This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, an Old City Bar, and the week in review at kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- The fine line between blog visitors success and failure
- 6 powerful reasons everyone should have a blog
- Has your blog content been stolen?
- Do you want my blog for a week?
- 10 reasons why your blog sucks
- Google News doesn’t accept single author blogs?
- How to brainstorm brilliant ideas for your blog
- Introduction to blog communities – a beginners guide
- How far does your blog reach?
- How would you promote your blog?
- Nofollow blogs vs. Dofollow blogs
- How to ruin your reputation in one easy step
Business / Finance
- Using TipTop for real time market research
- Legal structure and taxes, website speed and fake merchandise
- Do’s and don’ts to remember in business blogging
- Most improved blogs – 3rd and 2nd place
Freelance
- Freelance Friday – Perfect gifts for freelancers, setting next year’s goals and more
Graphic / Web Design
- 7 ways to increase the usability of your website
- 15 incredible Apple web design style coding tutorials
- 5 clean email templates your subscribers will love
- Why you shouldn’t steal someone’s source code or design
Make Money Online
- Let’s make money online in 2010
- Google Adwords – pros and cons
- How Amazon and keywrods can increase your earnings
- Aweber makes a statement about Aweber lists being compromised?
- 5 reasons why your blog is not making money
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health
- Resolve to fail in 2010
- Truth and reality vs. your outlook and perspective
- The true essense of giving
- 58 noteworthy resolutions for the new year
Photography / Digital Art
SEO
- Don’t let SEO kill your content
- Get the best out of Google Sites
- Permalink structure for SEO
- Are you ready for Google PageRank 2010 update?
- Tools and resources to learn advanced Google operators
Social Media
- Using social search to create a stronger personal brand
- How social media can change the world
- Fun Twitter promotions for your blog
- 30 secret rules of social media
- How to brand your tweets with TweetBrand
Tech
- 5 steps to inbox zero, minimalist Gmail
- 6 reasons your business needs Google Voice
- Beware of holiday phishing attacks
Week in Review
- Twitter Direct Messages – Best & Worst Practices
WordPress
- WordPress 2.9 Upgrade Issues and the culprit
- WordPress 2.9 highlights
- Blogging errors WordPress.com bloggers should avoid
Old City Bar
Happy Holidays
I hope that all of my blog readers have a very happy holiday season, and are looking forward to an exciting New Year!
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Wow, what an incredible list of articles. How do you manage the time to find all of these? It will take me days to wade through this list and read just the ones that you have listed.
I appreciate all the work that you have done to put this together and will be reading through several of them (though not all cause I do have my own work to do).
.-= Kidgas´s last blog ..In the Top 1 Million!! =-.
Hi Kristi, I was wondering if anything would get in the way of Fetching Friday. You know, like a major holiday. But you came through and even managed to over deliver, as usual. Thank you!
.-= Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills´s last blog ..The True Essence Of Giving =-.
Hey Kristi! Thanks for the link love, and again like Jon, I’m amazed at your consistent delivery of Fetching Friday. How long does it usually take for you to compile a fetching friday article?
.-= Celes | The Personal Excellence Blog´s last blog ..Why I Openly Share My Life With You, The Media And The World =-.
@Celes, It usually takes about an hour to go through my various FF sources and group all of the posts. The more organized I get, the easier it will get.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
.-= Jayce´s last blog ..How to hack Facebook account profile =-.
Hey Kristi, you’ve never seem to let us down. You are a marvel. Thanks for including a couple of my links, and I hope you have a great Christmas and a blogging good year.
.-= Sire´s last blog ..Merry Christmas To All =-.
Another great roundup of the weeks popular posts! Nice work Kirsti, you really do a good job of your fetching Fridays posts
.-= Brandon @ How to Make Money Blogging ´s last blog ..Part 4: WARNING! Don’t Get Scammed By Expired Domains! =-.
Wow! I’m amazed you had the time to put this together due to the holiday intervening but I’m happy that you did. Thanks so much for all the great fetching Fridays. May you have a reproductive and happy 2010.
.-= timethief´s last blog ..Cloud Computing: Changing the Way Business is Done =-.
Hey Kristi I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to you and your family and thank you for the pleasant surprise of including my Do Follow blog post. I hope your Christmas was excellent.
.-= Extreme John´s last blog ..Merry Christmas =-.
Oh! I was shocked today when I fired your blog on my browser, I sow the Fetching post and I was like “WHAT?!” today is Friday LOL! I think I am lots in time!
.-= Hesham @ FamousBloggers´s last blog ..Are you ready for Google PageRank Update of 2010? =-.
Happy Holidays and thanks a ton for the link to my post!
.-= Vikas Gupta´s last blog ..Mail Today and HT err in keeping tabs on Twitter followers of popular Indians =-.
Wow, I scored 3 links this week; good deal! Of course, what a week I had; tough one to have a blog in my case, but in the end, things worked out just fine. And, of course, another great listing; I hope your holiday was great.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..My MySQL Upgrade Battle; The Short Version =-.
I specially thankful to you for this post that you collect all best post together. I like to read the article on blogging and SEO, I have got some good collection of article on your blog.
.-= chandan´s last blog ..Search latest work at home jobs here =-.
thanks agian for ading my post of rainbow photography and Happy Holidays
.-= Ayaz Malik´s last blog ..17 Brilliant Examples of Matte Painting =-.
Lots of helpful stuff, but I especially liked the rainbow pictures –greatly appreciated amidst the decidedly gray weather.
.-= aiche´s last blog ..In the Kitchen of the Unmentionable Mr. Stewitt (installment two) =-.
Happy Holidays and I hope you got everything you wanted. Thank you for the link love and the outstanding Fetching Friday series!
.-= Frank J´s last blog ..How to Configure a Comcast DVR for 1080p =-.
Thanks for another great list to keep me busy the rest of the weekend! I read some of those earlier this week but see a few that pop out and scream “read this!” so I will be clicking over to a few now….
.-= Keith´s last blog ..17 Must Have WordPress Plugins =-.
Wow 3 links that is unprecedented I must of been kicking a little ass this week
I have to thank you for being a great friend this whole year and I only look forward to us doing more and really kicking ass in 2010
2009 was a warmup
Happy Holidays everyone
I appreciate the LUV <<LUV is coming soon
.-= John Sullivan´s last blog ..Christmas in San Antonio with the fam wham BAMM =-.
Hey Kristi
Thanks for the mention! I really appreciate it. I am really glad we stumbled upon eachother. There is so much great information here at your blog.
Thanks so much.
Happy Holidays!
Jim
.-= Jim Hardin´s last blog ..Baked Stuffed Post =-.
wow Kristi thanks again nice article great resources on Fetching Friday, happy holiday to all of you these read and write here on kikolani.com!!!
Thanks!!
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Happy holiday Kristi and all of you those read and write here on kikolani.com i like you Christmas Video and good to see thanks for making great video
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wow nice video and great couple i like it much and happy holiday to kikolani!!! happy new year in advanced!!!
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You are fast, and it’s so great to see I’m not alone working on 25th Dec either.
You are blessing us with these lovely link-love gifts. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and apart from a big hug of thank you, you have my best wishes for the coming year as well.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
.-= Ching Ya´s last blog ..How to Brand Your Tweets with TweetBrand =-.
Love the Trans Siberian Express video. A Great collection of Holiday Fetching Friday resources. Happy Holidays and I hope you get to take a break at some point during the Holiday Season.
.-= Mike @ Computer Tips´s last blog ..USB 3.0 – USB, The Next Generation =-.
Yaa great resources on the end of year i think this is the last fetching Friday post in 2009 now we wait for new here so i want say happy holiday!!
.-= SEO Company´s last blog ..SEO Tips for High Search Engine Rankings =-.
Thankyou for including my post in this amazing list! So many get blogs and post!
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Kristi, thank you for adding my post to the list under social media. I’m honored. I always say that your Fetching Friday is better than #followfriday every week.
@Ileane
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