If you want to become a problogger or make money with your blog, you need to spend some money to special blogging and Internet marketing tools. You can not merely rely on your blog’s own performance. It is more or less like investing generated money to grow your business. I call these tools as “problogger’s emergency kit”. Without them, you have little chance to grow your online income. Here are the tools:

• Aweber Email Autoresponder:An ever-growing e-mail list is essential for a problogger.  You can grow your e-mail list, and spread the word easily with an e-mail auto-responder. Grow your e-mail list, add value to your readers, and they will voluntarily spread your name. You may also make affiliate marketing with an e-mail list. However, you should not try to sell something in every e-mail. Balance is critical. Aweber has some unique features compared to other available auto-responders.

• Blog Mastermind by Yaro Starak: If you are new to blogging, want to learn become a problogger within 6 months from scratch, then you should enroll this blog mentoring program. Even though it seems like an expensive investment at the beginning(around $500 in total), you will not believe how easily you will be building your blogging empire.

• Expert WordPress by Alex Sysoef: Nowadays WordPress is considered as the best and the most popular blogging platform by many bloggers. If you are new to blogging, WordPress configuration and customization can be difficult. Expert WordPress’ custom script does the full blog configuration and customization based on a few answers you provide. The best of all it is free for now. Watch the video Expert WordPress to see how you can easily create a WordPress blog in less than 5 minutes.

• Content Boss: Caroline Middlebrook (Article Marketing For Blog Promotion) and Courtney Tuttle (Article Wizard Review) already stressed the importance of article marketing for bloggers. Duplicate content is a nightmare for many bloggers. The good thing about Content Boss is that it re-writes any article in just a few seconds. In the end you won’t believe your eyes, how fast and accurate this online tool is. It has a PLR database. You can find PLR articles (Private Label Rights articles, articles you can use as if they are yours) by simply typing the keyword you desire. It also has a auto-blogging feature. Monthly fee is $67.

• Unique Article Wizard: Caroline Middlebrook clearly explained how this awesome online article submission  software works: Article Submission Guidelines & Tools.If you use it together with Content Boss you can easily submit your unique articles to thousands of blogs and article directories, and every time place up to two links to your blod. Imagine how easily you can increase your blog’s backlinks and PageRank. It is $67 per month, but it is worth spending your money.

• The Blog and Ping Tutorial: A few days ago I posted What Is Blogging And Pinging? and stressed the importance of blogging and pinging. It is something that a problogger can not ignore. With The Blog and Ping Tutorial you can learn the least known facts about blogging and pinging. The good thing is I am giving it away for free to my e-mail list this week. Haven’t you subscribed to my e-mail list?

• SEO Mindset: A problogger has to know SEO very well and follow the changes in search engine algorithms. This is essential for increasing the incoming traffic, and maximizing the profit.  That is why I suggest you to read this excellent e-book written by SEO master Brad Callen.

• SEO Tools: There are so many free and paid SEO tools available in the market. You need to use at least one sound SEO tool to follow your incoming backlinks, keyword density, and the status of your competitors. You may start with SEO Elite.

• Google Adwords Keyword Tool: After you read the SEO Mindset, you will understand the importance of keywords better. Google Adwords Keyword Tool allows you to check the most popular keywords. Use these keywords in your blog posts, and guarantee high traffic.

• Twitter: Twitter is not a microblogging tool anymore. It is one of the most effective networking and sales tools for probloggers. Check this out Using Twitter Search to find Buyers in the ACT! and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter. If you haven’t customized your Twitter background yet, read this one How To Create A Custom Twitter Background.

What other tools can we add to this list? What are your favorite tools for probloggers?