This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, an interview, landing page success, and how to wrap a cat 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
- BlogcastFM review: A look at the BlogcastFM premium membership offering 12 expert interviews, mindmaps, and action worksheets per month. Be sure to take the video tour and sign up today by 9PM PST before the price goes up and save over $200 annually!
- The Blog World eBook – for those who missed Blog World Expo, check out this free ebook on one awesome blogger’s experiences.
- 4 ways to get traffic to your blog via LinkedIn Answers – great tips for bloggers on LinkedIn.
- How I grew my RSS subscription count by 243% – 4 tactics and how they affected RSS subscriber count.
- List your blogging related jobs – a new job board for bloggers to list and find opportunities.
- Why you shouldn’t switch your email to Facebook – three great reasons not to jump ship.
- 14 social media experts react to Facebook’s new message system – a look at how influencers feel about the change.
- Facebook Pages for B2B social media marketing – a look at the elements of three successful B2B pages.
- Creating a SEO friendly Facebook page – key elements to make sure your page is search noteworthy.
- How to update Facebook status and Twitter with Rockmelt – a look at a new social media management tool.
Link Building
- A simple, yet powerful, link building tactic – the link trio approach.
- Real life link building – three relationships you can turn into link opportunities.
- 7 social link building tips – how engagement can build links.
- Why blogger outreach campaigns will be considered spam – not actual blogger outreach, but link requests to bloggers at least.
- Does Google offer a unique value for reciprocal links? Exchanging of authoritative information and algorithmic values.
Making Money Online / Online Marketing
- 10 ways to guarantee more sales and conversions – reassure your buyers before the sale to get more sales.
- 20 web design resources to help you build a great website – trying to make money online? Look at the design resources of a making money online expert.
- The money’s not in the list – it’s in the connections!
- Using your most viewed articles for conversions – how to find them via Google Analytics and take advantage of the traffic.
- Opening an online store: options for selling online – a look at eBay, Amazon, Etsy, and other online store alternatives.
Personal Development / Productivity
- My top 7 demotivating habits – learn how to identify and avoid these.
- Time, money, productivity, and life – 3 fallacies on putting a price on time and how to keep balance.
- How to be more persuasive – 5 proven methods.
- Appreciation – when, how, and why to tell others they are awesome!
- Interview with Leo Babauta on building healthy habits, integrating fitness into your life, and more.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- SEO’s should focus on where Google is heading – how to be where users are and shift to localization.
- The 6 flavors of SEO your company needs – different positions / SEO strategies that need to be covered for your website’s search success.
- Beginners guide to web data analytics – 10 steps on what to look for and what to do with that data when it comes to your site’s analytics.
- Comparing SEO and social media as marketing channels – what drives traffic and converts for whom.
- Facts, quotes, and notes from Pubcon – nice list of SEO, conversion, and social media tips.
Social Media / Social Networking
- How connecting your LinkedIn contacts builds social influence – another great way to use LinkedIn to build your authority.
- Save Digg! How I drove over 240,000 pageviews through new Digg, social bookmarking, and blogger outreach – a video on how to generate traffic from a variety of social bookmarking sites including the new Digg.
- The social media lexicon for dummies – a guide to terms thrown around in social media by both beginners and experts and what they really mean.
- 9 reasons why I’m not a social media expert – a reaction to a post on 9 ways to evaluate a social media expert.
- Fascinating social media facts in 2010 – a random collection of facts on social media, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogger, Wikipedia, and Foursquare.
- Ever Twitter user has a secret reputation score – this is what determines the “who to follow” matchups.
- What businesses can learn from celebrity tweeters – how to use Twitter to create the easiest, most honest press release.
- Coming soon: Twitter’s official analytics product – a look at some of the features that will be launched in 2011.
- How to use the new Twitter user interface – a guide to what to expect when you switch to the new features.
- Essential Twitter searches for your business – ways to use Twitter search for reputation management, market research, competitor research, and local lead generation.
WordPress
- OptimizePress review – a theme with lots of features for creating sales pages, squeeze pages, and more.
- 15 of the most popular WordPress plugins of 2010 – I’m using five, and the rest are certainly worth a try.
- 7 WordPress plugins for a more user friendly blog plugins for search, print, broken links, breadcrumbs, comments, and site speed.
- How to set a minimum word count for WordPress posts – great way to make sure your all of your authors are writing your preferred length articles.
- How to use WordPress as an online notebook – take advantage of your drafts!
Landing Page Success Seminar
For all of you who are looking to create better landing pages to make money online selling products, you might want to check out an upcoming Landing Page Success Seminar.
This virtual conference will start on November 30th and go through December 16th. Speakers include familiar names like Brian Clark and Bryan Eisenberg, and topics covered throughout the event include conversion optimization, analytics, website design, online marketing, copywriting, keyword optimization, and much more.
Want to take a peak into the seminar? Try out the sample class – a one hour webinar on landing page optimization and customer conversion success. Register before November 22nd – save $300 and learn how to make your landing pages a success!
An Interview with Me
In case you missed it, my work did an employee profile interview with me this week. Check it out to learn more about me, including some things about my blogging, Twitter strategy, tennis, and ballroom dancing!
How to Wrap a Cat for Christmas
I thought it was time to get into the holiday spirit. Here’s a great example that ANYTHING can be wrapped for the holidays!
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As usual Kristi your mashup is getting better and better!
I’m seeing lot of articles to read that I missed, for this weekend.
I notice you removed the tool bar at the top. Did you notice that not worth?
Enjoy a great weekend!
Cheers,
Gera
Gera@SweetsFoodsBlog recently posted Blogging by Impact – Do You Break The Blog Rules
It is a great toolbar, don’t get me wrong. But in the process of trying to get my site to load faster, I’ve had to take some plugins off that aren’t absolutely essential. I think it’s worth the speed boost.
Hope you have a great weekend too!
Thanks for linking to the blogging jobs at Famous Bloggers. I’ve had a few people ask me for resources, but as I get all of my work word of mouth I didn’t really know any except problogger boards.
You’re welcome! I’m glad you will find it useful!
Just curious, do you actually read all the articles personally?
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Sure do! I mean, I’m a skimmer… I read the parts I’m interested in. But usually if I find something really helpful in the article, I figure others will find that part helpful as well.
I love the video on how to wrap a cat! LOL!
Kevin Martineau recently posted Favourite Links Friday- 12 incredible posts to check out!
Tons of great resources as usual, but the Save Digg video was hilarious. It didn’t persuade me to help save Digg, but I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
Nea | Self Improvement Saga recently posted Why Personal Character Feeds Judgment
Yeah, I thought that was a good one!
Kristi, you mentioned the Blogworld ebook here -I am so touched and so delighted it was so well-received – all the motivation I need to write another one…. now back to going through these fab resources here – THANK YOU for pulling this together week after week after week!!! (And I am loving your newsletter….so much to learn from you!)
Farnoosh recently posted Listening to my Readers- Launch of Blogworld ebook and the Newsletter
I’m in process of writing one myself!
I’m glad you enjoyed the first newsletter! I have to get on the ball about sending them more regularly.
What can I say but the usual, “great” roundup. There are actually a handful which I have not read this week, so there goes my weekend, well at least Sunday
BTW, thanks for the mention. Have a great weekend.
DiTesco recently posted Blekko- Search Engine Or All In One SEO Tool
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it (or will this weekend.
Excellent stuff Kristi. The job board at FB looks great, hesham did great job.
Thanks for sharing this amazing stuff. Have a great weekend.
Devesh – WordPress Hacks recently posted WP eBooks releases “Aggregating Global Content” book
Yeah, that should come in handy for bloggers everywhere. You too!
Wonderful post and wonderful video; you know I’m sharing that cat with all my peeps!
Mitch recently posted I’m Supposed To Ask You To…
Always appreciate fellow cat lovers!
Hi Kristi,
Thank you.
This list of articles is awesome! So much weekend reading and learning form here for me
And that kitty video..awwww…its too cute
Happy weekend.
Much Love,
Z~
Thanks! I hope you had a great weekend too!
That was a great interview Kristi, and you looked great in your ballroom outfit, although being a bloke I loved the tennis outfit a whole lot more
Sire recently posted The Magical Garden And The Huge Boob Bush
You’d probably feel differently if it was a Latin outfit vs. the standard.
Gee I dunno? Could you have hubby take a shot of you in both and then post it online so that we could vote on it? It would make for a nice poll.
Sire recently posted Do You Want Increased Income Chango Could Be The Answer
Another great round up Kristi! I really enjoyed Glen’s new link building strategy, though it’s quite similar with link wheel, I still want to try that content-based strategy out
Jason @ Link Development Services recently posted How to Drive Massive Free Traffic to your Site in 1 Month
I know, I want to try the wheel too… still haven’t wrapped my head around how to go about it yet though.
Great round-up I mostly read the posts about internet marketing and link building and judging on those I think the others were great too.
After watching the video with the cat being wrapped I went to yt to look on some more videos of it. And I sadly found out that the cat passed away
Alex@Jocuri recently posted Masini suv 3D
That is pretty sad. What a great way to create an online memorial for your cat than by Youtube… I’ve done that with some of my kitties that have passed on, and I can now watch them where ever I go.
Cute video! At least now I would know what to do in case I plan to give a cat as a gift for Christmas.
Andrew @ Blogging Guide recently posted Blog Statistics- Pro Blog Stats WordPress Plugin Update
There you go! Probably won’t work as well with a kitten as hyper as they are though.
Great collection of links. I especially found the Link Trio article on Viperchill.com to be extremely informative. And of course, the cat video is hilarious. Can’t wait to catch up again next week!
Thanks Sarah!
Well Kristi – I was on my way out to meet the girls for an afternoon coffee when I said to myself “let me see what Kristi has for us today first”. And here I am, 30 minutes later, still sitting in front of your awesome roundup clicking on link after the other! Meanwhile, I’m getting threatening phone calls asking where the hell I am lol
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You truly are an inspiration. You manage to consistently share the most useful advice, tips, resources and words in everything you post! Well done!
I’m happy to say that I’ve come across or read a few of these posts already and am a big fan of several of the authors – but I intend to at least try and finish the list
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Needless to say that this is an excellent roundup of some incredible articles. Thanks for taking the time to share them.
PS – Love the cat wrap video
. Hmmm…I’m wondering if I can pull it off with a puppy.
Cheers
Ingrid Abboud recently posted Social Media – How to Use it Like a 6th Grader!
Whoops, sorry I made you late.
Wrapping a puppy probably depends on the puppy… my Miniature Schnauzer was calm enough (or rather scared) when we first brought him home and it could have worked. But then when he relaxed and started getting crazy, there was no way wrapping paper would have held him in.
Good discussions going on, re: Danny Brown and Chris Kieff posts.
I shall be checking out the five tips on being more persuasive!
Mark Dykeman recently posted New free eBook – How We Do Our Best Creative Work
Definitely! Sometimes I put in posts where the meat of the content really is in the comments and discussion.
Kristi – Nice job on collecting all of these links. I had actually read actually read the article on lifehacker.com and it definitely convinced me not to switch. I’m actually interested in the Landing Page Seminar since I like Brian Clark, am I too late or can I still register?
I’m way too addicted to Gmail to switch. And yes, the Landing Page Success Seminar is still open for registration, but limited to the first 500 people!
Looks like excellent resources to check out. Feeling good to connect with you on Bloggers. Will check out with more time in hand, have a great week.
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Thanks for joining me there! Still figuring it out, but it looks like it will be a great network for bloggers!