13 Good Blog Tips, Tools & Resources
13 good blogging tips, resources, tools and sites that bloggers should check out.
1- SiteMeter
The obvious one. Where else can you waste so much time analyzing stats?
2- Blogging Basics 101
The title says it all. Everything you wanted to know about blogging.
3- ProBlogger
More advanced blog articles, tips, revenue generation.
4- Technorati Reactions and Widgets
Find out who is linking to you via Technorati and get some blog widgets.
5- Blogflux and AllTop
Get registered in good blog catalogs. You'll get free polls, pingers & widgets.
6- WhoLinksToMe
Find out who links to your blog, your Google page rank, blogrolls you're on.
7- Google WebMaster Tools
Monitor your blog via the eyes of Google's index! Or set your crawl rate.
8- Yahoo Site Explorer
Yahoo's version of Google WebMaster tools for their engine.
9- U Comment, I Follow
Give your commenters link love. Fix your templates & add a badge.
10- Kineda
Oh go ahead, find out your bloggebrity status. Are you an A-Lister?
11- ClustrMaps
Get a graphical geographical representation of your blog visitors.
12- GoogleReader
A plug for my favorite blog reader.
13- OpenPhoto.Net
Excellent creative commons licensed graphics. Great for blogs.
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I use about half of those regularly especially the google web masters tools.
I use GoogleReader too. I bookmarked this list to check the rest out later. Thanks for sharing!
My TT shares Thirteen (quotes from) lyrics by Robbie Williams.
This is so cool! Gotta check out the photo one. Thanks for sharing.
wow. thank you so much. i love this and your blog.
I use Sitemeter but not the rest. I have to admit, there are several there I haven't heard of.
Great info...Happy TT.
I love my google reader!!! Great list :-)
I knew some of this, and will check out the rest. Thanks for the info, very helpful!
I use a bunch of those!
Thanks! I'm new and learning - this is fantastic!
Great tips! I hadn't heard of all of them.
Sitemeter is my downfall. I should remove it from my blog...those numbers can make or break my day. Sad, I know.
I use few of those and I'll be adding the google reader soon on my blog!
Happy TT!
You forgot Mr. Linky. I know he's just a lil guy, but I luv 'im. Thanks for the great TT.
Thanks for visiting. Interesting list. I don't think I've heard but any except the rating one before. I'm so out of touch! :)
This caught my eye on the TT13 list, will have to book mark this and check a few of the new ones out. Thank you.
I'm going to have to check some of these out -- I haven't seen some of them before. Heaven knows I can use all the help I can get!!
great TT!
Great information! I'm also bookmarking this post. Unfortunately I'm a B List blogger...well I was last time I checked anyhow. :)
Good list. I use/have used a lot of these.
I am going to check out some of these that I am unfamiliar with--much fun!
Happy TT!
Thanks for sharing, these are all helpful. My T13 is up:
http://www.sandierpastures.com/thursday-thirteen/thursday-thirteen-8.html
Thanks for the info!! =) I just got site meter cause I saw it on someone else's blog. But I had never heard of technorati til a month ago. Now I hear it all the time! =)
Thanks for the great sites. Will check them out.
Actually visiting from google reader : TT hub! google reader has made my blog visits much, much easier.
Interesting list, off to check out OpenPhoto.
happy thirteening!
Great list-- thanks for sharing!
Thanks for those links! Some of them were new to me and I will check them out right away.
I just heard about the "u comment I follow" movement a few days ago and changed my blog accordingly. I hope many others will do the same.
:o)
Great list - I'll have to check those out because I need to figure out how to put one of those little scroll rolling list boxes on my blog. LOL (see I don't even know what it is called)
Wow, great list. I can use some of those!
Thanks for visiting my TT so I would reciprocate and find this list. It will be very useful.
Thanks for your visit to The Mo Show's TT. I use many of these tools and resources also, but will have to check out #13 - always looking for new photos & graphics to use!
cheers,
mo
What a great list! I'm going to visit all of them!
Thanks for the tips. I didn't know most of these. Happy TT.
Excellent list! I'll admit I have a couple of them, but don't full understand how to use them. Sitemeter is one of them.
This is an incredibly helpful list (stuff I don't know much about). Thanks. And thanks for visiting mine.
happy Thursday, great list
Okay, I've just marked you as a favorite so I can come back and check these out! Thanks for the info!
Interesting! I'll have to bookmark this and come back for further exploration.
Happy Thursday!
Great list. I'll have to explore this list further.
Happy TT!
Great stuff! I just found out I am on the B-list! Not that I trust technorati in that, after watching Jess the Rock Chic try to get on the A list and all her rankings dropped as we added dozens of links to her blog. But hey, I got the button!
LOL, you are so funny! I had NO idea I was a "b-lister" until today. Is that real? haha!
Wow, great list! I was only familiar with a few of these. Thanks for posting this. Happy TT!
Ooh, I hadn't heard of some of these before - off to check out and bookmark them! :) Thanks!
Great list! I'll be checking all of those out for sure. (the ones I didn't already know about that is) Thanks!
And thanks for stopping by my TT.
Thanks for such an informative TT. I bookmarked all links and look forward to reading up on them.
Thank you for visiting my TT.
I am going to visit some of the sites you listed.
Great list of to-dos. Have a great TT. :)
What a great, helpful post! Some of these I've not tried yet!
What a wonderful list. I'll have to save this page.
What a great list. I need these.
cool links... thanks for sharing...
happy TT
great set of resources!!
Awesome list. Some of them I have never heard of. I shall go check them out. Thank you for stopping by my T13.
What a great list! I am still learning my way around the blogging world so this will really help!! Thanks!
Great list, thanks! Also thanks for visiting my TT!
Thank you for sharing this helpful information! Now I have more blogwork to do. :)
Here via the carnival. Oohhh, there's several I wasn't aware of. Great list. Thanks. Off to try out some more of your links.
oh, thanks for the info. So much of this is new to me and I have trouble navigating it all.
Interesting collection of links. Thanks for sharing!
I use a lot of these too and they are great. Thanks for letting me know about the others. I'll check them out.
Thank you so much for taking the time to list these. I think the only one I have is Site Meter. Can't wait to check out the rest--I need all the bloggy help I can get!!!
Thanks for the tips. I am slowly trying to add things to my blog. I will check these sites out.
Thanks! I'm bookmarking this link!
Thank you for all the great tips. I am definitely going to look into each one of these because I need all the help I can get.
Great links! I put several of these on my blog in the early days without having any idea what they were--need to revisit now that I have a vague idea of what purpose each serves!
Wow! What a great comprehensive list. Can't wait to try some of these out!
That's a nice list.
Thanks!
Feel welcome to visit "works for me" at my blog
Laane on the World
Have a great day!!!
nice post !!!
thanx a lot dude!!
keep on sharing good stuff!
Wow! Great ideas! Thanks!!
Thank you. Very useful post.
I use many of these and I see some new ones too that I will have to check out. Thanks.
Great resources, I hadn't heard of many of them... thanks for sharing!
I really appreciate this post. I have not heard of some of them. Thanks!
Thx for that - I am going to bookmark you and check them out when I have more time :)
Great links. I loved that one that showed who was linking to me.
Thanks
Thank you for the list.
I still haven't seen a good reason to switch from Bloglines to Google Reader. I love my Gmail, but the reader feels so sterile....
My addiction is another Google product -- Analytics. Gotta love those graphs.
Great set of online tools! Thanks for sharing them all.
Hey, thanks for the tip! I'm always looking for way to improve my blog!
Hey, thanks for the tip! I'm always looking for way to improve my blog!
I bookmarked your list because while I use some of these tools, there are a lot here I wasn't aware of! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you! I'm book marking this.
Bookmarked! Thanks for the list! The widget I just added is the Blog Reading Comprehension...and yes, mine is Elementary School Level. I'm a redneck, duh! :)
Thanks again...and Happy TT!