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Best Gift Listings’ Site Tools and Resources
Do you want to know what makes up our website? Do you like our design and want to find out how we do what we do? Best Gift Listings is a first and foremost a gift blog. We curate it to help you gift better. It’s an awesome blessing for us to serve you in this way. So, maybe you want to start giving to other people in an awesome way like this. Or you just want to start a website to start making money. No problem, no matter the reason for your intrigue, we will tell you what we use and how we use it.
Due to legalities from our terms and conditions page, we can’t actually tell you how we run Best Gift Listings. We will, however, reveal all the tools we use and show you how you can start using them as well for your website.
If you want to use any of these recommended tools and resources, Be our guest!
Warning: Since we are “semi diving in” into several of the tool and resources, this page will be a long read. However, it will be worth it! We have gone through a lot to learn what we know and it works for us so it should work for you too! It should at least give you an idea of what to do next.
If you are deciding to venture onto this path, we have two pieces of advice.
- Just start. Just Do it. NOW. START TODAY!
- Show up every day and take action. No matter how big or small.
With that being said…
…Here is Best Gift Listings Site Tools and Resources – Officially – AKA What we Use
Reliable and Secure Hosting // Blogging Platform
If you want to get started on your website and have it be reliable and secure, you need to have a good host. This is not a blogging course website but the gist is, a host carries your website on their server so you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars getting your own.
To have your own website on the internet, you must have many things. However, there are two are like “air and food” for blogging: Platform and Hosting.
Your blogging platform is the company that lets you put (not host) on their website, NOT the host, sometimes “platforms” are also host but not all the time. Beware of this. A blog hosting company lets you host their information on their server. They are a bit like different faces of the same coin.
Our blogging platform is WordPress.org
If you notice, “.org” is bolded. That is because there is “wordpress.com” and “wordpress.org“
WordPress.org is what you want to use. It lets you have full control over all aspects of your website’s designs and potential earnings. So, if you want to take blogging seriously, then use wordpress.org
Over the lifetime of our website, we’ve used 3 hosting platforms (listed below) and one of them, which we are currently using is Bluehost!
- Bluehost (Our Current Host) – We wish we found it earlier
- Site Ground – Only moved from SiteGround because Bluehost had 21 more minute uptime per year!
- WP Engine – Really good but expensive
All these hosts are awesome but frankly, Bluehost is better by a mile. We list them so you can have options but we strongly recommend Bluehost!
Due to this, we honestly don’t want you to go with anyon but Bluehost. This is also why we didn’t any links to them. Anyways, that’s our 2 (thousand) cents.
We can’t say why we left day but we CAN say why we are with Bluehost. Bluehost is faster, low downtime, and the best customer service. Additionally, WordPress, the world-class content and website manager, and our content host (not website host) recommends it.
Great Website Theme
Everything on this list is a dire essential if you want to have a successful website. Themes are especially important because they’re the skin to your body (your website). You can’t have a website without a theme- and a good one as a matter of fact.
Currently, the team that we use is Revenue Pro Theme by HappyThemes.
It’s simple, fast, and keeps a blog-like esthetic while having an official magazine esq appearance.
You can also click here to check out to see what else they have.
Other best places to get themes are Genesis Themes, Thrive Themes, and Elegant Themes. We’ve used all of these themes, by the way, we like experimenting with the design to see what looks best. And we can say that they’re all excellent in their own right.
Email and Newsletter
Every good blogger will tell you that you should collect email addresses from day one! We didn’t do this when we started off but now we have a huge list that we use to send out weekly newsletters and notification.
We’ve used GetResponse and only switch to ConvertKit but since we’ve used both of them, we oughta include them as part of our site tools and resources.
Convert Kit
GetResponse
Blogging Course- Course we Recommend
This is weird for us to list. You may puzzle as to why this is one of our site’s tools and resources. Well, no list of site and resources, especially our’s would be noteworthy without this. If you are going to be successful, you need to learn how to do it from the pros by taking courses on how to start blogging.
This saves you a huge time and you get to skip the mistakes. They’ve made it, all we did, and you should, is pay them to learn those mistakes. Believe us: it’s worth the investment.
Here are the best options for blogging courses makes that we follow and that we’ve bought courses from.
CreateandGo has a lot of free advice and premium course that you can take to enhance your skills.
Check out HerPaperRoute. She’s an awesome teacher and a master of the game of blogging. Her testimonials are off the roof. She’ll definitely teach you everything you need to know
SEO (search engine optimization)
We use Yoast SEO to make sure our website ranks high on google.
Many of our blogging friends (yes, we have blogger friends) use SEMrush. They both very similar with a few similarities but the User Interfaces differ from one another.
Other Essential Courses
Speaking of learning through courses so that you can avoid mistakes. You need to take courses on the pillars of blogging. Now there are a lot of aspects to having a website or blogging. However, there are some aspects that are more essential to know off the bat and this site tools and resources page would have been a disservice if it were not for this.
Just like we have, you need to learn affiliate marketing and you need to learn how to market and advertise, and you learn how to be a business-savvy badass with your website or blog.
Website Upkeep Tools
If you are going to have a website, you need to be able to run maintenance. You need to be able to protect your website. We do this by, mostly, by downloading plugins. Now, there’re some software programs that aren’t in plugin form. You can check them out below. Before then, here are the site maintenance plugins that we use, that you need!
- WP Fastest Cache
- WP-Optimize
- Advanced Ads
- Print My Blog
- Yoast SEO – Previously mentioned
- Redirection
- Duplicate Post
- FMTC Affiliate Disclosure
- Insert Header and Footer
- Pretty Links
- External Links Opener
- Updraft Backup
- Embed Any Document
- WP Hide Login
- Really Simple SSL
- Elementor Page Builder
Lead Page or Landing Page Builder
If you want your conversion to shoot through the roof, then you need to have a Lead Pages or Click Funnels.
This is one of our favorite site tools and resources. Why? It’s one of the things that help us monetize what we love to do.
We want to give you options to explore but here are the best two Lead Page Builders in the game? With both, we have experience with!
CLICK FUNNELS
LEAD PAGES
The best we know of and what we personally use to build our landing pages. They’re masters in helping you maximize your sales. They’ve definitely helped us here and there and are one of our best site tools and resources.
Traffic Generation and Social Media
Tailwind – Visual Marketing Software
