Blogging Secrets: Top 20 Sites for Bloggers

This is a list of top 20 sites (top 5 sites from 4 different categories) that has helped blogger to get to the level of being Professional bloggers. Blogging has become a way of life for many people in this decade. Like Facebook, like google, like myspace, like reading News, Blogging has become a part of Internet and more important, the internet users. The web has been virtually and enormously expanded by Blogging. Thanks to the effort of bloggers and to sites that have helped bloggers to become better.

For Traffic

1. Google.com
The ultimate search engine, and the search engine very friendly for bloggers. Submit your blog to google to get listed. Know everything about google and maintain harmony with this search engine.
Avoid backlinking spam or poor quality sites, avoid buying paid links to bypass pagerank, avoid violating copyright to keep google as your friend.

2. Facebook.com:
Many bloggers underestimate Facebook but it can bring good flow of traffic to your blog. You get to advertise your blog free by creating pages and groups. If you impress people they will Like your blog and read your articles. Remember interested visitors have higher chances on clicking on Ads.

3. Twitter.com:
Not had much success with twitter, but can’t deny that it can bring massive traffic if used skillfully. Get your articles twitted and you’ll see them come.

4. Blogcatalog.com:
Is a good blogging community. It has thousands of genuine people who are ready to read good articles. A good discussion board as well for bloggers.

5. Mybloglog.com:
Owned by yahoo, has a good community as well as good tracking system for your blog. Make friends and you’ll see the increase in visitors to your blog.

For Monetization

1. Adsense: Undeniably Adsense is the best and the only option for many bloggers. Other networks just don’t pay well. But adsense depends on clicks. So try your luck with adsense. It has made bloggers millionaires, just through their blogs.
2. Adbrite: Gives you various options: Full pageads, Banners, CPC ads, CPM ads. Use CPM ads if you have high traffic and pageview site. You get paid for displaying ads without clicks. Use inline ads as well.
3. Bidvertiser: Not much success with it. Has a lower pay per click . But you get paid by paypal.
4. Chitika: alternative to above sites.
5. Casalemedia

Advertising.com, Burstmedia.com are some CPM sites that are well trusted but you required high traffic to enter into. They work well with high traffic sites

For Blogging Support

1. Problogger.net: Darren Rowse, teaches the A-Z of Blogging. do visit to get tips for blogging.
2. Johnchow.com: another successful blogger . Learnt to earn from him. He makes money by telling people how to make money.
3. Dailyblogtips.com: Design, Monetize and promote your blog with tips from this site.
4. Webmasterforum.com: any thing you ask is already solved here
5. Bloggingtips.com and Blogohblog.com

For Analysis of Blog

1. Google analytics: Best in the area to analyze your web traffic
2. Searchenginegenie.com: hundreds of tools and utilities to analyze and monitor your blog.
3. Goingup.com: Get best information about any blog. Rank, Lisitngs, errors, traffic ranks etc.
4. Alexa.com: Monitor web traffic.
5. Quantcast.com and Compete.com: advertising and web traffic monitoring. Focuses on US traffic.