A Blogging Guide: +185 Helpful Tools And Resources For Your Blog

The best way to convince people to work with you? Impress them with a punchy media kit. Show 'em what you've got in a presentable way. With elegant media kits, you get those companies excited about what you have to offer.

[Side Note: I purchased one of the one page templates & it truly was super easy to edit, and was a huge time savor! I highly recommend going this route for your media kit!]

You've probably heard this a lot of times. But YES. Having a catchy title is the key to grabbing people's attention. It's your golden ticket to increased traffic and wider audience. You need to elicit interest, emotion, and curiosity in your potential readers to make your blog post title as irresistible as possible.

Learning how to write a catchy headline can be the difference between getting more clicks. The purpose of writing a catchy headline is because they are designed to grab attention. It can be challenging to come up with catchy and interesting headlines but I have compiled a list 100 awesome headlines that drive traffic and ...

I've been blogging since 2009! In that more than six year span I have gone from Blogger to WordPress.com to self hosted WordPress.org. I've done my own design, changed my theme a couple times, created my own logo. And I did it all by myself. Now I'm no technical wizard.

These days, a blogger does much more than type some words into a computer. You are a multi-tasking, multi-skilled machine, juggling writing, editing, photographing, creating, researching and designing. Does that sound like you? Yeah, that's me in a crazy nutshell.

Every WordPress plugin you could ever want, all in one place, from the experts at WPMU DEV. 140+ WordPress plugins to choose from.

Update - we launched Pablo a new tool to create beautiful images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds You can use Pablo right from the get-go, no need to login or create an account. Just quickly create amazing images super fast.

You may remember a few months back when I wrote a post that contained several links to blogging resources. Well, I decided to do it again because one, it makes it easier for me to reference the articles. And two, I figured I should share all these great posts with the rest of the world.

Whether you're using WordPress, Blogger etc., the process of preparing a blog post will always be the same. The difference being some of the actual functions.

In this post, we list 17 essential WordPress plugins and how each affects your rankings and revenues. Enjoy and share your favorites!

Blog traffic means an audience you can entertain and keep on-site as long as possible . An audience means a bigger chance of revenue from ads. Blog traffic is the most desirable aspect of blogging. When you don't have an audience, you are not energized to post more.

Every once in a while it's nice to change up your blog's layout to keep things fresh. This can mean completely reformatting the whole thing, or just making little tweaks here and there. Here are ten blog layout tips to help you freshen up your little corner of the internet.

The Blogging Binder is absolutely wonderful!
It takes Blog Planning & Organization to a whole new level!
It's a huge bundle of Blogging Tools, Records, Planning, organizing, and much more. The unbelievable part? It's FREE!

Highly Recommended
I LOVE Vistaprint! I use them for their Marketing tools and products (both online & offline). They now have a Social Media Marketing section with an option to get Twitter and Facebook management. I did the 30 day free trial & really liked it! It gives you suggestions to share to your audience, scheduler, repost your top social posts, make your feature image for SM (or your blog) within the same dashboard, and much more! It's worth trying out! :-)
[[The photo above are screen shots of their SMM section. Just to give you an idea of what they offer.]]

Since I've been getting a lot of new readers lately, I thought I'd go through my archives and pull together a list of my best blog-building posts from the past few years. Plus there are a bunch of great reminders for my long-time readers too!

Up-cycled Blog Post Content Unlike recycling that converts waste into new ingredients to avoid squandering potentially useful resources, up-cycling converts worthless materials into higher quality products. Similarly, upcycled content instills existing communications (often that are no longer of value) into fresh high quality information your target audience actively seeks to fulfill their needs and desires.

I'm a hopeless sucker for pretty photos. Especially of chic office spaces with colorful, curvy chairs, elegant white desks, and gleaming Macs. Every time I spot them on Pinterest, I think about how ridiculously perfect they would be for my next blog post. But, alas, you won't see them here.

Ever wish there was a shortcut to tap into your readers' emotions? An easy way to make them feel exactly what you want? Well there is. Power words.

This site will teach you how to make a website in just 3 easy to follow steps. There's also lots of really useful resources to help you build traffic.

This is a guest contribution from Anil Agarwal. Who else wants more blog traffic? Hands down, everyone wants it. Unfortunately getting traffic to a blog is not easy. Every single visitor counts. One of the hardest things for most bloggers is boosting their blog traffic.

Whether you're a beginner or seasoned veteran eventually all bloggers want to at least cover blogging expenses from their hobby. So at some point you are going to need to look into opportunities to monetize your blog.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your social media marketing? Do you want new tools to simplify your marketing tasks? We asked a group of social media pros for the hottest social media tools they use today. Check out these social media tools to see if they're a good fit for you!

Howdy. :::tips imaginary cowboy hat::: Today we're keeping it short and sweet with a free printable checklist! (Come on, you KNOW how excited I get about checklists!) Are you currently wondering how to attract more readers to your blog? Well go ahead and click here to print off the below checklist that's filled with all ...