100+ Lists To Help You Become a Better Blogger

There are tons of blog­ger lists through­out the web. Lists in 123 for­mats, ABC, etc. are prob­a­bly one of the most use­ful posts around. The only prob­lem with every­one writ­ing list posts are they aren’t get­ting seen by everyone!

I had an idea one night. Even before Blo­gus­sion was cre­ated, that I would try to find the best blog­ger lists on the inter­net and com­pile them into one giant list for every­one to see. I have orga­nized them into cat­e­gories like mak­ing money, SEO, design, writ­ing, and others.

I’m very happy to present to you my list of the best 100 blog­ging lists on the inter­net. If you want to add a list, just com­ment below and I will add it up. I have found 100 lists, so now let’s see if you can find me 100 more.

Earn from your blog

Mak­ing money off of your blog

1. 100 Blog­gers That Will Help You Make More Money Online — A list of 100 blogs that dis­cuss how to make money off of your blog. From Iron­Blog­ger.
2. How To Be A Good Blog­ger And Still Make Sales – The Top 3 Ways. A short, straight to the point list. What I love about this one is that it goes over how to make money with­out look­ing like a blog­ger who’s in it just for the money. From Blog­ging Tips.
3. 11 Rea­sons You Shouldn’t Fake It To Make It. Peo­ple will buy into blogs who fake their stats, how much money they make, etc. That’s a ter­ri­ble thing to do, espe­cially if you want to run a suc­cess­ful com­mu­nity. If you are one of those fak­ers, read this. Here is a quote pulled from the arti­cle:
   

   3. Hon­esty Builds Trust It is a fact that peo­ple like to buy from some­one they trust. If they trust you and you rec­om­mend a prod­uct to them then they are likely to buy it. This means the more that peo­ple trust you the more money you are likely to make. By being hon­est you are build­ing trust with people.

   From Smarter Wealth.

4. 3 Ways You Can Use Free Word­tracker Key­word Ques­tions Tool To Earn Money. An awe­some, short list of how you can make money from key­words. From Blog­ging Tune.
5. 7 Ways To Attract More Money. A list going over 7 ways to get more money. The author lists some extremely inter­est­ing (and some­times eye­brow rais­ing) tech­niques to make more money. From Smarter Wealth.
6. Top 10 Tips For Earn­ing Online in 2009. 2009 is still new, and take advan­tage of mak­ing the most money from your blog by read­ing this cool arti­cle that will show you what you should focus on mon­e­ti­za­tion wise in 2009. From RetireAt21.
7. Six Pow­er­ful Blog Strate­gies that will Rapidly Increase Your Affil­i­ate Refer­rals. Mak­ing money off of affil­i­ates are huge. Blog­ging is a great way to use your affil­i­ate links to their max­i­mum. From Dosh­Dosh.
8. How to Make Money Blog­ging: 7 Strate­gies to Help you Get Started Imme­di­ately. Strate­gies to help you make money from your blog. From Dosh­Dosh.
9. 113 Ways to Make Money Online. 113 ideas on how to make $$$ online. Sim­ple enough, right? From Balkhis.
10. 18 Adsense Opti­mized Word­Press Themes to Max­i­mize your Con­tex­tual Ad Earn­ings. AdSense is a way many blog­gers to make money online. It’s doesn’t usu­ally make you much, so you will need all the tips you can get to make the best of it. From Dosh­Dosh.
11. 5 Tips on how to pick the per­fect niche to make money.. Step 1 of mak­ing money through blog­ger: Know­ing what to blog about! From Blue­v­erse.

Dri­ving Traf­fic to your blog

Adver­tis­ing Techniques

1. 7 Videos About Social Media You Need to Watch. Some peo­ple are visual learn­ers, and there has been a list with 7 great videos to help you use Social Media sites bet­ter. From Left The Box.
2. 15 Ways to Pro­mote Your Site via Social Media. A great list with some pretty good points on how to use Social Media to it’s fullest. From Blue­V­erse.
3. list of lists of 10 do fol­low blogs. A list with the same pur­pose as this list. This list con­sists of 10 lists that have lists of Dofol­low blogs. You should always com­ment on DoFol­low Blogs! From mfinch.
4. 10 Ways To Get Bet­ter Results On Stum­ble­Upon. Stum­ble­Upon can be a pow­er­ful adver­tis­ing tool IF you know how to use it right! This arti­cle goes over 10 great ways to really make your impact in Stum­ble­Upon. From Iron­Blog­ger.
5. 30 Tips For Explod­ing Your Site Traf­fic. Some of the points cov­ered in this post are more eas­ier said than done, but I find it is a good way to give you ideas for get­ting more site traf­fic. From SlyVi­sions.
6. 10 Pro­mo­tional Mis­takes Of New Blog­gers. You should be care­ful of where you adver­tise your blog, espe­cially if you’re a new blog­ger. This is a great list of arti­cles to help you start pro­mot­ing bet­ter. From Social Media Explorer.
7. 50 Ways to use Social Media, listed by Objec­tive. Based off Chris Brogan’s list of 50 Ways Mar­keters Can use Social Media to Improve Their Mar­ket­ing, this list is just orga­nized into sec­tions to help orga­nize it bet­ter. By Web Strate­gist.
8. Top 10 Rea­sons Why Great Con­tent Fails on Social Media. It turns out that just because you have an amaz­ing arti­cle, you still won’t be guar­an­teed being suc­cess­ful on Social Media sites. From SEO BLOG.
9. The ABCs of Social Media. A list in ABC order instead of 123, this post cov­ers basic to advanced rules of Social Media and how to use it bet­ter. From Social Media.
10. 11 Ways To Cre­ate Your Own Traf­fic Jams. Grow your traf­fic in 11 great ways. From Blogtreprneur.
11. 140+ Dofol­low Forums. A cool list of 140 forums with the nofol­low tag removed. Just throw in a sig­na­ture link, so some posts, and bam: you have some awe­some dofol­low links. From Joel Drap­per.
12. 18 Ways to Ultra-Boost Your Tech­no­rati Rank and Author­ity. Tech­no­rati is an incred­i­ble web­site, and it is hard for most blog­gers to use it to it’s fullest (I’ll admit I suck at it too). From Rajaie Talks.
13. 102 Do Fol­low Forums To Increase Back­links. What’s bet­ter than a list of dofol­low forums? Not much, here is another cool list of a ton of dofol­low forums. From Smart Blog­gerz.
14. 10 Use­ful Blog Traf­fic Tips. Easy tips to bring traf­fic into your blog. From TheWe­blog­Zone.
15. 32 Link Build­ing Strate­gies That Work. The ben­e­fits of link build­ing and 32 ways to do it. From TheWe­blog­Zone.

SEO

Dom­i­nate the SERP’s

1. 8 tips to enhance your Word­Press blog SEO. A great list of SEO tips and tricks to bet­ter your SEO for your blog.
2. Link Build­ing Strate­gies: 69 Solid Tac­tics For 2009. An arti­cle cov­er­ing 69 ways to build your links. Why limit it to only 2009? From Wiep.net.
3. 102 Ways To Make Your Site A Back-Link Super­star. A list of link build­ing that makes you say “holy crap”. Might take a while to load, so care­ful. From Court’s Inter­net Mar­ket­ing School.
4. 101 Link Build­ing Tips to Mar­ket Your Web­site. Another link build­ing arti­cle from the best SEO place on the inter­net. From SEO Book.
5. My Top 8 Search Engine Opti­miza­tion Tips — Part 1. Yaro Starak is my blog­ging idol, and this is just another piece of advice that makes him such an amaz­ing blog­ger. From Entre­pre­neurs Jour­ney.
6. 8 addi­tional opti­miza­tion steps for your Word­Press blog. A begin­ner, but an essen­tial opti­miza­tion check­list for every­one out there. From How­ToMake­My­Blog.
7. Almost 7 Ways To Re-Optimize Your Posts. From ProBlog­ger.
8. 18 Nasty Ways to Get Back­links. Be very care­ful: Read this post and to the oppo­site of every thing said in it. If you do any­thing listed, you should stop. I only include this so you can learn the dif­fer­ence between get­ting back­links the right way, and the bad way. From SEOc­racy.
9. 20 Prac­ti­cal SEO Tips to Super-Charge Your Word­Press Blog!. A pretty straight­for­ward SEO blog post, it’s a check­list of 20 SEO tips you should imple­ment to your WP blog. From SEO Design Solu­tions.
10. 7 Rea­sons Why Your Web­site Was Penal­ized or Banned by Google. A short list, but it’s very impor­tant. Google makes or break your web­site, you have to be able to know how to coop­er­ate with them. From Balkhis.

Blog Design

Mak­ing your blog look pretty

1. 100 Excel­lent Free Word­Press Themes. Amaz­ing list of 100 free Word­Press themes. From Smash­ing Mag­a­zine.
2. 13 Tags to delete from your theme. Word­Press has so many things to call in the header, there’s no need to do it with PHP. Remove these 13 tags from your blog, and you should see a dif­fer­ence in your blogs load­ing time. From ProBlogDe­sign.
3. 20 Free 3 Col­umn Word­Press Themes. A fan­tas­tic selec­tion of Word­Press themes that all have one thing in com­mon: they have 3 columns. From Blogses­sive.
4. 140+ Free & Pre­mium Word­Press Themes Gallery. Prob­a­bly the biggest theme list I’ve seen. It has free and pre­mium themes in it. From WPHacks.
5. 101 SEO Word­Press Themes — Pure Gold. What’s bet­ter than a great look­ing theme? One that is SEO friendly. Check out this blog post for both of those fea­tures. From Dai­l­y­SEOBlog.
6. 60 More Places to Get Design Inspi­ra­tion — Online and Off. An arti­cle which is basi­cally a list of places to get design inspi­ra­tion. Whether your online or offline, it’s all there. Great list for blog design­ers. From Free­lanceSwitch.
7. 10 Checks to the Per­fect Word­Press theme. Nowa­days blog themes set your blog apart from the other blogs. Every theme should be appeal­ing to the eye, and there are some things you can do to make it that great. From WPEngi­neer.
8. 7 Rea­sons Bad Web­site Design Affects Traf­fic. A good design for your blog is just essen­tial. With­out one, you can lose quite a large hand­ful of poten­tial read­ers. From ProBlogi­neer.
9. 9 Easy Usabil­ity Improve­ments for Blogs. As a blog­ger, you should always be look­ing to improv­ing your log in every aspect. The design, being one of the most impor­tant things of the blog is always some­thing you should keep in mind. Check out this arti­cle to under­stand what I mean. From Tutorial9.
10. 10 Ways to Become a Bet­ter Designer. If you design your own blogs, there are some things you need to know so you can make the best of your theme. From Blo­griffic.
11. The top 20+ Blog­ger Tem­plates of 2008. Who knew Blog­ger could look so good? From Blog­ger Buster.
12. 50 More Fab­u­lous Blog­ger Designs to Inspire you. A fol­lowup to the link above. From Blog­ger Buster.
13. 101 Excel­lent Blog­ger XML Tem­plates. Quite a large col­lec­tion of free Blog­ger tem­plates. From Blog­ger Buster.
14. 30 Best Free Icon Sets for Blog­gers. Add a lit­tle style to your blog design! Check out this awe­some list of icon sets. From ProBlogDe­sign.
15. 110+ Free RSS Icons to Show Off Your RSS Feed. RSS but­tons need to be notice­able so you get more sub­scribers. Try these icons on for size. From ProBlogDe­sign.
16. 30 Ways to Increase Read­abil­ity. Prob­a­bly the most impor­tant thing in a design is read­abil­ity. If you don’t have that, then you really don’t have a good design. From ProBlogDe­sign.
17. 7 Ele­ments to make your blog look great. Try read­ing these 7 tips to make your blogs design look even bet­ter. From ProBlogDe­sign.
18. 5 Tips to Make Your Head­ings More User Friendly. Your head­ings need to be excep­tional because they are the things that orga­nize your con­tent. From UX Booth.
19. 5 More Tips to Make Web­site Head­ers More User Friendly. A fol­low up to the above list. From UX Booth.

Tools/Hacks + Addons

Enhance­ments

1. WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Run­ning Your Word­Press Blog. A GODLY list of Word­Press tools you should use. From Mash­able.
2. 40+ Most Wanted Word­Press Tricks and Hacks. A must read for blog­gers who really want to push their Word­Press pow­ered blog to it’s lim­its. From HongKiat.
3. 10 Fire­fox Add-ons to Super­charge your Blog­ging. Blog­ging through the plat­form of choice is sim­ple enough, but what about for all you FIre­fox users who want it even eas­ier? This arti­cle goes over 10 Fire­fox addons to really kick off your blog­ging style. From Blog about your blog.
4. 24 plu­g­ins that I cur­rently use on my blog and why you should use them too. An amaz­ing list of plu­g­ins you should look into adding to your blog. I’ve never seen most of the plu­g­ins listed, and a lot of them I have installed to Blo­gus­sion. From How­ToMake­My­Blog.
5. 10 WP-Plugins, that will rock your world. A list of 10 really cool WP plu­g­ins you may or may have not seen before. From Blo­gus­sion
6. A — Z of Pro­fes­sional Blog­ging Tools. A really detailed list of blog­ging tools from A-Z. From ProBlog­ger.
7. Tools For Blog­gers. Must have tools for any blog­ger. From Blog­ger Buster.
8. 10 best Plu­g­ins To Get More Com­ments. Com­ments are hard to get on a blog some­times. Make it eas­ier by tak­ing advan­tage of these 10 killer plu­g­ins. From ProBlogDe­sign.

Gen­eral Blog­ging Tips

Mis­cel­la­neous, yet equally impor­tant lists

1. 101 Blog­ging Tips I’ve Learned in 2008. A fan­tas­tic list of 101 things blog­ger Yan Susanto has learned from 2008. From ThouShall­Blog.
2. 10 Things Climb­ing A Moun­tain Taught Me About Goals. Freakin’ awe­some list of how Tom Sin­field learned about goals from Moun­tain climb­ing. From Stand Out Blog­ger.
3. 35 Tips Tricks To Man­age and Han­dle Multi-Author Blogs. There’s no bet­ter way to blog then with a team. Here are 35 killer tips to man­ag­ing that multi-author blog. From HongKiat.
4. 100+ Word­Press Video Tuto­ri­als, from Basic to Advanced. A col­lec­tion of amaz­ing Word­Press videos every Word­Press blog­ger should watch. From Speck­y­boy.
5. A — Z Blog­ging Guide for Begin­ners. A dif­fer­ent kind of list, instead of num­bers it’s an A-Z list that every start­ing blog­ger should read. From ThouShall­Blog.
6. 10 Impor­tant but Poten­tially Dis­tract­ing Blog­ging Tasks. A list of things you can do to dis­tract you when you’re blog­ging. I suf­fer from a cou­ple things listed. From DuoBlog­ger.
7. 25 Suc­cess­ful Blog­ger Traits. Do you have these traits? From Fred­die Tay­lor.
8. 30 Blog­ging Tips to Screw Up. A list that shows how easy it is to screw up a poten­tially suc­cess­ful blogs. From Blogses­sive.
9. 49 Tips to Become a Bet­ter Blog­ger. A guest post Janith did at ThouShall­Blog with a huge list of tips to help you become a bet­ter blog­ger. Why 49? Nobody knows. From ThouShall­Blog.
10. 10 Must-See Videos on WordPress.TV. Word­Press just recently launched their WordPress.tv site. A site that is ded­i­cated to Word­Press video tuto­ri­als for the more visual learn­ing WP users. Check out this list of 10 of the best videos to watch on WP.tv. From Blogses­sive.
11. 30 RSS Resources For the Feed-Addicted Blog­ger. RSS is extremely impor­tant on your blog. Check out these resources for you feed addicts. From Webmaster-Source.
12. 13 Quick tips to Make Your Blog STAND OUT from the Crowd. You have to be able to brand your­self in the blo­gos­phere, or you will just end up like a lot of blog­gers; a fail­ure. Check out this quick list to help you fig­ure out what you want to do to brand your­self. From ProBlog­ger.
13. 50 Sim­ple Ways to Gain RSS Sub­scribers. A great list that goes into 50 dif­fer­ent ways to increase your RSS sub­scriber count. From Dai­ly­BlogTips.
14. 7 Die-Hard Ways to Get More RSS Sub­scribers. A guest post Janith did, this arti­cle cov­ers some awe­some ways to get RSS sub­scribers to your blog in some pretty unique ways. From Blog­ging Tips.
15. 30 Tips To Bet­ter Blog­ging. An easy list of 30 tips to help you become a bet­ter blog­ger based off of the expe­ri­ences of 17 year old blog­ger Ardit. From Blog­ict.

Writ­ing

Bring­ing out the inner writer inside you

1. 5 P’s For Mak­ing A Blog Post Bet­ter. Per­ceive, Pre­pare, Par­tic­u­lar­ize, Present, Pub­lish + Pop­u­lar­ize. From Blog­ging Tips.
2. 5 Uni­ver­sal Writ­ing Rules. You have to know the rules of writ­ing to write. From ProBlog­ger.
3. 91 Blog­ging Terms How Many do You know. It’s always good to brush up on your vocab­u­lary. Let this list of 91 blog­ging terms help you do just that! From ProBlogi­neer.
4. 21 Ways to Write Posts that Are Guar­an­teed to Grow Your Blog. A “no expla­na­tion needed, straight to the point, no BS” kind of list. From ProBlog­ger.
5. 40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Con­tent. If you have writ­ing prob­lems, there is a fan­tas­tic list of 40 ways to make your con­tent bet­ter. From Chris Bro­gan.
6. Ten Tips for writ­ing a blog post. A very early, yet very infor­ma­tive post. From ProBlog­ger.
7. Top 10 Blog Writ­ing Tips. 10 easy to under­stand tips on how to write a blog post. From Blog­ging Tips.
8. Easy Steps To Get Your Arti­cle Rejected. Arti­cle direc­to­ries are an okay way of get­ting traf­fic to your blog. While it’s not the best way to mar­ket things, it’s still a mar­ket­ing tech­nique. From Blo­griffic.
9. Con­quer­ing those days where you don’t “feel” like writ­ing by fac­ing these 5 real­iza­tions. There’s a dif­fer­ence between the inabil­ity to write and being lazy. Which are you? From Blo­gus­sion.
10. 11 Quick Tips For More Usable Con­tent. Most of the time your con­tent does not get read by your vis­i­tors. How can you change that? From UX Booth.

Inspi­ra­tion

We all need a lit­tle moti­va­tion sometimes

1. 10 Unique Exam­ples of RSS Feed Designs. Envato always has the best stuff, here is a short list of awe­some RSS Feed icons. From Theme For­est “In the Woods”.
2. Top 30 Young Blog­gers Under 21. A list of blog­gers under 21. Hope­fully this is a good enough moti­va­tion for you to start get­ting seri­ous about blog­ging. There’s a 12 year old blog­ger there! From RetireAt21.
3. Blog Designs: 50 Of The Most Cre­ative. A list of some amaz­ingly designed blogs. From Stand Out Blog­ger.
4. 100 Nice and Beau­ti­ful Blog Design. What a col­lec­tion of killer Word­Press blog designs. There are truly a lot of great inspi­ra­tions in this post, check them out. From HongKiat.
5. 5 Lessons Learned From John Reese’s Blog Rush Project. Every­one has heard about the clos­ing of Blog Rush. In this short, 5 topic list you can find 5 things that can actu­ally be learned from this project. From Blog­ging­Tune.
6. Mon­day Magic: 10 Most Inspir­ing Blog Themes. A list of 10 absolutely beau­ti­ful blog designs. Some listed I have never seen even in the biggest web design gal­leries. From Design Devel­op­ment Mag­a­zine.
7. 25 Blog­ger Moti­va­tions. Stay­ing moti­vated as a blog­ger can prove to be a daunt­ing task. Here is a great list of 25 ways to keep that moti­va­tion alive. From Fred­die Tay­lor.
8. Top 100 World’s Youngest Blog­gers. A list of the best young blog­gers out there. I am cur­rently at num­ber 31, which is a pretty decent rank. Are you included?
9. 10 ways to find post inspi­ra­tion with­out even leav­ing your blog. A post I wrote and am very happy with. This isn’t like other “find inspi­ra­tion” posts. This list has 10 ideas you can get for writ­ing with­out even leav­ing your blog. From Blo­gus­sion.
10. The Top 50 Blog­ger Pow­ered Blogs. Despite the fact that using a free ser­vice like this is not rec­om­mended in most cases, there are still quite a few great blogs on them. From Blog­ger Buster.

Cre­at­ing a Community

No Com­mu­nity, No Success

1. 27 Blog­ging Secrets to Power Your Com­mu­nity. A list of 27 tips that will help you make your blog bet­ter. This list has begin­ning blog­ger tips, tech­ni­cal things and some other great stuff. From Chris Bro­gan.
2. 25 Ways to Build Your Com­mu­nity. A good com­mu­nity atmos­phere is cru­cial for a blogs suc­cess. From Chris Bro­gan.
3. 15 Ways to Improve Your Site in 5 Min­utes. No site is per­fect, and prob­a­bly won’t ever be. But you should always look for some­thing that can be improved on your site. From Balkhis.
4. 4 things to keep in mind while think­ing of attach­ing a forum to your blog. Some­times blog­gers like to take a step up from just hav­ing a blog and add a forum to it. There are some things you may want to know before doing this though. From Blo­gus­sion.

I feel like I’m miss­ing something…

There’s no way I cov­ered every blog­ging list on the inter­net! Help us build this mas­sive list by sub­mit­ting your lists in the com­ments sec­tion. If it’s a list about blog­ging, it will be accepted no prob­lem. Thanks!

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