Do you wanna know how to grow and monetize your blog, right? Are you looking for tools/resources to help you make your Blogging journey easier?

In this list, I cover blogging tools and resources to help you grow and monetize your blog! I truly love these tools and use them to run my blog successfully.

Hosting

• ” target=”_blank”>Bluehost If you wanna have a successful blog it needs to be self-hosted. This is where your blog lives, it allows your blog to be seen by other people all over the world. I use Bluehost for my blog because of their amazing 24/7 customer support and you get a free domain name too! Bluehost is one of the most affordable hosting companies. You can start your blog for only 2.65/month!

Email provider

• Mailerlite Mailerlite allows you to create an email list, they have a 24/7 support which is really great! Mailerlite is free if you have up to 1000 subscribers to your email list. If you don’t know what is an email list it’s a simple list of emails that allows you to send informations about what you talk on your blog to your email subscribers.

Pinterest traffic

• Tailwind Tailwind is THE tool you wanna have when starting your blog. it has helped me grow my Pinterest and drive traffic to my blog. Tailwind helps you schedule pins to personal and group boards automatically. Another awesome feature of Tailwind are the tribes, you can share your content and get even more traffic using these Tailwind tribe groups!

Courses

• Making sense of affiliate marketing This course by Michelle Schroeder breaks down everything you need to know about making money with affiliate marketing. Michelle has a six-figure blog so she knows what she’s talking about!
• The blogging babe’s guide to building your profitable blog This course was created by Emma, this is a comprehensive guide to help you start a blog and learn the basics of monetization. It’s a 131 pages ebook plus this course is really affordable: only 28
• Amazon affiliate influence Dale created this course to help you make money with the Amazon affiliate program even with a small blog! This is a very affordable course too, it’s 25

WordPress plugins

Here are five essential plugins you need on your blog:

• Yoast for SEO: This tool will help you improve the SEO (search engine optimization) and indexability of your site.
• WP smush image compression and optimization plugin: This fantastic free plugin helps keep your site ultra-fast by automatically compressing and optimizing images for you.
• Social plug: This plugin will help you increase your social media shares.
• Pretty link lite: This plugin will help you shorten affiliate links and make them prettier!
• Jetpack: Jetpack provides a lot of powerful features for your site. Everything from a mobile theme, site security, site performance, content tools, and many other features.

SEO tool

• Google search console This free SEO tool helps searching keywords for your blog to rank higher on google.

Graphic design tool

• Canva Canva helps to design your pins for Pinterest plus it’s really easy to use. You can create your pins for free. There’s also a paid version.
• Picmonkey Picmonkey will help you design pins too and create printables for your blog.

Free stock of photo to use for your blog:

• Pexels
• Styled stock
• Raw pixel
• Makeup savvy
• Pixabay

Other

-If you wanna turn your blog posts into a pdf and providing it by Email (it’s a great tip to get more subscribers to your email list) I recommend using print-friendly which is a free tool! Here is how you can turn your blog post into a pdf:

• Go to printfriendly.com
• Add your blog post URL and click preview
• Delete any extra content or images from the preview
• Save this document as a pdf
• Create a new embed form using mailerlite
• Upload this free pdf in your WordPress library and provide the link in your mailerlite form
• Ask people to download the pdf by providing their email

And voila!

• Grammarly

Grammarly is a tool that checks and eliminates grammatical errors from your content thus improving your writing. It helps me write better quality blog posts and I love it!

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I hope this list of blogging tools helped you and let me know what blogging tools you use that I didn’t mention in the comments!

Happy blogging!

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