A collection of useful links:
COPYWRITING:
- Lorem Ipsum – A Lorem Ipsum generator for when you can’t think of anything to write!
- Visual Thesaurus – Creates great ‘thinkmaps’ of words to inspire you to greater writing.
EMAIL DISTRIBUTION
- Mailchimp – Free email creation and distribution tool and it’s free for the first 5000 sends.
FORUMS
- User Voice – A hosted forum solution with various monthly packages.
HOSTING:
- Bluehost – Quite cheap and really easy one-click WordPress install.
IMAGES:
- iStockphoto – Cheap, quality photo resource.
LINK SUBMISSION:
Submit your site to directories for increased linkage and to up your domain authority.
SEO TOOLS: (FREE)
- Google adwords tool – helps you pick the most relevant keywords for your site.
- Woorank – Free tool that tells you what’s up with your website from an SEO point of view.
- Wordle – For pretty and useful word clouds to help you assess your copy’s keyword saturation.
- Tagxedo – For pretty word clouds in funky shapes.
- SEO Moz Rank Tracker - Check your sites keyword ranking on Google, Yahoo and Bing!
- XML Sitemap generator – Generates a nice XML sitemap that Google will just eat up and it’s free.
- Robots.txt generator – Creates a nice correctly formatted Robots.txt file.
- Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer – See your page content as the spider sees it.
- Website grader - Get a score and a quick overview of your major SEO problems.
SEO BLOGS AND ARTICLES:
- Search Engine Land – news about the search engines and SEO.
- Search Engine Watch – Articles here for beginners to advanced.
- SEO Book – Undoubtedly the number one resource when it comes to SEO tools. Great opinionated blog posts here by a huge name in the industry, Aaron Wall.
- Bruce Clay – One of the most experienced men in the SEO industry.
- Yoast – The definitive resource to all things SEO for wordpress.
WIREFRAMES
- Wirify – Turns any site into a wireframe and exports to OmniGraffle.
WORDPRESS
- Premium WP Themes – A collection of very nice low-cost WordPress themes.
- Templatic – More WordPress themes.
- Elegant themes - Even more WordPress themes.
WORDPRESS PLUGINS
- Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
- SEO Friendly Images – Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
- SexyBookmarksPlugin Review – SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. See configuration panel for more settings.
- SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam – Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all of them. This prevents spam from automated bots. It is also WPMU and BuddyPress compatible.
- TweetMeme Retweet Button – Automatically tweets each new post and adds a button that lets you retweet your blog posts.
- W3 Total Cache – The fastest and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your blog by adding: page caching, database caching, minify, content delivery network (CDN) functionality and more.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customisation of the display.
