Hello, thank you for stopping by, hope these Resources for Bloggers will help you as much as it has helped me.

You know, as a blogger sometimes I feel frustrated, blocked, even unmotivated. Sometimes I feel lost and don’t know where to go.

Blogging can be overwhelming and a kick in the butt BUT when I sit, take I deep breath, and think; I realize I just love blogging.

Because I understand all the ins and outs of this industry and love helping others, I created this page.

Here is a helpful resource collection that I put together of all my favorite and most used products/services. I use some of these services on a regular basis and others every once in a while and thought they may be of value to you.

Resources for Bloggers Established or New.

This is a great page to bookmark really handy as I will be updating it often with more products and services I find that are helpful.

Disclaimer: Please note that some of the links above are affiliate links, it won’t cost you any extra but I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links. I personally use most of the products listed above on TCN Design Studio and recommend them because they are helpful and are companies that I trust, not because of the commissions that I may earn from you using these products. Please let me know if you have any questions in regard to the links above.

Domain Setup

I got my first domain through Google but the provider is ENOMS. I’m really happy with them, no problems so far. Then I also have some domains with iPage and others with Namecheap. All of them good so far.

GoDaddy

Use GoDaddy’s Domain Name Search tool and register the domain you’ve been looking for. Buy your domain from the world’s largest domain registrar.

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Enoms

Enom, Inc. is a domain name registrar and Web hosting company that also sells other products closely tied to domain names, such as SSL certificates, etc.

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Namecheap

Register domain names at Namecheap. Buy cheap domain names and enjoy 24/7 support. With over 16 million domains under management, you know you’re in good hands.

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iPage

Choose the right domain. Buy a new domain name from all the most popular top level domains, such as .com, .net, .org, .shop, .store, and so much more. Webhosting available.

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Web Hosting Services

BigScoots

BigScoots may not be the most established brand in the hosting industry yet, but it has become one of the most reputable companies because of its commitment to superior support and enterprise-grade infrastructure. I moved my site to their servers about 5 years ago and I just can say WOW. They are amazing so far.

Their servers are optimized for WordPress. Unlike many providers of managed WP hosting, BigScoots doesn’t arbitrarily limit the number of monthly visits, their entry plan thus capable of handling over 250K visits. All the managed plans include website staging, 10 GB of email, off-server backups, free SSL certificates and free migration which is A LOT less headache. They did it all for me and I’m seriously telling you they didn’t say NO to anything I asked. Every error I got they fixed it. I’m really glad I switched.

Everything sounds great, right, of course, like anything, not everything can be roses. BigScoots’s Optimized WordPress isn’t cheap at first glance. It took me a little while to digest it. But if you consider the full range of features you get, however, pricing is very reasonable. The service doesn’t have a control panel as such, but it does have all the necessary tools such as PHPMyAdmin and FTP. The entry plan limits bandwidth to 1 TB which is more than enough to start, but all higher plans include unlimited data transfer.

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Craver Hosting

Crave Hosting is the new kid on the block but don’t mistake it as a newbie. Crave is here to change the way web hosting as we know it with reliable and advanced technologies to ensure ultra-fast hosting you can trust, no matter your website’s size.

Their price range is really competitive and the plans adapt seamlessly to your site’s traffic, guaranteeing top performance and consistent quality.

Whether you’re launching a new startup or managing a large authority site, enjoy perfect hosting tailored to your needs. All plans come with SSL, security, CloudFlare enterprise, unlimited storage, off-server backups, website staging, and free seamless migration.

What I personally love the most about Crave is that you don’t need to know what’s wrong to fix it, with the way they built the system, they monitor your site 24/7 which allows them to fix any problem before you even get to notice it. It’s a real proactive managed WordPress hosting service.

In short, Crave brings a fresh approach to WordPress hosting offering unique features not found elsewhere in the industry, all backed by extensive, first-party performance data.

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Stock Photo

Depositphotos

I absolutely love this site, the photos, the illustrations, and the music. The Resources are amazing. Check it out.

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Haute Stock

I love Haute Stock. I use their free images on some blog design drafts as well as some social media posts.

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SC Stockshop

The good thing about them is the limit they place on how many times an image can be sold. Take a look at this shop.

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IvoryMix

I use lots of these images on some designs as well as some social posts. Gorgeously design photos!

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PixiStock

I absolutely love this site and her photos. Her stock photos are amazing and the possibilities are endless. She doesn’t stop only at photos she has a full suite of products and courses for you to improve your business. Check her out.

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Creative Market

This place is AWESOME. It has not only gorgeous styled stock photos but a huge variety of templated, mockups and so much more. Just use the search box for styled stock photo and you will see all the gorgeous collections they’ve got!

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Unsplash

I absolutely love this stock photo site. You will find any kind of photos and I especially love their interior photos. I’ve used them for the Theme templates I working on when I’m on developing stage to show the clients how it’s looking.

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Pexls

From breathtaking landscapes, adorable animal antics, or anything in between, Pexels has it all. And guess what? It’s free as a bird! So dive into the Pexels pool and get ready to splash around in a sea of awesome images.

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Photo Editing Tools

Canva

Canva is an online design tool that offers users the opportunity to create professional-looking posters, slideshows, images, event flyers, resumes, cards, certificates, infographics, and other media. The tool allows students to design visuals to showcase their knowledge in unique ways. Crop, rotate, and resize your photos with this site.

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PickMonkey

It is easy to use and reasonably priced.  It’s a great graphic design tool that is really easy to catch on to, and they keep adding more and more options and making it better and better. Not only can you create amazing graphics and labels in PicMonkey’s “design” feature, but you can also edit photos and create collages as well.

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Adobe

Create videos and Edit videos, design motion graphics, and add visual effects with industry-leading apps like Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and After Effects. Creative Cloud video apps play well together, streamlining your workflow. I personally use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom for editing and Adobe Illustrator for designs and logos.

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Marketing Scheduler

Tailwind

It’s a great tool for managing Pinterest and Instagram marketing. Helps me find content, schedule posts and run contests. Start a free trial to check it out! You have a free trial and paid plans.

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Planoly

Manage, plan, and schedule your Instagram posts from your computer and mobile phones. Create a cohesive Instagram feed and manage multiple Instagram accounts. You have free and paid plans.

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Later

Later is a web-based marketing platform, designed to help businesses plan and schedule posts across social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. There is a free and paid plan.

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Form Builders

WP Forms

It’s an asy drag & drop WordPress form builder that allows you to create contact forms, online surveys, donation forms, order forms and others. I currently use this here at TCN Design Studio and I’ve used it on several other blogs.

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Ninja Forms

Ninja Forms is a free top-notch form builder WordPress plug-in. It’s easy to install, to use, and overall just a great product. Their service and support are fast and friendly. I’ve used this one on some sites I’ve designed in the past.

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Kadence Forms

Kadence is a free top-notch form builder supported by Kadence blocks that allows you to easily create a contact or marketing form and style it within the block editor to match your brand. Features. Built-in Google ReCaptcha support.

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Font Sources

The Hungry JPG

This place as they have tons of premium graphic design resources available for instant download. You will find freebies and also very inexpensive resources.

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Font Bundles

The home of premium fonts and font bundles. Specialist resource for Etsy sellers, card makers, paper crafters, and more. You will find freebies and also very inexpensive resources.

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Creative Fabrica

This is another one of my favorite sites to find the perfect custom font to use for websites, designs, and logos. Premium and Free gorgeous fonts.

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Google Fonts

An amazing and huge collection of fonts free to use on sites and Prints. Most of the fonts I use on my WordPress theme designs come from Google Fonts.

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WordMark

A great free tool that allows you to see all the fonts on your computer at once. This is helpful to have an idea of how much load fonts are being added to your site.

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CSS Font Stack

This is a free online tool that gets you a list of fonts in the CSS font-family declaration and it allows you to control the look of the fonts on the website.

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WordPress Plugins

Akismet

Akismet is a great and popular service that helps you filters spam from comments, trackbacks, and contact form messages. The filter operates by combining information about spam captured on all participating sites and then using those spam rules to block future spam.

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Wp Rocket

It’s one of the best Web Performance Optimization plugins out there. I’ve been using it for a while now and I should have started using it way sooner. The downside is that there’s no free plan but trust me it’s absolutely worth it every cent. By using this link you get 10% discount when you sign up!

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Autoptimize

It’s a great free WordPress optimization plugin. In addition to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript optimization, it also includes modification, Lazy-load images, etc. This is not a cache plugin so it will get the maximum success when used along with a cache plugin such as Cache Enabler.

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Cache Enabler

It’s an easy-to-use, yet powerful WordPress caching plugin that needs minimal configuration, and best of all helps improve site performance for a faster load time. It’s a lightweight page caching plugin that creates static HTML files and stores them on your web server. It goes perfectly with Autoptimize.

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WP SEO by Yoast

A helpful plugin that allows you to edit post metadata and other SEO options. It helps your site perform better in search engines with a variety of features. It takes care of the technical aspects of SEO. I love it, It’s easy to use and highly recommended. It’s a lot better than the All In One SEO Pack.

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ShortPixel

It’s an image optimization plugin that significantly reduces image file size without compromising quality. It’s seamless to use, and if you’re not satisfied with the optimized version, you can easily restore the original image with just one click. It’s lightweight and doesn’t impact site performance. A must-have tool!

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Jetpack

Adds numerous advanced options to WordPress that are usually only available to WordPress.com users. (Use caution: though I have never had a problem with Jetpack, I have heard that others have had issues with it during upgrades.)

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Grow by Mediavine

I love this plugin! Whether you want to get people sharing, grow your fans, and get the word out. It’s lightweight and offers a fair variety of social platforms to use. There is a free and paid plan with lots of additional features.

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Comment Email Reply

This free WordPress plugin sends an email to your commenters to notify them when you reply to their comment so that they don’t have to remember to come back to your site to see your answer. A great and must-have tool!

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jQuery Pin It Button for Images

Puts a “Pin it” button on your website’s images when readers hover over them for super easy pinning! It allows you to set a custom Pin icon and a minimum size to allow pinning

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Google Analytics Dashboard for WP

Displays Google Analytics Reports and Real-Time Statistics in your Dashboard. Automatically inserts the tracking code on every page of your website.

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Ultimate Nofollow

Ultimate Nofollow is a very helpful and interesting plugin that allows you to add the nofollow attribute with one single click. It gives you complete control over the rel=nofollow tag on an individual link basis.

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Backups and Online Storage

Dropbox

It’s an amazingly simple service to send and share large files. It works on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, and the web. We both have free accounts and that’s enough for us right now.

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Google Drive

I use Google Drive mostly for sharing documents and spreadsheets more than standard file storage but you can definitely set it as your default backup destination.

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Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive is an online cloud storage service from Microsoft. You can share large files. It works on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, and the web as well as set it as your backup destination

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Blog Monetization

Raptive formerly AdThrive

This is the Ad Manager network I currently use and I love them. Get the highest possible income for each pageview. They handle ads so that we can focus on creating amazing, high-quality content. It requires a minimum of 100K Pageviews a month to be eligible.

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MediaVine

Mediavine is another full-service ad management including display ad optimization, video monetization and sponsored influencer marketing for original content creators and bloggers. It requires a minimum of 50K Pageviews a month to be eligible.

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Monumetric

Monumetric is your full-service ad revenue partner, helping you reach your revenue goals while preserving the best user experience for your site. You can apply with as little as 10K Pageviews a month but they will charge you a fee. From 25K up it’s free to join.

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Google Adsense

The biggest supplier of Pay Per Click advertising and the one you will see most often. It’s easy to set up, and once established you don’t have to do anything to update the adverts unless you want to change the placement on your site. No minimum Pageviews are required, just at least 6 months of active posting.

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SheMedia

SHE Media created the Meaningful Marketplace platform to provide economic opportunity to our community of women-owned and minority-owned publishers and Content creators. It requires a minimum of 25K Pageviews a month to be eligible and start monetizing your website.

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Amazon Affiliate

This Program helps content creators, publishers and bloggers monetize their traffic. Bloggers, publishers and content creators with a qualifying website or mobile app can participate in this program. You earn from qualifying purchases and programs through the traffic you drive to Amazon

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 Well, hope that all these tips can help you in some way!

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