Following is my A to Z of Professional blogging including blogging tools, blogging platforms, blogging services and ways of making money from blogging (in fact whether you blog for money or not much of what follows should help you improve your blogging).
I hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your own tools and services in comments (I’m sure I’ll have missed some). update – I’ve been adding your suggestions and we’re now up to over 130 blog tools and platforms.
Update: as there are so many blogging tools listed on this page I’ve made another shorter page with just my most recommended blogging resources and tools which might help if you want something with a personal recommendation.
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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
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
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Another great resource, thanks Darren and contributers. I shall spread the word. -j
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Another blogging cms to add:
Textpattern http://www.textpattern.com
It’s what I use.
You mentioned adhearus.com. However the site appears to be down for couple of days at least.
Very useful list,thanks,Darren!
true Angusman – not sure why
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Fantastic list. I could learn a lot just by working my way through it. Thanks, Darren.
nice list.. thanks for sharing
WoW !! This is a great compilation !!. I can to know many new sites which i never knew before.
Blojsom (comes as part of OS X Sever)
Roller
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Here’s another one called innertoob.com. Innertoob is a free web-application that enables bloggers to affix posts and comments to specific playback times in audio and video files, and share their comments with their readers by pasting the innertoob permalink into a blog post. When the link is clicked, it will open the player and take people directly to the specific point in the file that a blogger wants people to see or hear.
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Don’t forget BlogHarbor – Hosted Blogging Platform http://www.blogharbor.com ! ;-)
Awesome list. This will keep me busy.
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I actually have a suggestion to “remove” one from your list. PubSub is no longer updating, due to it’s ongoing problems. The latest update available on their site was more than a week ago.
Darren,
Nice list – the most comprehensive I’ve ever seen!
Perhaps under “P”, you could feature Pheedo – we offer an “RSS feed and weblog ad network and RSS analytics tools for publishers”
thanks Dana.
But look a little closer at the ‘P’s’ – Pheedo’s been there since the start.
Sorry – it’s not alphabetical within letters (yet).
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New blog site: http://www.orkut.com (owned by Google). Like Gmail, you must (initially) be invited by a current user in order to get an account.
Also, blogger.com is AKA blogspot.com
Not a ‘J’, but …
I came across MuseStorm today over at Emily’s eHUB
http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/app/musestorm/
http://www.musestorm.com/
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b2evolution – http://b2evolution.net/ – multi-author, multi-blog, multi-language open source web-based, instant post blog platform
RSSOwl – http://rssowl.org/ – open source feed reader written in Java so it’s platform independent but with easy to install Windows, *nix and MacOSX distro’s, it’s compliant with RSS, RDF and Atom feeds.
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