This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a video to boost your holiday spirit 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
- Blog post promotion, social sharing, and analytics – a look at what social sharing statistics (numbers of tweets, Facebook likes, etc.) equate to in actual visits to your website.
- The 5 pillars of business blogging succes – planning, content, design, marketing, and engagement.
- 17 places to get jaw-dropping headline ideas – much like this one!
- Why freelance writers should have a specialty niche – applicable to freelancers, writers, and bloggers.
- 10 great posts about guest blogging – plus a list of 11 awesome guest posts on social media, blogging, SEO, and more.
- The recipe for a popular blog post – 27 posts on how to create great content for your blog, and another 15 examples for blogs outside of the social media / blogging niche.
- New Facebook profiles for freelancers – video tutorial on how to get the most out of the new profile design.
- Facebook adds facial recognition for easier tagging – the good news is you can turn it off if you don’t want to be automatically recognized in other people’s photos.
- Just how long will static FBML be supported by Facebook? An important question for those with customized fan pages.
- Facebook Deals: how to setup your first deal – using the new system for offering incentives when customers check in to a business location.
- LinkedIn vs. Facebook for businesses – a look at Facebook pages vs. LinkedIn groups.
Infographics
- The journey of Amazon – from 1995 when they sold their first book to the Kindle.
- Anatomy of a perfect landing page design – includes 10 tips for creating a landing page and what colors influence viewer’s actions. Ingfographic by Formstack.
- Asthma triggers: includes common allergies and the 10 worst cities for asthma sufferers.
- The blog tree – the world’s first visual depiction of the interrelationship among marketing blogs.
- Social media and CRM – why you can’t ignore social media anymore.
Keyword Research / Link Building
- 6 new SEO tools everyone should check out – for link building, keyword research, SERPs anlysis, and more.
- Building deep links to E-Commerce product pages – a guide to getting some of the toughest links to obtain.
- Keyword and market research with Yahoo Clues – get valuable marketing insight into keywords from the last 30 days including age, gender, income, location, and search flow.
- Tips to improve your B2B link building efforts – content development, building your own blog network, optimizing inbound links, and boosting ROI.
- What link builders aren’t telling you about competitor analysis, getting ahead, and tools.
Making Money Online / Online Marketing
- An interview with Gideon Shalwick – great 30 minute spot on three ways he makes money online, video blogging, and more.
- 48 online authorities reveal their most unrealistic accomplishments – motivation and inspiration from leaders in making money online, Internet marketing, and more.
- From analysis paralysis to rapid product creator – 5 ways to get past being stuck to creating your first product.
- 5 tips to optimize checkout pages – be sure that people don’t drop out of a sale in the last moments by implementing these tips.
- 19 entrepreneur blogs that will change your life – learn about making money online from the best.
- The utterly incomplete guide to monetizing your blog – 6 ways to monetize your blog through advertising, affiliate marketing, product creation, and more.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Productivity and happiness: why are we so busy? How productivity relates to the American dream, effectiveness, and happiness.
- How to stop interruptions and be more productive – another case against constant email checking, meetings, and more.
- Maintaining your identity in changing times – stability in motion.
- 9 secrets to a winning customer support experience – how to keep calm during what can turn into a very frustrating experience.
- The only consistent secret of success – what is the one thing that successful people do that others don’t?
Photography
- 30 extremely beautiful HDR nature photos.
- 2010 in photos: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
- 80 examples of snow photography to freeze your screen.
- 30 electrifying examples of lightning photography.
- Photography tips: 12 elemnts to capture the winning shot.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- Google doesn’t love you and other myths – don’t read if you still believe in Santa Claus!
- How Google might turn down the knob on exact match domains – a proper solution.
- Finding answers online: social networks vs. search engines – instant gratification online, peronal connection, online review sites, and humanized search.
- Five new Adwords tools to help you move the needle – the highest impact recent changes and ways to learn more about them.
- The top SEOmoz posts of 2010 – 45 of the top posts based on thumbs up, comments, retweets, pageviews, and more. Great way to see what SEO news was popular this year!
Social Media / Social Networking
- 6 social media success metrics you need to track – includes the most important social media and SEO numbers you need to know about your website.
- How to implement a winning social media function in your organization – four phases critical to social media success and 20 steps necessary for a successful social media function.
- How to add video to a LinkedIn profile – step by step video tutorial.
- The difference between friends, fans, and followers – a look at the difference in social consumers.
- 101 social media stats to make your spirits bright and your head spin – daily life of web users, sources of info users trust, and more.
- Why Twitter can work for business and how to make it work for you – 4 great tips to being successful on Twitter.
- Stop talking about yourself and start talking as yourself – because no one wants to hear you talk about yourself all day.
- 11 tweeters tweeting – eleven great Twitter related posts tweeted this year.
- Establishing authority in 140 characters or less – how to keep your eye on the goal when it comes to tweets.
- Social authority meets search: measuring influence – the top Twitter profiles by number of followers, retweets, and page authority.
WordPress
- How to make your WordPress blog load faster – 7 tips on ways to improve your site speed.
- How to harden your WordPress security – great tips to make sure your site stays secure plus plugin suggestions.
- WordPress plugin GASP – a simple spam crushing plugin – one way to control the increase of automated spam.
- Not a fan of WordPress? Check out the most recommended alternatives for bloggers – for both free and self-hosted domains.
- 11 must have WordPress plugins for your home based business – great plugins for monetizing and bringing traffic to your site.
Vote for Your Favorite Social Media Blog
It’s that time again. Social Media Examiner is asking for nominations of your favorite social media blog for their second annual top 10 list.
I had no idea about it until after I was nominated last year, and was psyched to make it in the top 10 social media blogs of 2010 list.
So be sure to stop by and nominate your favorite social media blog before January 5th. Your favorite blogger will be much appreciative! 
#SaveDelicious
If you’ve been following me for awhile, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of Delicious. There are so many ways to use it, including for WordPress integration, for integration with your Feedburner feeds, and even for link building.
So needless to say, hearing that Yahoo has put Delicious on their “sunset” list (along with MyBlogLog, another favorite of bloggers) is really making me sad. I don’t want alternatives. I want my Delicious!
If you want to help campaign for Delicious, be sure to tweet reasons why you love Delicious @Yahoo and @YahooNews with the #SaveDelicious hashtag! Not sure what to say? Just click on the tweet below!
UPDATE: New news is circulating that Delicious may survive after all! Highly relieving news for Delicious fans everywhere! Read more on the official Delicious blog.
Some Christmas Spirit
I don’t think there are many other things more adorable (besides baby animals) than the Forever Friends bears. Enjoy this adorable video to boost your holiday spirit for next week!
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Kristi, thanks for including my latest article on Social Media Examiner on business blogging do’s and don’ts. Many smart people contributed to that post. I love your weekly mashups. It’s one of my must-reads every week. Have a great holiday season and blog on!
Thanks Denise! I will definitely be blogging into 2011. Happy holidays to you too!
Kristi, I’m with Denise. Of all the blogging blogs I follow, your Friday Mashup post ranks right up there in the top 3. Very well done. Thanks for putting them together.
Thanks Amy! I enjoy reading posts on all of these topics, and getting to share them with others!
As always, thank you for including me in Fetching Friday. It’s always an honor. Excited about reading that Marketing Proofs article, that blog is a sweet find thank you.
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You’re welcome!
Another great selection of links. I loved the link building one especially, but the infographics are always interesting to look at
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Yeah, the infographics are hit or miss – some weeks I see a lot of new ones, others not so many. I love them though!
As always thanks it is an honor to be featured here in your blog Kristi. Thank you very much. These weeks wrap up is just like the other ones, giving me plenty to do over the weekend where I normally take more time to blog hop. Quite curious actually to see what new tools SEOmoz has under its sleeves. Will check that one now
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They’re actually not SEOmoz’s tools, but other ones that have come out recently. Definitely a great share!
Thats for the link love homegirl! -=)
You’re welcome! Thanks for the great compilation!
Dear Kristi, I went through just about every link and learned so much and think you oughta call this your Your Friday Course
! You pack so much fantastic information here, you do all the research and looking and bring the best, I am still going through your archives and seriously jazzed to be in such great company and on this list….thank you for your hard work!
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Not a bad idea!
I’m glad you enjoy it!
An article like Building deep links to E-Commerce product pages couldn’t have come at a better time, thanks!
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I dunno if I’ve asked this before, but am dying to know…..everything from the video on down is exactly the same every week. Are you using a special template or macro or something?
I’m assuming you don’t type it all in exactly the same way each week…
(I wonder if I just dated myself with the word “macro”) lol
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No problem.. it’s a template that I keep in a text file and update every week with the links in each section plus whatever extra sections I need for time based updates.
How do you make this template?
Kristi, thank you for including my post on the importance of niche specialization for writers. I’m now drinking my morning coffee and visiting all of these interesting blogs.
John Soares recently posted Why Freelance Writers Should Specialize
You’re welcome! I hope you’ve enjoyed the articles.
Really hard job Kristi… Kikolani is becoming Google of great posts for me..
If I’m not wrong, photography is a new category, right ?
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I used to do photography every week.. so it’s not new, but just re-adding it to the collection after popular requests.
Thanks a lot for useful links! This week was very busy and I had no time to look through in search of some interesting posts and article – but you help me – I just visit your Friday post and here am I. All that I can dream about.
As usual- great round up Kristi – tweeted
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Loved the forever friends Christmas video and have already shared it with my mom and sister in law.
Will be taking a look at the other posts.
Thanks again!
Blessings,
Eren
Eren Mckay recently posted How to find inner peace when in a stressful situation
I love the Forever Friends bears as well… the first video I saw of them was for St. Patricks day, and I’ve been hooked ever since!
Hah, I was wondering what that spam checkbox was on all the blogs I frequent! lol. GASP will be added to my arsenal very shortly.
I really enjoy these Friday posts, and I just added you on Stumbleupon so I’l be looking forward to your stumbles. Have a great weekend!
-JG
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Yeah, that plugin does wonders of at least keeping the bot spam out of your blog!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend as well!
Wow – what an incredible post – definitely bookmarked and thank you soo much for mentioning ReelSEO as a worthy resource. Tweeted and shared. Thanks again.
You’re welcome Mark!
My, what a great, immense list of resources. Don’t you know I’m BUSY this week??? I don’t even know where to start. I know, I’ll go make dinner.
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Hehe… hope you had a great dinner and enjoyed the posts after!
Great list as always and that’s a really sweet video. I hope all families will be together this holiday season.
Kristi – Great fetching Fridays as usual. I always learn something new from your resource mashups. I think this is your first time adding a photography category if I’m not mistaken, pretty nice. If you added a website design category that would be great, as I’m constantly searching for designs and techniques to design my sites. Thanks for the list.
Hi Kristi,
Awesome Fetching Friday… will definitely look into some of these. Especially the link from JohnChow.com. I’m all about speed.
P.S. Love the video…I just love Doris Day’s voice, don’t you?
Thanks Kristi for another great round up of fresh new articles. Your Fetching Friday posts always gives me new ideas, information and knowledge.