- Blogdigger
- Blogrunner
- Search4Blogs
- EatOnWeb portal
- Blogstreet search
Email subscription and Newsletters services –
Blogging related forums –
- Blogging Hop
Bloggeries Forums
Blog Premiere Forums
Blogger Talk.com
Blogger Talk.net
Blog Experiment Forums
Blog Flux Forums
Blogging Tips Forums
Ping Services for Blogs –
I used to use services like Pingoat and Pingomatic but both seem to be down right now, so not suggesting those till they are back.
Here is a list of pinging services given by DBT.
Working pinging services right now –
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/
Social Bookmarking Services –
- Digg
- Furl
- Delicious
- Stumbleupon
- Blogsvine
- Mixx
- Yahoo Buzz
- Sphinn
- Newsvine
- Onlywire
- Propeller
- Fark
- Slashdot
- Clipmarks
Make money with ads –
- Google adsense
- Blogads
- Kontera
- Mediatext
- Adbrite
- Text Link Ads
- RevResponse
- Pay per lead by Market Leverage
- Linkworth
- Adgenta
- Chitika eMinimalls
- Casale Media
- Kanoodle
Promotion by Micro Blogging –
Traffic analysis for blogs –
Get paid to blog sites –
- Sponsored Reviews
- Payperpost
- Smorty
- Review Me
- Linkworth’s Link Post
- Blog to Profit
- Blogsvertise
- Pay me to blog about you
Tools for blog editing –
The same boring blog editor can be replaced by one of these desktop blog editors.
- Windows Live Writer – Desktop
- Ecto for both Mac and Windows – Desktop
- Blog Desk – Desktop
- Air Press – Desktop
- Scribefire – Browser
- Webpad – Web based
- Write to my blog – Browser
- Xinha here firefox extension – Browser
Video sharing websites –
To share videos that you publish in a video blog i.e. vlog. And these sites can be very much helpful for blog promotion.
- LiveVideo
- MetaCafe
- Youtube
- Revver
- Yahoo Video
- Blip.tv
- 12 seconds
- Vlip
- Vimeo
- Clipshack
Ebooks for blogging to read –
- Beginner’s guide to SEO by SEOMoz
- BlogBash ebook by Chitika
- Branding a blog – Free eBook
- Make money with John Chow
- Guide to google analytics with wordpress
- Handbook for bloggers and Cyber Dissidents
- The art and science of Blogger relations
- Killer Flagship content by Chris Garrett
- WordPress SEO for beginners
- How to start a business blog
- Viral marketing with blogs
- Successful blogging
- Launching a wordpress blog
Social Networking –
Photo Sharing Tools
- Facebook Photos
- Plogger
- Flickr
- BubbleShare wordpress plugin
- Flickr RSS
There are still many things to include and i know am missing many. But you can all help in making this list bigger. Please mention in comments if i missed any of them.
Great list
Very helpful
Thanks 🙂
That is some good collection chetan. .
Vary helpful for newbies like me
Thanks for sharing. .
The ebooks list which u submitted is gr8 . .
Great list Chetan. This would make work simple in finding things related to blogging. Digging it and will stumble if for you 🙂
Superb collection.
A good list there 🙂
Thanks for sharing. Will help me in future for blogging.
Hiii
i am very much impressed with this list Thanks buddy
Bookmarked …
Wow…what a great list!!
I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to compile this page. It’s a huge headache saver and a definite bookmark on my computer from now on.
Thanks for including my book, I appreciate it. 🙂 I have a new book out, too. Click the comment link to learn more.
Posts like this where you take a lot of time and put a lot of value into them are great: it saves people time and often gets you a lot of links.
Wow, great compilation! Thank you very much for sharing.
need to learn as much as I can about this internet marketing thing :).
Nice list keep it up
Some Interesting things in the book …I studied it and its gr8 feeling for me …
Excellent, excellent list thank you very much
I wanted to research this subject and write a paper. Your post what a thousand words would not. Nice job.
Great list, but I didn’t see Darren from problogger’s ebook. Here is a link…
http://probloggerbook.com/buy/
Wow this is one comprehensive list man.
The money through ads links could be useful, and micro blogging? Well that is something that I’ve not heard of.
Need to Google that!
OMG
this is the most useful post on this blog
its awesome
Thank you for sharing. I would include Photobucket and Imageshack for Image hosting. Also think that usefull will be the list of free hosts for blogging.
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thx for sharing this 🙂 awesome list…
A very great list. Compiles almost everything that a blogger needs to make the blog a complete website.