Are you new to blogging? Not sure what you need to help you grow and monetize your blog?
These programs, tools, and sites I recommend keep me focused on the right things to do for growing my blog. All of these resources I’ve personally used and will benefit you as well!
Many of these links are affiliate links – meaning they do not cost you anything extra, but I do receive a commission if you use them. Thank you!
The hosting service I use. Want to start a blog? SiteGround is affordable, has amazing customer service, super uptime and will help you install WordPress.
My email service provider. ConvertKit makes it easy for new bloggers to create beautiful landing pages and opt-in forms for their blog. If you sign up using my special link, you’ll get a free month trial! You can’t beat that.
My Pinterest automation scheduling app. I love and use Tailwind to schedule my pins. This has made a big, big, BIG impact on my blog and has helped me grow my traffic exponentially. Get your first 100 pins free!
My favorite email capture form service. OptinMonster lets you display optin forms as a slider, pop-up box and exit intent.
Where I get my free stock photos. Ivory Mix has one of the biggest free stock photo bundle for bloggers. I also have a massive list of other places to get free stock photos for your site.
My blog traffic recipe course. If you have a blog, how do you get eyes on your blog posts? How to make money from your blog if no one is coming to your posts? Ready Set Blog for Traffic is my course to help new bloggers boost their traffic and get some amazing income from their posts.
Another Pinterest automation app. Tailwind is my number one BFF, but BoardBooster allows me to loop my pins to my boards. The app chooses a pin from one of my boards and repins it to the same board. This updates my boards and gets my pins shown in Pinterest’s Smart Feed. Doing this increased my pageviews by 1000 in just a couple of days.
My social media scheduler. I use Buffer to post in my Facebook Group and on Twitter. They have a free plan that works great if you only have one blog!
My image optimizer tool. TinyPNG makes your image size smaller, freeing up space on your WordPress site. TinyPNG also works for JPG images.