As many of you know, Search Engines are the most substantial source of traffic for almost any blog on the web. The blogs without any traffic from Google will never have the chance to be shared with the world. In order to increase your traffic, you must optimize your blog so that Search Engines are attracted to it. Which is also known as SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
So here is a list of useful SEO sites where you can learn how to harness the power of google :

Courtney Tuttle
Join Courtney's Internet Marketing School and you will definitely gain vital knowledge when it comes to search engine optimization.

The Keyword Academy
This is personally my favorite SEO site run by Courtney Tuttle and Mark Butler. You'll learn more in one of their posts than you will in 50 of Darren Rowse's Posts.

Grizzly's Online Blog
He's got some great strategies for making an income online along with useful SEO tips.

Twitter is continuing to grow at a most overwhelming rate. As more and more people use twitter...be sure to utilize these twitter resources on your blog or website as a tool to to expand and connect with your twitter community.

Widgets and buttons are a great way to grab your readers attention and hence increase your twitter community. Below you will find links to different sites where you can attain the source code for these widgets and icons. Please enjoy thoroughly!

Twitter Widgets

ReTweet Button
A powerful twitter widget which allows your readers to easily share your blog posts. The button also displays a live count of the amount of times the post has been tweeted! ReTweet allows you to choose from two different sizes of buttons.

Blogger is a great free blog platform that is improving every day. New useful hacks and widgets are being created on a regular basis. Here is a list of some of the very best blogger widgets and blogger hacks that will improve the usability of your blog.


Related Posts Widget
Display related posts beneath each of your blog posts. Links are displayed based on labels given to each post.

Tag Cloud Widget
Display a simple tag cloud in your blog's sidebar. The tags are displayed based upon the labels given to each post.

Random Posts Button
This widget creates a link for your template that directs users to a random post when clicked on.

Website or Business Widgets

Personal Profile Widgets

Profile Badge
Create a Facebook profile badge to share selected profile information on your website. A profile badge will allow your users to easily connect with you and add you as a friend.

Photo Badge
This photo badge allows you to share your Facebook photos on websites and blogs. Choose from a vertical, horizontal, or two-column layout and also choose the number of photos to be displayed.

Fan Badge
Display your Facebook fan pages for all to see.

Earn through PPC(Paid Per Click)
The first thing that comes into our mind when we think we need to make money with our blog is Google Adsense. These are ads which are automatically displayed by Google. When people click them, you earn money(a percentage of the original cost paid by the advertiser). I heard both positive and negatives about them. Few of friends make good money through them while few do not make even a cent. I am sure if you have enough traffic and have the right content, you can end up with lots of money.

There is no need to confuse with all the technical terms mentioned above. It just means you get paid for every 1000 impressions. In fact, the main advantage of this site is easy installation and once installed, you will find banner ads running in your site. More over, they offer PayPal as a mode of payment. This is another advantage when compared to Adbrite.

So, you started your own blog. You created it on the Blogger platform. You write about your favourite things, started having traffic, and now feel that you need to better interact with your visitors. It is time for you to create a contact form for your blog.

Before continuing, there are a couple of things you should know: usually, contact forms use the mail() function to send emails. As your blog is created on the Blogger free platfom, you do not have access to the mail() function. This is why you need to use an external service to create and run your contact form. We will teach you how to use a free 123ContactForm account to create the form you need for your blog.

Please follow these steps, in about 5 minutes, your Blogger page will have a brand new contact form!

Naturally, blogs include a method of getting in contact with the owner or editor/writer of the site – through comments. However, this isn’t the best method for contacting the owner, especially if you need to give personal details or something that can’t be shared with the entire community.

Some blogs don’t even contain a contact form – they rely solely on comments, but this isn’t an ideal situation should a user encounter a problem with your site (copyright, display issues, and so on). Therefore, it is essential to place some type of contact form on your blog.

YouTube is filled with tons of resources for bloggers. There are thousands of videos about blogging, search engine optimization, web design, blog tools, analytics and much more. Here is a comprehensive list of best YouTube videos for bloggers.

Almost every blogger is familiar with discussion forums and take active part in it. They are a good source to learn and share the knowledge. Some popular discussion forums also send huge traffic to blogs. If you want to take your blog to the next level, then you must join these forums. Participating in these forums will give you firm ground of the blogging basics,and will also give good exposure to your blog.

Social Media has emerged as a strategic business promoting tool for virtually every organization with online presence, to gain rapid exposure on Internet. Investing in social media has become a norm in large number of companies for getting better feedback, low cost passive advertising and valuable direct interaction with customers. Today, demand of social media experts is growing, as more and more companies are offering the position of Social Media Expert (SME) within their web promotion department. Here is a comprehensive list of resources that will give you that edge over others to leverage the full benefits of social media.

Blogger platform has undergone major improvements in last two years. Not only the blogger development team has added several new features to the platform,, but countless new blogger templates are being developed around the globe. Here are some best widgets and plugins for blogger powered blog that can spice up your blog for better reader experience.

Since twitter has gone mainstream, the supporting applications and services are sprouting up like wildfire on Internet. Prominent among these applications are twitter desktop clients available for almost every platform. These handy applications help you manage your twitter activities in a much easier way than managing via web interface. Here's a list of select twitter clients for Mac platform.