This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a little something personal 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 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 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.
- 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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Kristi!!
You and your husband dance so incredibly well!! Wonderful to see!
And – how you find so much great material every week – awesome!!!
Lance recently posted The Moment
Hi, kristi, Really waited to get all best in one place. Really really nice collection of post as usual.
Hey Kristie, awesome Fetching Friday resources as usual. I left a comment on YouTube, but I forgot to say that your husband is a pretty fabulous dancer too. You guys are awesome. Thanks for the treat.
Ileane recently posted Power Twitter User In The Making
This is a great list, thank you so much for putting it together! I’m going to be busy checking out many of those links!
Happy Friday!
Stacy recently posted Simple Ways to Re-Engerize Yourself
Forget the resources. That dance was magnificent. What a lovely Waltz. I am so jealous. You are ready for dancing with the stars.
Great article you linked on there written by Danny Brown.
Kathy recently posted How to Find Blogs With Keywordluv
Excellent collection Kristi as always! My doses of delicious information for my weekend.
I saw you’ve been occupied with several guest posts and your newsletter too – a very productive week for you
Keep up with your good work and dance a lot next days!
Enjoy a superb weekend,
Gera
Gera @ Sweets Foods Blog recently posted Blogging Tips- Social Media Resources- Foodies – Best of the Week
Love your performance! Dancing is one of my biggest hobbies as well and just performing in front of an audience really makes me happy. Keep on dancing girlie!
As for the roundup, love the article on 54 new link building strategies. It’s always nice to freshen up the strategies.
Mandy June @Early Investing recently posted Car Loan Rates for the Second Half of 2010
Great resources as usual, but what really caught my eye was your dancing with your husband. You guys dance very well and I’m still dizzy just by looking at you and your husband turning over and over. How do guys do that
DiTesco recently posted Mobile SEO The Marketers New Frontier
I absolutely love the fact that I don’t need to comb through the web to find the best resources for the week; thanks for doing my dirty work, Kristi.
As always I am incredibly honored to be one of your resources.
Best,
Ana Hoffman
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PS I am a bit jealous (with a good heart) of your video – you are doing exactly what I’ve been trying to talk my husband into doing for the past 14 years.
Loved it!
Ana
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This is becoming a regular visit for me now that I have found you. As always, lots of great content. I love dancing too. It’s a great social occasion eh. Thanks again for all that you give to the blogging community. This newbie sure appreciates it.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Kristie,
This is my first time commenting on your blog. You posted really useful information here. The most notable being the Facebook privacy controls. For whatever reason, Mark Zuckerberg is going ape with Facebook and not seriously considering the privacy issues it imposes. The most recent issues he reluctantly went back and installed or made it easier for the FB user to set who saw what content. I am still skeptical about the new Facebook places but glad to see they were proactive about installing controls to limit or block out who sees what.
Great blog Kristie. Look forward to reading more of your posts in the coming future.
Doug Taylor recently posted My Online Business Strategy The Stone Cold Facts!
How romantic, and one of my favorite songs.
Nice move, you both! What a terrific video to enclose along with the resources. And you look stunning too, Kristi. Bravo for dancing so well and look at those heels! It’ll take forever for me to ever move so swiftly in that. 
@wchingya
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Ching Ya recently posted How to Separate Facebook Personal Profile from Business Page pt1
Where is my manners? I was supposed to thank you for including me a link love but completely forgot after watching the video.
Thanks so much for sharing, my friend.
Ching Ya recently posted How to Separate Facebook Personal Profile from Business Page pt1
Kristi,
Awesome Roundup, as always. And the video is really great.
I really like the glen’s post.
Thanks for sharing the awesome links. Keep up the good work Kristi.
~Dev
Dev – Technshare.com recently posted Developing a Funnel To Turn Visitors into Buyers
Great list.. a lot to read this weekend haha
And you look amazing, and def have the moves.. nice see more then a head shot
John Paul Aguiar recently posted Popup Domination Review and Results
Kristi,
You found some great articles and the one that I enjoyed reading most was the .htaccess hacks. Thanks for the link love!
Great mashup. I just forwarded the facebook field guide to my dad. He doesn’t want to be on facebook but it’s the only way he can keep up with his Naval Academe friends. lol.
Kristi, that’s a beautiful waltz. My partner Stephanie and I are considering taking some classes in swing dancing.
John Soares @ California Hiking Trails recently posted East Bay Regional Park District Reception Living Landscape Book Signing
Hi Kristi,
You and your husband are awesome dancers. Loved it!
Great resources as usual. Thanks for sharing.
All the best,
Mavis Nong
Mavis Nong recently posted Still Struggling In Your Network Marketing Business
Awesome list as always Kristi, but I really thank you for the nice 2 minute break, great video!
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing recently posted A Personal Post – Do Not Skim
posts about facebook are great. Really people need to think about privacy & personal pages vs business.
I found about half a dozen really good articles from this post. I keep saying this kind of weekly post is a great idea.
Dean Saliba recently posted Why Ethical SEO Works
For the second weekend in a row, I thank you for your awesome post linked to so many wonderful nuggets of information.
Thanks for providing a great resource!
Heather
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Wow!
Sweet video, really nice moves! What better way to do ballroom dancing than with your husband. I also do some ballroom dancing with my wife and it’s a great exercise as well as a great past time.
Thanks again for the new list.
I still haven’t finish reading the last one. Hehehehehe….
You’re so generous.
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Thanks for your resources sharing Kristi! I always get a lot of great information from your Fetching Friday Resources Mashup. The ballroom dancing is nice.
Kok Siong @ Cancer Research recently posted Cytogenetic Analysis for Bone Marrow Diagnosis
The Google adwords tool article was very interesting. I have always noticed something off with the numbers it spits out. It’s scary to think how many people were using it for their primary keyword research. Thanks for passing all these great articles along.
Brian@Charleston Marketing recently posted Nofollow No Problem! Social Networking Rises Above Search Engines
Hey thanks Kristi for featuring one of my post into this Fetching Friday. Seems that your site also got so many excellent & useful posts. Just added you to my FB. Thanks again.
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I love your “Fetching Friday” posts. This one in particular is a great resource of learning material for me. Looks like I’ll be busy reading for a while.
I attempted to watch your dance clip, but got interrupted – I’ll check it out now…
Hi Kristi! I loved the video of you and your husband dancing. It must be so nice to be married to someone who loves it as much as you do! Great job.
Cheers,
Tia
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Hi Kristi,
As usual you have great resources for us to read. I just loved watching you dance- absolutely graceful. Your dancing expressed the essence of feminine beauty. I hope you never stop.
Blessings ♥,
Eren
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Just last week TricksDaddy released WP-Pefect theme which I’ve planned to use on a client’s blog. Looking forward to seeing some pretty nice themes in this collection of 35 free WordPress 3.0 themes
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Great list of resources! Thank you.
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Hey Kristi, your Fetching Friday selections make me want to re-join Stumble Upon … in fact I just did – so you have one more stumbling stalker