Blogging Resources
Tools I am using to run Blogging Den
I highly recommend these tools to move your Blogging journey to the next level as a professional blogger.
Satish Kumar Ithamsetty
Founder of BloggingDen.com
Welcome to my blogging resources page. In this, I am going to share my tools, which I am using to improve my blog visibility and my business. Many new bloggers are asking about my tools and resources which are using in my blogging journey.
I am so hard to tell each and every one. So I started this page so that I can share this with everyone. Of course, these are the basic tools. I wasted more money on the tools to improve the visibility of this blog. After a few years, I realized that blogging is not an expensive game if you have content with confidence. Here are the few tools I am using right now.
Do not Waste Money. Spend Money at the right time.
Blogging Platform
WordPress
WordPress is one of the Content Management System (CMS). It is a free and open-source blogging platform. There are few free blogging platforms are available on the web. But 35% of the blogs are powered with this CMS. We used this platform to build this blog. WordPress is very easy to use and user friendly. We can build awesome blogs by using themes and plugins. My first blog started on the Blogspot platform after a few months I migrated to the WordPress platform. This is a really good choice for newbies to advanced users because it is easy to manage and its customization.
Web Hosting Services
SiteGround
It starts from $3.95 / Month
Siteground is a leading web hosting company to start your business online. If you find out why Siteground is a perfect need, the simple answer is top speed and security. It is one of the recommended web hosting by official WordPress. They are providing free WordPress installation, Free SSL, and great support. I am using this hosting to host this blog. As per performance, it is very good.
GreenGeeks
It starts from $2.95 / Month
Greengeeks is an eco-friendly, most popular Green energy web hosting provider from california. They are providing a great and awesome support with affordable hosting plans and prices. Really i am enzoying this hosting from few years. I highly recomed this service for newbie and startups. You can choose optimized WordPress hosting services for better page loading times and for better ranking inn search engines.
BlueHost
It starts from $2.95 / Month
Bluehost is another WordPress optimized web hosting service, which is recommended by WordPress developers. It is powered by more than 2 million sites. I hosted a few of my blogs on this hosting. This is one of the biggest web hosting industries with top-notch technology with an efficient support team. I am using this service for a few years. I have very good relations with this company. So I can not forget their technical services when I face issues from the server-side. I highly recommend this cheap web hosting for your new start.
A2 Hosting
It starts from $3.95 / Month
A2Hosting is another fast web hosting with high-performance SSD. This is a budget-friendly hosting for newbies. It comes with an A2 Optimized WordPress version, which is having more secure settings. The best thing with this hosting is, it accepts Debit cards and URI payment systems (Google pay) to complete hosting purchases instead of credit cards. I am using this hosting to host my other blogs. I highly recommend this hosting for my readers.
WordPress Themes
Hundreds of WordPress themes are available on the web to design your blog more attractive and user engageable. Here are my favorite themes. I used these themes in my 10 years of blogging journey.
GeneratePress
$49 / Year for Unlimited Domains
GeneratePress themes is a fast loading lightweight and fully schema optimized WordPress theme. It is customizable as per your personal and business requirements. GeneratePress is a responsive, easy to use WordPress theme available for free. It’s one of the most highly rated themes available on WordPress.org.
Admania
Price: $39
Admania is another my favorite theme. It is very a well-coded with Gutenberg compatible theme. It comes with 16 different layouts to design your blog as per your requirement. This is a perfect fit for Adsense users and Affiliate Marketers to their revenue.
It comes with front end and back end editing supportive features. You can update your advertising codes from both ends. Every slot is highly optimized. Simple and fast-loading coding.
WordPress Plugins
Elementor Pro
Cost: Free/$49 Per Year
Elementor works seamlessly with almost any WordPress theme and plugin, so you can continue to use your favourite tools and take your work to the next level. Easy to use and user-friendly. Most of the pages are designed in this blog by using this Page builder plugin. It comes with predesigned landing pages, Popups creation tool, and Theme builder
WP Rocket
Cost: Free/$49 Per Year
The WP Rocket plugin helps in optimizing the speed by clearing the cache of your website. Speed of loading is another important feature for blogs to rank first in Google. This speed Optimisation can be done by Caching on mobile devices and tables. This is the best premium wordpress cache plugin. This blog is optimized with this plugin for better page loading speed.
WP Coupons.io
Price: $34.95 per year
WP Coupons was developed by affiliate marketers for affiliate marketers to help increase your CTR and conversions. This plugin helps to create Product sales page with attractive Call-to-action button. I am using this plugin to promote different affiliate products here.
Coupon Code: WPCOUPONS (10% OFF)
Social Snap Pro
Cost: Free/$39 Per Year
Social snap is the user-friendly, super-fast social sharing plugin that help you drive traffic from social media. It comes with more than 30+ social share buttons for more social user engagement.
Thirsty Affiliate
Cost: Free/$49 Per Year
Thirsty affiliate is a link cloaking plugin. It helps you to shortens your Affiliate links to easy to read links. This is very important for affiliate marketing blog to cloak the affiliate links. Of course, this is one of the must-have plugin for any type of blog.
ConvertPlug
Price: $23
It is an all-in-one WordPress Popup plugin to generate more subscriber’s ad sales conversions using popups, header and footer bars, slide-in forms, sidebar widgets, in-line forms and social buttons.
