Here are a list of tools that are helpful to bloggers! This list is every growing and with your contributions I can make this list really great!
- Akismet.com – Akismet is a comment spam blocking tool. It is a free tool for personal bloggers but if you are a professional blogger the API key is $5/mo. This plugin comes with all the newest versions of WP and you just have to put in your API key
- Blogjet – A blog editing tool without having to open up your browser from what I’ve read it is windows platform only
- Blogdesk.com is an offline weblog client for the average blogger to the professional blogger and it is said to be simple enough for even for the beginner
- Bloglines – a web based RSS feeder
- Blogpulse.com – a bloggers metric tool
- Blogpolls.com – a polling tool for your blog where you can also put your paying ads on the results page
- Blogsitter.net – away for a few days get someone else to continue posting on your blog!
- Blogflux.com – a variety of tools for the avid blogger
- Blogrolling.com a bookmark/link management program
- Bravenet – a variety of tools for a blog (guestbook counter etc)
- Creativecommons.org – copyrighting your materials
- Copyscape.com – checks to see if any other website stole your material
- Del.icio.us – an online bookmark management program
- Digg – an online social bookmarking program
- DomainsBot – creative names for domains when the one you want is taken!
- Ecto – blogging edit tool for bot MacOSX and Windows
- Kula-Endo – a mac aggregator
- Ether – free phone that allows you to charge the caller by the hour for your services.
- Feedburner – an RSS feed management tool
- Feedster – an RSS search feed
- FeedDemon – a rss feed tool for windows by newsgater $29.95 (free trial available)
- Feedblitz – RSS and email service
- Flickr – a image hosting service
- Furl.net – a bookmark sharing community
- Filmloop – photo sharing community
- Feedpass – an RSS feed
- Favicon from Pics – a favicon maker
- Google Analytics – google’s metric tool
- Gabbly – a chatroom for your blog!
- Google Reader – a great tool for reading all your RSS feeds
- Google Blog Search – googles blog searching tool
- Google Webmaster Tools – a site indexer from google
- Haloscan – a free comment program for those who have blogs that do not come with comments equipt.
- MyBlogLog – a metrics tool
- Have A Mint – a metrics tool to help organise your targeted audience
- Nichebot – keyword research
- Nameboy.com – when your domains taken that you want nameboy helps generate new ones
- Netvibes – an RSS news aggregator great for a homepage
- Beta.Netscape – an online socialised bookmarker
- OnlyWire – online bookmarklet
- Scoopt – For journalist interested in buying content off your website
- Slide – a photo hosting website
- Snap – a great tool to load previews of websites when hovering over a link
- Technorati – blog search engine, feed reader and more
- Vizu – blog polling
- W. Bloggar
- YouTube – video hosting + sharing
- Zoundry – blogger’s editting tool