These are just a few more tools and articles that can help you make and maintain a better and more profitable blog.

1.Blog Basics
For the beginner, this site outlines everything you need to know about blogging.

2.Structured Blogging Structured Blogging is a tool that can help bloggers create better organized and formatted content.

3.Qumana
Qumana is a desktop blog editor. It works on both Windows and Mac formats.

4.GeoLoc
GeoLoc is a fun widget that shows where visitors to your blog are coming from.

5.BlogRolling
This is a useful tool for keeping your blogroll organized.

6.101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
Lifehacker provides an excellent list of tips to help you be more successful with blogging.

7.WordPress Backup
This is a valuable plugin for WordPress that helps you backup your blog data in case something goes wrong.

8.Sociable
Sociable makes social bookmarking easy by adding links to interesting links at the end or your blog posts.

9.Blog Carnival
Joining a blog carnival can help you get linked more often and increase traffic to your site.

10.Creating Scannable Content
Studies have shown that readers of internet articles don’t actually read them at first, they scan. This article details how to lay out your content to reflect this.

If you’re truly interested in making a profit from your blog, you’re going to have to do something to draw in those dollars. These are a few resources that can help you make money through donations or by placing ads on your site.

1.PayPal
Use PayPal to set up a button on your site that readers can click on to make donations.

2.Google AdSense
Google AdSense is where many bloggers make the majority of their income. Ads are both pay per click and pay per view.

3.Yahoo Publisher Network
Similar to Google AdSense, Yahoo’s ads are pay per click.

4.Txtswap
Txtswap is a program that allows bloggers to exchange text links in order to bring in more traffic.

5.Adbrite
Adbrite can provide payment for simple text ads on your blog.

6.Chitika
Chitika is interactive advertising based on the content of your site. It tends to take up a little more room than other ads, but it also tends to pay a little more.

7.BlogBurst
BlogBurst can help you get your blog published in big time media outlets and get paid for it.

8.Text Link Ads
Text Link Ads is another resource for putting text ads on your site.

9.Bidvertiser Bidvertiser offers an innovative system where you set the bids on pay per click ads.

10.ReviewMe
Want to make a little cash on the side? ReviewMe is a marketplace for paid blog reviews.