This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
- How To Make Your Content Interesting and Useful – How to make your content useful in a boring industry, creating content that brings people to your website, and more.
- 8 Ways to Make Money With a Blog (And the Major Mistake You Should Avoid) – If you carefully survey the world of successful bloggers, you will find a variety of revenue generating opportunities.
- All Your Writing Clips on One Site: Cuttings.me Review and Interview – Freelance writers, journalists, and bloggers need to show editors and prospect clients examples of their work. British journalist and fellow freelancer Nicholas Holmes has come up with a brilliant way for you to easily showcase your clips in one slick portfolio on one website.
- A ‘Thank You’ to 21 Bloggers for Kicking Butt, Taking Names, and Creating Greatness – Some bloggers write, others kick butt while creating greatness in the process. Here are my thoughts on a 21 bloggers who are taking action!
- 100 Questions to Help You Write, Publish, and Sell Your Ebook – If you want to write an ebook but are having difficulty getting started, these 100 questions will give you the jump start that you need.
Business / Career / Making Money Online
- How to Find Out Which Online Marketing Strategy Drives the Best Traffic – Do you participate in so many different types of online marketing strategies that when your boss asks you which one is the most effective, you don’t know what to say? This is where Google Analytics Advanced Segments come into play.
- 10 Ways for New Writers to Market their Business and Get Into the Spotlight – 10 solid tips to help your business get more results as a writer.
- The 10 Brand Questions Every SMB Must Answer – 10 questions intended to help you take a more strategic look at your brand to identify what’s working and where you may want to improve.
- Screw Overnight Success: How to Really Build Long-Term Growth Online – Despite what the ads will tell you, very few business people earn a comfortable living after a few days or weeks in business. A more reliable – and more profitable – way to approach your business is with a long-term plan.
- How To Increase Adsense CTR: Tested and Confirmed – Multiple tests on how to increase Adsense CTR keep confirming that you should not display ads all over your blog.
Personal Development / Productivity
- 50 Ways to Show Gratitude for the People in Your Life – From the people who love you, to the people who challenge you, to the people who support you at work, here’s how to show your gratitude.
- 10 Ways to Find Balance and Serenity After a Productive Day – 10 simple ways to relax and reflect after a long day of productivity. Everyone should be rewarded for working hard.
- The Path to Long-Term Productivity – The real secret to your long term productivity lies in your health and your well-being.
- 18 Ways to Find Direction Over Your Holiday Break – The holidays are a great time to step back from your work-life and rethink what and how you are trying to get things done.
- 10 Powerful Productivity Tips You Can Practice – What actions describe the remarkably productive? What routines, principles, and tactics establish a few people persistently more productive than the rest?
Search Engines / SEO
- Is Google+ Imperative For SEO? – We all know that Google has over 200 signals it uses when ranking content, but you know what Google loves to rank well when its relevant? Google stuff.
- 5 Press Release SEO Posts & 10 Bonus Tips for Better Google Rankings – A list of Press Release Optimization tips plus a few extras at the end of this post.
- 6 Cool Ways to Supplement Your Open Site Explorer Data – Today, we’re going to take some fresh link data from your favourite link information mining tool of choice and supplement the hell out of it with even more data.
- How I Keep My Bounce Rate Under 2% – Keeping visitors on your website is a key component to success. The more time a visitor spends on your site, the more likely they are to follow through with whatever action you want them to take, whether that’s subscribing to a newsletter, purchasing a product, or making an inquiry.
- About Link Building – This post is for any new linkbuilders out there who wants a one-stop resource to guide them focusing on the different linkbuilding factors, linkbuilding methods and linkbuilding results.
Social Media / Social Networking
- How to Find and Add Facebook Apps to Your Facebook Page – How to find and install third-party Facebook applications easily to improve your Facebook Page and incite fans to come back again.
- 10 Creative Ways to “Level-Up” Your Presence on Facebook – Pat’s shared a lot of tips about Facebook over the past two years, but nothing like this. Here’s what you can do to LEVEL-UP your presence on Facebook today!
- 10 Productive Tasks You Should Be Doing On Google+ Right Now – The following list of things that you should be doing on Google+ will keep you both productive and effective, not just entertained.
- 3 Steps To Boost Conversion From Social Media Profiles – 3 super-simple methods to boost conversion from social media profiles.
- 25 Google+ Tips and Tricks – From making your profile pop to mastering your stream, I’ll share 25 of the most useful Google+ Tips and Tricks to get you going.
Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals for Bloggers
Want to skip the crowds and still get some good deals? Here are some great Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals for bloggers and online marketers.
1. 25% off StudioPress – From Tuesday, November 22nd through Monday, November 28th at 5pm PST, use the discount code THANKS for an additional 25% off of StudioPress Genesis Framework, child themes, and packages. Don’t miss this great deal! Read my comparison of Thesis vs. Genesis for more information.
2. 40% off Income Blogging Course – For 100 members only, get six months membership to the Income Blogging Course for $27 per month – a total savings of $120 off the entire course! Read my course review for more information.
3. Only72 Hour Sale – Get $1,033 worth of courses from big names in the online marketing and blogging industry for only $97 beginning Monday, November 28th at noon EST through December 1st. Be sure to check out the interviews now and sign up!
4. ProBlogging Action Plan – Get 50% off Jane Sheeba’s ProBlogging Action Plan eBook from now through Monday, November 28th at midnight. Use the discount code bfcmpbs to take advantage of this Black Friday Special.
5. HostGator – Hostgator is offering 50% off all hosting services on Black Friday only (from midnight to 11:59pm CST) including shared, reseller, VPS, and dedicated servers. No coupon code is needed – just place your order during the designated time frame today!
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo came from Jerome, AZ. Along the way, while scoping out a way to get to an urbex scene down the hill, I looked up and noticed what remained of the fall colors in the town.
Be sure to check out my photography blog for more photos and follow me @kristihines for my photography tweets or become a fan of Photostry on Facebook!
HDR Skies
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Nice Post,,
Thanks for share these useful points for bloggers which all have reason to apply in bloggers work and they will give good response to bloggers if they will use them in perfect way.
sam @ goa carnival recently posted Goa Carnival 2012
Hi Kristi, thanks for sharing the Black Friday deals and all the other resources. I wanted to share my exclusive bonus offer of an extra $10 off on top of Hesham’s 50% off on Thesis Blogskins. I left the link in CommentLuv.
Thank you!
Ileane recently posted Thesis Awesome Blogskin Black Friday Sale
Hey Kristi!
Thank you so much for having me here! It’s such a pleasure to know you as a fellow blogger and even as a friend. And great mashup! I’m going through some of the resources here even now… How do you even find these resources??
Sean@SEO Hacker recently posted Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives
Hi Kristi,
How many deals on this Friday! I guess that several are shopping right now some of these offers
Lot of material to read, about the article of if G+ is imperative for SEO, my opinion is that Google is making more and more emphasizes in its own products, so the answer from my standpoint is probably a Yes.
Hope you’re having a great holiday, shopping and taking nice pictures!
The video with skies are amazing
Cheers,
Gera
Gera@Sweets Foods Blog recently posted CommentLuv Global Search Engine
Kristi, thanks for including me in this week’s round-up!
And I really like the shot of Jerome. I’ve been through there twice — very quirky and artsy old mining town.
Have a great holiday weekend!
John Soares @ Freelance Writing recently posted All Your Writing Clips on One Site: Cuttings.me Review and Interview
Nice Mashup as usual Kristi, I can always find my blogging friends listed here. Very cool. I like the way you included Black Friday deals into the mix this week.
Brian D. Hawkins@Blogging Tips recently posted Top Ten Blog Commenting Tips – Don’t Look Like A Spammer
Thanks for these useful links. I love the facebook apps tips you provided. Hope to get some more from you soon.
D.J.Rony recently posted The iGotchi App Review
Great social media tips (I thought I read all of Pat’s FB ideas but obviously not!). I have to be honest with you: I skimmed to that part…can we still be friends?
I troll your FF posts for the SMO links. Really good stuff in there!
James Hussey recently posted Backup Creator Review for WordPress Backups and Cloning
Hey Kristi nice roundup as always. Thanks for including my Ebook’s Black Friday offer
Much appreciated!
Jane @ commentluv cashbak offer recently posted Black Friday And Cyber Monday Are For Shopping
Great collection, as always, Kristi.
The only post that raised my question is the one about bounce rate – the guy who wrote it doesn’t realize that the reason his bounce rate is so low is because his Google Analytics code is installed twice on this blog. I wrote about this mistake many people make in this post: bounce rate.
Cheers!
Ana @ SEMRush recently posted Internet Marketing Black Friday Blowout Sales
That’s a nice collection of posts (and the picture + video). I liked the post by Danny Iny on Passive Panda (8 ways to make money). It cuts to the chase of an important issue. It’s nice to have the Cyber Monday deals all pulled together as well. Great job!
Tom Treanor recently posted WordPress Security: Urgent TimThumb Vulnerability Fix
Great links as always Kristi. Your fetching Friday posts have become kind of a resource for me and I have them in a especial bookmarked folder. You really gather best of the best. Thanks.
satrap@ How to Make Money recently posted 20 Summer Jobs for College Students
Very useful and informative collection go points here! We all must take all these into consideration when we are working in our blogs:)
Anna recently posted porcelain veneers
You have presented a informative list of articles. I have have read many of these.
Maja@fantastic sams recently posted Good Features of Fantastic Sams
Maybe I should start charging when I offer my services
(as that first link said) because right now I help one or two people personally every week over Skype or email or PM (when they want my personal help instead of posting on my forum). I guess after one has a reputation built up for themselves they can start doing that.
Techie @ w3techie recently posted w3techie is the new TechGeeks
Hi
Thank you for that. I launched my own blog 3 months ago and it has now broken into the top 1m websites for traffic, which is amazing.
It is an outlet of my views on World Events, Life in General, Love, Relationships Etc. to help others to challenge society and the way people think and problem solve. Hope you like what I am writing and sharing.
“be FREE be ALIVE be Truly HAPPY”
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