This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, online business, SEO, and social media 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 / Freelance Writing
- 8 top pro bloggers answer one important question – what is the one thing bloggers need to do today to succeed that they didn’t do in the past?
- The tale of two bloggers – how to break free from hierarchical writing to a territorial mindset.
- Blog traffic – how this blog went form zero to 700,000+ visitors (video presentation and slides).
- 5 crippling beliefs that keep writers penniless and mired in mediocrity – are these happening to you?
- The War of Art – three lessons for beginner bloggers (and even more advanced ones).
Making Money Online / Marketing / Online Business
- How to write amazing product reviews – if you want to make more from affiliate marketing, you need to follow this advice.
- Do you have silver bullet poisoning – have you been harmed by products that sound and look good, but turned out not to work?
- How to gain social influence and market a #1 NY Times best seller – hour long interview on hustle, how to pitch a thought leader, the greatest lesson learned, and more.
- 8 cold, hard facts about being a successful online entrepreneur – how your emotions could be holding you back.
- The post fellow bloggers don’t want you to read – how this blogger makes more money from blogging using these simple tactics.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Nothing for granted – a personal account of why you should enjoy every moment.
- 7 ways to make the most of failure – what’s happened has happened. Here’s what you can learn from it.
- Use questions to change your mindset – what are the right questions and how to utilize them.
- How to pass the waiting hours – what to do when waiting for answers and closure.
- The personal development learning cycle – how to master learning and let it create lasting change.
Search Engines / SEO / Link Building / Analytics
- How to create link baiting viralness – using list posts, infographics, and videos to increase traffic (and links) to your website.
- Post Panda – is your content being outranked by scrapers?
- 10 ethical ways to buy links – because let’s face it: everyone’s doing it, whether or not they say it or even realize.
- 45 experts on the biggest small business SEO mistakes – don’t miss this if you want to know what they are and how to avoid them.
- What we learned from a pills link hacker – 10 things you can learn. Whether they are good for you or not, you’ll have to decide.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Social media for SEO vs. engagement – what is the difference, and how to do it right.
- 6 steps to expanding your LinkedIn network with company search – another great way to find people in your industry in any location.
- Social media ROI – why it is rocket surgery, what you don’t need to measure it, and why it will be negative.
- One man looks for love on Facebook using Facebook ads – what do you think of his campaign?
- How to make social media sites work for you – five tips on doing social media the right way.
Cute Baby Ducklings
It’s spring, and what says spring better than baby ducklings! This is a video I shot for my photography blog to go along with some photos of the little ducklings swimming and huddled under their mother for warmth. You’ll enjoy rooting for these little guys!
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Hi Kristi, those ducklings are adorable. I was quite surprised to see their Mommy come back to fetch them after all the effort they put out to catch up with her in the first place. I guess she was teaching them a lesson of some sort.
Well anyway, I’m off to see the photos. Then I’ll come back to read about the guy looking for love on Facebook.
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I thought it was great to see the whole family rally around and support the ones who needed it. Very sweet indeed!
Blog traffic should be a good read. I’ve read some of Marco’s stuff in the past and he always seems to have good ideas.
Dennis Edell just posted Guest blogging- Would You Like Me to Write for You (dofollow)
He does have some insightful content – very useful and to the point!
Hey Kristi, thanks so much for including a post from my blog, actually a guest post from Paul Wolfe. I enjoyed having him guest post and the post got so much attention. He is such a great writer.
Also, I feel stupid repeating myself half of the time, but just wanted to say that there are some posts here that I haven’t read and this is the reason I love your round ups
Brankica just posted Blogging for Beginners and How to Avoid Failure (dofollow)
No need to feel stupid. I’m happy to know that each week has something new and interesting for everyone, considering I’m sifting through about 500 blogs now to find the best stuff!
Hi Kristi,
Thank you for always putting together such a great list each week! I especially appreciate your list on weeks like this, when I’ve been so busy that I’ve barely had time to write out my own posts much less get around to others.
Have a great weekend!
Stacy
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I’m glad you’re finding them helpful Stacy! I know that a lot of people miss out on stuff during the week, and I hope I give a good enough mix of just what you need to know!
Yet another great list Kristi. Did not have much time to read this week as my internet connection was letting me down. Fortunately it seems that it is all good now and can remedy that situation with your “short” list
Particular intrigued about the SEO mistakes, so I’ll start with that one. Have a great weekend
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We had a week like that at work – internet was up and down like a crazy rollercoaster all day long for several days. Glad yours is back on track. Hope you have a great weekend too!
Hi Kristi,
As always a great compilation – I’ll be reading about traffic, SEO and link building in next days – I’m missing lately several posts to read
Enjoy an excellent weekend!
All the best,
Gera
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Hope you have a great weekend too Gera!
Hey Kristi,
You’re Friday list keep me busy every weekend reading. I always know I can come here for quality.
The baby ducks tricked my bird dog into thinking their were birds in the room. It’s so funny to trick her. LOL.
Have a great weekend.
~Allie
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That’s a cute story Allie! It’s always fun to see animals playing tricks on each other. Hope you have a great weekend too!
Hi Kristi,
Thanks for the post, i’m bookmarking it for later reading, many links^^. You should correct ‘visiotrs’ to visitors, hehe
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Whoops, thanks for catching that!
Hey Kristi. Thank U for adding my post.. I Appreciate that.
I agree with Allie.. I will be busy this weekend reading all the great post.
Amazing how the ducklings never get lost lol
I was planning mini gold with my nephew last summer and was a duck and her ducklings walking all over, in grass in the little stream yet no one ever got left back…Good parenting at its best
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Great bunch of links, Kristi!!
What I especially love about your Friday series is how it expands where I’m at, to look at everything just a little differently than I normally do…
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Thanks Lance! I try to make sure it’s a good mix between beginner and advanced with a variety of topics to choose from so everyone can find something valuable to them.
Darn you, you got me with the ducks! I love baby animals, and that was the cutest thing.
Mitch Mitchell just posted What Little Thing Can Make You Smile (dofollow)
I can’t resist them either, and I’m just happy that I was the person behind my video, for once.
Another great article mashup and I am off to read the ones I missed and look promising now.
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Thanks for the mention and the #FF today Kristi!
Do you send this out as a e-newsletter as well?
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Hi Lee. I don’t have them in their own specific newsletter, but that’s probably something I should look into. Right now I just have the general RSS feed for everything including the Friday posts.
Another great resource post Kristi. You never seize to amaze, thank you
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This will surely keep me busy on this rainy Saturday. I really like the variety of posts that you highlight. I have read most of the blogging and seo articles this week but the productivity selections are all new to me. I will dive in and see if I can learn anything that will help me stop procrastinating (like I am doing now).
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Hi Kristi
Great collection – I’m always in awe of people who put together these detailed link posts every week! Don’t they ever sleep?
And thanks for linking to my guest post at Brankica’s site – it was an interesting post to write, and seems to have been well received.
Have a great Easter.
Paul
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I sleep sometimes Paul. Actually, every evening, but I do get up super early and stay up a bit later than I should reading posts throughout the week.
What’s super early if I may ask?
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Took me nearly all day to read through the great posts you linked here. This has become my new Sunday paper
Found several new sites to follow too. Thanks for consistently making such great lists!
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Kristi, I’ve been following these mashups for a few weeks now, and they are really excellent! They have exposed me to a number of good blogs that I did not know about before. This week, I really liked the pieces on Social Media ROI and the War of Art. Thanks for doing the hard work of rounding everything up!
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You’re welcome Adam. Glad you’re enjoying the posts!
Was the mother duck playing a prank on her ducklings? All that huffing and puffing to leap over that concrete wall and the stress and fright at the thought of being left behind, just to see her leaping back down. Cool video though.
I don’t know but I got attracted first to the link to Jonathan’s blog about the questions to change one’s mindset. What a eureka moment I had. I have yet to try it (maybe on arising tomorrow morning) but I actually believe it will work to lift me up and make my day even better. Thank you for that particular link Kris. Now, I’ve just found one more cool blog to lurk in.
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He has a lot of great advice James if you are working on personal development.
Another good list Kristi, thanks for sifting through all the blogs to find some good stuff. No baby ducks right now, but baby geese or goslings I believe they’re called. Cute… ’til they start honking.
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I wrote a long comment and lost it.
Looking forward to a number of these – mainly the 0-700000+
Want to know more details on that one.
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I hate it when that happens Scott! When I do a long comment, I paste it into Notepad, just in case the internet goes funky, which seems to happen every time I’m in the middle of something without saving.