Pillar #3 – Blogging resources

Browse all of the blogging resources from Pillar #3 of the 13 Pillars of Internet Marketing:

Blogger
A free blogging service which isn’t hosted on your own server

WordPress (Figure 3.1)
Highly recommended free blogging software which is hosted on your own server

Popular blogs:

Copyblogger (Figure 3.2)
Blog by copy writing expert Brian Clark, co-developer of the excellent Thesis WordPress theme

Popular Professional WordPress Themes:

Woo Themes
A selection of recommended professional WordPress themes

DIY Themes
Developers of the adaptable and popular ‘Thesis’ WordPress theme

Popular WordPress Plugins:

WordPress plugins
Find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer

Akismet
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again

aLinks (Link not working at time of writing)
A WordPress plugin that automatically links keywords in your blog post – By Sean Hickey

2 paid alternative WordPress plugins to aLinks:

WPAG Link Manager Plugin
This plugin allows you to easily and quickly manage your links from within your WordPress admin panel

WP Affiliate Pro
Add affiliate links to your blog without touching HTML code or editing your posts

More WordPress plugins:

Popularity Contest
Keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular

Get Recent Comments
Shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar

MyAvatars
Shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments instead of Gravatar’s ones even if you’re not subscribed to MyBlogLog.com

More blogging-related resources:

Blog Profits Blueprint
Free access to the Blog Profits Blueprint report – A comprehensive guide to using a blog as an effective marketing medium by blogging guru Yaro Starak

Gravatar
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things

Ping-o-matic
A service to update different search engines that your blog has updated

Google Reader
Read your RSS feeds in one place. Constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content

Feedburner (Figure 3.4)
Collects and analyses your RSS subscriber data to empower RSS-based marketing research on campaigns

iGoogle (Figure 3.6)
Build your own personalized Google home page incorporating RSS feeds and gadgets

Blog review service:

SubmitEdge Blog Review Service
Getting reviewed by bloggers will improve the link popularity of your website, improve you search engine rankings, and increase the number of your website visitors

Podcasting related resources:

iTunes
iTunes is an essential place to submit your podcast

Skype
Great free VOIP (internet telephone) tool to use for podcast interviews

Google Talk
An alternative to Skype – another free VOIP service

Hot Recorder
HotRecorder for VOIP is an advanced tool that allows you to easily record, play, store and convert voice communications held over the Internet

MX Recorder
MX Skype Recorder is a new tool that works in conjunction with Skype and other VOIP applications, to record your voice conversations

Audacity
Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems

Casing Words
Technology oriented transcription and web-sourcing firm located in Northern New Mexico, USA

My Online Transcription Service
Alternative to Casting Words specialising in fast and accurate audio transcription

Elance writing & translation professionals
Hire your own professional transcription professional through Elance

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