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 I spent a lot of hours preparing this list, but some websites may be out of date.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
Hosting for blogs and websites
Advertising and affiliate systems
Photos and pictures for bloggers
Mailing lists and autoresponders
Blogs with tips & tricks about blogging
Motivation and self-help websites for bloggers
Outsource your work (or find a job as a freelancer)
Websites with other multimedia
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
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.
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
Thanks Kimberly. During research I also found some new and valuable websites for me 🙂
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
To analyze keywords of competitive pages you can use http://keyworda.com
Genry, thanks for sharing – it seems interesting.
Great list, thanks. I use Photobucket for photos quite a lot, it’s great.
zotwot – thanks for your comment. Photobucket – I must try it 🙂
wow! amazing list all in one. Thank you for sharing Chris. I’m going to bookmark this page for my own reference.
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
All of them are useful and needed website for any Blogger. Thanks for sharing them with ideas.
Hi Ehsan, thanks for commenting!
BR, Chris
hoho, I agree with ehsan. All of these websites are very useful. Love those all chris. 😉
Hi Jufry, thanks for your comment, Chris
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
Hi Matt, now I see, that I should prepare list with 200 websites, not 100 🙂
Thanks for the comment!
Wow Wow Wow Superb List 🙂 Thanks for your hard work 🙂
It was prepared some time ago – now it will be list of about 200 websites 🙂
Thanks for your comment
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.
Sometimes I care about it, sometimes I don’t… It depends how many effort is needed to fight with plagiarism.
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! 🙂
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
reat post I really enjoy reading and finding new blogs/sites that can help mine grow. Looking forward to reading more of your posts!
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.
Great list of websites for bloggers’ success. This list is very much important for any serious bloggers to use.
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.
Awesome list – have to say most are in my bookmarks..and plenty more.
Good job.
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.
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 😀
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!
These is the best collection I had ever seen about blogger resources thanks for sharing this awesome list with us
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.
thank you very much for this list, you almost covered everything . i am going to follow some of them from this list
Fantastic list and well categorizes, it will be really useful for bloggers/webmasters. Great work Chris 🙂 Thanks for sharing and tweeted 🙂
Damn! This is fantastic. Long list, but it is worth the time to go through in more detail.
Thanks for sharing.
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.
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
Great source for blogger thanks again
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.
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
Woah! I can see you have done a great research. I believe everyone will make use of it. Thanks for sharing.
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.
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.
Hi Chris..Great collection..The categorization you did has made look more neat..Thanks for sharing.
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.
Wow!! That really a nice list. Thanks for this
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.
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JohnB
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!
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
Thanks for your comment, Sam!
See you soon here! 😉
thanks for this list.
I must follow this.
Nice share.