This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a Trekkie video, and a busy week in review at kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- Step by step guide of hosting your WordPress blog
- Why I Use these 22 WordPress plug-ins
- Thesis 1.6 beta custom file editor
- The uncopyright – open source blogging
- Postrank combines Google Analytics with social media stats
- WordPress web optimization: 15 tips and plugins to monitor, speed up and optimize your WordPress blog
- Why your readers don’t buy
- 5 ways to get your blog indexed by Google in 24 hours
- 5 beautiful post headings
Business / Finance / Career
- 5 steps to become a published writer
- 77 tips for starting an online business
- What does it take to get off your butt?
Graphic / Web Design
- 41 image and icon search engines designers should know
- 46 oustanding web layouts from Deviant Art
- 60 inspirational examples of corporate web design
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Relationships
- 10 things I’ve learned during my adventures in (anti) social dating
- How to create real change in life by addressing the root cause vs. effect
- 10 sites to learn something new in 10 minutes a day
- How to get from A to B in 5 random steps
- Buy into a life of never ending self improvement
- Art of spinning a conversation
- 20 things that improve my love and happiness gauge
- 11 high powered personal achievement principles
Photography / Art / Digital Art
- Pencil art
- Amazing insect photography
- Beautiful examples of kinetic photography
SEO / Tech
- Google teases with Sidewiki
- 7 lucky SEO tools
- How to write better anchor text
- Why some weak sites rank high in Google SERPs
- Why hyphens are better than pipes for SEO
- 12 search engine optimization tips
Social Media
- Twitter Tools
- 3 great social media policies to steal from
- Twitter Tag Project – Follow Friday
- 5 reasons why Facebook is the new personal blogging platform
- 50 beautiful and unique Twitter profile designs
- Twitter worm spreading via direct messages
The Last, but not Least
- Failed and cringeworthy celebrity music crossovers
- Jedi Knight banned from UK supermarket
Week in Review
This week has been a busy one on Kikolani, with a new post everyday, and a very detailed post on Oes Tsetnoc as well.
Kikolani
Monday began with a guest post on 10 easy steps for a balanced life.
Tuesday post on Akismet and comment moderation was in response to finding several of my regular readers in the spam filter of my WordPress plugin Akismet, which everyone should check often.
On Wednesday, I finally got back to the WordPress Thesis customization series with part three B on single post customizations, including the social bookmarking / sociable icons which I have been receiving a lot of inquiries on. No, it’s not a plugin – read this post to find out how you can implement the social icons on any theme.
Yesterday, my post inspiration was thanks to Darren Rowse of ProBlogger offering a one day 50% off sale for his 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook. For anyone who missed out on the challenge in April, it’s a great way to improve your blog with 31 detailed tasks. Though the promotion has ended, I still reccommend this workbook, as it is a great value and resource, even at full price. This post includes specific examples of how just the first three days of the 31DBB improved my site greatly.
Oes Tsetnoc
Oes tsetnoc has been jumping around in Google SERPs like mad (175 one day, then 16, then 5, now ?). On Monday, I did an in-depth traffic and social media statistics review of my site compared to other domains created for this SEO contest. It includes some free tools and websites that you can use for your own website analytics research.
A Little Something for the Trekkies
I can’t remember how I found this one, but it is one that cannot be missed. A funny spoof on other “themes” for the new Star Trek movie.
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Fetching friday is a great for blog promotion for friends, i get a lot of great links via twitter and stumbleupon and i like the trend of adding great posts like extremejohn’s sunday smash and tycoon blogger’s sunday’s best.
gautam hans´s last blog ..Blog Engage – A Social Media Site for your Blog Promotion
Love the Trek video. Too funny. Fetching Friday delivers another excellent collection of very useful links. Lots of good blogging links in particular. I grabbed one of the 50% off deals on the “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” yesterday. A very, very useful book. Thanks again for the special discount.
Mike´s last blog ..Microsoft Outlook Data Backup Utility
Now Kristy, that PostRank link on Mashable was something I completely overlooked but now, thanks to you, I read it and found it extremely interesting. Which shows once again that your Fetching Friday has become something simply indispensable
Thanks for the link love, always appreciated
Have a great week-end!
Dragos Roua´s last blog ..How To Get From A To B In 5 Random Steps
As always, thank you for the resources – I actually hadn’t stumbled across any of these, and I’m nowadays on the lookout for Wordpress tips and plugins, as well as a blog monitoring site that might tell me I’m doing something right in regards to promotion.
ashok´s last blog ..Heroism and Nothingness: On William Stafford’s “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border”
I wish I could learn a twice the speed I do, there’s so much here. Thanks Kristi.
Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills´s last blog ..11 High Powered Personal Achievement Principles
Kristi,
You make Friday’s more fun. Great inventory of quality blogs and thank you for the love.
I am off the pipe and on hyphens!
Frank J´s last blog ..Beware of this Fake Antivirus Application
I love this fetching friday. Found some new blogs to go to and that video is just too funny. lol
Deneil Merritt´s last blog ..You Gave Me A Voice
Looking good from here, this is give me plenty of reading to catch up on this weekend.
Great job as usual.
BunnygotBlog´s last blog ..Earth’s Own Little Universe
Thanks for including me in the links Kristi, I’m always honored when I get included. I especially liked the post on optimizing WordPress, and I’ve left a comment to show my appreciation.
BTW, I’m a great Trekkie fan and that video was a real treat.
Sire´s last blog ..The Reason Behind Your MLM Failure
Oh my goodness, that video is a classic! Course, no one would have ever bullied Spock in real life; he’d have kicked butt!
Thanks for another mention, Kristi; I hope all is well, and that you’re enjoying the new marriage still.
Mitch´s last blog ..Creating Your Own Products; Let Me Talk About Mine
My favourite post this week is “41 image and icon search engines designers should know” very useful post
cheers,
Tom
Tom the Web PM´s last blog ..Google Visitors Special: Interesting Queries And Answers
Thanks so much for adding my post now the best part is checking out the others
Hope all is well
John Sullivan´s last blog ..Blogging
Another useful fetching friday! Great links. Thanks so much Kristi!
RWH @ Reliable Web Hosting´s last blog ..Cheap Web Hosting Package
great fetching Friday Resources i love it and very good tools on this Friday i really like it and book mark it, and on this friday great video with fun thanks Kristi….
Wow, thanks for the mention about my post, it’s a real honor to be linked here on Kikolani.com. I have to say that you list many interesting posts, some look like a good read just by the post title
George Serradinho´s last blog ..Produce Fake Google Adsense Earnings
seems like i lost somewhere, how could it took me so long to be here…anyways, better late then never..thanks kristi for sharing such resources…
SeoInra´s last blog ..Want me to follow you on twitter?…10 Reasons I Won’t !
Kristi! I’m coming up for air and it’s wonderful to see a Fetching Friday. Great list of blogs here (and great writing as always). I need to get back to doing a little blogging myself, but I’m in book writing mode after having just released my first book (I won’t advertise it in this comment though.
You’re the model of consistency. Keep writing!
Best Regards,
Joel
nutuba´s last blog ..Goodness Gracious