Website and Tools for Blog

During working on this "Network Security Memo" blog, there are some helpful websites or tools being used but not listed in previous posts. This post will mostly focus on blog related tools. Hopefully this will help some other beginners when they are trying to set their blog site up. Here are the lists:
1. Website Speed Test and Monitoring Tools
2. Webmaster Tools
3. Website Analytics Tools
4. Making Money by adding ads
5. Buying Ads from advertiser
6. Plugins
7. Blog Promotion
8. Free Domain Name
9. Free Image Hosting and Sharing Sites
10. Check if Your Website Blocked by GFW in China
11. Website Submission
12. Google Test Tools
13. SEO Tools

There are some other related posts in this blog:

• My Top Network Security Tools
• My Top Internet / Network Tools
• My Top IT Tools
• Website and Tools for Blogger

1. Website Speed Test and Monitoring Tools

• http://ping.eu/ or http://centralops.net/co/ or http://ping.chinaz.com/
• http://gtmetrix.com/
• http://www.webkaka.com/
• http://whichloadsfaster.info/
• http://www.speedtest.net/
• http://www.monitor.us/
• dotcom-tools.com - Website Speed Test - Page Loads

2. Webmaster Tools

a. Google Webmaster Tools

b. Bing - Webmaster Tools

3. Website Analytics Tools

a. Google Analytics Official Website – Web Analytics & Reporting

b. http://clicky.com/

4. Making Money by adding ads

a. AdSense – Google Ads
b. Amazon Associates

c. Chitika

d. ebay Affiliate

5. Buying Ads from advertiser

a. Google AdWords - Be Found In More Online Searches

6. Plugins

• https://feedburner.google.com/
• Recent Comments Widget for Blogger
• Feedjit -  Free Live Traffic Feed
• Adding Tools to Blogger
• https://disqus.com/
• http://www.linkwithin.com/learn?ref=widget
• Print Friently Button
• clustrmaps.com - Visualize Your Website's Stats

7. Blog Promotion
a. Bloggup
b. SEO Tools from lusongsong.com
c. Freewebsubmission.com
d. http://www.submissionurl.com/

8. Free Domain Name

a. https://www.cloudflare.com/
b. http://www.freenom.com/

9. Free Image Hosting and Sharing Sites

a. Photobucket.com Not good anymore. They changed their service on June 2017 and charge too much for their hosting service.
b. Poco.cn
c. www.niupic.com
d. Postimage
e. TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting

10. Check if Your Website Blocked by GFW in China

a. Test if any website is blocked in china http://www.blockedinchina.net/
b. 网站被墙了吗? http://www.hostucan.cn/site-block-checker
c. Test website from China

• 1. Web Page Test 
• 2. Site 24X7
• 3. Dot Com Monitor
• 4. Baidu Site Speed Monitoring 
• 5. 360 iYun Site Speed

11. Website Submission
Find list of best free URL submission and website submission sites. Submit your websites to 100's of Sites including search engines.
PingMyLink.com
Free search engine submission and Ping Service. Free URL submission tool will automatically add your URL to several hundreds of different websites that automatically provide free backlinks for you. Each of these sites has been collected in one comprehensive list, and our free tool automates the entire process for you.
FreeWebSubmission.com
Free Web Submission is the source for free search engine submission. Provides webmasters and site owners with free manual and auto submission to the highest-rated, free internet search engines and directories.
LinkStation
Free Autoubmit URL to 8000 FFA links pages.
Pingmyurl.com
Free Submit Your URL to 1,374 Different Websites.
Global Search Engine Submitter
Autoubmit Your Web Site to 65 Major Search Engines.
SubmitExpress
Free Search engine autosubmitter to 70+ search engines and directories.
Submitx.com
Free website submission to 636 search engines and directories.
AddMe
Website submission & registration with 25 search engines.
Site-submit.netne.net
Submit a URL to Over 130 Search Engines for Free. Free and easy site URL submission to more than 130 search engines.
MultiLinks
Submit URL to 200 classified ad sites and 1000 FFA links pages.


12. Google Test Tools

• Google Adsense Sandbox : You can use this tool to determine if a domain is banned in the AdSense program. Put the website URL in the input box and if you see no ads, Google may have disabled ad-serving for that domain.

• Google Mobile Friendly Test Site

13. SEO Tools

SEO = Search Engine Optimization.” It is the optimized process of getting traffic from all kinds of search engines such as google, bing, yahoo.

• SerpStat is a all-in-one SEO tool that consists of five different modules:Position Tracking, Backlink Analysis, Keyword Research, Site Audit, Competitor Research
• Moz Open Site Explorer: This free version of Open Site Explorer gives you a limit times to have quick but full look of link analysis.
• QuickSprout tells you how to make those important changes on your website that will grow your traffic. 
• Similarweb : FREE version will provide 5 Results Per Metric,  1 Month of Mobile App Data and 3 Months of Web Traffic Data .
• SeoSiteCheckup runs through a fast audit of your site, checking for proper tags and surfacing any errors that might come up.

14. Free Video Editing Tools

• OpenShot (Windows, Mac, and Linux)
• VideoPad (Windows & Mac & Android & Kindle)
• VSDC Free Video Editor (Windows)