This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull 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
- Bloggers are publishers – how to handle guest posts.
- How to create viral content – the main element behind every successful blog.
- The whoa don’t hit the publish button keyword checklist – 10 things to check and good SEO WordPress plugins.
- Essential blog tracking tools – get information beyond Google Analytics.
- Why many bloggers are in the wrong business – if you are not enjoying blogging, this could be you.
- 9 ways to use social media to inspire your writing – Late Addition – how to use social media networks to get writing ideas for your blog.
- Facebook 101 – the complete guide to Facebook for your business.
- Facebook page custom tabs changes on August 23rd – are you ready?
- The business behind Facebook – cool infographic about the history of Facebook.
- Find out what’s trending on Facebook with Booshaka – see what people are saying about a particular topic on Facebook.
- How to steal competitor’s customers on Facebook – interesting idea.
Link Building
- Internal deep linking – how to get better rankings on your internal website pages revealed.
- Link building is all in the details – questions to ask about your own link requests and content to determine link worthiness.
- 7 things to watch out for in link building – these are the things you will come across and want to avoid at all costs.
- 5 ways to build links at SEO conferences – multi-task your way to live link building success.
- New and improved link research tools – learn what’s new at Link Research Tools.
Make Money Online / Online Marketing
- Top 10 awesome affiliate marketing tips for bloggers – a must read for bloggers looking to make money online.
- 8 ways to grow your list – ways to get more subscribers to your mailing lists (hint: other options beyond popup opt-ins.
- Top 10 Internet marketing mistakes – covers the common errors even some of the advanced players make.
- 10 realistc ways to make quick money online – some ways almost everyone can make some money online.
- Affiliate marketing for beginners – learn about the basics!
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- Can you allow appreciation to change your life? How to find amazing things to appreciate.
- How to get over yourself and accomplish your goals – 4 things to do to get closer to your goals.
- Remove clutter to improve yourself – where to look to declutter your life.
- 5 questions you should always answer yes to – because if you can’t, you should probably take a look at yourself and see wher you need to make changes.
- The skinny on the art of persuasion – in comic format.
Photography / Images
- Image copyright laws – about Creative Commons and used by permission images.
- In silhouette – 37 amazing silhouette photos.
- 40 inspiring examples of night photography – 41 brilliant photos.
- Celebrating the 45th birthday of Singapore with beautiful photographs – a great tribute to a special anniversary.
- 50 superb examples of animal photography – beautiful, funny, and fierce expressions.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- 10 great local search tools that don’t exist yet – hopefully someone will start putting them together soon!
- Best SEO blogs and top resources – what Rand Fish has in his favorite bookmarks list.
- Anatomy of a hands on SEO audit – part three of an in-depth series.
- An in-depth look at search engine auto suggestions – Google, Facebook, and other creative search suggestion uses.
- Top 10 infographics for Internet marketers – the list would be perfect if it only included Linktoberfest!
Social Media / Social Networking
- 10 ways to leverage LinkedIn to generate business – 4 one time items and 6 maintenance items that will help you be more successful on LinkedIn.
- 60 ways to increase your influence online – from the biggest names in social media and related industries.
- Top 5 goals for a successful social media campaign – what your campaign should be accomplishing.
- Social media is just one big party – how to be the life of the social media party!
- 5 ways interns beat the boss at social media – what interns do better.
- HootSuite goes freemium – a look at the new free and pro plans, plus some free alternatives for the features and services.
- Influencers on Twitter – why popularity matters, but only a little.
- Measure Twitter sentiment – a look at trends with upprdwner.
- Tweet This! Twitter pushes its own button – learn about new interest graphs and functionality.
- My Twitter precense – a look into how Chris Brogan manages his Twitter precense.
WordPress
- Effective use of a blog sidebar – 30+ examples of getting the most out of your blog sidebar.
- Top 10 free WordPress 3.0 themes – themes ready to use with the new version of WordPress.
- 90 brilliant WordPress designs for inspiration – want to revamp your site? Check out these fresh looks for ideas.
- 3 ways to throw dummy content into WordPress when starting out – perfect way to see what your theme will really look like when fleshed out.
- Spy on your competitors in your WordPress admin dashboard – great plugin to monitor your competition’s website rankings.
Timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull
Awesome timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland from different angles and perspectives.
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90 brilliant WordPress designs for inspiration is one I have to study.
Thanks.
Andrew
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Glad you like it! The design sites have some goldmines when it comes to WordPress designs!
Full of information this FF! I will be reading the online marketing and social ones carefully.
Thanks for your great job Kristi
Have a fabulous weekend,
Gera
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I hope you have a great weekend as well!
Efective use of sidebars is one thing that definitely is of interest to me. I need to revamp my sidebar so lets see what this and all other WordPress artciles have to share. I’m on WP mode this week so this are all great to look at. Thanks
DiTesco recently posted Bing SEO And Webmaster Tools
My sidebars are in need of renovation too. Sometimes the articles I link to are the ones I want to make sure I get back to and work with.
Wow, how freaky is that video? The power of the earth; unfathomable. Thanks for the inclusion this week as well.
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You’re welcome… I hope you saw my reply to your comment from last week’s FF!
I read all five of the posts you recommended on blogging. You had some good stuff in there. I really like the on on ViperChill and TheInfopreneur. Good stuff on both. I also read your guest post on SearchEngineWatch. Out of everything that you need to watch out for when linking I think the most important is bad neighborhoods. If you start associating with them, then other people in their circle will assume that you are okay with it. That is a bad impression to leave with them.
Kathy recently posted How Do You Help Your Blogger Friends
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed them. Bad neighborhoods are increasing – especially in blog comments on sites that don’t moderate. If you’re next to 16 links for Ed Hardy shoes, your link isn’t going to get clicked on either.
Dear Kristi, great list as always – I am wondering, what are your thoughts around blog categories? I revamped mine and tried to make them as clean and concise as possible with the goal of speaking to the reader without getting too detailed….I am wondering if you also think tags are dead! Anyway, great stuff here and I’d be tickled pink if I were to get hosted on your site……All the best!
Farnoosh recently posted A Movie Contest- Why do You Love your Favorite Film
I still use tags. Not necessarily to publish under the post, but the related posts plugin I use pulls related posts based on tags. Plus, occasionally I link to them in a post – so instead of linking something to just blogging, I can link a mention to Thesis to the Thesis tag so people can view only those posts. I should actually do that more often – thanks for the reminder!
I use tags and sometimes categories the same way but I don’t know if it works too well for purposes of SEO or diluting your overall pages mentioned in a given blog post. I guess you don’t necessarily publish the tags or show a tag cloud. Gosh, you are most welcome if my question was useful, Kristi and thanks for all the insights here!!! I don’t even know where to begin to do some work
Farnoosh recently posted A Movie Contest- Why do You Love your Favorite Film
Kristi thanks for the link love on accomplishing goals!
I love it when you have Fetching Friday published in time for me to eat at my desk and start digging into all these great articles
and today I’m starting with WordPress. Have a great weekend!
Christie recently posted How to make the most of a dreary day job while you work toward blogging fame!
I try to get it online as early as possible on Fridays, but I’ll keep that in mind as a little more motivation to not wait so late.
Thanks Kristi. I always look for this post where I get all great post in one place so I don’t have to search for quality content. Thanks again!
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Thanks for this great weekly resource. I look forward to going through this list every Friday. I really liked the article Rand wrote about the websites in his bookmarks. If he makes public what his thoughts are on the top ten best resources for SEO, it’s a pretty good idea to be reading them too. Thanks again, and enjoy your weekend!
Brian@Charleston Marketing recently posted How To- Anchor Text & Link Structure
Yes, if an expert is reading it, it’s likely a good resource that everyone should be reading if they want to learn more on the topic. I liked the additional bookmarks he shared as well!
Thanks for the link love Kristi. As always, a great round-up of posts for me to read over the weekend.
Warmest regards,
Karl
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Gee thanks for all the new homework.
seriously, great compilation thanks!
Bonnie Harris recently posted Shameless promotion
What an incredible resource, Kristi!
I just found you and will definitely be bookmarking this page to read throughout the week. Do you do this every week? Wow! I love it!
Heather
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I had actually seen that facebook reminder of the changes that are coming to the page, but had not really bothered to look beyond that since It’s August 23rd when it will change over, that mention in your article definitely reminded me about it!
Awesome video you posted by the way, it’s amazing how mother nature is, great to see a time lapse, makes me want to look at other things in nature via time lapses!
Till then,
Jean
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Hi Kristi! I love to read “7 Things to Watch Out for when Link Building”. It is informative and useful. Thanks for your resources sharing! I really get a lot of good articles from your Fetching Friday.
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Hi Kristi.
That are lots of article and I maybe need a month to read all those. Hehehehe….
Still new in blogging and your article really help.
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I loved watching the Iceland video. My mom was born in Iceland and I’ve been there a few times. It’s a beautiful country. I also like that they put Icelandic music to the images. Sigur Ros makes such beautiful music. Thanks Kristy for the great resources. Tweeted out.
Kristi, thanks for the mention. Caught your post on SME. Very impressive. I know how much work that was (a LOT!)
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Ok, not exactly sure what Eyjafjallajökull is, but enjoyed a few links, and as usual, the video.
Colleen@Kennewick Homes recently posted 2010 Benton Franklin Fair and Rodeo- Dancing with the Steers
Kristi,
Good Stuff. I really like the post from ViperChill. Thanks for sharing all the great links.
And your post on sme is awesome.
Dev @ Best WordPress Themes recently posted How to Add your logo to WordPress Admin Page in Thesis
Loved the posts here
Thanks for including mine also.
Interesting article on the premium hootsuite, now I don’t know what to do.
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing recently posted Welcome To The All New DennisEdellcom!
Kristi – I am, once again, very honored to be included in your list. You actually like me!
I absolutely love your Friday editions; that’s how I catch up with what’s going on in the industry.
Thanks for staying on top of it, so that the rest of us can get an extra hour of sleep each day!
Best,
Ana Hoffman
Ana @ Targeted Website Traffic recently posted Is Google Waving Goodbye to Tag Clouds
Thanks. I always find this roundup extremely useful to learn about things I might have missed and many of the new tips and tactics out there.
Kristi, I appreciate your Friday links so much and learn a great deal from the articles you choose. This time I really liked the article on guest posts and found the one by Chris Brogan on his Twitter presence very interesting as well. You are incredibly thorough and comprehensive. Thanks!
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Thanks for the links and the incredible video of Eyjafjallajökull. Excellent camerawork from all angles and really shows the fury of nature quite vividly.
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