Helpful Blogging Resources For Any Business
Tools
Posterous – An Email based blogging tool.
WordPress – Great Blogging software.
BackUp Buddy – An all-in-one solution for backups, restoration, and migration. It backs up the SQL database, plugins, files, themes, scripts, and everything else in the WordPress database and directories.
Submit keyword rich articles to article directory sites.
placeblogger – Finding related sites that might welcome your guest post and make sure you include a link back to your site in the body of the post in your bio.
Flowtown – Ones you’ve captured permission you can really ramp up the personalization by using this service to add in lots of social media data about your landing page visitors.
MyBlogLog – This is, among other things, a tool that allows me to track traffic to my blog in real time.
Stock.XCHNG – the leading FREE stock photo site! – great place to find images for presentations and blog posts.
ThemeViewer – great directory of free themes for your blog
Google Blogs Search – allows you to serach google for blog posts
Hello Bar – Direct your visitors and promote your site’s most important content
HTML-Ipsum – Pre-written HTML
BlogDash – A blogger outreach database
Stella – is your site fast?
w3Schools – learn how to create a website. Free tutorials
WPBeginner – Beginner’s guide to WordPress
Encourage your readers to share your blog on Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, biz sugar, and Stumble Upon by making it as easy as possible.
Plugins
Official WordPress Plugins Site – a resource for all the best plugins WordPress offers
Akismet – protect your blog from spam
Socialble – connect your blog to the rest of your social media sites
Tweet this – another social plugin
All in One SEO Pack - automatically opitimize your WordPress blog
Related Posts - this will show any related posts based on tags at the bottom of each of your blog posts
All in One Video Pack - allows you to not only upload videos, but also allows you to manage them
Video
TurnHere – A professional option for creating and using video on your websites and blogs.
ReelSEO, MakeInternetTV and Online Video Toolkit – Online video tutorial to help get you started as you consider ways to enhance your online presence with video.
Wirecast – Mac and PC software that makes it very easy to create professional live streaming webcasts using multiple cameras, video, audio, Chroma Key (blue/green screen), transitions, and built-in titles.
