I’ve got­ten quite a few emails and com­ments request­ing more infor­ma­tion on affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing and blog mon­e­ti­za­tion as a way to achieve pas­sive income.

Well, I’ve found a great site list­ing 101 blog­ging resources. It cov­ers every­thing from host­ing to mon­e­ti­za­tion to search engine opti­miza­tion (SEO).

I hope this list will ben­e­fit you. Stay tuned as I will go into the details of affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing, link cre­ation, and SEO to help you bring in your desired pas­sive income.

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101 Essen­tial Blog­ging Resources

Domain Reg­is­trars

If you’re start­ing up on the web, then you’re gonna need an address where peo­ple can reach you:

1. Namecheap — $8.88 per year with free Whois­Guard
2. GoDaddy — $8.95 per year (and lower)
3. 1&1 — $5.99 per year with free pri­vate domain reg­is­tra­tion
4. MyDo­main — $8.25 per year

Host­ing

Once you’ve got your­self an address, you’re gonna need a house to store all of your juicy blog posts — so grab your­self some server space:

1. Dreamhost — Great plans, great prices with loads of band­width and disk­space.
2. Frozen Web­host — Small com­pany but only $5/month and very reli­able.
3. Media Tem­ple — Awe­some rec­om­men­da­tions, grid and ded­i­cated host­ing.
4. Rack­space — Man­aged, ded­i­cated and scal­able web host­ing for busi­nesses
5. Host­ga­tor — Shared host­ing at $6.95 per month
6. Blue­host — Afford­able, Reli­able, Web Host­ing Solutions

Con­tent Man­age­ment Systems

These babies are the core of your blog, so choose care­fully. Take pric­ing, cus­tomi­sa­tion and aes­thet­ics into account for this one:

1. Word­press — The indus­try stan­dard and most widely used — and its FREE!
2. Blog­ger — quick blog cre­ation, but FTP can be slow and you don’t have full con­trol
3. Type­pad — another blog­ging plat­form, but pric­ing from $4.95/month
4. Joomla — CMS and Web Appli­ca­tion Frame­work and free
5. Dru­pal — Full-featured con­tent management/discussion engine suit­able to setup a news-driven com­mu­nity or por­tal site
6. Square­Space — Pub­lish­ing sys­tem for man­ag­ing web­sites and blogs
7. Mov­able Type — Weblog pub­lish­ing sys­tem devel­oped by California-based Six Apart

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion

If you want to be a proper blog­ger, you’ve gotta com­mu­ni­cate with your fans. Instant Mes­sag­ing and Email are the quick­est and eas­i­est ways to do so:

1. Gmail — Free web-based email ser­vice that includes over 2 GB of stor­age (and grow­ing)
2. Hot­mail — Free web-based e-mail with 2GB e-mail stor­age
3. Yahoo Mail — Free web-based email with unlim­ited mail stor­age
4. Out­look — Email man­ager which can be used with MS Exchange Server for shared mail­boxes
5. Win­dows Live Mes­sen­ger — Instant mes­sag­ing pro­gram, talk to Yahoo con­tacts as well!
6. AIM — AOL Instant Mes­sen­ger, free online chat ser­vice
7. Gtalk — Instant com­mu­ni­ca­tion in con­junc­tion with Gmail
8. Yahoo Mes­sen­ger — Free instant mes­sag­ing with file shar­ing
9. Base­camp — Project col­lab­o­ra­tion, man­age­ment and task soft­ware
10. Camp­fire — Real-time group chat for busi­nesses
11. GoToMeet­ing — Web con­fer­enc­ing and online meet­ings ser­vice
12. Thun­der­bird — Open source cross plat­form email from Mozilla
13. Meebo — IM ser­vice which sup­ports MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and Jab­ber
14. Twit­ter — Social net­work­ing and microblog­ging ser­vice util­is­ing instant mes­sag­ing, SMS or a web inter­face
15. Skype — Free inter­net call­ing from PC to PC

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