Blog Tools

rssfwd.com does a good rss email subscription service. It’s sort of simplistic though; as publisher you don’t have any control over the service, and the only subscriber info you get is the number of subscribers you have (you can’t see their email addresses, for instance)

But it captures rss posts quite nicely, and also quite timely – the site says it polls your rss feed every couple of hours. There’s a small footer at the bottom of the emails, but that’s just to hawk the rssfwd service.

Probably more suited for publishers who publish less than two or three posts a day.

Darren,

This doesn’t fall under any of the categories, but check out this amazing free stock photo site.

Cheers,

JP

Hi Darren,

Why not consider adding to the blog tools a wordpress
installer and manager such as WP ManagerDX?

Have you checked it out yet?

If you or anyone have any questions about this tool let me know.

Go check it out now:
http://WPManagerDX.com

Thanks
Edna

Okay, I’ve recently found this tool from the folks at the bleme shack http://www.blemeshack.com. I am hooked … they have this “Shack This” button they give u for your browser (also have a google toolbar button) lets you select fany text or code from anywhere on the web (im not kidding) & store the code or text super fast!

Site has unique image directory of blog stuff with 1,000s of listings for blog toys, flash, games, glitter, widgets, pictures, etc all stuff you can put on your blog or website that requires code so ive been on their site a lot and frankly amazed!

Hey,

I found this AWESOME tool The ultimate link swapper and traffic generator! Go to http://www.blogLinker.com

It’s just a html code insert it in your blog and start linking.

snapshot.jkn.com is a new tool that you can use to capture any web page as is today and link to it from your blog. It is like tinyurl.com except that the entire web page is captured and dsiplayed online, so it doesn;t matter if the web page changes.

This is ideal for bloggers that want to comment and critique other web sites and blogs.

If you link to another site without snapshot.jkn.com and the site changes, you will waste time trying to reconstruct the original web page and your credibility may be questioned.

Take a look at snapshot.jkn.com. With this, bloggers can save pages and then refer to them within their blog. The pages are frozen and saved on the jkn.com server. Saving pages yourseld on your own local workstation usually doesn’t work well, and when a blogger refers to a page on the source site, it’s eventually removed or even changed. This service from jkn.com eliminates that problem.

Thank you for the very useful list.

Great list – thanks for putting this together. Which tools have you tried and had positive / negative experiences with? Which tools can help you monetize your blog +vely?

Great list of good tools.

But as everyone else said you left out a lot of RSS love :D

Here are the tools I use in my blog:

ImageShack – stores all kind of images and, better yet, flash animations.

Geoloc – shows in a world map where the visitor comes from.

Geobytes – a bunch of tools based on visitors´ location (city, state, country).

Addfreestats – webcounter with an excellent statistcs manager, providing a tool that allows you to tell [in real time] how many visitors are online [seeing a given webpage].

Stickam – flash based chat with video and sound.

YHG is FREE URL forwarding service.
All webmaster and webmistress can use our service.
Because URL of a map is long,
I shorten the URL for an instant.
Transfer of URL is easily possible.
http://yhg.in

What I’m looking for is an email and website keychain. I have about 50 email addresses that I blog on about 400 different forums. I would love a program that allows me to just click on my email or the list of forums and BooM, up pops the page with my username and password already entered so I can start blogging. I hate having to click the link to go to the site, trying to remember what username and password I need to use today(rotate on a 12 schedule) I would also like it to recommend blogs and forums that are climbing the rankings, so that I might start blogging there. My boss demands that I get in about 50 new posts an hour with links and photos and this must be on at least 10 different forums/blogs 7 Days a week, I love doing this but I just need some better tools!!!! I need the swiss army knife of blogging/posting tools and I just haven’t found anything close.

Excelent post!! I think I going to use some of those tools Thanks!!

Hi Darren

Scribe Fire is a great Blog editing software you must review. It was called perfomancing and now works as a cool utility for Firefox.

Thanks

Thanks for making me aware of sitemeter, I think it’s going to be a very useful tool on my blogs.