Fetching Friday

This weekly series covers the top five posts in blogging, design, making money online, personal development, search optimization, and social media.

Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & A Week in Montana

by Kristi Hines on February 3, 2012 · 5 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

How to Gain 2,281 Subscribers—and Increase Traffic by 69%—in 27 Days – Today the author shows you how I increased blog traffic by 69% and gained 2,281 new blog subscribers in 27 days with this simple 3-step formula.
How the 80-20 Rule Affects Freelance Writers – The Pareto principle — the 80-20 rule — should guide how freelance writers and business owners choose clients and projects.
Develop Irresistible Content with this 4-Point Formula – If you want to create blog posts, white papers, and even ebooks that clearly communicate your idea and compel your readers to do whatever you ask, you need to use this little formula.
How to Fast Track Your Blogging Career with an Authority Statement – In this post the author talks about what exactly an authority statement is and how it can have a dramatic impact on your blogging career.
A Picture’s Worth 1,000 Links: How To Find and Cite Images – Keep out of hot water by understanding what photo use legal jargon means, where to find images, and how to give proper attribution.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Yosemite HD

by Kristi Hines on January 27, 2012 · 22 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

How to Set Up Blog Comments as Goals in Google Analytics Using WordPress Hacks – Learn more about the visitors who leave comments on your blog with two methods of setting up blog comments as a goal in Google Analytics.
10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers – These 10 social networks can help you receive valuable feedback, gain exposure for your own work, brainstorm ideas and evolve as a writer.
7 Simple Ways to Get Your Readers to Spend More Time On Your Blog – While “great content” is always the best answer to most blogging questions, there are other techniques you can use to entice your readers to stay on your site longer.
Kim Peek’s Guide for Creating Endless Blog Content – If you start compiling a list of draft posts, notes & thoughts using the ideas given in this post, you’ll have the comfort in knowing you’ll never be without blog posts.
How Bloggers and Content Marketers Can Generate Unlimited Video Ideas – How to come up with great video ideas to create a regular video publishing schedule.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Timescapes

by Kristi Hines on January 20, 2012 · 14 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

5 Things Every Blogger Needs to Teach Their Readers & Why it Matters – Want to grow a successful blog? You need to teach your readers a few things.
81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters – Don’t know what topic to start a blog that matters about? Here are 81 ideas to get you thinking about what you could focus (or re-focus) your site on.
Keep Calm and Carry On: How To Handle 4 Common WordPress Emergencies – Whether you’re getting the ‘white screen of death’ or accidentally published a post, learn how the average WordPress user can fix common panic-inducing issues.
55 High Quality Free Tumblr Themes and Widgets – This post includes some stunning free themes, widgets, and applications that will permit you improve your Tumblr experience.
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic – This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers – independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. Not all of the tactics will work for everyone, but at least some of these should be applicable and useful.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Unseen Sea

by Kristi Hines on January 13, 2012 · 16 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It – Some potential link building benefits to content scrapers, how to find out what sites are scraping your content, and what you can do if you to have them take it down.
10 WordPress Plugins & Other Enhancements That Will Make Your Business More Social – These tools can help you do just about anything, including make your blog and your website more socially engaging.
New, Inspirational Ways to Develop Engaging Article Ideas – Check out my list of inspirational ways to develop engaging article ideas using new websites and sources for 2012 and beyond.
3 Tools For Managing a Killer Multi-Author Blog – There are three core ingredients in the special sauce that is a multi author blog: contributors, content, and editing. Let’s go over the tools that will allow you to manage these important blog elements.
Forget Blogging as Usual: 5 Outrageous Tips for Super-sized Attention – Do you want attention for your blog? What about super-sized attention—the kind you get when someone likes Drudge or Time magazine links to your blog because of your work? Well, here are some tips on how to do that.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Sock Monkeys

by Kristi Hines on January 6, 2012 · 25 comments

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Writing

20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012 – These are 20 people who stood out to the author this year. There is no ranking, nor is there a competition.
16 Simple Blog Changes That Will Improve Your Content Marketing Results – The platform for your content will also play a role in your ability to be successful. Your platform should make content aesthetically pleasing, easily consumable, and simple to share.
6 SEO Secrets Every Blogger Needs to PWN Today’s Google – This is a huge topic and there are entire expert firms devoted to helping other big firms navigate this new science. With that in mind, you should consider this post a very small starting point for you own research.
How to Grow Your Blog with the Rule of 10 – Who are the ten? These are your early customers, the ten people who will listen, read or buy whatever you are selling. If they love it, your idea will spread. Your business will grow… probably not as fast as you want, but faster than you could ever imagine.
How To Maximize Conversions from Your Guest Post Traffic – Using the “priming” to maximize conversions from all of that traffic you’ll be getting from your future guest post endeavors.

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