5 more free things a great blog can't do without.

You may already have a good blog with some well written content. Here are 5 must have tools to make your free blog site more functional, especially for marketing purposes.

1. We have already discussed Bravenet's email subscription service. Feedblitz is another great free subscription tool that you can utilize. I am actually thinking about switching my service to them. They allow you control over the details of the email messages updating your readers. Something like this will serve you very well. If you are like me, you visit about a million different web pages a day and spent too much time searching through the "history" tab trying to find that really informative site. Subscription allows readers to stay updated. As long as the content is useful, funny, informative, etc. they will keep coming back for more.

2. Is also about keeping readers updated. An RSS Feed gets the word out when you have new posts. Free tools like feedburner gives you lots of useful, animated options.

3. Sitemeter or Statcounter both give lots of traffic statistics about the quality and quantity of visiters to your site.

4. Services like pingomatic lets you update many blogging services with one click.

5. Google Adsense and search will help you make some extra money off your blogs.

Are there any free services that you could not live without?

Happy blogging!