There are a lot of really great tools and software you can use for blogging or online business. We all have our favorites. Here’s a page full of mine.
Everyone has different experiences, different discoveries, different ways of using the same software. The problem is, we rarely find out what other people have discovered and how they are using that plugin, service or software.
So, I’m going to share one of my favorite with you in hopes you’ll discover a great new tool… and then I’m hoNiping you’ll share yours with me and all the other readers. To make it even more fun and add a little competition to it. I’ll award $50 to the suggestion I think deserves it most. Here’s one of my very favorite cool tools and how I use it:
Ninja Affiliate by MaxBlogPress
Truly a “must” have in my opinion. All my books and blogs benefit from this software; the best way for you to find out about the Ninja Affiliate software is to watch their video at their website. But here’s how I describe it to others:
- Create friendly links to whatever you want
- Example: http://www.brentriggs.com/thisismypage.aspx?id=987 becomes “brentriggs.com/my-book
- Create friendly links for your affiliate product links
- Keywords on your blog get linked wherever they appear to anything you want
- Example: “Brent Riggs” gets automatically linked to “www.brentriggs.com” whenever it appears
- Keywords on your blog get linked to affiliate sites automatically
Ninja Affiliate is a “can’t live without” as far as I’m concerned. It makes “friendly links”, “automatic affiliate linking” and “keyword linking” an automated and super easy task.
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Okay, that’s my tool and suggested use. It’s not the longest suggestion that will win the $50… it’s the one that most makes me go “WOW! I’m glad you told us about that!”
Use the COMMENTS below to leave us your cool tool and super suggested use…
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I have two. They are both wordpress plugins. One is Gravity Forms. Best plugin that I purchased. Second is Editorial Calendar. Awesome for blogs. That one is free – which makes it even better.
Can you give us a quick description of what they do and how you use them?
My would Definitely sucuri.net !! just ? them.
Can you describe what it is, and how you use it?
I just a blog post about an awesome gadget last night ! that can be seen here > http://sparklemepink88.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-easiest-best-gadget-you-need-to-add.html
The post is about LinkWithin, a free and super easy gadget to install that does all the work you by comprising a box of similar posts to the on your viewers and currently reading. Keeps reader engaged in your page keeping them reading your work and interested longer
There are lots of “similar posts” plugins but I’ve never found one I thought was excellent. I’ll have to check this one out. BR
I like this one and just installed it. Thanks Michelle
So funny that this is the topic today I literally just did a similar blog post last night ! you can see that here > http://sparklemepink88.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-easiest-best-gadget-you-need-to-add.html
It is about the tool LinkWithin – Free and super easy to install !! It does all the work for you by comprising a box of similar posts that your readers may also enjoy. Keeps your readers engaged and on your page longer
Cool… send your folks over here to leave their ideas and this is my official encouragement for our folks to go check out your post…
Thanks for explaining your suggestion… that’s what I’m wanting people to do so we will know what their suggested tool or plugin does, and how it can benefit us.
Well I think this widget most caught my attention so Michelle, you win! Send me your Paypal and I’ll shoot you over your cash!
My new favorite is NoFollowr. I’m still scared of messing with code, so this makes it quick & easy to change links from follow to nofollow.
Here is their description: “When logged in as an administrator, green “tick” and red “stop” icons appear next to all external links in a post indicating whether rel=”nofollow” is currently applied to them. Simply click an icon to toggle between these two states and alter the link’s nofollow status. This change is remotely reflected in the database without requiring a page reload.”
That sounds like a good one… I haven’t heard of it until now… BR
I’ve discovered a nifty little wordpress plug-in that saves me a LOT of time. It’s called ‘WordPress Database Backup’ by Austin Matzko. It takes the time management out of your database back-ups. You just set it up and it automatically emails you a back-up of your database at your desired frequency. There’s no more logging in to each of my sites weekly to pull a back-up. Nope, they’re just automatically there.
I use Code Guard already but if anyone else needs a good backup, that sounds like one to check out… BR
Interesting. My favorite tool which I use all the time is Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex. What this machine does is if I’m in my desk computer I plug this in, and then I can update everything that I had done on my tower and then when my sitting time is up in here (I have Spinal Stenosis), and I need to go in the frontroom and sit in my recliner well, I bring it with, and update my laptop and keep working in there. I love it! My husband found out about it to help me out because I was getting so behind with my work. (I’m also a transcriptionist besides a blogger), and very depressed because of it. This gadget was made in heaven as far as I’m concerned. I can even bring it with in case I want to go to my daughter’s house and watch my grandbabies, and I can still do any wee bit of work I might have to finish. Isn’t that cool? I totally recommend it for any one in my position or anyone that wants to take their work with them. I mean everybody knows you should back-up your work, and this one I have found is great for me and anyone else in my opinion.
My favorite blogging “tool” is Fiverr.com. There are a lot of blogging things that I don’t do very well on my own (especially when it comes to graphic design) so Fiverr has become a great resource of talented people who can help inexpensively in a relatively short period of time. The bonus with Fiverr is that I take on a handful of gigs in my area of expertise every month, so whenever I need something done I just pay for it out of my revenues. In a round about way it’s like bartering because I seldom actually pay for any Fiverr services with “real” money.
My favorite blogging tool isn’t really a blogging tool. There are a few gigs that I do on occasion on Fiverr.com, fast little things that I make $5-10 on that I can do in about 10 minutes. I do several of these a month and then I don’t spend the revenues. When it comes to graphic design for my blog I just turn around and take the revenues from my Fiverr jobs and use them to purchase other jobs on Fiverr, for Cover designs, headers, advertising design etc.
It’s nice because I can do what I’m good at and can do quickly and then pay someone else for what they’re good at and they can do quickly. For me to make an advertisement look good it would take me literally all day, instead I can pay someone five bucks to do it, from money I earned doing something that took me 10 minutes. It saves me time, money, and sanity : )
I’m just starting to work on getting more readers, but I like LinkWithin. I feel like it gives readers more ideas of what you have to offer.