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The best way to build a strong, pow­er­ful blog is to have the right tools and resources to do it. Learn where to get the best free and paid resources.

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Blog­ging Plat­form The best solu­tion to run your blog

WordPressWord­Press is the only rea­son­able choice for your blog­ging soft­ware. It is by far the most pow­er­ful, easy to use and sup­ported blog­ging soft­ware on the web. Plus, it’s totally free. Mil­lions of peo­ple use Word­Press, and even develop great plu­g­ins and themes for you to use to fur­ther enhance your blog. With a com­mu­nity like that, Word­Press is a no-brainer.

Domain Reg­is­tra­tion The safest, most reli­able domain reg­is­trars on the web

GoDaddyWe rec­om­mend GoDaddy because it is the most pro­fes­sional and easy-to-use reg­is­trar out there. They run con­stant pro­mo­tions, sav­ing you HEAPS of money on domains, and have the best domain man­age­ment tools on the web. We use them for all Blo­gus­sion domains, and couldn’t be happier.

  • NameCheap
    A pop­u­lar domain reg­is­trar, Namecheap offers an easy-to-use inter­face as well as great options for man­ag­ing your domain.
  • 1&1
    1&1 offers a vari­ety of great ser­vices for web­mas­ters, but one ser­vice they offer (and offer quite well) is domain reg­is­tra­tion. With con­stant spe­cials and very low prices, 1&1 is hard to pass up.
  • Dotster
    A lead­ing provider of domain names, Dot­ster is one that really stands out in pro­vid­ing cus­tomer sup­port. Their 10 years on the web only brings new inno­va­tions, and Dot­ster even goes beyond domain reg­is­tra­tions and offers more great, afford­able services.

Web Host­ing The most afford­able, reli­able and quick­est host­ing ser­vices for your blog

WPWebHostWPWeb­Host is tar­geted for Word­Press blogs, so of course they have the best ser­vice for your blog on the web. We have been on WPWeb­Host for about a year and a half with no issues, and top-notch sup­port for when we mess things up. No other host is fine-tuned for just Word­Press, mak­ing this the ideal spot for any Word­Press blogger.

  • Hostgator
    One of the most well-known web hosts on the site, Host Gator makes it easy to setup and run an effi­cient blog of any software.
  • Blue Host
    A very respected ser­vice, Blue Host offers afford­able plans with many fea­tures included. Plans start at $6.95 a month, and is within any blog­gers’ budget.
  • Dreamhost
    Dreamhost has been around for 11 years, and con­tin­ues to offer great fea­tures in their host­ing pack­ages like unlim­ited domains, data­bases, unlim­ited disk stor­age and even promises 100% uptime.

Blog Design Where to get the most beau­ti­ful & func­tional themes for your blog

Thesis ThemeThe­sis is the frame­work Blo­gus­sion is built on, and by far one of the most opti­mized theme for SEO, design and stan­dard code out there. It offers a vari­ety of admin options, and comes with a huge arse­nal of hooks to make cus­tomiz­ing your theme much simpler.

  • Woo Themes
    WooThemes is one of the largest sources of Word­Press themes, and pro­vides high-quality themes through their mem­ber­ship program.

  • Studio press
    Stu­dio­Press offers very pro­fes­sional, business-like themes for your blog. Stu­dio­Press is behind the famous Gen­e­sis Frame­work for WordPress.
  • Elegant Themes
    Ele­gant Themes pro­vides some of the most unique Word­Press themes on the mar­ket. You can gain access to all of their themes for a measly $19/year.
  • Theme Forest
    Theme For­est is a mar­ket­place where authors from all over the world cre­ate and sell their Word­Press themes at very low prices.

Plu­g­ins & Tools Use­ful plu­g­ins, tools and ser­vices to help enhance the fea­tures of your blog

  • Aweber
    Awe­ber is a pow­er­ful ser­vice that makes build­ing an email list sim­ple. With great fea­tures and con­stant inno­va­tions, Awe­ber blows the com­pe­ti­tion com­pletely out of the water.
  • Scribe SEO
    Scribe is an SEO tool that acts as your very own “SEO guru.” It scans your posts and makes sug­ges­tions on how you can max­i­mize the opti­miza­tion for best search engines rankings.
  • OIOPublisher
    OIOP­ub­lisher makes inte­grat­ing and sell­ing ads on your site a breeze. This plu­gin adds a bunch of great options to your admin panel, and even the most inex­pe­ri­enced blog­gers can get a good feel for it in no time.
  • Ninja Affiliate
    Instantly turn selected key­word into affil­i­ate links. This plu­gin works all across your blog, and can have a sig­nif­i­cant impact on how much money you make from affil­i­ate marketing.

Blog­ging Books The best books avail­able to help edu­cate you fur­ther in mul­ti­ple blog­ging topics

Rockstar WordPress Designer

How to be a Rock­star Word­Press Designer

Man­ag­ing web con­tent has always been tricky, but with Word­Press, any web designer can have a flex­i­ble, free and pow­er­ful CMS to use not just on blog­ging projects, but on all sorts of web­sites. In How To Be a Rock­star Word­Press Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.

Dur­ing the course of the book you’ll build THREE Word­Press themes, a blog, a port­fo­lio site and a gen­eral site with menus and sub­menus. Each theme demon­strates dif­fer­ent aspects of Word­Press them­ing and all three are pack­aged in with the book so you’ll have Pho­to­shop, HTML, CSS and Word­Press PHP files to refer to. Read more →

Digging into WordPress

Dig­ging into WordPress

There is much to learn about the World’s most pop­u­lar pub­lish­ing plat­form. From your first steps of learn­ing about Word­Press all the way through main­tain­ing a site through­out the years, this book is packed with truly prac­ti­cal information.

We go into depth about the anatomy of a Word­Press theme. How they work, and how to write the code you need to do the things you want. This means real code that you can sink your teeth into, as well as copy and paste. Beyond theme build­ing, we intro­duce many tricks your functions.php file can pull off and show you ways to increase per­for­mance and secu­rity through HTAccess.

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Blogging to the third power

Blog­ging to the Third Power

What is it that sep­a­rates the mil­lions of mediocre blog­gers from the ones who build traf­fic and achieve amaz­ing results? What is it that pro­pels some onward and upward into fame and for­tune while oth­ers find them­selves strug­gling just to get a small hand­ful of readers?

If you’re like most blog­gers, then you’ve prob­a­bly been kick­ing your­self try­ing to fig­ure out the answer to these questions…trying to find the key that unlocks the large steel doors that are hold­ing you back from the suc­cess you’ve been look­ing for.

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Twitter Marketing

Twit­ter Mar­ket­ing E-Book

Twit­ter mar­ket­ing is cheap, it con­nects you with your tar­get group, it dri­ves traf­fic to you, it improves your SEO and builds your author­ity. For a new per­son on Twit­ter, there are so many options that you prob­a­bly don’t know where to begin.

My Twit­ter Mar­ket­ing e-book is an easy-to-follow guide to every­thing mar­ket­ing on Twit­ter. It is a com­plete step-by-step guide to build­ing your name, estab­lish­ing your brand and author­ity, and get­ting traf­fic and cus­tomers on Twit­ter. I focused entirely on prac­ti­cal advice with spe­cific, action­able how-to tips, tools and tech­niques. Fol­low the easy steps and clear tac­tics to take action today. Read more →