Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Facebook Law

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

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The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Content

• How to Establish the Right Priorities to Grow Your Blog and Profits – You know you have a ton of options when it comes to growing your blog and making more money online. You just don’t have enough hours in the day to implement all of them.
• 10 Ways to Get More Blog Traffic with Social Media Teasers – We have one job. To make our social media teasers irresistible. So much so that people just have to click on the link or retweet it out to their community.
• 42 Content Marketing Ideas for 2013 – In that spirit, below is a pretty diverse list of content marketing ideas you may want to consider executing for next year.
• How Celestine Chua Grew Her Blog to Millions of Monthly Visitors – Celestine Chua’s Personal Excellence blog is one of the most popular personal development blogs online and gets millions of visits every single month. She’s really made a name for herself in the very crowded personal development niche.
• How to Convert Blog Readers Into Customers – What I learned the hard way is that monetizing blogs is much more difficult than building traffic, but I feel that I know have a formula that works well. Here is the formula I use to monetize my blogs.

Business / Career

• 7 Lessons I Learned From My Very First Customer – Do whatever it takes to get in the door plus other valuable business lessons.
• 10 Ways to Use Psychology to Convert More Customers [Infographic] –
• 5 Ways an Introvert Can Build a Thriving Online Audience – How can an introvert capture the hearts, minds, and trust of a responsive audience online? Read on.
• Dealing with Success Envy: How to Shut Up the Inner Ego – How to shut up the inner ego when you are dealing with success envy and jealousy over what others have.
• 5 Website Design Practices To Leave Behind In 2013 – Babar Suleman discusses outdated design trends that no longer work and their modern alternatives.

Freelancing

• 2013 New Year’s Resolutions for Writers – Freelance writer, blogger, and author Jennifer Mattern shares her 2013 New Year’s resolutions for her writing and her business.
• 7 Resources New Freelancers Can Use to Figure Out What to Charge – There are tools and resources out there you can use to get a good idea of what freelancers in your line of work charge. Here are seven of the best types of resources for discovering what freelancers are getting paid.
• 12+ Helpful Productivity Tools for Busy Freelancers – Part of being productive is knowing the right tools to use and using them. That’s why I created this post. In this post, I share over 12 productivity tools that can help you to get more done.
• 8 Things Freelancers Don’t Want to Hear Clients Say & How To Respond – How to respond to clients who make unreasonable demands.
• The First 7 Steps to a Successful Social Media Plan for Writers – Do you want to harness the power of social media to promote your writing? Here are seven simple steps how to set up a social media plan for writers.

Search Engines / SEO

• Does Google Hate Small Businesses – Learn some of the ways Google has made life harder — and sometimes, easier — for SMB marketers.
• 5 Tips for Handling (Not Provided) Data – It has been more than a year since Google announced its SSL enhancement. What follows are some thoughts and tips on how to handle the growing lack of data you receive from your organic visits.
• Link Building 101 – The Almost Complete Link Guide (Updated for Post-Penguin) – One thing that hasn’t changed is my view that 80% of positive (and negative) SEO ranking factors still come from external sources – I’m not just talking about links here, but social and citations, also.
• A WordPress Theme Change SEO Checklist – This isn’t a complete walkthrough on technicalities of implementing a new WordPress theme. This is simply a list of SEO-related items one should consider and tick off as they launch their new theme.
• 47 Resources To Carry Your Link Building Through 2013 – Resources for Guest Blogging, Social Media, Blogging / Link Bait, Broken Link Building, Online PR, Competitive Link Building, Giveaways, and Localized Link Building

Social Media / Social Networking

• [How To] Create a Conversion-Oriented Social Ad Campaign – Learn about maximizing ROI from social advertising on the major ad networks: LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
• 21 Pinterest Tips to Build Your Brand Visibility – Here are 21 vital tips every brand should know in maximizing their brand visibility on Pinterest. Extra tips, resources and examples are available for your reference.
• The 16 Most Important Social Media Updates of 2012 – Read about the biggest social media marketing updates from 2012.
• 75 People You Need to Know in Social Media – 75 People You Need to Know in Social Media as mentioned on the Social Pros podcast, a weekly show that features Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media.
• How to Triple Your YouTube Video Views With Facebook – How to use the Facebook Like Button Plugin to automatically attach videos to the updates shared on Facebook when someone ‘likes’ your content.

Share Your Best Blog Posts

Every week on Friday, I start a thread on the Social Media Examiner Blogging Club so members can share their favorite blog post of the week. It’s free to join, so sign up, find today’s best blog post thread, and share your proudest blogging achievement of the week!

Photo of the Week

This week’s top photo comes from Blue Canyon. I personally think it looks like a Schnauzer-shaped rock.

Be sure to check out Jason Hines’ photography blog and Arizona wedding photography website for more photos. Also, be sure to follow him on Twitter @jasonphines or Google+!

Facebook Law for Idiots

This video may be a little offensive if you did fall for the “post your legal terms as a status update” hoax that went around Facebook this week. It is also a pinch NSFW, but it is otherwise 100% funny.

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