This year, along with my Fetching Friday weekly roundups, I compiled several major resource collections for a variety of topics. As 2011 comes to an end, I thought I would share my 10 favorite list posts for anyone ready to learn more about analytics, conversions, email marketing, engagement, link building, keyword research, social media, starting their own business, usability testing, and WordPress. I hope you enjoy them!
- 50 Google Analytics Resources – 50 resources to help you get to know Google Analytics inside and out, from the new version, latest updates, social engagement tracking, advanced hacks, and much more!
- 50 Awesome Posts on Conversions – Are you ready to learn more about conversions, but not sure where to begin? Catch up on the latest and greatest information in this list. There’s something for everyone, from blogging to social media, landing pages to squeeze pages, increasing conversions vs. conversion killers, design, and more!
- 50 Awesome Posts on Email Marketing – Learn the ins and outs of email marketing, including building your email list, crafting the best email content, email newsletter design, and more in this list of 50 awesome posts on email marketing.
- 50 Posts on Engagement for Bloggers, Businesses, and Social Media Enthusiasts – Ready to start increasing your engagement in 2012? Find out the best strategies for blogging, business, and social media engagement from these awesome posts!
- 79 Link Building Resources – The latest, most up to date resources when it comes to link building including general information, tools, and where to look for links.
- 40 Top Keyword Research Posts of 2011 – This list will guide you to even more keyword research tools, strategies, and keyword optimization. Mix and match strategies for the best keyword discovery and analysis for your business and clients.
- Top 25 Social Media Blogs For Businesses – Want to learn more about social media for marketing your business? Then you’ve come to the right place – the following are the top authorities in social media and online marketing.
- 101 Resources for First Time Entrepreneurs – 101 resources that will help you learn more about entrepreneurship, startups, small business, and much more.
- 45 Awesome Posts on A/B, Multivariate, and Usability Testing – These 45 posts will teach you all you need to know about A/B testing, multivariate testing, and usability testing for copy, design, landing pages, PPC, and much more.
- 70+ Resources on How to Start a WordPress Blog – The following are resources for starting your own blog on WordPress including choosing a domain name, purchasing your domain, hosting, WordPress installation, themes, plugins, settings, essential pages, backups, updates, and more!
What were your favorite list posts in 2011? Please share them in the comments! Also, I wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year!
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Kikolani covers blog marketing and blogging tips for personal, professional, and business bloggers to succeed in search and social media marketing. Kristi Hines is a 
Kristi, you really nailed it this year. I love everything that you’ve put out there and I can see that it was a lot of effort from your side.
Congratulations for a wonderful year and here’s to an even better 2012!
Eugen
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Thanks Eugen! I wish the same for your 2012!
Totally agreed with you Eugen.
Kristi did a great job through out the 2011. Already looking forward to see what she got to offer in 2012
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Kristi,
Another amazing roundup. You always amaze with your ability to write quality content. Keep up the rocking work
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Thanks Devesh!
So I wake up, plan to have a slow morning and come to check my email. And there is an email from Kikolani saying there is a post with 560 resources waiting to be read. Girl, you almost gave me a heart attack. I had such nice plans and now my whole 2012. will be spent going through them. Lol, on the serious side, it was a relief seeing it is a list of list posts especially that I’ve seen some of them before, so it won’t take me a whole year to read it, probably only about 3 months
Hope you are having great holidays….
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I know, 560 sounded dramatic. It was one of those attention getting titles I just couldn’t resist. And it’s true. Glad it won’t keep you busy for too long, and I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday as well!
Brilliant, another all encompassing post. Particularly liked the 79 Link Building Resources.
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Thanks Matt – glad you liked that one!
Kristi,
You never fail to outdo yourself! I can’t wait to see what you have in store for next year!
Stacy
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2012 means a whole new year of list posts!
Here was my list post that got quite a bit of traffic earlier this year:
http://www.ricardobueno.com/33-must-read-tips-tutorials-for-bloggers
Though when I look at the one’s you’ve shared, they’re much more organized and comprehensive
Great resource Kristi!
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Hi Kristi,
Do you know why links in the body of comments are now nofollow? That is true in blogs running Thesis AND other themes so I’m wondering it that is something in CommentLuv Premium or WordPress is doing it.
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I’m pretty sure that’s just WordPress… I’ve noticed it before Commentluv Premium or the latest upgrades to WordPress. If you edit the comment in the dashboard and use the link button with anchor text instead of just the URL, I think it fixes that.
Awesome Ricardo – thanks for sharing yours!
Some impressive lists that I will have to check out. I am especially interested in link building. Been uping my game when it comes to guest posting. There is so much left to do.
I wrote a couple of posts this year with roundups that people really seemed to like:
25 Design Links- http://cirquedumot.com/better-design-25-links/
42 Branding Links- http://cirquedumot.com/top-branding-blogs-of-2011/
My Favorite Posts That I have Shared on Twitter- http://cirquedumot.com/flashback-friday-best-posts-of-2011/
Susan Silver recently posted Flashback Friday: Best Posts of 2011
Thanks for sharing your list posts Susan! I’m definitely interested in the branding links!
Hey Girl, this was an awesome list and I am already going through it all. As usual you always rock your posts.
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Thanks Sonia!
Thanks for putting this together, Kristi… this is one of those posts that you bookmark and save for use throughout the year.
As always, we appreciate your efforts!
Dr. Bob Clarke@Part Time Network Marketing recently posted Part Time Entrepreneurs: 7 Self Limiting Beliefs That Will Prevent You From Succeeding in 2012
You’re welcome Bob!
Oh great you have many things like miracle for how we can give success to our blog post with many good ideas.
sam @ goa carnival recently posted Goa Carnival 2012
Thanks Sam!
That’s really great that you decided to share with us the list of such interesting posts. I’m going to browse through all these articles. That’s very nice of you!
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You’re welcome Amanda.
I had some favorutie moments and posts which are really liked but they are mostly connected with the physcology and the relations between people and sexes even. I had a difficult year in my private life and i can say that i have been a bit obssessed with everything that goes about it.
Thanks a lot for the congratulations on the coming New Year! My best wishes to you!
I hope that next year turns out to be better for you then Anna.
This an awesome list. I have already read few of the post.
Thanks for share.
Swamykant@Your Digital Space recently posted 100 Best Free Blogger Templates for 2012
You’re welcome Swamykant!
Kristi,
As always thank you for the Fantastic Resource. I hope you have a very Happy New Year! I’m sure 2012 will contain some great things for you.
Ryan H.
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I hope you have a great New Year too Ryan!
I am extremely inspired with the list of resources here. Great post, with tons of good info that I hadn’t considered before, all your favorite resources you have listed here will definitely be helpful tool for others in to this niche. An impressive share. Many thanks Kristi.
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You’re welcome Margaret!
Awesome list, I bookmarked this page. Looking through this, with all these useful resources, this would probably be 98% of information everyone would ever need to get started or grow their business.
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Thanks Denis!
Yay for this! Gonna go tear some of these articles up. My next “to do” for today is to go build some good links. SOooooo.. I shall read the 79 link building resources.
I actually thought there would be 560 links on this page, but then I saw the awesomeness of your group curation.
I could probably do that Ryan, but I figured this way people could go to the subjects they were interested in and not be overloaded on one page.
Hi Kristi, I have bookmarked your list and over the next week or so I will work my way through some of the articles that are most pertinent to me. Thanks for gathering such useful information, I have learned a lot by visiting your site (and being redirected to the various articles) over the last few months.
I’m glad I’ve been able to help with sharing great articles for you Neil.
Each time I see your site, you have at least a dozen comments, even on the newly published posts. How do you do that? The better question is, how can I do that?
You have a great site here. Keep up the good work!
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Hi Jim. I spent a LOT of time in the beginning of my blogging career just doing blog commenting. I haven’t done it as much as I should lately, but I always notice a higher amount of comments on my posts when I go out and comment on others, or at least share others posts on social media. The more you interact with others, the more interaction they will do on your blog.
Hello Kristi! Your lists always amaze me!! This is so brilliant and helpful. Thank you Kristi for all your lists you gave us this year, all your articles, your advices and also for the time that you spent for us and with us! May 2012 bring you happiness, joy and good health.
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Your mentioned posts are the milestone for learning about SEO and online marketing.
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Thanks, Kristi. The resources have proven to be very helpful.
The time and effort you spend putting these lists together is very much appreciated. This blog seems to be my 1 stop shop for great reads and even better resources!
Chris @ Owner Financed Homes Austin Texas recently posted How to Owner Finance Austin Homes For Sale
Wow! What a great collection of information. I think I’ll be working my way through this for some time. But that is a good thing ’cause there is quite a bit of useful stuff to digest.
Great to see how your blog has grown and evolved over the last few years. Best wishes for a great 2012. Cheers.
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Thank you for posting this Kristi. I love everything you added to the list, I can see you put a lot of effort and time into your list. I just came across your blog from over at birdsontheblog, and I will definitely be back. Love your page. Hope you had a great Festive season. Happy New year. Rochelle.
Wow – Just amazing, what a great list of resources that everyone needs. Thanks
Thanks for sharing Kristi,
This list should work as in index for this Years posts. I remember that 2011 was the Year I started following your blog posts. I hope this would be great start for me as well.
Thanks for your cool posts! Keep it up!
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Wow, that’s an amazing list of resources – thanks so much for sharing this. I especially liked the “79 Link Building Resources” – this gives me plenty of ideas on how to build more and better backlinks.
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Just came back from a very loooooooong vacation and decided to check out your posts immediately Kristi. As always, you deliver great post and awesome resources to the table. Time for me to get busy! Thanks for this one and Happy 2012 by the way.
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Hey Kristi,
When I read your description I thought I was going to see 560 links and immediately thought “there’s no way in hell someone actually went through that kind of hassle…” man haha
On a more serious note, I appreciate this a lot, I think I’m going to have to make a few stickies out of this.
Take care and all the best for this weekend!
Sergio
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Oh my gosh, so many resources and seriously I think everything seems to be essential. Looks like I’ll have to click everything and take a good look at it. Thanks once again.
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Kristi this is an amazing resource. I want to say thank your for putting this together. This will be required reading for me for the next few days.
Thanks
Oh Kristi why do you do this to me!! lol
It’s been almost a month now since it’s been starred in my Google Reader and I still haven’t had time to go through it, and I can’t unstar it because almost all of the 10 posts interest me!!!
I’m going to try and go through most of them this afternoon.
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It is really an exhaustive list with a large number of resources and study material. It is like a treasure of information.
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I just spent about 2 hours looking at the 79 link building resources and have just scratched the service. Kristi, this is an awesome list of some very valuable Free information. Of course, I wouldn’t expect a recommended resource list from you to not be valuable
Thanks.
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