I wanted to put together a list of a few tools I frequently use. I didn’t want to put the typical stuff that everyone always blogs about, but I included a great list from ProBlogger anyway. Here are the 3 tools I frequently use.
Website Grader by HubSpot – Marketing Reports for 150,000 URLs and Counting…
I really like this tool. It gives you a rating, or score from 0 – 100. I like this tool because it shows you the score and the results from any site… It provides very interesting information. For example, gizmodo.com, a very popular blog doesn’t use a 301 redirect, metatags/keywords, or a site description. Yet, the still have a great SEO and an Alexa rank of 870. Frickin’ phenomenal! 
Builtwith.com Web Page Technology Profiler – Find out what a site is built with.
This is another great tool… you can find out what technology any site uses. 
XinuReturns – Check PageRank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages, Rankings and more
This does exactly what it says… checks all kinds of great information for you. Now, there’s several tools out there that do this, but I found this one to be a good fit for me.
Other stuff…
Statistics Packages and Metrics Tools
• Sitemeter
• Google Analytics
• My Blog Log
• WebAnalyse
• Performancing Metrics
• AWStats
• Mint
• Extreme
• Webalizer
• Stat Counter
• Measure Map
• Slim Stat
Blog Editor Tools
• Ecto for Mac and Windows
• Qumana
• BlogJet
• Zoundry
• w.bloggar
• Blog Desk
• Post2Blog
• Performancing for Firefox
• Mars Edit
News Aggregators and News Sourcing Tools
• Bloglines
• FeedDemon
• Technorati
• Google Reader
• Website Watcher
• BlogPulse
• Blogarithm
• Topix
• Blog Bridge
• Grazr
• Rojo
• Memeorandum
• NewsGator Online
• Net News Wire
Email Subscription Tools and Newsletter Services
• FeedBlitz
• Zookoda
• Aweber
• Yutter
• RssFwd
• Feedburner’s Email Subscription Service
Blog Poll Tools
• Blog Polls.com
• Vizu
• Free Blog Poll
• Blog Poll
• Blog Flux Polls
• WP Polls
Other Blog Tools
• Pingoat – pinging service
• Pingomatic – another pinging service
• AudioBlogger – audio post to your blog via phone
• BlogRolling – a service to manage your blog roll
• Creative Commons – copyright protections service
• Feedburner – RSS tool that adds a variety of features to your blog’s RSS feed
• Picasa – find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC
• Flickr – Store and share your images – good way of hosting images if you don’t have a stand alone blog on your own domain.
• Flock – A browser that enables sharing and blogging from within it
• Copyscape – allows you to track down other sites that are stealing your content
• TalkDigger – ‘find, follow and join conversations evolving on the Internet.’
• Blog Flux – Stats, Pinging and Directory
• Backpack It – A place to organise your to do lists, notes, files, reminders and more – all online
• Basecamp – Like Backpack it (same people behind it) but great for collaboration on projects.
• Ice Rocket – Blog Search
• coComment – Keep track of the comments you leave on different blogs in a central place
• co.mments – Similar name to coComment but not to be confused with it – a way of bookmarking and following comment threads via RSS
• Gabbly – Add live chat to our blog posts (like real time comments combined with IRC)
• Del.icio.us – Social Bookmarking site – good for sourcing stories but also great if you get linked to on it to get traffic
• Digg – Another major Social Bookmarking site
• Only Wire – a bookmarklet that submits posts to multiple social bookmarking sites at once
• Odeo – a tool for recording and sharing audio/podcasting
• TagCloud – produces Tag Clouds for your blog from RSS feeds
• Indie Karma – a micropayment system for bloggers
• Tiny URL – Turns long URLs into tiny manageable ones
• Swicki – a new type of search engine that harnesses the power of a web community – sort of like a search engine and wiki combined
Filmloop – photo sharing
• Stock.xchng – Free Stock Photos
• Favicon Maker – allows you to make a favicon from a photo
• YouTube – a tool for putting video on your blog
• blip.tv – another video uploading tool
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What a list!
I’ll have to try xinu for sure – I check most of those individually right now. It would cut down on the time it takes and the sites to remember.
I’ll have to go thru the long lists you mention as there is a lot of stuff here.
Thanks for compiling such a list. It looks pretty thorough.
Will you be updating this list when you find more?
Thanks,
Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com
I certainly will! Thanks!