WordPress Website Resources
This blog is about building WordPress Websites and is not directly associated with the WordPressfoundation.org, however I am one of their biggest fans! I would not even bother using any other content management system. ( I have tried my fair share)
Here is my collection of cool tools and websites that help me make money with my WordPress websites. I use these websites and tools everyday but this does not mean they will work for you. Please be aware that these tools (mostly free) and resources are listed here as a great source of information and I do not actually sell any of these products but will get a commission if you buy a product from some links. I have purchased most of them though, but only after long and tiresome research.
If you are making an online business you can only survive for so long on free tools. So if you are a newbie I recommend not going out and buying everything at once as you can easily start a business using free tools. When your business grows you will have to start buying software to automate some jobs, and even move to outsourcing other jobs.
The Absolute Most Important WordPress Resources!
Free Open source software. (The absolute best!)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Over 17,000 free plugins in the WordPress Plugin directory.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
Over 1,400 WordPress free themes to choose from. Fantastic for newbies on a tight budget!
Free blog hosted on WordPress.com/
Internet Browsers
Firefox:
Firefox is a free web browser that is used by webmasters because it has great addons that help with research and SEO.
Seoquake allows user to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly.
Social Media Websites
Social Media Tools
**SocialAdr**
Join this website and you can bookmark other peoples content to earn credits, then other random people bookmark you. This definitely brings you traffic.
**Twitters own “Twitter for business 101″ guide
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/
**Twitter Search
**Tweet Deck:
TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. Update all these social medias from your desktop.
**Ping.fm:
Ping will automatically update multiple social profiles at once, and provides you with the opportunity to schedule future updates, so your accounts can stay active and fresh even when you aren’t around!
**Social Oomph
Auto-posts updates to your Twitter feed and enables you to send automatic tweets to those who follow you.
**Onlywire
Auto bookmarks your website posts. You can add a plugin to WordPress or add a HTML button to your website. But be careful because over bookmarking can get you banned from everywhere.
Webmaster Forums
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
Feeder Sites / Link Wheels
Press Release Creation Services:
Press Release Distribution Channels:
Article Submission websites:
http://www.ArticlesFactory.com
http://www.ArticleDashboard.com
http://www.directorycritic.com/article-directory-list.html
Keyword Research Tools
https://adwords.google.com.au/select/KeywordToolExternal
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
http://www.nichebotclassic.com/
https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool
Video Editing
Web Design
Resources List (some affiliate links)
Hostgator – Not the cheapest hosting but the best for me…No downtime in 3 years for me.. Nothing but support
NameCheap.com – Free bonuses when you buy a domain name here. Also cheap.
Keyword Research
Google keyword tool – Free to use. Enter a keyword and press search. Free SEO Guidelines from Google.
Google search – Still need to check out your competition.
Keyword Elite – What I use to do all this hard work for me. Finding the right keywords is the most important step
when building a website.
Installing a WordPress website through fantastico
http://wordpress-websitebuilder.com/install-wordpress-using-fantastico-in-cpanel-hosting/
Installing a WordPress theme
http://wordpress-websitebuilder.com/install-or-change-a-theme-on-your-wordpress-website/
WordPress Themes
Artisteer – Make your own WordPress themes.
Socrates – The theme I use on most of my websites.
Elegant Themes – Best deal for website themes. Real estate, E commerce, Review themes, and more all for one price.
Thesis – A WordPress theme framework to build on. This website is using it..A barebones frame to build up.
Outsourcing
Elance.com – Find someone to do a job for you. I usually get articles written and sometimes SEO.
odesk.com – I like Elance better but they are pretty much the same.
SEO
SEOPressor – The number one on page SEO plugin. I cannot live without this. It’s easy to use, not like others.
Back linking
Squidoo – Create a free blog and earn revenue from it and get backlinks.
Email marketing
Mailchimp – The email marketing crew I use..Free to use until you get too big.
Aweber – I think these guys have one month trial. One of the best but I prefer Mailchimp.
WPSubscribers – Email capture boxes anywhere you want on your blog without any coding.
Research
Warrior Forum – Learn from other webmasters who are in the same boat.
Guest Posting WordPress Website Resources
My Blog Guest – Join for free and offer to take guest posts and publish them to your blog! This is a great way to get content for your website or a great way to submit your own guest posts!
Internet Marketing SEO Tools
Internet Marketing and SEO Tools.
SEOMoz.org – Go and register and checkout their free tools.
Top Competitor Tool – Shows the top 10 sites for a keyphrase in Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Keyword Density Analysis Tool – Enter a URL get all the keyword density for the page.
online link checker – W3C has a tool for finding broken and malformed links.
Affiliate Websites
https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/index.html
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
Spotmau – Top computer repair software and computer maintenance software that sells like crazy!
Affiliate Tools
Clickbank RSS feed to your WordPress Website:
Webinar Tools
AnyMeeting (free with ads)
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These are fantastic tools to boost our starting business with less money or some time free I am currently using some of these tools. These tools show me quick results and boost my traffic. SEOmoz tools are one of the great tools that I ever used. They allow quick access to all kind of information. Thanks for sharing these amazing tools with us.
Gathering resource before starting a business is not an easy task especially when we try to start online business we could not afford each and every tool available in the market so it’s worthwhile to start with free tools. your recommended tools are great and help every newbie to start his/her risk free business.
Hi Mitz
Got here via your SEO guest post on another site and have thoroughly enjoyed your posts (not finished reading yet) that are most helpful for a newcomer to affiliate marketing who has limited techie skills in the website building department.
This resource page is fantastic and I will bookmark it for regular reference.
Best Wishes for a fantastic 2012
@affiliatesouth
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yes,the upper mentioned all kinds of specific resources are very helpful for newbies,actually I have never used some popular plugins such as seoquake although I have been involved with affiliate marketing for 1 year,
Good job!
Zhyra Bonete recently postedwordpress website hosting
Totally awesome list Mitz, and thanks for sharing this list, I have seen guys down at DP and Warrior Forum make a product with lists like these and selling at $$s, this is quite helpful.
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Great 1 stop shop . I recenly started to learn word press and found this page saved me alot of mucking about.. Its in my bookmarks for when I need a refresher .
Alex Yowie recently posted..Computer Repairs Sutherland
thanks for sharing your list
I have tried The Mailchimp and is incredible, free and very profesional. I am using now to manage my newsletters,…and it works great!!
Gus Muff.
Thx Mitz, AWESOME! I recognize a ton of these and all very valuable! I’m working hard to take my INTUIT website and transfer over to WP…right now it is a challenge..
Very informative article.
There are some links here that are very heavy and bring back traffic to your site. But nothing beats automation. I recommend that if people are on a budget to stay away altogether unless you’re technical. Internet is a great drain to ones energy. You can be sucked into it;s virtual world.
Cheers!
Oz Dogan recently posted..Designing a Website
it is the best article .it would be very helpful for those who are interseted in this sector .nice one like u r article gud one .it helps in future
vishvast recently posted..MAC book Air OS X 10.7 lion
This collection of tools and websites is a valuable resource and will save me a lot of time and effort. It must have taken a lot of time and effort on your part to put this together, so thanks for sharing.
OK Mitz,
(I will)
thanks again for your help & advice,
p.s. please feel free to check out our site and let me know what you think (at the moment I have only a greyish ‘subscriibe to emails) box but I’m gunna replace that with a nice pretty ebook picture and perhaps also add a specially designed opt-in page (though I might try and avoid the yellow highlighting and big red arrows
)
thanks again & take care,
Alan
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Hi Mitz,
great list – it would be even better if you could say a little more on each one. For now I have bookmarked this and being the IM n00b that I am, I will go through them and try and learn about each.
btw do you happen to know if mailchimp can be used instead of feedburner to send rss updates and do so to the same list you have used for the autoresponder. I only really want to use RSS but it looks like you can’t give a free ebook with feedburner (at least not in any secure way).
I don’t really want to send a series of emails using an autoresponder but it looks like I have to because I do want to offer a free ebook to new subscribers.
what would you suggest?
thanks,
Alan
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Hi Alan..
I guess this is a work in progress and I will definitely add more details to it all..
Mailchimp does allow you to send out a rss feed email which lists your latest posts but I haven’t looked into the feedburner thing…Mailchimp is amazing so I guess it would do something for sure..
Mailchimp has extended their free account…And building a list is a good thing to do..Also giving away a book… I am not sure why people do not want to send a series of emails..You just give good information through auto series, hands free.. You do not have to be a pushy salesperson to send emails..
Hi Mitz,
My point wasn’t that I have anything against autoresponders, I don’t – however I just don’t need to send a series of emaiuls. If I’m updating the articles on our website every week anyway, then why would I also want to send my community a set of pre-generated emails on a schedule?
I do want to offer a free ebook though as it seems like a good way to entice people to join a subscription and a subscription in turn seems like a good way to gently remind readers about the quality content on our site.
So I need to find out more about Mailchimp, or just start playing around with it and give it a go!!
thanks Mitz,
take care,
Alan
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Oh definitely do check out mailchimp…they have free accounts.. and it is great for many things like bringing people back to your site.. BUT..I started out a few years ago collecting emails on a free acount…then had to upgrade until getting to $100 a month to handle my list..It can be an expensive path if you do not use it to its full potential.
Hey Mitz,
I actually still haven’t set up Mail chimp completely (though I started). The bit I’m really getting myself confused about is how having both an RSS feed and mail chimp works – I kind of understand it when both the email list and RSS feed are via feedburner but not the idea of an RSS feed and then an email list via mail chimp which has to be an autoresponder but is also used for sending updates.
Anyways, the main reason for replying to you again is I’ve seen you a little round the ‘blogosphere’ and wondered if you do guest posts. If you do, could you please take a quick look at our site and let me know if it’s the kind of thing you would guest post on, you can also drop me an email if that is easier,
thanks and take care,
Alan
Alan Chatfield recently posted..8 Mindful Ways To Simplify And Enjoy Life More
Mitz this is a great resource list!
Thank you a lot!
I’m bookmarking this for future use.
You are really generous!
Danny Strampel recently posted..Black & Decker NPP2018 18-Volt Cordless Electric Pole Chain Saw
OH boy…this list is nowhere near finished but I will add to it soon…
Thank You so much for your collection tools and websites taht would help me make money on wordpress websites.
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Wow! Looks like I have some studying to do. This article is a university all by itself. Thanks, Gi’Gi
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