This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a cool highlight reel from Blog World Expo 2009 on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• Community and traffic takes time and patience – 8 things you need to know about building both for your blog.
• Become a playful blogger and inject some energy into your blogging – video and transcript of what to experiment with to get your audience excited about your blog.
• Creative social sharing to promote your blog – a look at social networking groups, repurposing content, ebooks, and more.
• How to build a reputation with your blog: interact with your audience – the third article in a great series about blogging and reputation.
• Long term blogging strategies: which ones are yours? A look at what will help you be successful in the long run.

Facebook

• 7 Facebook marketing tips from the pros – great tips from the top industry pros.
• 35 of the best Facebook guides of 2010 – posts on Facebook marketing, advertising, search, SEO, apps, tools, and much more.
• 10 Facebook advertising tips for brilliant marketers – not your average tips either!
• 12 best ways to customize Facebook pages – a look at the 12 best apps and services, including the level of experience needed to use them, cost, and other important factors.
• How to separate Facebook profiles from business pages – part 2 which covers 11 things you need to know about page management.

Link Building

• How link building can give you or your client a bad online reputation – a look at how bad neighborhoods and other link building methods can make a website look bad.
• 62 queries for writing ultimate guides to build links, generate leads, and build legacy – a huge list of great queries to find the best examples of content that will be link worthy, identify outdated pillars of wisdom, and identify your guide’s linking audience.
• 6 link building tools for better online visibility – a mix of the most popuplar free and premium tools.
• How to promote link worthy content – 9 different link types and promotional strategies to pursue.
• Google’s affiliated link patent – will Google rank pages differently based on who owns each of the pages?

Mailing Lists / Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• The power of free and why it’s not all about paid gigs – what you should be focusing on aside from making money when guest blogging and social networking.
• Top 30 young bloggers and entrepreneurs – see the new bloggers in the game to be retired by 21!
• Living self employed online: the manual they forgot to give you – 13 lessons from 18 months of self employment.
• Google, user experience, and thinking beyond conversion – how Google “trains” advertisers and the future of user experience in relationship to conversions.
• How to find and sell .co domain names for profit – how to find good domain names and the tools to do it.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• How well do you know your true self? 7 things you need to discover about you.
• 40 rules to live your life by – a simple yet inspirational list.
• Letting go to succeed – what you need to let go of to be able to move forward.
• Deep death bed thoughts – how to prioritize what is important to you by thinking about what you will think about (or regret) the most at the end.
• 101 ways to live life to the fullest – lots of tips to help yourself enjoy life.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Google’s history: a visual look at the Google search engine timeline – interesting infographic about Google’s path to domination.
• Selling SEO services: a consultative approach – understanding the buyers buying process vs. their buy process and screening bad opportunities.
• They myth of Toolbar PageRank – what you need to know about PageRank and Toolbar PageRank with examples of each and shy you should give a s#&!.
• It’s official: Yahoo results now come from Bing! Also, don’t miss the related 6 ways to replace Yahoo linkdomain searches.
• Google launches real time search and tools – learn how to get an email as soon as someone mentions your business or brand on Twitter.

Social Media / Social Networking

• Revolt! Angry Digg users want their baby back – what is missing from the new Digg.
• An open letter to social media abusers – what social media is and is not about.
• 9 ways to sell social media to the boss – how to show the executive valuable data, guidelines, and more.
• 7 social bookmarking tools you should know about – if you are looking to get to know your social networking friends better or make submissions easier, check out these apps.
• Top 10 social media marketing campaigns of all time – roller babies, meerkats, the Old Spice man, and more.

Twitter

• 9 ways to use Twitter lists – learn more about your niche, your coworkers, your competitors, and even stay entertained!
• Twitter background design – great tips and gorgeous examples for your Twitter designing inspiration.
• Top 5 indispensable Twitter tools for marketers – how to find people in your niche, flush those who don’t follow you, schedule tweets, and manage your accounts.
• A guide to following people on Twitter – includes an interesting flowchart / infographic.
• Can Twitter turn a revenue trickle into a stream? What will be the return on investment for advertisers using Promoted Tweets?

WordPress

• How to secure WordPress against disasters and being hacked – steps to take from when you install WordPress to plugins and other added layers of security.
• WordPress themes for video blogging – if you are entering the vlogging world, ehre are the themes collections you need!
• .htaccess trick to redirect all traffic while working on a WordPress site – also comes in handy if your site gets hacked.
• Create a status blog using Pingdom WordPress plugin – somewhere users can go regarding accessibliity of a site.
• Blog marketing WordPress plugins – 10 plugins to help you market your blog.

Get the Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers Before September 1st!

I know, I know, you’re probably tired of hearing it. But you know what, this little ebook is that important to bloggers and writers who want their content to be more engaging to readers and search friendly. So if you are waffling about getting it, here’s the little extra nudge. It is only $9.97 now, and the price will go up to $29.97 on September 1st. So check out my review on the ways it can be beneficial to your writing and buy it now before the price jumps!

Highlights from Blog World Expo 2009

I knew there would be online celebrities, but hollywood celebrities? Take a look at this highlight reel that got me really excited about heading to BWE in October.

Also, be sure to check out the schedule (now online), create your own plan (see my first round picks here), and if you haven’t already, be sure to register now while registration is still discounted.

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The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• How to improve your writing and SEO for better blog posts – this ebook has just what you need to compose more engaging blog posts for readers and optimized pages for search engines.
• 3 ways to keep readers on your site using Apture – how this popular toolbar plugin can help your site get sticky.
• 7 ways to cheat the 10,000 hour rule and still be a better blogger – did you know that scientifically, it takes 10,000 hours of practice to be the best of the best in a field? This post shows how you can get there without that kind of dedication.
• Why you don’t need to blog everyday – a small case study on bloggers who write daily vs. those who do not.
• What you don’t know about blogging – what matters between niche, frequent posting, and content.

Facebook

• Facebook field guide – A simple guide to using Facebook places.
• How to manage privacy for Facebook Places – how to set your privacy options to keep your location private (and keep others from tagging your location).
• How to separate Facebook personal profiles from business pages – a great overview of privacy settings for your profile.
• Don’t fall for the latest in Facebook dislike button scams – how phishers are using this application to steal sensitive data.
• How to use the Facebook Livestream application for static content and dynamic development – learn how to implement this app so viewers can comment in real time so their wall postings will increase the visibility of your page’s content.

Infographics / Inspiration

• 12 amazing SEO infographics – must see visualizations of search engine optimization.
• The rise of text messages – an infographic of US and worldwide trends in text messaging.
• What if solar power grew as fast as Facebook – an inspiring infographic of how the world could go solar in 4.7 years if green technology advanced as fast as social technology.
• Can we date? A flowchart on whether you should date a person based on their relationship to others.
• Google Failures, Google Flops – an infographic looking at the Google products and services that have come and gone.

Link Building

• 54 new link building resources – including live blog posts from the link building courses at SES SF.
• New local link building tool – a look at Local Citation Tool Finder to help you identify local competitors, get their local footprints, and see where they are getting listed.
• How an online retailer can evaluate the ROI of a link building campaign – if your client ever wonders how effective their link building is, here is a way to measure.
• What makes a strong backlink – about anchor text and link popularity.
• Market research for link building – how to find people to get links from in your industry.

Mailing Lists / Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• How to use your blog to drive social sales – from creating an offer to displaying social proof.
• Why you should use a dedicated email address for their mailing list – something to keep in mind if you want your emails to be read.
• 7 step process for writing enticing product descriptions – convert more sales with better descriptions.
• 5 ways a marketer can hurt their reputation – if you want to make sales of your own products or someone else’s, you will want to avoid these reputation mistakes.
• A killer autoresponder blueprint – how to create a mini-course in seven messages.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• Top 30 ways to reduce stress and restore balance – a must for anyone who is so busy that they are not taking care of themselves.
• The power of momentum – how to push past procrastination and build momentum toward accomplishing your goals.
• 5 reasons some people don’t like the Secret – why some are unimpressed with what others find as a life changer.
• Do you want to live a more inspired life? How to turn on the inspiration tap.
• How to start from nothing – how to evaluate the things you really have when you feel like you have nothing but problems or nothing at all and learn to focus on what you want.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Is Google treating brand names in search terms as site: searches? How SERPs are changing to favor big brands.
• Need to know local search marketing terms – what you need to know when setting your site up on local search and review sites.
• Search engine traffic drops – how to diagnose and fix the problems in step-by-step detail.
• How to optimize YouTube videos for Google – beyond just the title, description, and tags – what makes your video move up in search rankings.
• A comprehensive, intro guide to SEO powerpoint -a great slide deck to learn about search engine optimization.
• Why Google Adwords Keyword Tool shouldn’t be used for SEO – a case study of the numbers discrepancy.

Social Media / Social Networking

• Top 25 social media keyword search tools – learn the latest news in your niche or industry with these blogging, forum, and social media search engines.
• Influencing the influencer – learn about the new social media influencer, plus look at how tools like Klout measure influence.
• Email and social media: the horse goes in front – why social media should be integrated with email marketing.
• Foursquare marketing guide – 14 tips on how to effectively market your business through Foursquare with examples of successful Foursquare marketing campaigns.
• Understand social media in 3 words – with a clip from Field of Dreams.

Twitter

• Can you make money on Twitter – a look at Twitter monetizing options.
• 5 things I notice about Twitter and why it is awesome – 5 reasons to love Twitter.
• An interview with the infamous Twitter fail whale – which was originally known as “lifing a dreamer.”
• Why the new tweet button won’t kill Tweetmeme – some reasons why Tweetmeme is still better.
• The new Tweet button – a look at the benefits and the problems it is creating.

WordPress

• How to edit the WordPress RSS feed – great tutorial for adding posts and pages to feeds, adding thumbnails, excluding posts, specifying categories, and more.
• Top 10 favorite WordPress plugins from a pregnant chick – female favorites!
• 35 beautiful and free WordPress 3.0 themes – a great collection of awesome WordPress designs.
• Why web designers are becoming WordPress designers – a guide to the resources you need to get started in creating custom WordPress designs.
• 21 popular .htaccess hacks for WordPress – improve your sites security, functionality, and usability with these hacks.

Viennese Waltz

As some of you may know, one of my favorite things to do when I’m off of my computer (rare, I know) is ballroom dancing with my husband. This is the video from our showcase performance in June. I’m not sure what’s up with the greyness at the beginning, but it goes away before the dance starts. I hope you enjoy!

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• Bloggers are publishers – how to handle guest posts.
• How to create viral content – the main element behind every successful blog.
• The whoa don’t hit the publish button keyword checklist – 10 things to check and good SEO WordPress plugins.
• Essential blog tracking tools – get information beyond Google Analytics.
• Why many bloggers are in the wrong business – if you are not enjoying blogging, this could be you.
• 9 ways to use social media to inspire your writing – Late Addition – how to use social media networks to get writing ideas for your blog.

Facebook

• Facebook 101 – the complete guide to Facebook for your business.
• Facebook page custom tabs changes on August 23rd – are you ready?
• The business behind Facebook – cool infographic about the history of Facebook.
• Find out what’s trending on Facebook with Booshaka – see what people are saying about a particular topic on Facebook.
• How to steal competitor’s customers on Facebook – interesting idea.

Link Building

• Internal deep linking – how to get better rankings on your internal website pages revealed.
• Link building is all in the details – questions to ask about your own link requests and content to determine link worthiness.
• 7 things to watch out for in link building – these are the things you will come across and want to avoid at all costs.
• 5 ways to build links at SEO conferences – multi-task your way to live link building success.
• New and improved link research tools – learn what’s new at Link Research Tools.

Make Money Online / Online Marketing

• Top 10 awesome affiliate marketing tips for bloggers – a must read for bloggers looking to make money online.
• 8 ways to grow your list – ways to get more subscribers to your mailing lists (hint: other options beyond popup opt-ins.
• Top 10 Internet marketing mistakes – covers the common errors even some of the advanced players make.
• 10 realistc ways to make quick money online – some ways almost everyone can make some money online.
• Affiliate marketing for beginners – learn about the basics!

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• Can you allow appreciation to change your life? How to find amazing things to appreciate.
• How to get over yourself and accomplish your goals – 4 things to do to get closer to your goals.
• Remove clutter to improve yourself – where to look to declutter your life.
• 5 questions you should always answer yes to – because if you can’t, you should probably take a look at yourself and see wher you need to make changes.
• The skinny on the art of persuasion – in comic format.

Photography / Images

• Image copyright laws – about Creative Commons and used by permission images.
• In silhouette – 37 amazing silhouette photos.
• 40 inspiring examples of night photography – 41 brilliant photos.
• Celebrating the 45th birthday of Singapore with beautiful photographs – a great tribute to a special anniversary.
• 50 superb examples of animal photography – beautiful, funny, and fierce expressions.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• 10 great local search tools that don’t exist yet – hopefully someone will start putting them together soon!
• Best SEO blogs and top resources – what Rand Fish has in his favorite bookmarks list.
• Anatomy of a hands on SEO audit – part three of an in-depth series.
• An in-depth look at search engine auto suggestions – Google, Facebook, and other creative search suggestion uses.
• Top 10 infographics for Internet marketers – the list would be perfect if it only included Linktoberfest!

Social Media / Social Networking

• 10 ways to leverage LinkedIn to generate business – 4 one time items and 6 maintenance items that will help you be more successful on LinkedIn.
• 60 ways to increase your influence online – from the biggest names in social media and related industries.
• Top 5 goals for a successful social media campaign – what your campaign should be accomplishing.
• Social media is just one big party – how to be the life of the social media party!
• 5 ways interns beat the boss at social media – what interns do better.

Twitter

• HootSuite goes freemium – a look at the new free and pro plans, plus some free alternatives for the features and services.
• Influencers on Twitter – why popularity matters, but only a little.
• Measure Twitter sentiment – a look at trends with upprdwner.
• Tweet This! Twitter pushes its own button – learn about new interest graphs and functionality.
• My Twitter precense – a look into how Chris Brogan manages his Twitter precense.

WordPress

• Effective use of a blog sidebar – 30+ examples of getting the most out of your blog sidebar.
• Top 10 free WordPress 3.0 themes – themes ready to use with the new version of WordPress.
• 90 brilliant WordPress designs for inspiration – want to revamp your site? Check out these fresh looks for ideas.
• 3 ways to throw dummy content into WordPress when starting out – perfect way to see what your theme will really look like when fleshed out.
• Spy on your competitors in your WordPress admin dashboard – great plugin to monitor your competition’s website rankings.

Timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull

Awesome timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland from different angles and perspectives.

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup (a shorter version for this week), the 2010 Facebook Success Summit, and some funky hamsters on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• A content strategy for audience engagement – use this when planning your blog posts, and you will get more interaction.
• 5 ways to skyrocket your blog traffic – simple yet effective ways to get more visitors to your blog.
• Secret Blog Collaboration Group – maybe not so secret, but an exceptional place to meet other bloggers for some serious blog collaboration.
• How to start a blog in a crowded niche – five ways to overcome the overwhelming side of it and get to blogging.
• Why you should drink before blogging – assuming you are not an alcoholic, there are some good reasons here!

Business / Career / Finance

• Why leadership and team building exercises should not be ignored by small businesses – it’s not just Intel that gets great benefits from these – any company should use these today!
• 14 attention grabbing tactics for launching a new business blog – what you need to do to help people find your business’ blog.
• How to use social media to get a job – simple things to do and to avoid if you are job hunting and easily searchable.
• Proper ways businesses should use social media – the responsibilities, time factors, and things to avoid.
• Freelance resources – a list of great freelance blogs, forums, podcasts, job boards, and more.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• 8 personal development lessons to learn from Inception + 5 things Inception taught me – A total of 13 great takeaways from this film.
• How to let your guard down – for those who have put up too many walls, blocking them from happiness.
• Harness the power of your emotional vocabulary – the power of word labels for our feelings.
• 7 steps to emotional mastery – a step by step plan to master your emotions.
• The quickest way to create a new mindset – how experiencing something new can help change you.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Internet search engine history – learn everything you have ever wanted to know about search engines from the beginning of the Internet to today.
• How to lower your bounce rate using information from Google Analytics – if you are unsure why your traffic, comments, and subscribers don’t add up to a good ratio, start here.
• How to find good keywords for content marketing – getting the right ones will ensure more people will find your content.
• Where to start for niche analysis – great guide for anyone looking to find analyze a niche before diving in.
• Ways to utilize non-Google search engines – covers using Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and iTunes as alternative search engines.

Social Media / Social Networking

• How to measure social media ROI for the complex sale – find out how social media is impacting your bottom line.
• 5 tools to manage social media for the franchise – tools that can help you manage hundreds of social media outlets.
• Ultimate guide to social bookmarking content creation: Digg and StumbleUpon – how to create content that appeals to these different networks.
• 11 mistakes and why social media fails – includes a great infographic!
• Social media strategies you need to know – come share you most effective strategy here, and read what others find useful as well.

Twitter

• 100 most powerful women on Twitter – great list of female Twitter influencers.
• 75 tools to manage multiple Twitter accounts – you’re bound to find something great here, if you’re not already in love with HootSuite.
• 10 terrific Twitter tips for job seekers – 10 tips on how to prep your Twitter for viewing by job seekers.
• Followers do count – how your following matters in how many other people who follow you are following.
• Discovering who to follow – how to find someone new that you may be interested in.

2010 Facebook Success Summit

In May, I virtually attended the Social Media Success Summit put on by Social Media Examiner, one of the sites I contribute to regularly. I cannot tell you how valuable I found it – even though I wasn’t able to watch many of the seminars live, I was able to use a combination of the video and PDF transcript to gain a wealth of knowledge, which I have stored on my hard drive for future reference.

Social Media Examiner has just announced a summit dedicated to Facebook training beginning on October 5th. You will learn how to master Facebook marketing, empowering you to quickly connect with your customers (or in many of your cases, blog readers) using the #1 social networking platform.

Who’s teaching? Facebook experts such as Mari Smith (22K fans), Brian Solis (8K fans), Darren Rowse (16K fans), Justin Smith of Inside Facebook (10K fans), plus many more will lead sessions on a variety of topics including:

• Building and maintaining loyal Facebook fans
• Creating a presence that helps generate profits
• Leveraging Facebook advertising
• How B2B companies utilize Facebook
• Choosing a strategy
• Advanced promotion
• Building community with Facebook and blogs

If you’re interested in learning more and registering, check out the Facebook Success Summit website. Registration is currently 50% off and can be broken into two payments.

Even if you are unsure of whether you want to attend, make sure to sign up for the mailing list updates to get access to a class by Mari Smith on Optimizing Your Facebook Fan Page for Profits – a $59 value for free!

Kia Soul Hamsters

I saw this before the movie previews – too cute and funky not to share!

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The Resources Mashup

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

Blogging / Writing

• How to write a great blog post in 15 minutes – some great tips!
• How to blog on trending topics to get noticed and ranked – standing out and getting maximum SEO benefits.
• Over 300 great tips to increase website and blog traffic.
• How to detect content theft and deal with auto blogs – must read guide because if your blog is popular, it is probably being ripped off somewhere.
• Why guest blogging works better than article marketing – the reasons, and how to make your article writing more beneficial.

Business / Career / Finance

• Business blogging – benefits, best practices, and blog topic ideas – a guest post on why your business should have a blog.
• Is Arkayne good for your blog business? A review of the SEO, social sharing, and business benefits of this plugin.
• 3 ways to get more business at networking events – a guide for going to seminars, conferences, and other events.
• Get more productive today using office Feng Shui – 5 ways you can transform your work life.
• Mailbag: SEO, minimizing business cost, and ProStores – entrepreneur answers your questions.

Facebook

• Facebook community pages – how to protect your brand while building your reputation.
• 10 ways to grow your Facebook page following – how to get people to “like” your page!
• All the traffic you want for just pennies per click – how to utilize Facebook ads.
• Ultimate guide to Facebook pages – a huge list of resources.
• How to block Facebook applications from your news feed – very nice way to clean up the clutter.

Infographics

• Reddit vs. Digg – whose side of the infographic are you on?
• 20 facts about pet ownership in America – great stats for pet lovers!
• The stats on slacking at work – who’s wasting time and what they’re wasting it on.
• The social media Monopoly game – not quite an infographic, but close showing different social media outlets. Guess which network is jail?
• Most widely spoken languages in the world – infographic showing the most spoken languages and where they are spoken. Looks like a transit system map.

Link Building

• Create a link building team in your organization – how everyone in your company can play a part in link building.
• 30 places to submit your website designs – places to build links based on great design.
• How to promote keyword streaming – ranking a page for multiple keywords.
• How to prioritise your link building to increase traffic – how to analyze SERPs to link build for more traffic quickly.
• Utilizing advanced search opertators – 6 operators and how to use them.

Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• Want to make money blogging? Build Reputation! Before you start launching your product, build your trust.
• Secrets to building online relationships – get this free whitepaper to learn how to build quality, lasting relationships online for online marketing.
• Abandoned shopping carts – a guide to why people abandon their shopping cart, and what to do to help lower that rate.
• Subscribers Magnet increases optins – how this plugin gets you more mailing list subscribers.
• Top ad management plugins for WordPress – the benefits of using them, and a review of three plugins.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• Expect success and nothing less – a guide to the 3 ways to expect success in everything you do.
• 10 ways blogging can improve your life – the personal development side.
• Self improvement techniques to reshape your world – determine what kind of person you are, and apply self improvement techniques suited for you.
• Take a moment not to believe in yourself – an interesting perspective.
• The opposite effect: tips to save your sanity – a must in the super busy world.

Photography / Digital Art

• Stormy skies – amazing photography of lightning, tornadoes, and other otherwise terrifying weather situations.
• 30 brilliant female wedding photographers – beautiful wedding photography by great photographers.
• Dusk at Grotto Falls – a gorgeous panoramic view of Payson Canyon, Utah.
• Showcase of beautiful pinhole photography – beautiful photos using this photography technique.
• Awesome examples of bridges photography – gorgeous photos.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Branded vs. keyword rich domain names – the pros and cons of both.
• Black hat SEO – a guide to the dark side of search engine marketing.
• A phonebook inspired post – how local search can bring serious traffic.
• Portrait of a SEO – humorous look at different types of SEOs.
• Setting up your first Google Adwords campaign – a great starter guide.

Social Media / Social Networking

• 57 social media policy examples and resources – great information if you want to write a policy for your business.
• Social enabled emails have higher click through rates – why you should add your social profiles to your emails.
• Discover your email marketing audience on social media – find out where your audience is and get active on their networks.
• 4 steps to social SEO success – listening, creating content, socializing, and measuring for successful social SEO.
• 10 ways geolocation is changing the world – 10 interesting things you find local.

Twitter

• 7 annoying Twitter habits you should avoid – #4 is my biggest pet peeve.
• Top tips to hit your Twitter targets – 6 tips from top Twitterers
• Top 20 sites to improve your Twitter experience –
• Does adding Twitter to a brand make it cooler – a case study.
• Get a Twitter profile checkup – great way to see your profile’s stats and get some recommendations.

WordPress

• 35 WordPress security plugins to make your site bulletproof – these posts are a nice reminder to secure your site before something unfortunate happens.
• Scribe vs. Arkayne – a side by side comparison of these top SEO plugins for WordPress and other blogging platforms.
• Wanted: Your Gravatar – if you don’t have it when commenting on WordPress blogs, it’s time to get one.
• The essential guide to WordPress 404 error pages – an overview, coding, and inspirational examples.
• 45 free WordPress themes with appealing designs – great free themes!

Last Week of Blogging Contest Promotions

Wednesday, August the 5th is official end of the Famous Bloggers and ComLuv blogging contest in terms of promoting entries.

So if you haven’t already dropped by to comment on my entry about article marketing promotion with CommentLuv, please do so – I know that if you are into article writing, article marketing, or CommentLuv that you will enjoy the post! If you use CommentLuv for promotion of your blog or article writing, please share you experiences. If you already have commented, I would equally appreciate a tweet. The more the merrier!

And good luck to all of the other contestants, whose hard work is listed in the blog commenting folder. There are lots of awesome bloggers and articles, so don’t miss it!

Easy Tweet Sharing Tool – Click to Tweet

Like the link above that helps you easily share a tweet? Then check out Click to Tweet – just enter your desired tweet message, and Click to Tweet will create a URL that, when clicked, will fill in your tweet exactly how you want it in someone’s Twitter status update box. You can use this link to help make your tweets easy for others to share. Some great places to share your Click to Tweet links include blog posts, forums, IM’s, emails, etc. Pretty much anywhere you can’t include a plugin or want your tweet to be exact, this is the right tool for you!

New Advertising Options

Looking for blog advertising? Check out the new advertising options, including a new multi-blog ad program that allows you to get your 125×125 banner ad on not one, but five websites in the social media / blogging niche for a total exposure to over 150K per month. See the stats about the five sites (including Kikolani) your ad could be on, and start saving on advertising today!

Maru Meows

Maru, the famous box sliding cat, has a new video meowing! For cat lovers, and those needing a cute break, this is the video for you!

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a new SEO blogging contest, and some creative sheep LED art on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.

Blogging / Writing

• 5 reasons why blogging is not easy – what you’ll need to be successful.
• Ultimate guide to blog commenting – part of a series which also includes guest blogging.
• 45 link building tips to help you promote your blog – oldie but goodie and a must read.
• How to increase blog traffic, subscribers, and sales – interview with Michael Dunlop.
• In praise of spam – how do you feel about spam comments?

Business / Career / Finance

• A simple question to jump start your finances – start getting your personal finances on track.
• Staring a service based business online – targeted for under 18 entrepreneurs, but valuable tips for everyone.
• Cause marketing 101 – marketing partnerships between profit and non-profit organizations.
• The Klingon guide to online marketing – a perspecive for sci-fi fans.
• How social are your customers? Applications to help you find where your customers are online.

Facebook

• 10 ways to grow your Facebook page following – great tips to get more fans!
• See your Facebook invite history – a link on Facebook that I didn’t know about, but is kind of interesting when it comes to seeing who you’ve invited to the Facebook network.
• 10 Facebook pages that are exploding in popularity – great examples of successful pages.
• How not to win friends and influence people – a big no-no on Facebook.
• 8 powerful ways to use Facebook landing tabs – great ways to maximize your Facebook real estate.

Infographics

• Linktoberfest! SEO infographic and link building data visualization – fun, animated infographic showing the value and difficulty of different types of links (one of 12 kickass SEO infographics ).
• Star Wars infographic – great visualization for sci-fi fans.
• 90 seriously creative infographics – a huge collections for infographic junkies!
• The lowdown on apps infographic – the real numbers behind the world of apps, and why they are so popular.
• Aliens & Avatar – a funny comparison of the similarties between the two films.

Link Building

• Simple co-citation analysis and link prospecting – a process for finding link prospects for a linkable asset using simple, targeted, hostname-only co-citation analysis.
• Salvaging old links to save PageRank – how to look for 404 pages on your site and save the link juice going to them.
• SEO spammers vs. the white hat army – how to know them and who will win.
• Links matter: how to measure and attain them – great tips from a Rand Fishkin / Dave Snyder presentation.
• Manage your backlinks with Delicious – a free way to keep track of your personal link building efforts.

Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• Introducing a new generation of monetization – the multi-blog advertising system – advertising on not only one, but five powerful blogs in a niche.
• Using multiple blog monetization strategies to generate income – covers all the basics to start earning on your blog.
• What could you sell from your blog – a brainstorming activity.
• 8 powerful tools to turn your blog into a profit center – concise reviews of 8 services you will want to use to start generating income on your blog.
• Make money online with Fiverr – a marketplace where everything is no more or no less than $5.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• How to identify your passions – 7 questions to ask yourself.
• How to feel great and keep a smile on your face – tips to make life happier (just the picture will make you smile).
• Top 13 inspiring movies to make you think about life – part one features the first six – Forrest Gump is probably my favorite out of these, being southern based.
• 5 simple ways to make time for your dreams – sadly, one way involves getting away from your computer.
• Achieving peak performance – how you can operate at your best to achieve your goals.

Photography / Digital Art

• 21 examples of natural light photography – gorgeous, almost surreal photos.
• 20 moments of beauty in terrible disasters – photos that pulls something beautiful out of something tragic.
• Is it possible to take great iPhone photos? 20 great photos, manipulated with iPhone apps.
• 55 incredible, amusing, and strange photoworks – interesting photo manipulations.
• 40 breathtaking examples of silhouette photography – beautiful sihouettes of people, animals, and nature.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Conquering big industries with a bulletproof SEO strategy – using long tail keyword optimization from the start through site structure, optimization, and link building.
• Is PPC still working? Your opinions wanted!
• 10 SEO tips to remember when building your site – nice checklist for creating a new website.
• 75 local SEO meetups – great networking opportunities!
• Calculating ROI on Internet Marketing – measurings your return on investment for PPC, organic search, and social media with Google Analytics.

Social Media / Social Networking

• Top 10 ways to promote your social media presence offline – fun ways to wear your social media enthusiasm.
• How to use PostRank for social media analytics and engagement – check out the social sharing statistics on your site & others, plus get a free three month trial of their analytics to get in-depth engagement analytics.
• How to get more visibility with online video branding – in-depth video interview with transcript.
• Your introduction to intense social sharing – the percentage of network, content, and luck needed to be successful on social networks.
• 25 upcoming social media and tech events – includes Blog World Expo and many more!

Twitter

• Write the first line of your email like a tweet to grab interest – sounds like a great idea, until you read the comments.
• Utilizing Twitter for conversations and information – how to get more out of Twitter.
• Jump start your company Twitter account – from setup to acquiring followers and building community.
• 5 tools to help you automate Twitter – not fully automate it, but automate some aspects.
• Timelapse of our Twitter moods – interesting infographic and video of how the moods of the US change throughout the day on Twitter.

WordPress

• 50 premium commercial and business WordPress themes – Most for less than $50.
• Leadership lessons learned from the WordPress / Thesis / GPL issue – an interesting viewpoint into the Mullenweg vs. Pearson battle.
• 11 ways to speed up WordPress – great ways to optimize your WordPress site.
• How CommentLuv stole my heart from Disqus – a beautiful love story.
• 9 essential SEO WordPress plugins – a few in this list I didn’t know about but sound good!

A New Blogging Contest for SEO’s

Gerald of the SEO blog for will Search Engine Marketing Group is looking for sponsors for his upcoming Bad Ass SEO Guest Blogging Contest.

Why should you sponsor? Here are 3 great reasons!

1) The blog has over 8,000 subscribers.
2) @the_gman has over 100,000 followers.
3) Like the recent Famous Bloggers / ComLuv contest, there will be lots of link juice flowing from people who know what quality link juice is all about!

Sponsors are already rolling in, including the popular web hosting company Hostgator. So contact him today through his website or reply to him on Twitter and get some major exposure for your business, blog, or website.

Extreme Sheep LED Art

It starts out a little iffy, but you will be amazed by the herding skills of these dogs and the imagination and choreography skills of the people behind it all.

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Blog World confirmed, and a farewell video from the Old Spice man on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.

Blogging / Writing

• Blogs I Follow – this is the best way to organize your commenting strategy, Alltop style.
• 15 blogs to follow if you want to kick ass online – these blogs cover everything bloggers need from straight up blogging tips to SEO, social media, and marketing strategies.
• 7 not so obvious ways to get inside your readers’ circle of trust – if you liked Meet the Parents (or even if you didn’t), this shows you how to get inside the circle of trust, even when it’s difficult.
• 100 great writing tips from the world’s top bloggers – great compilation of ways to make your writing better!
• Why bloggers should care about Google suggest and online reputation management – is blogging so last year, for losers, or dead? How to combat the scam.

Business / Career / Finance

• 5 things to keep off social networking profiles if you’ll ever be job hunting – this goes to freelancers and professionals as well.
• Best advice for your Internet business – not what you want to hear, but a smart move nonetheless.
• Starting a business: the key to behavioral change – the 2 main things people get stuck on when thinking about starting their own business.
• Top 3 sites to learn about entrepreneurship – great sites with a ton of information!
• 7 personality types of clients today – psychology of your clients and how to deal with them.

Facebook

• 4 simple steps to control your Facebook privacy – until they change something again.
• Facebook pisses off users again – you may not have seen the latest change to pages, but it’s coming.
• Facebook marketing: ultimate guide – from configuring your page to promoting it on and off of Facebook.
• 10 cool Facebook status update tricks – I didn’t know you could schedule Facebook updates outside of HootSuite.
• Facebook and SEO – should you care, what is the value, and going beyond the basics.

Humor / Infographics / Inspiration

• How to win rock paper scissors every time – now I’ll never have to take out the trash again!
• Inspiration on creating a great website footer – 5 important things to include and 20 designs for your inspiration.
• 10 fresh galleries for web design inspiration – if your creativity needs a jumpstart, here are great places to get it!
• 50 creative cake designs around the world – inspiring and tasty looking.
• 30 innovative icon based navigation menus –

Link Building

• Getting the best high volume links – a guide to getting your clients the kind of links that their competitors are getting, even if they are lower quality.
• 7 things more important than dofollow links – simple yet great advice, and perfect example of using a video transcript summary.
• Top 7 ways to increase link popularity with content – if you’re not getting links, your next step is to become more link worthy.
• How to find and drain link juice – don’t miss out on these wasted SEO opportunities.
• 18 examples of awesome viral linkbait – the best videos, infographics, and more.

Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• Affiliate marketing and ebook over pricing – your thoughts on justifying the price tag of a product.
• Online visibility tip: create and use video testimonials – an essential way to increase your credibility, necessary especially if you are planning to sell products or services.
• How to develop an endless source of ideas that sell – how to go from inspiration, ideation, to implementation.
• Avoiding obnoxious product launch syndrome – why to choose a soft product launch.
• Make money using Google Webmaster Tools – how to use your CTR analytics for better ads and focus.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• Don’t worry, be happy – learn how to choose to be happy.
• How to deal with rude people – third part of the series.
• Top 6 ways to build self respect and improve self esteem – great tips for ending the cycle of self destruction that is the result of lack of self respect.
• How to reprogram your mind for self improvement –
• 50 ways to start fresh – if you need to renew what the meaning of life is, this is a great list of ways to do so.

Photography / Digital Art

• How to find free stunning images for your blog – nothing makes a plain old text post more spectacular than good images.
• 100 Photoshop tutorials for learning photo manipulation – some amazing things that can be done with an ordinary photo and extraordinary graphics skills.
• 40 beautiful macro photos that will inspire you – amazing close-up photography.
• Beautiful examples of bokeh photography – plus some great tutorials.
• Showcase of beautiful photography – a variety of animal, landscape, macro, and other great photos.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Local search optimization with David Mihm – interesting thoughts on local search, including a reference to how you can dominate Google maps without a physical address.
• SEM reports for pros – four search marketing reports that will help you answer the question of what is search marketing doing for you (or your client).
• How to compare Google Webmaster Tools data with Google Analytics – spreadsheet and formula to help you get the most out of your analytics combined.
• 6 ways to learn SEO – a chart of knowledge and experience levels, plus 6 great resources to learn more about SEO.
• Tips to use Google Keywords Adwords Tools effectively – 4 ways to get the best out of keyword research.

Social Media / Social Networking

• How dogs use social media – a cute guide to pet friendly social networking.
• The Social Media Playbook – a free eBook on best practices for blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Foursquare, Buzz, and more.
• 15 sites to monitor your social brand presence – some great tools to find out where you are mentioned on the Internet.
• 10 reasons market research is critical to social media – learn more about your customers / followers before enaging with them for better results.
• 5 ways to battle social media stump – if you’ve gotten to the point you’re saying “now what” then these 5 ideas will help you get on track.

Twitter

• How to find the most influential Twitterers in your niche – a guide to finding them, following them, and interacting!
• Tweet branding and scheduling using MarketMe Tweet – a nice Twitter managment tool for someone looking for more premium features. The branding is especially intriguing.
• 8 insightful Twitter search queries – a bit older post, but great ideas!
• Five mistakes you’re still making on Twitter – are you sharing too much?
• tlists: Search, curate, and join Twitter lists – what you can do with this Twitter list service.

WordPress

• Get your blog to load faster with W3 Total Cache – why you should choose this over WP Super Cache.
• How to use BuddyPress as a blog collaboration system – you remember my post on the benefits of blog collaboration groups? Here’s a way to build one.
• Turning off the Akismet auto deletion feature – plus why you should do it!
• Getting started with WordPress custom menus – a guide to version 3.0.
• How to select the number of items in the WordPress admin – change the default number of posts, pages, comments, etc. displayed in the admin dashboard.

What’s New at Kikolani

Ever wonder what makes this site tick? I have created a new blogging resources page with my educational, networking, and WordPress resources including a list of all plugins currently running here. I’ll be adding more to it as time goes by, so be sure to check it out!

Officially Signed Up for Blog World Expo

In case you missed my tweets this week, I am officially signed up for the full access pass to Blog World Expo in Vegas on October 14 – 16th. Even if you missed out on the early bird pricing, you can still save off of the full registration price if you register before September 16. Discount code EBIRD will get you an additional %20 off. I’m looking forward to seeing some of my readers there! Be sure to keep an eye on the Blog World Blog for the latest news on speakers and confirmed tracks!

Old Spice Man

Here is the final video in a series of one of the funniest social media / Youtube campaigns of the week ever by Old Spice where they answered questions from Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube comments. If you missed it, be prepared to take a few hours catching up on answers to questions from everyday people and celebrities including Alyssa Milano, Kevin Rose, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and more.

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The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.

Blogging / Writing

• How do you give something back with your blogging – are you helping someone?
• 13 quick tips to write a successful blog post – from determining your goals to a call to action, this covers what you need for great content!
• 5 essential pages every blog needs – if you don’t have them, you might want to start adding them!
• 5 reasons your blog isn’t growing – some things to consider changing to help your blog get out of a rut.
• 7 ways to reduce the bounce rate of your blog

Business / Career / Finance

• Great ideas for b2b blogging – if you have a business blog that is in need of inspiration, you’ll find it here!
• Increase sales with laughter – add it to your sales process, and see your sales start going up.
• How to build a profitable online business – a challenge that will help you learn how to build an online business from scratch.
• 7 best invoicing apps for freelancers – or anyone with an online business.
• Online reputation management and monitoring – how to improve your business’ reputation.

Facebook

• How to discover what’s trending on Facebook – great site review and one to check out to see what is getting shared the most.
• Designing a Facebook fan page – awesome showcase, tutorials, and resources.
• Why Facebook ads suck – the opposite side of the privacy argument.
• Facebook’s face recognition tagging feature signaling photo search? The potential implication of this upcoming technology.
• The single critical factor in successful Facebook advertising – it’s about who knows you.

Humor / Infographics / Inspiration

• Weekly top minimalist website designs for your inspiration – beautiful simplicity.
• How to create a better FAQ page – make it more useful and organized for users.
• 50 examples of drop down navigation menus in web design – awesome navigation options!
• 65 mind blowing photo manipulation art – get inspired by creative Photoshopping.
• Ranking the best SEO infographics – learn more about SEO visually with these great infographics.

Link Building

• Beginner’s guide to best SEO practices Part 3: link building – third part of a great series on link building.
• How professional SEOs get links – includes the great Google infographic!
• 36 link building news, views, and how to’s – a guide to the best in link building this week.
• Worrying about the competition? What you should really be keeping tabs on.
• Link building with experts – a nice collection of interviews for 2010 from link building experts.

Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• 5 important elements of a successful sales landing page – make sure you have these, and you will have a better chance of making conversions.
• Get started making money with Squidoo – tips for increasing earnings with lenses.
• To Paypal or not to Paypal – the pros and cons of this popular Internet payment service.
• How to justify spending investments – the reason you have to spend more to earn more.
• Consolidating your online marketing base – how to determine what to keep up and what to cut down on to make online marketing more efficient and effective.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• 25 amazing truth quotes to remind you why honesty is the best policy – a little motivator toward doing the right thing every time.
• 7 ways to implement getting things done in your life – 7 methods to look at before making a decision.
• Milestones, accountability, and personal life challenge – a great example of how to look at milestones and setting goals in different areas of your life.
• The greatest piece of self development advice – the winning piece of advice plus 3 runners up.
• Are you a valid person? Can you live without validation, and if not, where do you find it?

Photography / Digital Art

• 25 examples of high speed photography – great shots!
• 45 funny examples of photography in print ads – not all of it is funny, but it is definitely creative.
• Image characteristics of iPhone photos – some expert analysis of noise, colour reproduction, and more.
• Summer is here – pictures of summertime.
• 40 amazing dual screen desktop wallpapers – highly detailed photos for your screens.

Search Engines / SEO / Statistics

• Over 50 free SEO tools and much more using SEO techniques – a beginners guide to SEO plus a lot of great tools!
• Improving SEO: the three t’s for stronger optimization – important tweaking, testing, and tracking methods.
• New insights on the Googlebot – interesting statistics on the speed of crawlers, impact of sitemaps, and more.
• What it takes to be a top 100 website – guess how many visitors it takes?
• Why people hate ads and love SEO – I love the the phrase “Good SEO is invisible.”

Social Media / Social Networking

• Top 6 social media mistakes and how to fix them – if your social media campaign isn’t getting results, check out this list to see if there is something you can improve.
• How to get a story to the front page of Digg – the path to becoming a power Digger.
• How to write a killer LinkedIn summary – make the best of your LinkedIn profile with a great summary (plus 12 great ways to use LinkedIn today).
• 52 cool facts about social media – covers Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and blogging.
• You can’t automate social media – some examples and reasons why you should take a more hands on approach to your social networking.

Tech / Tools / Tips

• How to choose the right social media monitoring tools – good questions to ask yourself plus service comparisons.
• 7 free software applications for bloggers and web surfers – a nice collection that everyone should find something useful.
• Support for Windows XP service pack 2 ends – time to upgrade if you haven’t already gone to Vista or Windows 7.
• How to control self hosted email via Gmail – integrating your emails in one place.
• 30 useful iPad business and presentation applications – great collection!
• 5 free SEO tools you need to know – late addition – great free tools to evaluate important elements of your website.

Twitter

• Top 10 Twitter tutorials on Youtube – great way to learn about the basics of Twitter.
• Huge collection of free Twitter icons – great way to add your Twitter to your website.
• 10 things people need to stop tweeting about – sharing a favorite infographic from The Oatmeal.
• The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter – did you know you can befriend lactating cows?
• How I got 253 retweets on 5 posts – a simple four step plan for getting more retweets.

WordPress

• 7 essential WordPress security tips – it’s always good to keep these in mind to keep your site safe.
• 14 WordPress plugins for Facebook – all compatible with WP 3.0.
• Does using WordPress tags help you rank better on Google search? Part of an interesting Google Mythbuster series.
• Google Analytics for WordPress version 4 – what’s new!
• Feedburner sucks – alternatives to broadcasting new blog posts.

Blog World Expo 2010 – Early Bird Pricing Deadline on July 15th

Just a friendly reminder for anyone who is thinking about going to the Blog World Expo in Vegas on October 14 – 16th that early bird pricing ends on Thursday, July 15th. After next Thursday, pricing goes from $300 – $600 to $395 – $895.

A tentative schedule should be up by then, but the official topic selections won’t be made until the end of July. Here is last year’s schedule so you can get a feel for what they have to offer. And remember, it’s only partly about the education – the best part of the conference will be the networking! So get your tickets soon!

Famous Bloggers / ComLuv Contest Extended

If you haven’t entered, you still haven’t missed out. The deadline for accepting entries has been extended until Tuesday, July 13th. Learn more about why you should enter and what your odds are of winning!

Dude vs. Wild

An amusing spoof of the popular Man vs. Wild show.

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The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.

Blogging / Writing

• 5 blogging activities perfect for summer – is your traffic lower in the summer months? Here are some things to do while everyone else is vacationing!
• How to promote your blog before its launch – ways to build up hype and an early audience, before you publish the content.
• Don’t fall into a negative blogging tailspin – an important lesson about how negativity can result in a loss of credibility.
• Lady Gaga’s 8 point guide to larger than life blogging – apply these trends to your blog to get better results.
• 3 simple ways to repurpose blog posts for blog promotion – article directories, document sharing, and audio.

Business / Career / Finance

• Recommended online store products, services, and tools – huge list of greate resources for online businesses.
• 5 tips on how to create a business website with minimal expenses – how to get great deals on domains, hosting, setup, and sitebuilders.
• Establishing goals for your small business blog – determine what goals you have for your blog before deciding on the content.
• Is what caused the Great Depression happening now? Are we doomed to repeat history? Informative insight plus tips on what to do if you need to survive on less.
• 7 reasons why email still dominates social media – don’t listen to the hype – email is still strong in maintaining relationships!

Facebook

• How to create your own custom Facebook share URL – super easy and makes sure you get the image you want shared with your pages!
• How to use status tagging successfully on Facebook pages – great way to get your posts noticed on other Pages (tip: when you promote a new blog post on your personal profile, status tag your blog’s fan page to get new fans!)
• How to create a Facebook landing page for your blog – from graphics to FBML to content for new visitors (plus 5 ways to use Facebook for traffic, branding and engagement).
• Beware of Farmville cheats that come with viruses – and how to remove them.
• How to contact Facebook: a directory to 120 contact forms – anything you need to find out from Facebook, you can find out from one of these contact options.

Humor / Infographics / Inspiration

• Understanding women in social media – nice infographic, especially for those looking to market to women socially.
• 50 corporate website examples – great inspiration!
• 10 social media infographics – great visualizations of demographics, involvement, landscape, mobile, and more.
• How Google works – intense infographic.
• LinkedIn by the numbers – infographic of LinkedIn usage.
• Infographics on the iPad – late addition – experience viewing infographics on the iPad.

Link Building

• Comprehensive guide to link building via blog commenting – a guide on how to find related blogs and how not to get moderated.
• What if my competitor’s point spam links to my site? Find out if links can be used as weapons against your site’s SERPs.
• Developing a custom link building campaign – from evaluating your resources to the plan of action
• Matt Cutt says don’t use nofollow for internal links – EVER. I’m surprised, but lots of people really do. It is the definition of PageRank sculpting.
• Natural link building fails – a case study on how listening to Google’s advice simply doesn’t work.

Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• What on earth is affiliate marketing? If you don’t know, start here – it’s comprehensive!
• How to price ads – use BuySellAds to research advertising pricing of similar sites.
• Can you really make money blogging? Differences between the average and successful blogger.
• Review of MyLikes as an advertiser – I have heard lots about it from those making some money off of it, so this is a nice perspective of what advertisers experience from their service.
• Use product reviews to increase conversions – great advice for those selling their own products or affiliate products.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• How to write your personal brand statement – writing 1 – 2 sentencese that answer what you are best at, who is your audience, and how you do it uniquely.
• Are you stressed out? 3 ways to reduce stress and change our perspective.
• The need to reduce information overload – if you’re feeling burned out, maybe you need to evaluate what you spend your time on.
• How to ruin your life in 10 easy steps – or what not to do.
• The cure for creative blocks – leave your desk!

Photography / Digital Art

• 30 examples of tilt-shift photography – I love this technique!
• 50 examples of urban decay photography – decay sounds so bad, yet these photos are so beautiful!
• 10 of America’s most beautiful landmarks – I’ve been to two so far and hope to see all of them eventually.
• 21 amazing cloud photos – the beauty of the sky.
• Travel photography – 10 simple tips to make sure you get the best photos on your vacation.

Search Engines / SEO

• Keyword research for blogging – covers the use of generating keyword ideas with Google Adwords Keyword Tool then analyzing them with Market Samurai and SEOMoz Keyword Difficulty tool – applicable to any website, not just blogs.
• How share alike copyright hurts your SEO and your brand – what happens when your content on other sites ranks higher than your own and other issues with letting others republish your content.
• Beginners guide to SEO best practices part 2 – SEO friendly web development and on-site optimization (don’t miss part 1 on how to approach SEO & keyword research).
• What is PageRank good for anyway? Statistics to judge the value of PageRank.
• 8 greyhat SEO tactics to use at your own discretion – covers paid links, automation, article spinning, and more.

Social Media / Social Networking

• LinkedIn recommendation tips – how to write great, authentic recommendations.
• How to write compelling LinkedIn headlines – the best way to get people’s attention.
• 40 most useful social media and PR posts in June – nice recap of a lot of great posts on social media engagement, Facebook, tools, monitoring, analysis, PR, and more.
• How to manage social media marketing in 10 minutes a day – covering all of the basics of social media activities effeciently and effectively.
• 6 challenges to managing a social web – handling transparency, scale, relationships, and more.

Tech / Tools / Tips

• iPad photo tips and tricks – how to sync photos using your camera, computer, or iPhone, assign photos, and more.
• iPhone 4 – will it blend? Even if you know, it’s still amusing to watch!
• 25 must have free apps for your Mac – essential apps for just about everything.
• Natural productivity using iAdd for iPhone – an app that guides you through the assess, decide, and do process of life management.
• Examining Site Search results in Google Analytics – enable this analytics feature to learn about what people search for when they come to your site.

Twitter

• Save time with the 2 best Twitter applications – how HootSuite and Tweetdeck can make social networking much less time consuming (so social media doesn’t >kill your blog ).
• 140 things to discover on Twitter – great list of things you can do and discover on Twitter.
• Inside of a banned Twitter account – this is from January, but I saw it tweeted this week and thought it was interesting enough to share for those who missed it.
• Create a custom list of tweets with TwitBlend – search for tweets on a topic, save them in a list, and create a widget to share on your website.
• Should you be syndicating FourSquare to Twitter – the repercussions of tweeting every time you go to Starbucks.

WordPress

• Ensure you can recover from disaster by backing up WordPress – great reminder so you do not lose all of your hard work.
• 10 useful WordPress security tweaks – now that it’s backed up (see above) be sure it’s protected from malicious hackers!
• 10 missing features in WordPress 3.0 – you would think with all of the requests, these items would be built in already.
• What to expect when upgrading to WordPress 3.0 – what to do, reported bugs, and tips for a hassle free upgrade.
• The WordPress speed challenge – a series of posts to help you make your WordPress blog run faster.

Kikolani’s First Newsletter

On Wednesday, I sent out the first newsletter for Kikolani. Check it out here, and be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on future newsletters, updates, and important information! Also, be sure to take advantage of the free website, blog, or social media profile review. So far, it’s getting nothing but positive response, and it’s personalized just for you!

Tennis Street Magic

In continued celebration of Wimbledon, here is a comemrcial for Head racquets that features Andy Murray doing some interesting shots. Some of these are a little unbelievable, but some I’m sure he can do. Maybe it took a few (hundred) takes, but you be the judge.

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This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FBCLContest updates, and a funny tennis video on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.

Blogging / Writing

• 101 blogs that accept guest posts – extremely helpful guide with PR 2 – 8 blogs accepting posts.
• Common blog SEO mistakes – 10 problems with blogging SEO, and ways to fix them.
• Become the blogging expert in your own niche by running a blogging course – using the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog course by Darren Rowse.
• Smashing tricks to writing eye catching titles – great tips on using numbers, slang, adjectives, questions, and controversy.
• Tools to find out what other blogs are saying about you – why you should be monitoring for SEO, sentiment, and reciprocity (great since WordPress doesn’t always notify you in a timely manner).

Business / Career / Finance

• 5 search tools your business should be using – a few were new to me, and they are good ones too!
• 7 reasons NOT to do content marketing – no strategy, no consistency, and no advertising are just a few reasons.
• 33 common business blogging mistakes – and how to fix them.
• Pros and cons of outsourcing your social media marketing – I consider the cons more of considerations including ways to ease your worries.
• How to stalk your customers like a pro – great tools for ecommerce sites or anyone who sells anything online.

Facebook

• Dear Facebook friends, you’re doing it wrong – great commentary on the use of personal profiles, fan pages, groups, and the new community pages.
• Facebook privacy: what you need to know – why privacy advocates are concerned, how information is shared without your permission, and what Facebook has to say about it.
• How to add comments to a Facebook fan page – including finding your fan page id number.
• What businesses need to know about community pages – what are they, how they compare to business pages, user-administrated vs. Facebook administrated and more info.
• Fun Facebook page valuation with Virtue – maybe not fully accurate, but a good way to compare your page with others in your niche or industry.

Humor / Infographics / Inspiration

• How the world spends its time online infographic – clean visualization of what everyone is doing.
• FAQ pages – best practices and examples – elements that make a successful FAQ page.
• Do’s and don’ts of social media for business – nice infographic with important tips.
• Ugly showcase of military, intelligence, and defense websites – someone needs to apply to help these sites, stat.
• 66 fresh examples of single page website designs – although they are not the best for SEO, they are great to look at and easier to create for the design talented developer.

Link Building

• Why guest blogging is useless for link building – PLEASE read the entire post before formulating your opinion on this great article!
• 8 characteristics of high quality links – good tips on what to look for when evaluating the quality of a link you are eyeing.
• Quality links defined by Google Webmaster Central – includes two strategies that you should definitely avoid.
• The myth of volume based link building – what to say when clients want quantity instead of quality.
• Whiteboard Friday: we bought links and it worked – how the supposedly evil practice of buying links can work for you with the results of 3 experiments.

Making Money Online / Online Marketing

• 10 big lies of multi-level marketing – interesting read about MLM.
• Sing yourself to wealth with the Billionaire song – a fun, creative way to visualize wealth.
• How to write a product review when you don’t own the product – great tips, although I think I handled it pretty well when I did a review of the Income Blogging Guide course.
• Ultimate guide to A/B testing – find out what converts the best on your website to make money online.
• Excellent banner ad examples – beautiful ads and placements to keep your design beautiful while earning income from your website.

Personal Development / Self Improvement

• How to live a scriptless life – while you’re not given the answer, you’re given the tools to find the answer.
• Overcoming chronic illness and stress – an insightful post on overcoming struggles, gratitude, mindfulness, and 20 ways to take care of yourself.
• Do you truly value your closest relationships? A good remember on what it takes to maintain an important, close friendship or relationship.
• Push yourself out of your comfort zone – ways to expand your comfort zone!
• 5 ways to assure success – if you have trouble reaching your goals, see if you have these 5 things to do it with.
• 4 steps to take before using a personal development program – late addition – including that you actually need to use it!

Photography / Digital Art

• 60 examples of beautiful night shots – absolutely crisp and gorgeous photos of city skylines and natural phenomenons.
• 30 incredible long exposure photos – simply amazing.
• 45 awe inspring landmarks around the world – great photos of many worldwide wonders
• 40 superb Photoshop tutorials for attractive photo effects – find out how to turn normal photos into digital art.
• Photographing a ghost town – part 3 in a series – don’t miss the first two parts.

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics

• Beginners guide to SEO – a must read for those getting started in SEO by SEOMoz, just updated on 6/22.
• How to optimize videos for SEO – pretty detailed guide for YouTube and self-hosted videos, including how to get views and ratings.
• 4 search engines, ways to generate links – covers some interesting strategies for Ask, Bing, Yahoo, and Google.
• Adapting SEO for personalized search – a thorough post with a huge list of resources.
• The ultimate guide to meta descriptions – a two part series on what you need to know to get the best click through rates using your descriptions. Don’t miss part 2.

Social Media

• Social bookmarking for SEO – great guide to social bookmarking, including tips on the “social” aspect.
• How to compare your social media presence with competitors – case study comparing 3 blogs.
• How to use social media for lead generation – how to monitor, respond, link, and offline promote social media to make it work for your business.
• Getting massive traffic from StumbleUpon – a complete, thorough guide to getting the most of StumbleUpon.
• 3 ways infomercials can inspire your social media – yes, those late night things you watch.

Tech / Tools / Tips

• 195 social media measurement tools – huge list with a mix of free and paid tools to help you measure your social media enagement and results (plus another 101 social media tools if the first 195 doesn’t cover it).
• Secure yourself: backup solutions for designers and developers – great backup solutions comparison, including pricing.
• Top iPhone apps for website tracking and analytics – 5 apps that could come in quite handy for iPhone users.
• 14 free tools to reveal why visitors abandon your website – I don’t know how new or old this is, but the tools + information are a great resource.
• 10 Mac apps that should be on Windows – I concur!

Twitter

• Twitter trifles: a follower conundrum – how to address a friendly non-follower.
• 3 new ways to use Twitter at live events – beyond just hashtags for promoting the event.
• Process for analyzing a Twitter account – 3 out of 4 free tools you can even use on other people’s accounts as well as your own.
• How to create screenshots of Twitter tweets without software – 4 quick methods using different websites.
• How to incorporate Twitter into your event – 6 tips covering the basics of getting some buzz before, during, and after an event.
• How to do #FollowFriday – late addition – great guide on effective recommendations vs. looking like spam.

WordPress

• Top 5 SEO plugins for WordPress – if you want to search optimize your blog, start with these!
• Backup before you upgrade to WordPress 3.0 – a practical guide and why you should do it!
• Thesis theme tutorial: customizing the author archive page – great tips + code.
• DIY WordPress: What you need to know about PHP if you don’t know anything about it yet – includes four functions you must know to manipulate your WordPress install.
• 8 exciting new WordPress 3.0 features – some good reasons to upgrade.

#FBCLContest Updates

As I mentioned a few Fetching Friday’s ago, there is a huge blogging contest going on at Famous Bloggers and ComLuv. Prizes are now up to over $3,500.

Your support means the world to me – my entry on how to use CommentLuv to promote your articles on networks such as Squidoo, HubPages, Bukisa, EzineArticles, and GoArticles (the article includes specific guides for each network) now has 91 comments and 79 tweets – and still needs more of both! So please show some love, even if it is just with a simple retweet.

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More posts in the contest can be found on ComLuv blog and in this collection on Famous Bloggers. So please stop by and support your favorite articles and bloggers by stopping by, commenting, and retweeting. And be sure to get into the action yourself by submitting a quality blog post before the deadline on July 7th.

Funny Tennis

I’m sure most of you by now have heard of the epic Wimbledon match between John Isner and Nicholas Mahut that went for a little over 11 hours over the course of 3 days and ended in the fifth set with Isner winning 70 games to 68. It has officially broken 12 Guiness World Records.

For those of you who aren’t that into tennis, here is a fun clip of John Isner playing with John McEnroe against the the Bryan brothers in an exhibition tennis match. There are several funny moments, including the one of the brothers climbing on the other to poke at Isner’s 6′9″ stature. Enjoy!

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Looking for some link love? Articles featured in the resources come primarily from people I interact with in the comments, and on the social networks. So comment away (DoFollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv enabled), and join me on the networks below, and if your article/photo/video catches my eye, it may appear in following Fetching Friday posts.

Look What You’ve Missed:
The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more

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