This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, tilt shift videos, and what’s been going on and coming up 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
- How to write a blog post in 20 minutes flat
- Blog post optimization, title SEO, and deadeye targeting
- Top 42 content marketing blogs?
- 6 questions for beginning bloggers
- 7 simple steps to promote a blog post
Business / Career / Finance
- Start an online business to expand during hard times
- 10 steps to turn your passion into business
- Blogging for small business – what should we write about?
- Are you retaining customers?
- How Foursquare drives business
Design / Inspiration
- Free Twitter backgrounds to download and customize
- The gradual dissapearance of flash websites
- Web design styles to adapt to your portfolio
- 5 tips for creating the best profile pic
- 25 excellent free stock photo sites for designers
Making Money Online
- 27 young internet entrepreneurs who inspire
- 7 lessons learned after small product launch
- Do you actually make money off of ads?
- Three ethical affiliate marketers you can trust
- Blogging for pay – 8 ways to get paid blogging
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- 70 reminders to help you break any barrier
- The relativity mind trap – how comparisons can lead us astray
- Success is made out of little victories
- What everyone ought to know about gratitude and appreciation
- How relationships reveal beliefs
Photography / Digital Art
- Captivating examples of sleeveface photography
- 6 tips to create exquisite photos without expensive lighting
- Vintage and aging photo effects Photoshop tutorials
- 52 photos of beautiful latte arts
- 30 excellent photographs of cats
Search Engines / SEO / Traffic
- Important elements to consider when developing a SEO strategy
- How to train a link builder
- 9 ways to improve the SEO of every website you design
- Google wows webmasters with new search reports with CTR in Webmaster Tools
- Beginner’s guide to link metrics
Social Media
- Popularity vs. influence in social media
- Social media demographics – who is using which sites?
- The most useful posts on Facebook marketing
- 33 top social media blogs and 20 social media divas to follow
- How to improve Facebook engagement by decluttering the news feed
Software / Security / Tech
- Self hosted WordPress blogs under attack
- Netbook computer primer
- Solid state drives – the way of the future
- 10 Firefox addons for affiliate marketers
- 4 common myths about Twitter
- Noteworthy South African Twitter users
- Measuring the power of retweets
- 10 reasons to encourage Twitter links in blog comments
- Help your Twitter followers get more followers on Follow Friday
WordPress
- 8 WordPress spring cleaning tips
- WordPress 404 pages – essential tips and tools
- Blogging guide to improving WordPress SEO
- 5 additional extreme steps to secure your WordPress blog
- Creating custom 404 error pages for WordPress
WordPress Hack
Sadly, the latest in the string of WordPress hacks affected several of my sites, some of which are still down. Thankfully I have this one and my other prime traffic site, Dofollow, back up and running – this one just in time to get my post in before midnight. Coming up will be a post on the warning signs of a WordPress hacking, and the resources that helped me take care of the problem.
Astonishing Tilt Shift Videos
This is one of the many tilt shift videos collected by Photoble. These videos are simply amazing.
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I just loved that post write a good post in 20 minutes. Why am saying is because, when I started blogging I was not used to proof read my post, which lead many mistakes in my post, but now I am following your tips and enjoying blogging!
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Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:31 am
That’s good to hear. I still miss some things in proof reading. It gets difficult when you’ve stared at the same text for a while.
Kristi,
Really glad to see you have this and dofollow up and running again, sure didn’t take you long to fix!
Thanks for the Fetching Friday list this week as well, glad to see it, even with everything you had going on. And I look forward to your article about Wordpress hacking, especially since I am so new to this, I really need to know about that! Thanks again,
Steven
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Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:32 am
It still took longer than I preferred, considering both sites had to be redirected for over 16 hours. But I am happy they’re running again too!
Hi Kristi, just like other Friday Fetching series, this series also very interesting. I have read all the article related to SEO that you mentioned here. The bloggers have mentioned some good link building and SEO strategy. Well thanks for this Fetching Friday series.
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Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:32 am
I’m glad I chose some good ones for your favorite section!
Twitter: andrewrondeau
April 17, 2010 at 5:35 am
Kristi
Sorry to hear about your hacking issues. Looking forward to what you share.
And thanks for all the links – loved the one on FB Marketing.
Andrew
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Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:33 am
Glad you found some good ones!
This are all great posts from around the web, thanks a lot for sharing these great resources with us, we really appreciate you.
Thanks a lot.
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Hello Kristi.
Thanks for the mention and link-luv, I appreciate it. Besides that, this is a great article with a bonanza of resources. Really nice of you to round up all of these posts and share with the community.
Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:34 am
You’re welcome. It’s getting to be a faster process now that I have switched to using my own retweets, as I usually am tweeting my favorites now more than bookmarking them.
Kristi,
I am happy that things are back to normal. I wish I could have helped further, but it would have required me to have access to all areas. Any how, awesome Fetch this week!
Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:35 am
You provided a great deal of assistance which I definitely appreciate!
I have to admit that my favorite articles that you highlight every week are the photography ones, where I get to check out some of the fantastic shots. I’m a lousy photographer, but I know what I like.
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Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:35 am
You know, I love throwing those in as a little break from technology and business. I’m glad they are appreciated.
Thanks for the mention Kristi.
It must have taken quite a bit of time to gather and share all of these resources. Keep up the great work.
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Twitter: AussieSire
April 17, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Reckon I’ll check out the 404 pages Kristi as that sounds interesting. I’m always into jazzing the old blog up a little, even when people land on a page that doesn’t exist
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Twitter: kikolani
April 20, 2010 at 10:36 am
Yeah, my 404 page hasn’t been updated in a while, so when I saw that, it was a good reminder to check it out again!
Twitter: AussieSire
April 20, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Mine’s just a basic 404 page that says their search term didn’t have a result or something. then it shows a heap of other links that may be of interest. Users can also use the regular menu to navigate around the blog.
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Twitter: cks1988
April 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Hi Kristi! I have heard about your blog hacking issue. How was it now?
Among all the resources, i love to read the “Blog to Pay”. Thanks for sharing Kristi!
Thank you so much for linking to me, Kristi. I’m really glad you liked my post about the “27 young internet entrepreneurs who inspire” and found it helpful
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Those are really great resources you’ve shared above
. Thanks for sharing 
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That NetBook Primer was right on time. I’m in the market for one. I need to do more mobile computing these days. McEvoy’s break down was very helpful.
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Sorry to hear about the hacking issues, Kristi. It’s quite the talk of the town lately amongst bloggers.
Till then,
Jean
Wow! I just realized you included my “6 questions” post in your resources mashup. AWESOME! Thank you so much. I’m still getting familiar with all of the tracking tools that Wordpress available and missed your link. OOPS!
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June 11, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I miss a lot of trackbacks… supposedly WordPress, Google Alerts, or Social Mention will catch them, but some still sip through.
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