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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & The Future of Google Author Rank

Kristi Hines — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:03 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

Featured Post of the Week

How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog: 5 Tips – Learn how businesses with top marketing blogs generate leads with social media and content marketing.

Blogging / Content

The Official Self-Published Book Marketing Plan – With the (possible) exception of the last item, these are all very real reasons why you should consider an in-depth marketing plan for your upcoming book launch. Keep reading to discover how you can write, prepare, and launch your marketing plan effectively!
13 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Might Fail – Effectiveness is a common concern for most content marketers, according to CMI research. Think about these 13 reasons why your content marketing might fail.
23 Steps to 100,000 Visitors (Step-by-Step Guide) – I’ve created this guide to show you step-by-step how to get your first 100,000 visitors. Tried. Tested. And served up on a silver platter
How to Get Powerful Testimonials that Convince Even Skeptical Prospects – Testimonials break down your prospect’s defenses and convince them to give your business a try. Discover how to ask for and get powerful testimonials.
5 Ways to Bond with Your Blog’s Audience – Today I’m sharing five tips to engage with your readers, make them feel at home, and to turn your blog into a nice and warm get-togethers.

Business / Career

How We Grew Crazy Egg to 100,000 Users With A $10,000 Marketing Budget – So how did we grow the business to over 100,000 customers? Well for starters we used to have a free plan, which helped a lot. And you probably see advertisements for Crazy Egg all over the web, but we’ve been over 100,000 customers for years. Before that point we didn’t have a big marketing budget… all we had was $10,000.
Are You Committing These 7 Silent Career Killers at Your Job – Learn the 7 secret silent career killers that you may be committing right now. It’s not about working hard or smart. It’s about playing by the rules.
Mobile Marketing Research Explained In Plain English – When it comes to mobile marketing, most consumers are way ahead of marketers in their use of their smartphones and tablets. They’ve developed a variety of habits to deal with the on-going avalanche of content. To get your marketing on track, here are twenty-five research charts explained in plain English.
How to Get Powerful Testimonials that Convince Even the Most Skeptical Prospects – Testimonials break down your prospect’s defenses and convince them to give your business a try. Discover how to ask for and get powerful testimonials.
– The more simple your approach to freelancing, the more successful you are likely to be. Find out why and how here!

Search Engines / SEO

The Short Cutts – Ok, this one isn’t a post,but it’s a site that gives you a succinct synopsis of Matt Cutt’s webmasters videos.
From the Pros: 7 Advanced PPC Tools – Trada worked with PPC industry pros to collect the most impactful, often underrated tools that will make your job easier by giving you a more informed, effective and profitable paid search marketing program.
How Your Domain Name Will Impact SEO & Social Media Marketing – Let’s examine how a domain name impacts SEO and SMM and then analyze the factors that make a good domain name.
16 Secret Google Analytics Advanced Segments Worth Their Weight in Gold – We’ve tapped into some of the web’s finest web analytics professionals to share their tips for mining analytics gold. Here are 16 secret – until now – Google Analytics advanced segments that could make you insights rich, too.
CEO of 180Fusion Reviews Strategies of Top 10 SEO Blogs – Are you unsure of what strategies will actually help you rank in search engines? Do you wonder if your blog is optimized for social media conversions? If so, then you might want to take notes from the experts. Here are the things that the top search engine optimization blogs are using for search, social, and conversion optimization.

Social Media / Social Networking

The 2013 YouTube Marketing Guide – How does a company that sells blenders attract over 220 million views on YouTube? How does Zappos drive over 250,000 visits a year to its website from YouTube?
How Your Business Can Use the New Facebook Cover Photos – New Facebook cover photos: Here are some examples of what you can do with your Facebook cover photo and how to leverage the new rules to boost your business.
The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Ads for Small Business – Are you looking to get more followers on Twitter? Drive qualified traffic to an opt-in page? Then Twitter ads may be the perfect fit for your small biz.
4 Ways to Profit on Facebook Without a Facebook Page – So, you don’t have a Facebook Page? No problem. Your business can still profit from Facebook by utilizing these four powerful tools.
How to Network Using LinkedIn Groups – LinkedIn Groups: how to find relevant groups, build credibility and make new connections that can ultimately help grow your business.

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Every week on Friday, I start a thread on the Social Media Examiner Blogging Club so members can share their favorite blog post of the week. It’s free to join, so sign up, find today’s best blog post thread, and share your proudest blogging achievement of the week!

Is Google Author Rank Coming?

Listen to the latest video from Matt Cutts to find out!

What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Tough Love

Kristi Hines — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:00:38 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

This Week on Kikolani

Stop Wasting Money: How to Get the Most Out of Your Blogging Education – Do you buy conference passes, courses, or ebooks? If so, then follow the 12 tips in this post so you get the most out of your education budget.

Blogging / Content

Improve Your Content’s ROI in 9 Steps – If your team is struggling to provide results for clients, it’s time to take steps to boost social traction. Here are a few simple steps to kick your ROI into overdrive.
Repurposing Content: Top Benefits, Techniques & Tools – One of the tactics you can use is to promote the same or similar content on different media channels, popularly called “content repurposing”.
WordPress Security: Everything You Need To Know – My site was recently hacked and I learned a great amount from the ordeal. In this article I distill my experience down into 10 key WordPress security steps.
24 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Content Curation – True content curation isn’t just about bookmarking a link so you can come back to it later. It’s about organizing the content you enjoy in a meaningful way and, in many cases, being able to share the content you’ve curated.
The Definitive Guide to Conceptualizing, Designing and Promoting Your Own Infographic – In this post, we will show how you can conceptualize, design and promote a successful infographic on your own. Read ahead to learn how to find the right concept for the infographic, how to write compelling content (and where to find legitimate data), how to create attention-grabbing designs (and what free resources you can use to do that), and how to promote your infographic (and hopefully make it go viral).

Business / Career

10 Best Financial Podcasts to Boost Your Momentum – Check out this array of podcasts to rev up your momentum. Are you interested into traditional money advice, inspiring bloggers, or behavior change coaches? Dig in.
14 Steps to Hosting a Successful Webinar – Learn how to host and promote a successful webinar with these 14 steps from Gini Dietrich, founder of Arment Dietrich and Spin Sucks.
How To Sell Without Selling – What you really should be talking about (instead of your product and its benefits) is all the pain caused by the problem your readers want solved. This means getting inside their “world” and writing about the pain they’re experiencing (or COULD experience if something isn’t done to deal with the situation pronto).
6 Budget Planning Steps to Professional Project Estimates – This step-by-step guide will help you think through all the considerations involved in making a professional freelance project estimate, as well as how to set it out clearly so that potential clients can understand your breakdown.
How to Meet New People Who Want To Help Your Business and Career – Don’t shove a business card in someone’s mouth and other networking tips.

Search Engines / SEO

The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Page – As Web Design, User Experience, Search Engine Optimisation, Conversion Rate Optimisation and many other traditionally individual disciplines become more and more unified it’s important, regardless of your specific role, to be aware of how all the elements on a page contribute to your site’s success and their relationship with one another.Each section is short and easy to understand. We’ve linked to dozens of high quality and comprehensive resources on other sites where you can learn about each element in much more depth.
How to Use The Keyword Planner — The New Keyword Tool From Google AdWords – This new keyword tool combines elements of two existing keyword tools, the Google Keyword Tool and the AdWords Traffic Estimator, adding a more structured and integrated workflow as well as all sorts of new bells and whistles.
5 Ways You May Be Stuck In the “Good Ol’ Days” of SEO – Let’s take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of those almost ancient SEO techniques, see what the current day equivalent might be, and see how Google has learned to adapt – and as we do, ask yourself the question, have we?
10 Mistakes Every Startup Should Avoid When Optimizing for Search Engines – SEO done poorly can end up doing more harm than good, and it’s easy to make mistakes if you don’t have the experience. Here are ten things to avoid if you want your startup to succeed in the search engines.
How to become an Influencer through Content and Relationship Marketing – My experience as a publisher taught me a lot of things, particularly in making me understand several aspects of marketing that can really help a brand make an impact to its audience.

Social Media / Social Networking

The 2013 LinkedIn Marketing Guide – LinkedIn is a great network for businesses looking to increase traffic and leads, as well as individuals looking to market their expertise for new career opportunities. In this post, we’re going to look at everything you need to have a successful LinkedIn experience.
New Data Shows the 7 Most Powerful Calls-to-Action for More Retweets – I found that there are 7 words and phrases that when included in a tweet are correlated with that tweet getting more retweets than those that did not include those words. The expected CTAs are on the list: “please retweet” and “please rt” but leading up the list is the somewhat surprising “please help.”
22 Facebook PR Secrets Every Community Manager Should Know – How can a brand rank in authenticity and pull some publicity out of its Facebook Page? With the right mix of art and science. Check out the latest top shelf insights, data, and tips designed for fashion forward thinking Facebook community managers.
The CEO’s Guide to Listening on Twitter – Are you a CEO trying to cut through the clutter? Here’s how to listen to what matters on Twitter.
26 Social Media Marketing Tips from the Pros – Social media marketing tips: Learn how calls to action, content strategy, email/social integration and goals play a part in your social media efforts.

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Tough Love

At least one of these will hit home for everyone who watches it.

Tough Love

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & The Science of Productivity

Kristi Hines — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:00:49 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

Featured Post

The Top 75 Must-Read Online Marketing Blogs – Last year, I compiled 75 Marketing Blogs that covered conversion, content, email, paid search, SEO, analytics, blogging, and social media marketing. Of course, there are many more awesome blogs out there. So today, we’re going to expand that list and add 75 MORE must read blogs for you to consume that cover marketing and business inspiration!

Blogging / Content

How to Use Ebooks Strategically and Reach Your Content Marketing Goals – Let’s briefly review the two prominent ebook styles, and how either (or both) might serve your business goals. Then, read on for inspiration and ideas directly from a few accomplished ebook authors.
3 Unusual Cures for Boring Headlines – Let’s have a little fun and poke the headline experts in the eye. In the process, you’ll build your audience quicker, stick readers to your blog like super glue, and position your blog to make money.
Kindle Publishing: Your Guide to Getting Responsive Traffic with Kindle – Kindle publishing, Blogging, and Marketing: how to connect the dots to maximize traffic, exposure, and even build email list with Kindle.
11 Clever Ways to Nurture Leads With Your Business Blog – Learn how you can use your blog not just as a traffic and lead generator — but also as a lead nurturing tool.
The Misfit’s Guide to Finding Interesting Images for Your Blog Post – My sources of images aren’t well-guarded secrets. Like I said above you could do this on your own. Everywhere I find images you have equal access to.

Business / Career

5 Ways To Flip Your Copywriting For Higher Conversion Rates – When copywriting for our search landing pages, we should consider where on the awareness scale our customers fall. Keywords are the, well, key.
What Marketers Need to Know About the New FTC Disclosures – Recent FTC Rules and Regulations: learn more about what you need to disclose and how to make disclosures on social media that comply with U.S. consumer laws.
A 7-Step Landing Page Template to Convert Prospects into Leads – Here’s a template for free reports that you can adapt to most markets in which your prospects are just becoming aware of the problem and potential solutions.
Save Your Business Blog From Google’s RSS Hammer – July 1st, Google’s RSS Reader is done. Gone. Finito. Use this comprehensive strategy that will not only save, but grow your business blog subscribers.
25 Awesome Examples of Business Card Stickers – 25 Of The Worlds Coolest, Original & Creative Business Cards. Get Inspired! Check Out These Amazing Business Card Stickers & Print Your Own!

Search Engines / SEO

.EDU Link School: Tips & Tactics for Snagging Authoritative Links From Higher Ed – There are a ton of ripe link opportunities at schools, if you know where to look. Here are a few actionable and high probability tips and tactics for snagging .edu links.
7 Takeaways From The Local Search Association Annual Conference – In this month’s column, I will highlight my key takeaways from the LSA conference, which are focused on both the strides I believe local marketers should take to better serve our clients, as well as the steps that businesses should pursue as the local advertising space continues to evolve.
5 Rules to Effectively Use Press Releases for Links – There may have been some misuse of press releases along the way as a “fast” way to pick up some “easy” links. But the press release can still be a valuable online marketing tool. If you use them right they can still help get links, in a real way.
7 A/B Testing Blunders That Even Experts Make – But before you go out there and start running A/B tests, in hopes to get the same results for your business, there are a few things you need to know.
How To Get Links By Writing About Other People – At first, this may seem counter-intuitive to earning links for yourself — however, linking out to influential people while pumping out great content can be one of the best link building tactics out there, and here’s why.

Social Media / Social Networking

7 Deadly Facebook Marketing Sins According to Grandma Mary – Make sure you aren’t making these mistakes with your Facebook marketing. You probably won’t die, but your business could suffer – even worse!
20 Data-Backed Ways to Upgrade Your Social Media Marketing – Get tips on how to improve your social media marketing that all stem from real research and data.
6 Ways To Capture Leads From Facebook Pages – Do you use Facebook to capture leads for your business? Amanda Webb stops by to tell us six ways that you can do it!
50 Ways to Generate Leads with Social Media – Using social media monitoring, content creation, advertising, and networking, you will be a hero at your organization by bringing in leads like never before. Here are 50 ways to drive leads with social media.
Social Media in 2013 – Demographics for Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram – How are social media demographics in 2013 distributed? Here is a breakdown of all relevant data from the latest research.

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The Science of Productivity

AsapSCIENCE is my new favorite channel on YouTube, and hopefully after you watch the following video and visit their channel for more, it will be yours too! Let me know what you think.

The Science of Productivity

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Exercising with Cats

Kristi Hines — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:00:53 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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 / Content

16 Content Marketing Golden Rules For Real Results – Many business leaders under estimate the work required to develop good content marketing that drives real results. Many think it’s as easy as a simple blog post and you’re done. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
The Essential Copywriting Formulas Every Writer Should Know (and Why) – During the interview I mentioned a popular formula I use for creating persuasive copy: the four Ps. If I had more time I would have shared even more. Well, I can do that now on my own blog.
14 Bloggers Share Their Daily Blogging Routine – 14 bloggers answer the question – Can you give us a quick snapshot of your blogging schedule – when do you do it? Do you have a routine or is it more spontaneous?
72 Places to Promote Your Kindle Book When It’s Free – If you’ve enrolled your book in Amazon’s KDP, you have up to 5 days in a 90 day period to give away your book for free. This promotion is a powerful way to kickstart the sales of your Kindle book, so to get lots of downloads you need to advertise your free days in as many places as possible.
How to Keep Your Audience Reading – How about you and I undress one of the most powerful seducers of the written word… strip it down to essentials so you can use it to stop readers cold in their tracks.

Business / Career

26 Mobile Apps to Improve Your Business and Networking – Here are 26 apps to help you network, stay connected with your social communities and conduct business while on the go.
The Definitive Guide To Avoid the Yelp Review Filter – Learn why Yelp filters out some of your reviews and some easy steps you can take to make sure your positive reviews avoid the Yelp review filter.
10 Ways To Create High Converting Headlines – How can you boost your conversion rate through headlines? Well, there are a few simple strategies you can test.
7 Landing Page Tests You Can Run Tomorrow! – For many years, I’ve been participating in sessions/panels in which I critique PPC landing pages volunteered by audience members. As crowds go wild for this type of session, I’ve decided to use this space to focus on effective landing page elements and provide several examples thereof.
Measuring and Increasing the ROI of Your Content Resources
– Let me cut right to the chase. Do you want to know the value of your content marketing efforts? Want this report?

Search Engines / SEO

Infographic: The Periodic Table Of Google Analytics – Want to understand all the ways that Google Analytics can help you learn how people are interacting with your site? A new “periodic table” may prove useful
80/20 Link Building Tactics – Below are several link building activities that don’t necessarily need lots of efforts but can certainly help impact your business goals.
Meet AdWords Keyword Planner – The New Google Keyword Tool and AdWords Traffic Estimator Mash-up! – A comprehensive overview to the New AdWords Keyword Planner Tool – the replacement for the Google Keyword Tool and AdWords Traffic Estimator!
Steal Your SEO Competition’s #1 Google Rank – A Guide to Reverse Engineering – Reverse Engineering goes well beyond the concept of ‘finding good places to get backlinks from’ and takes your SEO to an entirely new level.
SEO Copywriting – 10 Tips for Writing Content that Ranks in 2013 (Infographic) – Copy is one of the most important aspects of onsite Search Engine Optimization. But with all the algorithm updates Google has pushed in recent years, a lot of the old tricks and best practices don’t work anymore. Moreover, it’s really hard to keep track of what does work.

Social Media / Social Networking

Facebook Marketing Tools that Lead to Results [Reference] – Ian Cleary of RazorSocial stops by to provide a great reference of the various tools that you can use to improve your productivity on Facebook.
10 Vital Steps to Building Social Influence – Most seek to build influence; measure influence; and yes, some will even attempt to sell influence. Yet, few will achieve action-inspiring influence without planning and effort. Here are 10 lessons in how to influence and inspire others to action.
Stay Focused Online: Avoid the Social Media Time Trap – Helpful pointers to ensure online productivity and avoid falling into the Social Media Time Trap.
How to Improve Your Social Media Calls to Action – Social Media Engagement: learn to craft calls to action that get your social community to do what you’d like them to and get the results you want.
7000 Newsletter Subscribers from 1 YouTube Video (Traffic Strategies with Incredible ROI) – In short, to maximize the ROI of your blogging efforts, spending most of your time researching how to create outstanding, unique content will give you far better results than learning that “one simple YouTube trick” that will end up doing jack squat for your bottom line.

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Photo of the Week

This week’s top photo comes from Death Valley National Park in California.

Be sure to check out Jason Hines’ photography blog and Arizona wedding photography website for more photos. Also, be sure to follow him on Twitter @jasonphines or Google+!

Exercise with Cats

If you can’t get motivated to work out, maybe this will help!

Exercise with Cats

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & ElegantTheme Contest Winners

Kristi Hines — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:05 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

New LinkedIn Group for Blog Marketing Strategies

Before we get started, I’d like to announce a new group on LinkedIn. Blog Marketing Strategies is for business, personal, and professional bloggers to discuss content, search, and social media marketing. Be sure to join today and start a conversation!

This Week on Kikolani

How to Contact Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Other Social Networks – The following are links to the contact information for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and Reddit.
5 Tips for the New Facebook Timeline for Personal Profiles – Find out what the new Facebook timeline for personal profiles looks like and how you can use it to promote your Facebook page and business.

Blogging / Content

27 Wacky Ways to Beat Writer’s Block – Beating writer’s block isn’t about discipline – it’s about loosening up, having fun, going a bit crazy. Here are 27 wacky ways to shake up your inner muse.
The Definitive Guide to Setting Up and Marketing a Podcast to Help Grow Your Blog – If you’re still with me at this point, I’ll assume that you’re rarin’ to start your own podcast. But, let me tell you now that, just like setting up a blog for the first time, it’s going to take some planning and preparation to get your podcast out there in the right way.
19 Warning Signs Your Infographic Stinks – We’ve collected the 19 most common mistakes that make infographics lackluster, neglected, and miserable. Avoid these mistakes and you have a good chance of making your infographic popular.
21 Powerful List Building Tips Rich Man and Poor Man Style – 20 plus killer list building tips on how to build a list rich man/poor man style – easy ways to get your list growing much faster.
The Definitive Guide to Guest Blogging – Backlinko’s compete guide to guest blogging. You’ll learn how to find targets, warm them up and get your guest post published.

Business / Career

Global Survey Shows Influence Marketing Seen as Lead Generation Tool, Not a Branding Exercise – A recent global survey of over 1,300 professionals shows influence marketing is less about brand awareness and more about lead generation.
How to Get Paid What You’re Worth – The secret to earning more for your work.
12 Posts To Perfect Your Customer Testimonials – Customer testimonials can set you apart from competitors & reassure new buyers. Here are 12 posts to make your customer testimonials more effective.
Five Creative Uses for Google Alerts – Google Alerts is one of Google’s hidden gems. It’s a really powerful tool to keep track of trends, interesting topics, or anything really new that appears on the web. If you’re not using it already, here are a few creative ways to get started with it.
Blackhat CRO: The Dark Side of Conversion Rate Optimisation – To carry out blackhat CRO you need to understand the main principles and techniques of CRO, then fake them.

Search Engines / SEO

The Second Most Creative Link Building Post Ever – I asked a group of ~50 SEOs one simple question: “What was the most creative way you, or someone you know, got a link?”
The Difference Between Penguin and an Unnatural Links Penalty (and some info on Panda too) – Are you confused about the difference between Penguin and an Unnatural Links penalty? Not sure whether you should be disavowing your links? Wondering whether you should file for reconsideration? Well…you’re not alone!
80/20 Link Building Tactics – Several link building activities that don’t necessarily need lots of efforts but can certainly help impact your business goals.
How to Create the Best Landing Pages for Your Google AdWords Account – Learn nine guidelines for creating high-quality PPC landing pages that will drive more conversions through your AdWords account.
The 68 Most Authoritative Search Marketing Blogs In One Custom Search Engine – When I started to explore web marketing I used to track some major blogs like Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Bruce Clay, and Social Media Examiner. As time went on I discovered more blogs and it became harder to track all these blogs. That’s why a custom-built search engine is more efficient.

Social Media / Social Networking

The 2013 Twitter Marketing Guide – Are you ready to immerse yourself and your business in Twitter this year? Are you a Twitter user who hasn’t caught up with the latest updates and tools for Twitter?
Who Is More Likely To See Your Posts On the Facebook News Feed? [Infographic] – Understanding how Facebook EdgeRank directly affects who sees your content on the News Feed based on personal interaction and network reaction.
Everything You Need to Know to Promote Your Business with Facebook Offers – Learn how to use Facebook Offers to promote anything – discounts, coupons, sales, free reports, ebooks, webinars, and more – in-store and online.
The 6,528 Word Guide to Choosing Your Main Social Media Battleground – In this post I’m going to talk about my own thoughts on this matter as well as sharing a few interesting facts and figures about where you might want to spend your social media time.
9 Ways to Become a Better Facebook Community Manager – Discover the 9 tips you need to create a thriving Facebook community and improve your Facebook marketing.

Winners of the ElegantThemes Lifetime Membership Contest

Photo Credit: Eduardo Sánchez on Flickr

First of all, thank you to Mitch of ElegantThemes for offering three lifetime memberships for this contest! And thank you to everyone who entered! The winners are John Rohozynsky, Ian Humphreys, and Sampath Sam. I will be sending you emails today about the contest.

For those of you who didn’t win but are still interested in using ElegantThemes for your own sites, be sure to check out the ElegantThemes memberships (affiliate link). You can get over 80+ themes for $39 per year which is great deal for beautiful WordPress themes!

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & World’s Cutest Frog

Kristi Hines — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:39 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

This Week on Kikolani

Enter to Win 1 of 3 Lifetime Memberships to ElegantThemes – Enter to win one of three lifetime memberships to ElegantThemes. Contest ends on Thursday, April 18th at 5pm MST.

Blogging / Content

9 Convincing Arguments to Win Your Content Marketing Budget – Find out how marketers who are keen on content strategies can win the backing — and budget — they need to proceed with their content marketing efforts.
Formatting Cheat-Sheet for Exhausted Editors: From MLA to Chicago and Back – ere we present the Formatting Cheat-Sheet for Exhausted Editors. From MLA to APA to Chicago, it covers all of the popular formatting choices and their main differences.
How to Find Popular Topics for Your Business to Blog About – In this post, we’re going to dig a bit deeper into additional tools and strategies your business can use to discover what content performs best on social media in your industry.
12 Types of Blog Posts You Need to Stop Writing – You can’t please everyone, but I believe the following twelve types of post have no place on a good blog.
45+ More Websites that Pay You to Contribute an Article, Instantly – This article shares 45+ more websites that pay you to contribute an article, instantly. Do you want to get paid to write? You need to read and share this post.

Business / Career

7 Key Design Tips for High-Converting Landing Pages [+ Free Templates] – 7 design-related best practices for creating landing pages that convert.
Customer Acquisition Strategies for Entrepreneurs – Proven inbound marketing tactics and resources that will help your startup acquiring customers in a way that differentiates you from the crowd.
5 Services to Boost Email Productivity – Want to get back on track? Check out these five services to make your email experience easier, improve work flow and make your day more productive.
How to Write Web Copy that Converts – 8 Simple Techniques Based on 4 Years of Research – In this post I’ll give you 8 simple techniques that will help you get it right every time. These techniques are based on what I’ve learned from 4 years of research and 300 copy-related A/B tests.
27 Time-Saving Tools and Tricks to Be a More Productive Marketer – Check out some time hacks that will make inbound marketers more productive.

Search Engines / SEO

How to Get Out of The Google Penalty Box – Here are the most common tactics that caused your site to get penalized and here is how you fix it.
What PPC Account Managers Say They Do vs. What They Really Do – PPC account managers claim to be spending lots of time optimizing their accounts, but our data suggests that actual AdWords account activity levels are low. Here’s why it matters.
5 SEO Tools You Might Not Have… Yet – Great tools you may not know of yet to help you manage your search engine marketing.
The Holy Grail Of Internet Marketing: Owning The Whole SERP – If you’re a business owner, I’m certain you know what your business is all about. Now you need to translate that into Google results.
Google+ Local Bible for SMBs – If you’re a small local business, having a Google+ Local profile is imperative to putting your brand – quite literally – on the map.

Social Media / Social Networking

10 Examples and 3 Tools: How to Win with New Rules for Facebook Timeline Covers – See how 10 brands are leveraging the new rules for Facebook Timeline cover photos, and get three tools to help you create a cover for your brand.
The State of Pinterest: What Content Marketers Need to Know Now – Wondering what’s new for Pinterest in 2013? Here are some of the most important recent developments.
Power Editor: An Alternative to Facebook Promoted Posts [Tutorial] – Facebook Promoted Posts are easy to create but lack control. Here’s how you can create similar ads in Power Editor while giving the control you need.
3 Social Media Metrics Your Business Should Track – Learn what you need to measure to know how well your social campaigns are performing.
Facebook Employees Share Their Favorite Graph Searches – As the Facebook employees list shows, Graph Search can also be used to help find someone to translate a joke, find photos of your friends’ recent vacation or find other scientists who knit.

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World’s Cutest Frog

I usually prefer the brightly colored frogs, but this one was pretty interesting!

World’s Cutest Frog

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Guest Blogging Hangout

Kristi Hines — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:00:04 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

This Week on Kikolani

Are Spammers on Your Mailing List Costing You Money – Don’t pay more than you should for your mailing list by removing the spam!

Blogging / Content

Is Turning an Ebook into a Print Book Worth It? – Realizing that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, this turned into a great learning experience and I thank Corbett for letting me share that experience with you.
21 Critical Tasks to Perform as Soon as You Start a Blog (+1 Extra) – In this post I’m going to try and help you with a few things that you should do as soon as you start a blog. They might make all the difference.
11 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My First Blog – I just wish someone told me all of this before I started my first blog. Here are 11 things you should know before starting your first blog.
15 Insider Tips for Creating a Content Creation Machine – Check out these tips for making content creation faster, easier, and more effective.
11 Author Website Must Have Elements – An author website has a lofty goal: it needs to not just be, but also needs to perform and respond. Does your author website have these must have elements?

Business / Career

Your Ultimate Presentation Guide: 21 Ways to Deliver Interesting and Engaging Presentations – Here are 21 different ways you can make your presentation become more interesting so your audience goes from dozing off in lethargy to jumping off with excitement after your presentation.
48 Tweetable Stats To Make You An Online Marketing SmartyPants – line marketing stats. Each one with a bite-sized Tweetable link. Share them easily on Twitter and look like an online marketing smartypants.
21 Resources to Help You Rock SlideShare for Marketing – Need some help getting started with SlideShare? These articles will help you start your content marketing efforts right Also don’t miss this SlideShare case study on getting 243,000 views in 30 days.
6 Tips to Avoid Your Subscriber’s Spam Folder – Here are some things you can do to lower your spam score and get more messages in your subscriber’s inbox.
The Online Business Survival Kit for the New Entrepreneur – This is the ultimate online business kit for the new entrepreneur starting out in the world of online business.

Search Engines / SEO

How Much will Google Reader’s Demise Cost your Business? – The impending demise of Google Reader is more than a mere inconvenience to those of us who use it to follow an overwhelming collection of industry blogs, Google Alerts, and xkcd and Oatmeal comics. If you offer RSS as a way to subscribe to your content, whether it’s a blog or some kind of feed, then you stand to lose a chunk of your traffic on July 1.
33 Link Building Questions Answered – This post is an opportunity to expound on some areas of the Mozinar, but more often than not, just general best practices and my philosophical approach to link building.
10 Experts on Getting Negative Links Off Page One – Top tips experts offer to remove negative links from page one of search results.
Matt Cutts Answers A Good Question About Paid Link Penalties – The latest Webmaster Help video is once again about the topic of paid links, but this time it’s about the effects of a paid link penalty on an innocent site that happened to be linked to by a site that was caught selling links.
How to Write Copy Like Google – Have you ever wondered who writes copy for Google … who puts together the words on the landing pages or in the video scripts for products like Gmail, Google+, Analytics, or Nexus?

Social Media / Social Networking

5 Reasons You Should STILL Create Facebook Tabs for Your Page – Sure, very few people will see those tabs naturally. But you should absolutely drive people to them with links in the News Feed or through advertising. Here are the five reasons you should still make Facebook tabs part of your marketing strategy.
7 Ways to Attract Targeted Twitter Followers for Your Business – Try the following seven ways to grow a Twitter following that will be interested in reading what you have to tweet.
10 Innovative Uses of Pinterest – Among Pinterest’s 48 million users, here are 10 that have found innovative ways to use the social platform.
100 Things to Tweet about on Twitter Besides Yourself – What to tweet on twitter that doesn’t include bragging about yourself. Here are 100 tips to inspire, entertain and delight your audience.
How to Grow Your Email List With Facebook Promotions – Grow your email list: learn how to use email marketing and Facebook promotions to build your email list.

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Guest Blogging, Authority, and Traffic

Just in case you missed it, here is last week’s Google+ Hangout with me, Jon Morrow, and Neil Patel discussing the ins and outs of guest blogging with Tommy Walker as our host! Enjoy!

Guest Blogging w/ Jon Morrow, Neil Patel & Kristi Hines

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Funny Cute Animal Compilation

Kristi Hines — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:57:49 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

This Week on Kikolani

How to Get Testimonials for Your Business or Blog Using Twitter for Social Proof – Want to get testimonials from customers for your business or readers for your blog? Find out how to use Twitter as your source of social proof testimonials.

Blogging / Content

Google Reader’s Demise is Irrelevant for Blogs – The demise of Google Reader will have no impact on blogs and blogging. If the content is good enough, people will find a way to subscribe via email or otherwise.
How Quick Sprout Gets 176 Comments Per Blog Post – As of right now Quick Sprout has 62,232 comments, which took place over 353 blog posts. That means the average blog post gets around 176 comments… which is more than most blogs. Here’s how I did it.
6 Ways Content Producers Should Adjust to the Latest FTC Disclosure Rules – Don’t worry — disclosure doesn’t need to be complicated or take away from your marketing message. However, it does need to be clear, conspicuous, and unavoidable, so that the content you produce communicates transparently with your audience.
Ask the Content Marketing Know-It-All – Sonia Simone answers your questions about content and online marketing.
The Marketer’s Go-To Guide for Creating Data-Based Content – Learn how to use data to improve your content strategy.

Business / Career

Reverse Engineering a Website Redesign for Competitor Research – You don’t want your business to start losing customers because your competitor has upped their game. In this post, we’re going to show what you can learn from analyzing your competitor’s website redesign.
If You’re Always Busy, You May Just Be Procrastinating – Here’s the thing: when we’re busy we can easily trick ourselves into thinking that all of that activity means that we’re not procrastinating. We’re busy, sure, but we’re not focused on the things that should really have our attention.
How To Start Getting Reviews From Your Customers – 52% of people are more likely to purchase if a company has positive reviews. Which is why they are so important and why we’ve written this guide.
How To Grow Your Email Subscription By 400% – No matter what happens you will always have that list. It’s a list of people you’ve developed a relationship with. It’s your direct way of getting in touch with your loyal readers.
A Stupidly Simple, Yet Powerful Technique Of Keeping Laser-Like Focus On Your Business Goals – The truth is, there ARE a lot of things you could be doing for your online business, and all of it will bring results in one form or another. But, that DOESN’T mean you have to be doing all of it. In fact, trying to do all of it is a sure-fire path to rock bottom.

Search Engines / SEO

Need A Google Alerts Replacement? Meet Talkwalker – With Google Alerts coming under fire as being broken, an impressive new service has stepped up to appeal to those seeking an alternative: Talkwalker.
How to Find Anyone’s Email Using Allmytweets – You could install Rapportive, use Rob Ousbey’s tool, go searching through Google, or even try guessing… But why not just take it directly from the person you’re trying to reach?
Manual Link Penalties Revoked – Yes you can get your manual link penalties revoked! It just takes a solid approach and due diligence. Find out how three clients got their penalties lifted.
How To Build Your Own Custom Google Analytics Dashboard – Want to create your own custom Google Analytics dashboard. Sharon Hurley Hall walks you through the process.
17+ Must-Read Tips and Tutorials for Improving Your SEO SKills – This is a round-up of some of the best guides and How To’s for understanding the world of SEO and building an SEO-friendly website that Google will love now and into the future.

Social Media / Social Networking

The Definitive Guide to Online Reputation Management – In this guide, I’m going to explain the role of online reputation management in today’s business and media landscape. Companies of every size can benefit from having a clear outline of its main concepts.
5 Steps to Facebook Authority – Lauren Vacarello oulines the different ad types on Facebook and walks us through getting started with Facebook advertising.
5 Reasons Your Small Business Should Be Using Quora – Small businesses can benefit greatly by actively engaging with the Quora Community. Check out these 5 reasons why.
20 Ways Brands Can Prepare For Facebook Changes – While we’re speculating, pontificating and – well, waiting – here are 20 mostly painless, definitely necessary things all brands can do to get a jump start on whatever is on the way. No matter how you feel about Facebook, it’s time to get ready.
The Essential Cheat Sheet for Social Media Cover Photo Dimensions [+ Pre-Sized Templates] – This handy cheat sheet and templates give you the dimensions for designing optimized cover photos for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Join Me Tonight on Google+

Have questions about guest blogging? Tommy Walker will be hosting Jon Morrow of Copyblogger, Neil Patel of KISSmetrics, and yours truly in a Google+ Hangout tonight, March 29th 8 – 9PM EST. Be sure to RSVP here to let us know you are coming!

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Funny Cute Animals Compilation

Here are clips from some of the best funny and cute animals in 2012!

Funny and Cute Animals Compilation 2012

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Imagine the World

Kristi Hines — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:00:38 +0000

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.

This Week on Kikolani

How to Increase Twitter Engagement with Nestivity – Learn how to increase Twitter engagement and followers with Nestivity, the Twitter tool that turns your tweets into conversations.

Blogging / Content

The Writer’s Author Rank Cheat Sheet – Author Rank got you confused? No worries, here’s a breakdown of the key elements you need to act on.
9 Amazing Content Curation Resources – Content curation supplements original content for both broadly and narrowly focused topics. Through the editorial process, it adds original content and provides an opportunity to showcase relevant gems.
15 Tools For Generating Killer Content – Many of the same tools we use for keyword research and link building tactics, in addition to a few new sources, can be used to brainstorm campaigns or uncover awesome ideas.
29 Tools to Enhance Your Business Blog – The right mix of blogging tools and plugins can make it easier to get results and also help you achieve your business goals.
9 Steps to Creating a Successful e-Course – If you have the desire to share what you know, here are the steps you can take to create your own successful e-Course.

Business / Career

Klout for Business Aims to Help Brands Reach Social Influencers – At long last, Klout has rolled out its social-scoring service to businesses, allowing companies to better understand who their top influencers are online.
15 Steps to the Ultimate Lead Capture Landing Page – Follow 15 detailed steps to build a really high performance landing page for gathering leads. The ultimate lead capture landing page.
20 Critical Do’s and Don’ts for Clickable Calls-to-Action [SlideShare] – Familiarize yourself with these 20 critical CTA do’s and don’ts so you can create marketing calls-to-action that get visitors clicking.
4 Bold Steps to Communicating Your Prices without Apology – How to communicate your prices and say what you are worth without being apologetic or ashamed of it? I give you 4 bold steps to do that!
7 Quick Fixes To Accelerate Your Job Search – The job market for professionals is extremely competitive today. Need to re-launch your job search campaign? Here are some quick fixes to help you get going.

Search Engines / SEO

Must-Have SEO Tools: 17 SEO Experts Weigh In – Find out which SEO tools digital marketing experts use. Aaron Wall, Brendan Soucie, Dev Basu, Geoff Kenyon, Marcela De Vivo, Tamar Weinberg, and more.
11 Creative Ways to Build Links – There are a handful of creative strategies out there. Here are 11 fun ways you can build links without burning yourself out.
6 SEO Sins That’ll Put You on Google’s Naughty List – With Google, ignorance is no excuse. You break the rules, you pay the consequences. End of story.
That’s why it’s so important to learn what the rules are.
Build Your Authority, Not Your Author Rank – Focusing solely on Author Rank may blind us to tracking Google’s progress and building what is truly important. Authority.
A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps – Are you aware of the many different types of Sitemaps you can use, what the differences are between them, what each one’s intended role is, and why you are probably still not doing it right? Let’s sit down and have a little refresher talk about Sitemaps.

Social Media / Social Networking

10 Top Tips to Increase Your Social Media Traffic using Slideshare – Slideshare has 60 million monthly visitors, which makes it one of the top 200 websites in the world. Using social media can be very rewarding: it can get you lots of traffic, it’s a great way to build a community of engaged users and it’s a great marketing tool.
How to Turn Social Connections Into In-Person Sales – Alix Hart, Brand Marketer at Best Buy, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss integrating social into all aspects of customer service and battling the “showroom” effect as a brick-and-mortar retailer.
Facebook Like a Ninja With These Keyboard Shortcuts – Did you know that Facebook offers an entire range of really useful keyboard shortcuts?
How to Improve Your Social Media Marketing With Blogging – Learn how to enhance your social media efforts using your business blog.
The Real Deal with 3rd Party Facebook Publishing Tools – Not only do third party publishing tools not negatively impact your Facebook page performance, they provide benefits that Facebook natively cannot.

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Imagine a World Without Hate

This one really makes you think.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Seals on a Surfboard

Kristi Hines — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:00:26 +0000

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.

On Kikolani

10 Premium SEO Tools That You Can Try for Free (or Cheap) – Need premium SEO tools to optimize your website or blog for search? Here are 10 tools you can use for free or cheap for a limited time plus some best practices.
Google Reader Alternatives: 3 Web Based RSS Readers to Manage Your Subscriptions – Google Reader is shutting down on July 1st. Find out which web-based RSS readers will make great Google Reader alternatives.

Blogging / Content

How to Get More Content for Your Blog – If you’re struggling to create enough content, then here are some great ways to get additional content for your blog.
15 Tools For Generating Killer Content – Let’s take a look at how to use these 15 tools to generate linkable and shareable content in a pinch.
Content Marketing Essentials 2013 – A huge interactive infographic on content marketing.
Book Deal to Book Shelf in 3 Months: 8 Steps to Delivering Under Aggressive Deadlines – How to write a book under an aggressive deadline and not compromise on quality and your life balance in seven manageable steps.
How I Conquered 200+ Emails Per Day and Reclaimed My Writing Time – Are you drowning in email? I was, until learned to reduce and better manage my email. Here is how I cut my email time and got my life back.

Business / Career

How to Use SlideShare to Generate Leads – Here’s how to use SlideShare as part of your visual content marketing strategy.
21 Tools for Maximizing Productivity – Mary shares BlueGlassers’ favorite tools and apps for email tracking, research, task management, organizing notes, and more.
5 Secrets for Using Industry Groups in Job Search – Industry associations are a job seeker’s best friend–or at least they should be. Here are 5 secrets for getting the maximum benefit from these groups.
The True Benefits of a Standing Desk – This case study of a company’s standing desk experiment should provide evidence to start using one for yourself.

Search Engines / SEO

How to Use Schema Markup for Local SEO – Local businesses that want to utilize the internet to get more customers should implement Schema Markup, as it allows search engines to display important information, such as hours, testimonials, reviews, and even menus easily in search results.
The State of SEO: The Experts Weigh In – Part III – The SEO experts weigh in on link building, digital media, web development and e-mail marketing in the third part of the state of SEO series.
5 Unexpected Keyword Research Sources – If you’ve exhausted the list of popular keyword research programs that are available today, you might be interested in the following five unusual keyword research sources.
5 Custom Google Analytics Dashboards And How To Use Them – Want a better way to look at your Google Analytics data? These custom dashboards in Google Analytics could be the answer.
The Guide to US Census Data for Local SEO – By using census data, these viable hyper-local markets can be identified before you even publish a single tweet. You can plan micro-campaigns designed to match each of the various cities, counties, towns, or even city blocks in your selected location. This type of analysis is particularly important when considering where to open a new brick-and-mortar establishment.

Social Media / Social Networking

4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever – Twitter is changing dramatically, become more of a platform than a tool. This has major consequences. Here are 4 ways Twitter is changing.
10 Killer Tips on How to Get More Facebook Fans James Bond Style – How to get more Facebook fans James Bond style: killer tips for killer results. Warning: don’t click on this link if you want a quick fix.
5 Ways To Pay For Twitter Exposure – If you want to boost the visibility for your tweets, here are five ways to make it happen plus the pros and cons of each.
Utilizing Social Media to Help Improve Your Local Rankings – Social networks, review sites, deal sites, and mobile applications can be some of your best strengths if you utilize them to your advantage.
Social Media’s Dirty Little Secrets – Nichole Kelly exposes some dirty little secrets about social media – It’s not free, you need to listen first, you must have a strategy and advertising is key to building a strong presence.

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Seals on a Surfboard

Great use of a GoPro camera!

Seals on a Surfboard

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