Recommended Blogging Tools

The Basics:

Hostmonster – I recommend Hostmonster for new bloggers after using it without problems for almost four years. They have provided me with excellent service and very little down time for my blog. Plus it’s really easy to get a WordPress blog started. Instructions for this can be found here. {Sign up now.}

Thesis Theme – This is the framework my blogs are built upon. It’s easy to use and with basic coding (er, Googling) skills you can adapt it to do amazing things. Excellent also for improving SEO and getting your blog seen. {Get Thesis now.}

Woo Themes – Another site with dozens of awesome paid themes that are high quality and nice looking. These themes are better than free themes and they also offer support which can be very helpful. {Browse themes now.}

Stats:

Feedburner – Use this to track how many people are subscribing to your blog via Google Feedburner’s services.

Google Analytics – Sign up and install the code to get detailed stats about visitors to your blog.

Better Blogging:

31 Days To A Better Blog -Written by Problogger Darren Rowse, over 19,000 other bloggers have used this e-book to improve their blog. This will improve you blogging – it’s even guaranteed with a 100% money back guarantee. Definitely worth buying and working through with your blog. {Read it now.}