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Top 100 Websites For Bloggers

February 7, 2012 By Chris

Each blogger use a lot of sources and tools. A lot of them  are available online.

Below  is a list of Top 100 websites, which every blogger should know and use. I spent a lot of hours preparing this list, but some websites may be out of date. If you find such links, please leave a comment about it below this article.

 

For better navigation, I order them in such groups of links

Search engines

WP themes

Plugins for WordPress

Free blog platforms

Statistics

Hosting for blogs and websites

Advertising and affiliate systems

Photos and pictures for bloggers

Tools for keyword analysis

SEO tools and analysis

Mailing lists and autoresponders

SEO blogs

Blogs with tips & tricks about blogging

Motivation and self-help websites for bloggers

Lists of most important blogs

Reviews for bloggers

Boost visits on your blog

Outsource your work (or find a job as a freelancer)

“Knowledge” websites

Social & networking sites

Websites with other multimedia

Free time for bloggers

 

Table of Contents

  • Top 100 websites for bloggers
    • Search engines:
    • Wp themes
    • Plugins for WordPress:
    • Free blog platforms:
    • Statistics:
    • Hosting for blogs and websites:
    • Advertising and affiliate systems:
    • Photos and pictures for bloggers:
    • Tools for keyword analysis
    • SEO tools and analysis:
    • Mailing lists and autoresponders:
    • SEO blogs:
    • Blogs with tips & tricks about blogging:
    • Motivation and self-help websites for bloggers:
    • Lists of most important blogs:
    • Reviews for bloggers:
    • Boost visits on your blog:
    • Outsource your work (or find a job as a freelancer):
    • “Knowledge” websites:
    • Social & networking sites:
    • Websites with other multimedia:
    • Free time for bloggers:
      • Wait! Before You Go, Read:

Top 100 websites for bloggers

 

Search engines:

1.       Google.com – most famous search engine in the world

2.       Bing.com – 2nd search engine for English language market

3.       Search.com – aggregate in one place search results from best engines

4.       Baidu.com – 1st search engine for China language

5.       Yandex.ru – the largest search engine in Russia

 

Wp themes

Some free WordPress Themes:

6.       WPdaddy themes – a lot of free WP themes (but be careful – some of them are not free!)

7.       Free WordPress  Themes 4 U (if you need to remove sponsored ads, you need to pay 19.95$ to get the key)

8.       TopWPThemes  – another website with some themes for WP

 

And some paid WP themes:

9.       Theme Junkie – premium WordPress themes with one-time fee starting at 29.95$ (but for 39.95$ you will get allWP Junkie themes and life time support). This blog is based on one of WP Junkie themes – Smart Blog theme

10.   Thesis WP Themes – pricing starts at 87$ for one website

 

Plugins for WordPress:

11.   WordPress Plugins – official WordPress.org site with thousands plugins

12.   WordPress Plugins from yoast.com – some useful plugins made by Joost de Valk, most of them are free

13.   WPMU DEV – WordPress plugins by WPMUdev team

 

Free blog platforms:

14.   Blogger.com – Google’s platform for bloggers, integrated with Google Accounts

15.   WordPress.com – it’s free and open source platform for bloggers.

16.   Xanga.com – network of blogging and social networking communities

17.   Tumblr. – you can share here everything you want – text, photos, videos, links, etc.

18.   Moveble Type – another social publishing platform

 

Statistics:

19.   Google Analytics – free statistics with huge amount of reports and tracking tools.

20.   Piwik – open source web analytics tool. It is really good tool, but needs installation on own web server

21.   AWStats – free tool for advanced web statistics analysis

22.   StatCounter –Statistics tool for your website with real-time analysis of the visitors.  It’s free for 250k monthly pageload. Above it, it’s paid monthly

23.   Site meter – this counter and statistics tracker has, similarly to StatCounter, 2 options. SiteMeter Basic is for free, and Sitemeter Premium is starting at 6.95$

 

Hosting for blogs and websites:

24.   Hostgator – this blog is hosted by Hostgator – it’s not free hosting (prices started at about 4$ a month) but it’s stable and easy to use

25.   BlueHost– another hosting recommended by some bloggers

26.   OVH – hosting for sites in Europe

27.   IQ.pl – hosting not only for Polish sites 🙂

28.   GoDaddy.com – another hosting for your website

 

Advertising and affiliate systems:

29.   Google AdSense is most famous advertise program(based on contextual advertisements), both for small and for very big portals. Google equivalent for ads publishers is Google AdWords

30.   Zanox.com – this network offers publishers and advertisers a lot of affiliates program. It’s European market leader in this area.

31.   Clickbank – it’s online program for buying and selling digital or information products. It’s one of the biggest affiliate’s network system

32.   Tradedoubler – this is also European program for affiliate marketing, with a lot of websites and ads publishers

33.   Chitika –  it’s non-contextual  online-ads service, which may be used simultaneously with Google AdSense ads

 

Photos and pictures for bloggers:

34.   Fotolia.com – one of the best stock with royalty free photos, images, videos and vectors

35.   Istockphoto.com – another website with a lot of royalty free images and photos. You can also get discounts on istockphoto with a promo code.

36.   Photoxpress.com – some photos and images on this website are free of charge

37.   Flickr.com – photo sharing and image hosting website

38.   Shutterstock.com – another stock with royalty-free photos, illustrations and vectors

 

Tools for keyword analysis

39.   Google keyword tool – It’s very popular keyword tool, feeded with data by Google. It’s not perfect, but it’s free of charge!

40.   Market Samurai – this keyword analysis tool has a lot of useful  functions  – keyword research, seo competition, finding domains, etc. This tool is used by more than 200 000 users (including me). It’s paid tool (price is not low – it’s one time fee of 149$), but there is 12 day trial – you can download it for free here! If you buy it in 5 days since downloading, you will paid only 97$ for it

41.   Keyword Research Suite from WordStream – it’s free only in very limited area, paid plans starts at 329$ a year

42.   Traffic Travis – another tool for keyword research. It has both free (limited for 5 projects) and paid (only 97$) versions

43.   Keyword Elite – it’s keyword Research tool by Brad Callen. It also cost 97$

 

SEO tools and analysis:

44.   Majesticseo.com – site explorer for your backlinks, neighbourhood checker and more. It’s better than Yahoo Site Explorer was!

45.   Alexa.com – it provides a lot of information about websites, their audience, traffic and keywords. Completely free and without registration

46.   Whois.Net – tool which help you reveal who is behind each domain

47.   WayBack Machine – it’s “time machine” for websites. If you want to see, how did web page look like in the past, you must use this time machine 🙂

48.   CleverStat – on this site you can find a lot of useful SEO tools for bloggers and website owners. Some of them are free (for example PaRaMeter, which allows you to check Google PageRank), some aren’t…

 

Mailing lists and autoresponders:

49.   AWEBER – email marketing software (used also by me) with prices started at 19$ a month (you can try it for 1$ for first month)

50.   Constant Contact – email, event and social marketing solution for you with 60 days trial

51.   Get Response – email marketing platform with powerful autoresponder with few pricing plans

52.   iContact – another autoresponder with additional features

53.   MailChimp – free email marketing service. It’s totally free for 12k emails per month (or for 2000 subscribers)

 

SEO blogs:

54.   Matt Cuts blog – blog of Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Web spam team

55.   SEOmoz blog– most famous blog (and not only blog) about SEO

56.   Search Engine Land – news, tips & tricks about Google, Bing, search engine marketing and search engine optimization

57.   Search Engine Watch – very helpful site about SEM, SEO, PPC and Paid Search advertising

58.   SEO Book Blog – another valuable blog about SEO

 

Blogs with tips & tricks about blogging:

59.   Smartpassiveincome.com – very smart blog about blogging and with very detailed income  reports, owned by Pat Flynn

60.   Johnchow.com – very interesting blog with one of the best free ebook: The Ultimate Blog Profit Model

61.   ProBlogger.Net – most famous blog about making money online directed by (maybe even more famous 🙂 ) Darren Rowse

62.   Dailyblogtips.com – blog about tips & tricks for bloggers. By Daniel Scocco.

63.   Entrepreneurs-Journey.com – Yaro Starak gives here a lot of advises and tips for internet entrepreneurs

 

Motivation and self-help websites for bloggers:

It’s very hard to describe all the staff, which is on each of the site. But I strongly recommend to visit them at least one time, to see what’s inside

64.   PsychologyToday.com – a lot of articles, not only about motivation, but also about creativity, setting and achieving goals and lot more

65.   Brian Tracy blog – official blog of Brian Tracy, motivational and self-help specialist

66.   StephenCovey.com – website of Stephen Covey, author of bestseller: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Unfortunately his blog isn’t updated since some time, but despite this, there is a lot of motivational stuff  on this website

67.   FourHourWorkWeek.com – blog and site of famous author Tim Ferriss

68.   StevePavlina.com – website of Steve Pavlina, blogger about personal development. Another great website!

 

Lists of most important blogs:

69.   Technorati.com – list of top 100 blogs

70.   Bloggers.com – this website is dedicated for bloggers, categorizes blogs and bloggers

71.   List of top blogs by Wikipedia – no comments 🙂

72.   Top ten lists of blogs – top ten list of blogs by blogs.com

73.   Top blogging news with Alltop– news from most popular blogs and more…

 

Reviews for bloggers:

Unfortunately I didn’t use any of them, so there are only links to most popular reviews sites. If you have some experience with this type of sites, please share your knowledge and leave a comment

74.   Reviewme.com

75.   PayPerPost.com

76.   PostGenius.com

77.   SponsoredReviews.com

78.   SharedReviews.com

 

Boost visits on your blog:

79.   Digg.com – a social news site. Some time ago it was more popular than Facebook

80.   StumbleUpon.com – recommend your website to more than 20 millions of StumbleUpon users

81.   Reddit.com – social website, where you can submit your content and vote for another

82.   Delicious.com –(in the past – del.icio.us) – you can find here a lot of cool sites and shares your own links with others

83.   4chan – this site mostly concerns on sharing images

 

Outsource your work (or find a job as a freelancer):

84.   Elance.com – marketplace for freelancers and people (or company) which want outsource their work

85.   Guru.com – you can outsource your projects here or find freelancers for hire

86.   oDesk.com – another website, where you can find job as freelancer or hire somebody to your projects

 

“Knowledge” websites:

87.   Wikipedia – free online encyclopedia with more than 20 million articles

88.   Ask.com –most popular question-answering service

 

Social & networking sites:

89.   Facebook – most famous social site in the world. You must be in 🙂

90.   Twitter – share short messages with others. Follow friends, experts and celebrities

91.   LinkedIn – it’s world’s most popular professional  and business-related network.

92.   Google+ – another network, some people like it, some not 🙂

 

Websites with other multimedia:

93.   YouTube – free video sharing platform owned by Google

94.   Vimeo – another site, where you can find, view, download and upload  videos

95.   Live365.com – radio online with a lot of stations

Free time for bloggers:

96.   Dilbert – you don’t know, who Dilbert is?

97.   Demotivational Posters – you must see it!

98.   Break.com – website with funny videos and pictures

99.   Jokes.com – jokes for almost everyone

100.   Garfield – and everything is clear…

 

Disclosure – please note, that some of the links above are affiliate links and I earn a commission, when you buy something via them.

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Comments

  1. Kimberly Gauthier, Adventures in Blogging says

    February 8, 2012 at 12:30 am

    Wow! What a list. I love that I found a few new sites to check out. Thanks for doing the work to put this massive list together. You are going to save a lot of bloggers a lot of time!

    Kimberly

  2. Chris says

    February 8, 2012 at 12:50 am

    Thanks Kimberly. During research I also found some new and valuable websites for me 🙂

  3. Shamelle says

    February 8, 2012 at 3:33 am

    Hi Chris,
    Thank you for your special invite 😉 Glad I stopped by.
    Cool blog and great collection here.. I can’t imagine how long this post might have take for you to put-together.

    Keep in touch..
    Shamelle

  4. Genry says

    May 5, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    To analyze keywords of competitive pages you can use http://keyworda.com

    • Chris says

      May 6, 2012 at 11:32 am

      Genry, thanks for sharing – it seems interesting.

  5. zotwot says

    May 8, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Great list, thanks. I use Photobucket for photos quite a lot, it’s great.

    • Chris says

      May 8, 2012 at 2:21 pm

      zotwot – thanks for your comment. Photobucket – I must try it 🙂

  6. Erwin says

    May 9, 2012 at 4:15 am

    wow! amazing list all in one. Thank you for sharing Chris. I’m going to bookmark this page for my own reference.

  7. Rich says

    May 12, 2012 at 5:00 am

    Webmaster, I am the admin at SEOPlugins.org. We profile SEO Plugins for WordPress blogs for on-site and off-site SEO. I’d like to invite you to check out our recent profile for a pretty amazing plugin which can double or triple traffic for a Worpdress blog and we just posted a video showing the plugin in action. You can delete this comment, I didn’t want to comment on your blog, just wanted to drop you a personal message. Thanks, Rich

  8. Ehsan says

    May 21, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    All of them are useful and needed website for any Blogger. Thanks for sharing them with ideas.

    • Chris says

      May 21, 2012 at 12:09 pm

      Hi Ehsan, thanks for commenting!
      BR, Chris

  9. Jufry the loyal Blogger says

    May 24, 2012 at 9:44 am

    hoho, I agree with ehsan. All of these websites are very useful. Love those all chris. 😉

    • Chris says

      May 24, 2012 at 1:27 pm

      Hi Jufry, thanks for your comment, Chris

  10. Matt Smith says

    May 24, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    Can’t argue with any of these 100, great list for any blogger!

    News & Technology websites can also be good for getting ideas and relevant blogging information. Sites like BBC News, The Guardian (UK), Mashable, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, etc.

    Great info Chris! Keep up the excellent work

    • Chris says

      May 24, 2012 at 8:25 pm

      Hi Matt, now I see, that I should prepare list with 200 websites, not 100 🙂
      Thanks for the comment!

  11. Amit Shaw says

    June 18, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Wow Wow Wow Superb List 🙂 Thanks for your hard work 🙂

    • Chris says

      June 18, 2012 at 7:17 pm

      It was prepared some time ago – now it will be list of about 200 websites 🙂
      Thanks for your comment

  12. Watch Fatal Encounters Season 2 Episode 13 Free Stream says

    July 4, 2012 at 4:37 am

    With havin so much content and articles do you ever run into any problems of plagorism
    or copyright violation? My website has a lot of completely unique content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it seems a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my authorization. Do you know any techniques to help stop content from being ripped off? I’d truly appreciate it.

    • Chris says

      July 4, 2012 at 5:33 pm

      Sometimes I care about it, sometimes I don’t… It depends how many effort is needed to fight with plagiarism.

  13. Yeremi Akpan says

    July 22, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    This is one of the most complete lists I have read for bloggers. I will take my time to go through this at a thorough pace.

    I noticed Clicky was missing from the Traffic Stats section. I think it is a great tool and can be found at http://www.getclicky.com

    Great job here, Chris! 🙂

    • Chris Madej says

      July 22, 2012 at 7:56 pm

      Hi Yeremi, thanks for stopping by and for adding one more site to the list. As I wrote in one comment – at this moment the list will be with title 200 Websites… 😉
      BR, Chris

  14. Matt says

    August 19, 2012 at 12:15 am

    reat post I really enjoy reading and finding new blogs/sites that can help mine grow. Looking forward to reading more of your posts!

  15. sick submitter says

    August 24, 2012 at 11:27 am

    Hi there to every body, it’s my first go to see of this blog; this webpage includes awesome and really fine data in support of visitors.

  16. Olawale Daniel says

    September 13, 2012 at 11:21 am

    Great list of websites for bloggers’ success. This list is very much important for any serious bloggers to use.

  17. beli sepatu futsal says

    January 31, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    I will set time for this huge lists. It will take a lot of time, so I will check this one by one. Thank you.

  18. John Banks says

    January 31, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    Awesome list – have to say most are in my bookmarks..and plenty more.

    Good job.

  19. Dipra Sen says

    March 14, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    In the “Photos and pictures for bloggers” section you have listed some good stock photo sites but all of these are premium photos. Most of bloggers use free stock photos like you me. So, why not some good free stock photo sites? I’ve created a tool which searches free stock photos from multiple sites at a time and save your time, here’s the tool http://www.bloggingsmart.com/free-image-finder/. You may (and should) include this tool in this list.

  20. Dhaval says

    April 8, 2013 at 9:03 am

    I think sponsoredreviews is the bes pt for the review scapegoat and Wikipedia is obvious the treasure of knowledge and for images I use tinypic 😀

  21. Robert Walker says

    April 8, 2013 at 9:25 am

    Wow what a great list, so many great tools in here that will increase your web presence. Some news one in there for me too!

  22. anis says

    April 8, 2013 at 9:29 am

    These is the best collection I had ever seen about blogger resources thanks for sharing this awesome list with us

  23. Satish says

    April 8, 2013 at 8:38 am

    Waoh! What an epic list you got. I guess it would have taken a lot of time to research on this list. I appreciate the effort you took to make this list mate. I seriously don’t know 70% of them.

  24. rakesh says

    April 8, 2013 at 4:23 pm

    thank you very much for this list, you almost covered everything . i am going to follow some of them from this list

  25. Nizam Khan says

    April 8, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    Fantastic list and well categorizes, it will be really useful for bloggers/webmasters. Great work Chris 🙂 Thanks for sharing and tweeted 🙂

  26. Oluwaseun Babajide says

    April 8, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    Damn! This is fantastic. Long list, but it is worth the time to go through in more detail.
    Thanks for sharing.

  27. Andi Leeman says

    April 8, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    This is a great list of tools and resources. People forget how useful Wikipedia is for information and snippets. I love it and I am glad that you have added it to this list.

  28. Thu Nguyen says

    April 8, 2013 at 11:21 pm

    This is excellent with all the categories broken down which makes it all the more convenient. I love the final one – break. We all need to refresh our palate just so new inspirations and ideas make way.

    Here’s also two more which I didn’t notice:

    Analytics – clicky dot com
    Keyword Tool – wordtracker dot com

    Again, thanks so much for putting this together Chris.

    Cheers,
    Thu

  29. Herby Fabius says

    April 9, 2013 at 1:53 am

    Great source for blogger thanks again

  30. Nirmala says

    April 9, 2013 at 7:47 am

    Really a great useful list for the bloggers 🙂

    Stumbled with your collection work, hats off to you.

    Keep doing the nice job as it would help the newbies and other bloggers to do better blogging.

  31. Marc says

    April 9, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    Hey Chris!

    This is an amazing list you have here! I can only imagine what your next list will be like lol maybe you can add some blog communities and like the best web design site : )

    Marc Bell

  32. Amrik Virdi says

    April 10, 2013 at 4:22 pm

    Woah! I can see you have done a great research. I believe everyone will make use of it. Thanks for sharing.

  33. Matt McAuley says

    April 12, 2013 at 3:37 am

    What a great resource, I wish I had seen this 3 months ago when I started my blog, would have saved me a lot of time.

    • Jack Roy says

      April 12, 2013 at 8:33 am

      Certainly Matt, I agree with you. This article in one word stands outstanding. Simply Brilliant! Chris, I must say that this post could be a bible for any bloggers. What not you have mentioned! Starting from web analytic tools to Wikipedia and many more. Thanks once again for sharing your expertise.

  34. Joe Hart says

    April 12, 2013 at 8:58 am

    Hi Chris..Great collection..The categorization you did has made look more neat..Thanks for sharing.

  35. Dave Clements says

    April 12, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    elance and oDesk have been critical for me. When I’ve had website work to do and needed to outsource particular pieces of it, they’ve been crucial in getting the job done by someone competent at a reasonable price.

  36. Santanu says

    April 12, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    Wow!! That really a nice list. Thanks for this

  37. JohnB says

    September 3, 2013 at 9:09 am

    Hi What a awesome page so ressources full. Thank you for all those informations. I discovered Piwik wich seems a very good tool and feet exactly what i was searching for.

    I find some plugins are missing, we can now add the fabulous MainWP , brand new WordPress management platform in sefl-hosted version for an incredibly low cost.

    I’ll also add others Sick Marketing Tools like the wordpress plugin Sick Keyword Links wich is very good for internal linkbuilding and affiliate links.

    And of Course Sick Submitter 4 wich is really the best link building tool ever mad by human kind.

    See you soon 😉
    JohnB

  38. Emmanuel says

    October 30, 2013 at 11:54 am

    This is indeed worth the read. This post might be over a year old but yet it is still worth it. I have learnt a lot!

  39. Sam Adeyinka says

    November 29, 2013 at 6:22 pm

    Hey Chris/Erik,

    This are indeed great and resourceful website to register oneself. Thanks for sharing this awesome list with us. I’d just bookmark this page for future referencing. Thanks again! 🙂

    Sam

  40. Utsav says

    September 8, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    thanks for this list.
    I must follow this.
    Nice share.

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