28 Blogging Resources for Beginning Bloggers: My Ex-Bookmarks, Part 2

By this moment you have my 34 ex-bookmarks directly from Google Chrome bookmarking panel. And now let me show you 28 bookmarks more. This is the 2nd part of my ex-bookmarks for beginning bloggers and for beginning webmasters.

Note: 3 of them are in russian. You can use Google translate service or install Google toolbar, which has its own high-speed built-in translator.

4 Blogging Resources for Your WordPress Blog

1. CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress blogs.

   If you want to recieve more comments, you better start using it today. And, if you have a PageRank of 1-2 or more, your blog most likely will be soon listed in someone’s list of blogs with CommentLuv, which automatically guarantees, that you’ll start getting more and more new visitors and comments. That is why I had it in my bookmarks.

2. WP plugin Subscribe to Comments is another must-have plugin for WordPress blogs.

   This plugin enables your commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. It includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address.

   You can even integrate your blog design to the subscription manager, which I still have not done. My bad :)

3. “Previous” and “Next” Post Links code for your WordPress blog.

   This is a tutorial by DragonBlogger. I’ve bookmarked it lately and will follow it soon. Meanwhile, you can include it to your collection of blogging resources. You have one, right?

   This feature helps to reduce your bounce rate, which in turn improves your website or blog’s SERP.

4. Template Tags from WP Codex is a list of the general user tags available in WordPress, sorted by function-specific category.

   If you understand PHP and HTML at least a little, you can customize your blog as you wish using template tags.

   I have bookmarked this resource, because I needed it to fully change the structure of my blog theme.

7 Online Income Resources for Beginning Bloggers and Webmasters

1. Chitika Premium – For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. And it can be used along with AdSense.

   They have got 3 different types of ads for publishers: in-text-ads (like Kontera and Adgitize), WhitespaceAds that appear only when whitespace is available on higher resolution monitors and integrated Chitika eMiniMalls – ads pay on a per click basis. The value of the clicks depends upon the product being featured.

   One of the most popular benefits of Chitika is that ads appear only for your traffic that comes from search engines, which means that your daily readers will never see any ad, unless they would try to come on your site through some search engine. Chitika also pays only for US and Canada traffic, though there is also an option to monetize international and non search traffic.

   This is another must-have blogging resource for your collection of useful bookmarks.

2. Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters.

   In order to make money with this platform, you have to have a lot of real followers, not bots nor internet marketing scams.

3. Ad.ly allows you also to make money and to advertise on Twitter.

   I have registered my account there a month ago or so. No results. So, I can’t say anything about how they pay and whether it is worthy or not. But I am still keeping it in my bookmarks for future.

4. Bunch of Good Affiliate Banners by Brian from BlogEngage. The list itself is great and you can save a lot of time, because if you are looking for banners to decorate your website or blog’s sidebar, then follow the link and enjoy the wide choice of banners.

5. Make Money Online Blogging by Seth from Blogussion.

   Seth introduces us to 30 ways of making money blogging. What made me bookmark this article is that the ways were categorized by 3 different blogging levels: for beginning bloggers, for beginning novices and for professional bloggers. And every way is clearly explained.

6. 15 Link Building Tips by Dosh dosh. I have bookmarked this post, because I was new to link building methods.

7. AffiliateTips is a website that provides you with a complete guide on how to make money online with the best affiliate programs. Here you will find extensive website and blogging resources on affiliate marketing.

   I have found this resource lately in Alexa’s top. Looks cool, huh? Let’s say.. I find affiliate programs working much more better comparing with annoying ads all over the blog. With this website you can find highly targeted affiliate offers for your blog’s niche in minutes. All you need is to have a ClickBank ID (or “account name” in other words).

10 Superb Lists for Blogging Improvement

1. Several High PR Forums to Boost Traffic – this is one of my oldest dusty bookmarks. You can still find there several useful forums to get traffic.

2. 100 Ping Services for WordPress Blog – simple and clear, though in russian (I have mentioned in the beginning of this post how to translate russian blogs into english).

   You can add all of those ping services to your WordPress blog through your admin panel. Find “Settings”, then navigate to “Writing”, from there find the title “Update Services”.

   Some of the listed ping services may not work. So, it is best for you to install WordPress plugin – MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. The plugin corrects WordPress’s pinging system and solves many other problems. You are also able to see, which ping services work and which not.

3. Blog with Tons of Lists of Dofollow Blogs – this is one of those blogs with very narrow niche created to beat some certain Google real-time search result. In this case, author is trying to be on the first page of Google results with the keyword phrase “more dofollow blogs” or maybe “dofollow blogs”.

   Anyways, the provided information on dofollow blogs is fantastic and frequently updated. If you are looking for dofollow blogs with your niche – start right from moredofollowblogs.blogspot.com .

4. 100 Dofollow Forums to Increase Backlinks – uncategorized, without pageranks list of dofollow forums. I have bookmarked it to make a worthy list with more details in future.

   But you can already use that list :)

5. Top SEO Blogs of 2009 – very strong list. 207 retweets and it means, that you are dealing with a worthy compilation of SEO blogs. Take several hours to read them, if you are not sure about your search engine omptimization methods.

6. Top 15 URL Shortening Services – fresh article by Siddartha from Gadget Cage. You can find for yourself almost any type of URL shortening service from this list. But use them wisely, URL shorteners can damage your SEO in the long haul.

7. Dofollow Forums – the categorized list by niche. Seems like the author updates it regularly, so it means, that the list is great. I have followed some of the links just to test them and make sure the author was doing his job right. No mistakes found, so you can freely treat it like the best blogging resource to get backlinks from forums.

8. 538 Twitter Users that Blog by ProBlogger. This one is an old list, but I bet, that Twitter users, who still exist in that list can be very useful for you and your blog. So, why not to try to add them? :)

9. List of Sites Sharing Google AdSense Revenue – if I would ever make my second blog, then it would be done on some of the platforms listed in that article. Most likely, it would be Squidoo. The opportunity of AdSense revenue sharing platform for your blog seems very attractive by this moment. Not sure how it would be in future.

   Check the list whenever you have any extra minute.

10. List of Mnemonics for beginning bloggers and webmasters. If you are using rare characters like “&” or “$” in titles, then this list of mnemonics should become your close friend :)

    I have not found any english alternative for that list of mnemonics, so use Google Translate service or Google toolbar to understand the gist of the article, if you really want it. Because, actually, you need only the list itself, which is provided pretty much clearly.

4 Unexplored Blogging Resources to Get More Extra Traffic

1. Stumpedia is the human powered search of links. You can submit any link to this directory – just like with the stories submissions. You can also find friends, join or create groups and search for some interesting stuff for yourself.

   I’d call Stumpedia a “social directory for your links”, which is fair in my opinion. Try it, this stuff is new, fresh and juicy!

2. Plaxo is a big address book and a way to stay connected with your friends, just like in Twitter or Facebook. You can also share any stuff with your contacts and Plaxo will not limit the number of characters of your messages – a big plus. You can also run polls, which is cool :)

3. Virb is the combination of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube and Flickr.. I guess. I’ve been online there for several hours.. listening to some music and running through it. This social network is fast with a big number of daily visitors. And I should admit that I fell in love with it, because it really has a lot of potential web traffic for you website or blog. Test it.

4. Blastoff Network – is… I’m really not sure what it is. They promise you can make money, you can blast something and it’s convenient. This is how I have understood them.

   Anyways, thanks to Ileane Smith for showing this. I think it is a kind of discovery, that should be investigated a little bit more deeper.. and bookmarked, of course.

3 Ex-Bookmarks as a Bonus

1. Blog about Positive Thinking – or Maxos.ru . It is in russian, but I highly recommend it for those, who feel that it is time to fight the negativeness within you.

2. Uxbooth – a blog, that I have bookmarked, because of its design. It was long time ago and this blog was one of the first ones with unusual and great web design for me.

3. Websitebabble forum by Lisa Irby from 2CreateAWebsite.com.

   This forum is full of beginning bloggers, future webmasters and occasional visitors. I hope you know what to do with this kind of traffic :)

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Well.. no more ex-bookmarks. Now there are only 2 for you! Get traffic, earn money, improve your blogging and make new friends with these 2 parts of proven bookmarked websites, web services and web tools.

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