Oct, 2015 : 18 Top Research Materials Bloggers can Use for Free

📅 October 29, 2015 - People sometimes get frustrated when they think there just aren't enough free research materials for bloggers online. The good news is that there are actually a ton of great options for finding your research online as a blogger. There are over a dozen sites online that offer you free resources for your next post and the information is rock solid.

Along with articles, you can find e-books, newsletters, e-zines and even print magazines for no charge to get the information you need for your next piece. Don't stress out over where you'll find the research materials for your blog; find help from these top 18 sites featuring everything from books to reports, magazines to newsletters and even social communities.

Books & Ebooks

The obvious place to start is through books and e-books. It's an easy way to access information on whatever you might need for your next post. Check out popular choices including:

1. WorldScientific.com

2. Hubspot's Marketing Library

3. Free e-book on American English Idioms

4. European Bookshop

You'll find tons of information to allow you to be a successful writer.

E-courses

Another great option is getting research materials through E-courses. Did you know MIT and Poynter actually share their courses online for free? Check out e-courses from the following sources to not only get an education for yourself, but to get tons of knowledge on your next blog post:

5. Poynter's News University

6. MIT OpenCourseware

7. InternetBasedMoms.com

Magazines

Another route you can go is through magazines where you can download a digital copy. Sometimes you can pay for subscriptions but usually you can download them for free or under $3. Check out the most popular magazine option:

8. Magcloud.com

Reports

You could go the guides and reports route for even more information to write about on your blog. Check out these great sources:

9. MarketingSherpa.com

10. TechRepublic.com

11. TradePub.com

Niche blogs

For no charge, you can use these business and entrepreneurship-related online article sites and niche blogs for your blog's research:

12. AWAI Online Articles

13. QuickSprout.com

14. Jon Morrow's Blog

Newsletters

If you still need solid research data for your blog, check out newsletter subscriptions like:

15. About.com

16. PRNewswire.com

17. SmartBrief.com

Lastly, check social communities like DevianART.com (number 18) for tutorials and website templates. These 18 top sites should get you started in your blog research for free online.

There are many ways to find the information you need as a blogger. As great as many of these resources are, sometimes, using Google is the best way to find what you are after. Use these 18 research tools, along with Google and you should always be able to find quality information for blog posts and topics.

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📅 Oct 29, 2015 - New Domain Name Auction Coming from a Partnership Between NameJet and SnapNames - Two of the largest domain name aftermarket companies joined forces to auction off the very valuable and rare domain name, LTD.com. NameJet and SnapNames decided to team up to sell this very valuable 3-character domain name.

The auction went live on October 27th at 3pm EST and the reserve was in the mid five figures. Many expect the reserve to be med very quickly. The two companies joined forces in hopes to create more buzz around the sale and to ensure a huge audience of buyers will have a chance to place a bid.

The domain has an estimated value of about $350K and false into a category many domain buyers covet. It conveys exclusivity and value for any company willing to spend the cash.

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📅 Oct 29, 2015 - More Ecosystem Expansion from Oracle - Oracle has been expanding their Cloud Ecosystem to provide more support for customers. Recently, they announced they will be expanding the SaaS or Software a Service portion through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The portfolio of partners Oracle has amassed keeps growing with plenty of third party applications being added to increase the ROI on their cloud services.

The cloud marketplace provided by Oracle is a one-stop spot for those looking for cloud services. They now offer far more than before with so many partners, it's hard to list all the applications.
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📅 Oct 28, 2015 - Major Upgrades and SSD Hosting Announced from Siteground - A recent announcement from Siteground stated that they will make huge upgrades to the servers for their shared hosting service. They have already started with the upgrades and expect them to be completed in about four months. The upgrades include SSD Hosting on all the different places and modern Linux containers.

Over the past few years, Siteground has put an emphasis on using the latest technologies. They have updates many different parts of their business and now they look to move to brand new Linux containers. These are the same containers often used in Cloud or VPS hosting.

The company already moved all their VPS hosting accounts to Linux containers in January, along with their Cloud

📅 Oct 29, 2015 - New Partner Portal from ePages Launched on .Cloud Extension - Ecommerce software provider ePages recently became one of the first pioneers to use the .cloud domain extension, which is epages.cloud. This was announced on Thursday (10/29/2015). The company also wants to emphasize how cloud technology provides a way for ePages to entice reseller and how the easy integration works well with service portfolios.

The new partner portal will work for new and existing partners. It will provide plenty of value and will give resellers an easier way to run their businesses.
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📅 Oct 30, 2015 - More than 13 Million Passwords Were Stolen in the Recent 000Webhost Hack - Customers of 000Webhost recently found out a security breach caused 13.5 million plaintext passwords to be stolen. The passwords were taken, along with user names, email addresses and IP addresses. They were all taken from the MySQL and free Lithuanian PHP used by host 000Webhost.

The breach happened in March of 2015, but the announcement about how many passwords were taken was just announced. Before the company even became aware of the breach, the information has been sold. It came from an anonymous source.

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📅 Oct 30, 2015 - Which WordPress Theme from ElegantThemes are the Best for 2015? - As 2015 comes to a close, it's a great time to look at some of the best themes offered by ElegantThemes this year. Which ones were the most popular and which ones should I consider using for my blog? Being one of the most successful theme houses in the WordPress universe, this 8 year old business has 87 themes available to its 250,000 customers.

Along with offering some of the best graphics, clean code and responsive designs, the pricing is very reasonable for everything they have to offer. For under $80, you can have year-long access to their 87 themes and 5 amazing plugins as well. Here is a look at the best themes for 2015 from ElegantThemes on WordPress.

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