All bloggers, new or experienced, need to be able to use many blog tools and services. Without some of these tools, it would almost be impossible to have a successful blog. Here are a few blog tools that will help with your blogging success.
Technorati
Every blogger needs to have a Technorati account. It’s the search engine of the blogging world. For every blog that links to your blog will give you an authority. The higher your authority is, the higher your blog will rank in Technorati. So if you have started your blog a few weeks or months ago and haven’t claimed your blog on Technorati yet, go ahead and get one! You have already wasted a few links to your site that could have given your blog some authority ranking.

FeedBurner
Providing your readers with an available RSS feed is very important. It’s basically their daily newsletter that includes the latest articles in your blog. If you haven’t started with FeedBurner yet, chances are that you don’t know what RSS is. Visit my article here to learn more about RSS.
MyBlogLog
This blogging community and directory puts together all the claimed blogs together in one site. With MyBlogLog, you can visit other blog communities and discover new blogs that you have never been before. But most importantly MyBlogLog allows you to let your readers join your blog community. After you build up your community members, try to get in the top 50 communities that are shown in the Communities page. By the way, don’t forget to join the Slyvisions community!
BlogCatalog
BlogCatalog is very similar to MyBlogLog. You can also join comminities and add other bloggers as friends, but there is one thing that makes this blog directory stand out against all others: their discussion forum. In fact, I think this is the only blogging forum out there that has many active bloggers taking part in it. The forum is not like other forums that have sub-directories, but an easy to use forum that allows users to easily post and reply to threads. Check the screenshot below.

Google Analytics
This Google service allows bloggers (and other site managers) to keep track of a website’s statistics. With Google Analytics, you can view referrals of where your visitors came from, what the most visited page is, the your visitors are in, and other important information. You can also use Analytics’ charts and graphs to show your advertisers or sponsors the statistics of your site. Other than this service, it’s also important to have live stat counter like Site Meter, Stat Counter, etc.
Keyword Tools
Keyword Tools are useful if you plan to incorporate SEO in your blog. Everyone knows that with search-engine optimized sites and articles, Google and other search engines will bring you more traffic to your site. That’s why keyword selector tools are there for you.
Crazy Egg
Remember my post on Crazy Egg? Well, it’s the cool heatmap service that lets you see what’s hot and what’s not on your site. You’ll be able to see a visual detail of the clicks on your site as well as a full summary of data. After you get your results, you can see what changes you can make on your site’s design, layout, or ad placements.

Gmail Notifier
With all the bloggers out there that I know, many of them use Gmail. Even those that don’t use it for email use it because of Gmail Notifier, a service that alerts you with new emails when you get them that is as accurate as a single minute. Because Gmail allows users to accept forwarded emails, someone can forward the email that they regularly use to their Gmail account. Gmai Notifier will then do its work.

Know of other tools or services that belongs here? Let us know what you got and I’ll add them in here!
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Nice list of tools. Crazy-egg looks pretty neat, I’ve never heard of a service like that.
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Rahul Jadhav Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Nice list. I am using all the services that you have mentioned. I like Crazy Egg very much.
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I am not perfect, I have only used 5 of the services
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Crazy Egg looks intriguing. I want to try it.
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Sly,
just wanted to let you know that the link, as mentioned in the post above, is not opening for me.
I am usign Firefox 2.0.0.11. MAy be something is missing.
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@ Web Tools - Sorry about that. It’s fixed now. After moving to WordPress, I still have a few errors in my site’s internal links. Thanks for the heads up!
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Your right about BlogCatalog. It’s really great and their are some great discussion threads for people in the same niches.
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I think stumbleupopn should also be on this list I read somewhere that it is suppose to be better then google altho I do not know how true this is. But Stumbleupon is something like blogcatalog and myblog. Say thanks for sharing these tools I have most of them altho I do not have crazy egg I never heard of it so Im going to give it a try and see whats hot on my blog. thanks
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I think stumble upon should be on this list its alot like myblog and blogcatalog, also I read somewhere its suppose tobe better then google. thanks on the info I had never heard of crazy egg but Im sure going to go and check it out and see whats hot on my blog and whats not. thanks
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I agree with lilyruth, think SU should be on the list aswell… going to check out crazyegg, hadn´t heard of that one before, thanks for mentioning it;)
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I really like the look of Crazy Egg - I’ll have to try it out on a few of my sites. Seems like it’d be great for improving conversions and monitoring user activity. The other services are great as well, but I’ve already heard of most of them.
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I really enjoyed this list and it will defiantly help a lot of bloggers.
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well, there is much more ! how about yahoo buzz and all services ?????
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I have started to sign up all those sites to get more visitors to my blog.Asa blogger noob, this post is really useful to me…
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Feedburner is a great one. When you combine Feedburner with Google Adsense you can be earning some decent revenue from your RSS feeds. No RSS feeds = lost revenue.
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true. i’m a big fan of gmail notifier, and i use it often. that said, i’m rethinking this because all my email checking’s becoming counterproductive.
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I haven’t get myself a gmail.
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I really need to use these…
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there are also digg and delicious.
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Hello ! Like the post very much,found it very useful since I am the beginner in blogging etc.. Thx
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I just used BlogCatalog, Technorati, and Google Analytics. I will try the other Tools next.
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I use all of the above except MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog… I don’t want to be bothered by the stuff they make you put on your page.
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Thanks, these are really good tools.
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Nice post. I knew many of the services tht u have listed. However i didnt know about blog catalog. Will check it out
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Thanks for the list of great tools. Mybloglog Seems to work great for backlinks and traffic.
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Oh my god - I have soooooooo much to learn!!! I really love blogging, but never thought about starting my own blog!!!! DOH!!!!!! And here are all the tools to do it……….mmmmmmmmmmmmm I dont even know about joining communities. Is there a really simple dummies guide to blogging. twitter etc? I dont even know the jargon yet, but I sooooo love to chat.
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You hit it all Paul. Just practically what a blogger needs..
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These are some good tools, I must improve my bogging.
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