A - Z of Professional Blogging Tools

A

AdSense - contextual ad program by Google Adbrite - sell text ads Amazon Associates - popular affiliate program aStore - add an Amazon Store to your Blog AdGenta - text ads by Qumana (see ‘Q’) AdRotator - WP ad rotating plugin Akismet - Comment Spam Fighting Tool Adhearus - pay per click advertising AdWords - the advertisers side of AdSense - many bloggers use it to promote their blogs AzoogleAds - advertising system Audio Blogger - adds audio to your blog

B

Build A Niche Store- add an eBay store to your site Bidvertiser - bid based advertising Blog Ads - blog advertising network Blog Jet - blog editing tool Blog Desk - blog editing tool Bloglines - Web based RSS feed reader BlogPulse - blog search tool BlogPolls - tool for putting polls on your blog Blog Poll - another blog poll tool Backpackit - useful organizational tool Blogger.com - blog platform Bloggers for Hire - bloggers looking for work and potential employers looking for bloggers BlogSitter.net - service for find guest bloggers while you take a holiday BlogBurst - syndicates bloggers content for mainstream medium BlogFlux - blog services portal BlogRolling - a blogroll management tool Blogbeat - blog metrics tool Blogger Jobs - a blog following the advertising of blog jobs

C

Chitika eMiniMalls - advertising program CrispAds - blog advertising network Creative Commons - copyright licenses Copyscape - tool for checking for content theft/plagiarism Clicksor - advertising program Clickbank - library of many affiliate products Commission Junction - collection of many affiliate programs Casale Media - advertising solution

D

Del.icio.us - social bookmarking Digg - social bookmarking Drupal - blog platform DomainsBot - a tool for finding domain names Digital Point - useful forum for webmasters

E

Ecto - blog editing tool Expression Engine - blog platform Endo - News aggregator for Mac Users Ether - lets readers book a consulting call with you from your sidebar

F

Feedburner - RSS feed management tool - also provides Feed Advertising Feedster - RSS search Tool FeedDemon - RSS reader from NewsGator FeedBlitz - email blog and RSS subscription service Flickr - photo sharing and hosting Flock - a browser with in built blogging Furl - social bookmarking Free Blog Polls FilmLoop - free photocasting network Feedpass - RSS management - integrates with AdSense Favicon Maker - make Favicons from photos

G

Google Analytics - Metrics Tool Gabbly - add chat to your blog Google Reader - RSS reader Gnoos - Australian made blog search tool Google News - tracking news - many use it as a source of content Google Blog Search - Google’s…. blog search Google Sitemaps - get indexed in Google

H

Haloscan - a free commenting system for blogs (a little dated but I was a tad desperate for a ‘H’

I

IntelliTXT - In text advertising Ice Rocket - blog search engine

J

Jar (as in Tip Jar) - many bloggers ask their readers for donations/tips - but few make much from them

K

Kanoodle - Advertising program Kontera - In text advertising Keyword and Backlink Tracker - Search Engine ranking tool

L

LiveJournal - Blog Platform Linkshare - Affiliate Program

M

Mars Edit - Blog Editing Tool Memeorandum - Tracking and Aggregating news from blogs MyBlogLog - Metrics Tool Mint - Blog Metrics Tool MovableType - Popular blog platform MeCommerce - Sidebar shop - in beta MSN Adcenter - Coming Soon - Contextual ads

N

NewsGator - RSS News Readers Nichebot - keyword research tool Nameboy - domain name generator Nucleus CMS - open source blog platform Netvibes - RSS News Aggregator Netscape Beta - Social Bookmarking Tool

O

Only Wire - social bookmarking service Overture Keyword Tool - keyword research tool

P

Performancing - great blog, firefox blog editor and metrics tools Pheedo - RSS advertising Post2Blog - Blog Editing tool - blog using Word, IE or Firefox Pingoat - Pinging Tool Pingomatic - Pinging Tool pMachine - Blog Platform Paypal - Payment tool - used by many affiliate programs and ad systems to pay publishers PPCalc - Paypal Fee Calculator PubSub - service that notifies you of new content Photobucket - image and video hosting

Q

Qumana - Blog Editing Tool

R

Rojo - RSS feed reader RocketPost - Blog posting tool Right Media - advertising Rmail - subscribe from any RSS feed to email

S

Sitemeter - a free website stats tool used by many bloggers Six Figure Blogging - learn to make money blogging (one of my blogging resources) Shoplinc - add a Chitika store to your blog Scoopt Words - service to sell bloggers content to mainstream media editors Sitening - Search Engine ranking tracker Sparklines - sidebar widgets/graphs Skype - VOIP tool for networking, podcast interviews etc Spam Karma - WP comment spam tool Sitepoint - Forums for webmasters Slide - photo hosting, slideshows etc SoloSub - RSS feed management tool Squidoo - good alternative place to put content, make money and promote your blog Snap - a preview tool to give your readers a preview of external links on your blog

T

Text Link Ads - text link advertising system Technorati - Blog Search engine Topix - News service - used by many bloggers to find stories TagCloud - tool for making tag clouds TinyURL - make long URLs tiny ones TypePad - Hosted Blogging Platform Tribal Fusion - Impression Based Ads 3bubbles - live chat on a blog

U

Unobtrusive Sidenotes - a way of putting sidenotes in your posts

V

ValueClick - Impression Based Ad Program (was FastClick) Vizu - blog polls tool Vox - a new blogging/social bookmarking platform from Six Apart (in beta)

W

WordPress - Blog Platform - very popular w.bloggar - blog editing tool Webpad - web based text editor Weblogs.com - recently updated blogs - aggregator WebmasterWorld - forums for webmasters

X

Xanga - Weblog Community

Y

YPN - Contextual Advertising Service Yutter - RSS/Blog Subscription Service YouTube - Video Hosting/Sharing Yutter - RSS/Blog Subscription Service Yahoo News - Tracking News from around the Web

Z

Zookoda - RSS to Email and Newsletter tool Zoudry - blog editor