This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Hawaiaan relaxation & meditation, and what to expect next week on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
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Reasons to love CommentLuv blogs - Beware of scraped comments and fake trackback
- 13 lesser known blogs you should read in 2010
- 5 tips to boost your guest posting success
- Beginner bloggers vs. probloggers – when do you become an expert
- The secret of successful blogs – write, promote, repeat
- 53 promotional websites that increase traffic
- How to get more comments on your blog
- What does blogging mean to you?
- 10 ways to keep visitors coming back to your blog
- 14 traits of successful blogs
- The importance of being earnest with your content
- 13 ideas to inspire blog content
- 10 essential tips for marketing your blog
- Elements of a distinctive blogger
- 6 tips on blog post structure
Business / Career / Finance
- Make blogging work for business
- Help your teens make career decisions
- 27 things your job position requires
- 7 psychology tips that will help you sell
- 5 online marketing resolutions
- Why our online store profits are only up 41 year over year?
- Top 50 free online tools for startups
Freelancing
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Freelance Friday – Your ideal project profile, New Year’s resolutions & more
Graphic / Web Design
- 155 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009
- Lorem Ipsum is killing your designs
- Showcase of modern navigation design trends
Health
Make Money Online
- 5 things you need to do before making money on your poetry blog
- Top email marketing tactics of 2010
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- Why we don’t reach our goals and keep resolutions
- Time to focus on abundance instead of scarcity
- How to quit being a quitter
- Which area of your life do you want to transform in 2010?
- Happiness – by chance or choice?
- 5 ways to conquer self doubt
- Star Trek Guide to Enlightenment
- 10 actions to getting your resolutions done
- 6 deceptively simple ways to conquer your fears
- It always pays well to be a constant student
Photography / Digital Art
- 26 incredible examples of infrared photography
- 57 beautiful nature photographs by Andreas Stridsberg
- 33 awe inspiring matte paintings by Christian Hecker
- 40 beautiful fairy illustrations and manipulations
- Beautiful sun photography – 60+ shots of sunrise and sunset
- 35 stunning digital photo manipulation artworks
SEO / Website Optimization
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How not to be labeled a spammer in Dofollow forums while link building - Search engine world domination – stage one
- Introduction to Latent Semantic Indexing
- 4 ways to safely syndicate content
- Are your SEO resolutions actionable?
- Link building trends for 2010
- Linking to your own content
- Advices for the newbie in-house SEO
- Confused over .com and regional domain SEO advantages?
- 10 SEO myths to watch out for in 2010
- Top SEO tools and resources – Firefox add-ons
- How to get anchor text links without asking
- Top 10 free website speed testing tools
Social Media
- Will social media change in 2010?
- 8 things to avoid when building a community
- Ranting and deciding something about Twitter
- 8 business lessons learned from using Twitter
- 6 tools to cartoon yourself for Facebook and Twitter
- 25 Twitter backgrounds of famous bloggers
- How to auto post multiple blogs to a Facebook fan page
- How I will add 1,000 Twitter followers this year
- 4 steps for effective online networking
- Best social networking Google Chrome extensions
- How to add a flash video to a custom Facebook fan page
- Fine examples of viral Youtube marketing
Tech
- 25 Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys you need to know
- 10 mobile application development trends for 2010
- Why you should never opt out of a spam email?
- How to check shortened URL’s
- Securing your home network
- 15 top computer tech tips of 2009 from HTS Tech Tips
WordPress
- Is Movable Type’s new dashboard too similar to WordPress?
- 25 high quality premium-like WordPress themes
- 21 outstanding WordPress plugins
- WordPress MyReviewPlugin
- WordPress plugins that make your blog more user friendly
Coming Up on the Kikolani Network
Next week on Kikolani, I will share my blogging and social media goals of 2010, and also an analysis of how blog commenting makes a difference. Artistic Gemini will feature some of my personal development goals. And on the Dofollow blog, I will discuss the reason nofollow still matters.
Hawaiian Relaxation & Meditation
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Hi Kristi, we are headed for Kauai in 9 days and the video really got me in the aloha spirit. At this point it’s hard to think about anything else. I love Kauai!
.-= New from Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills: Time to Focus on Abundance Instead of Scarcity =-.
Hey, Kristi! Thanks for the STAR TREK add here… I can’t begin to explain how giddy I am about this latest movie. I hardly recognize myself these days!
I’ve been meaning to tell you for AGES that I am so impressed with your Friday Mashups, as they always seem to include just the right mix of everything we want to read about. I don’t know how you do it… consistently and brilliantly, but keep ‘em coming!
Oh, and I can’t believe you let Jonathan totally rub it in that he’s going to Kauai (without us)! That’s practically spam!
.-= New from Lisis: The Star Trek Guide to Enlightenment =-.
This an incredible list! I thought I read a lot every week!
Thanks for the link love Kristi!
.-= New from Keith ..4 Tips to Promote Your Article =-.
Kristi, Great video. Really got me thinking “Vacation Time.” I’m jealous of @Jonathan heading to Kauai. It will be interesting to see how many posts @Jonathan published will on Kauai
Excellent FF collection here. Lots of great links and resources to check out this weekend. Thanks.
.-= New from Mike @ Computer Tips Top 15 Computer Tech Tips of 2009 from HTS Tech Tips =-.
Hey Kristi – I thought it was about time I told you how much I LOVE your Fetching Friday posts. I’ve been subscribed for a while now and never fail to get something from them. You rock.
.-= New from Liz Hover Amazing list – best internet marketing posts of 2009 by Tamar Weinberg =-.
Kristi,
Awesome information. I feel like I am at the library. I also had an over sight with one of my blog titles which I fixed. “Why you should never opt out of spam email” I had “Why you should never opt out of a spam email.” They both work, but the title with out the *a* just reads better.
Have a great weekend!
.-= New from Frank Jovine CES May Lack Surprises =-.
Remind me what CommentLuv is again?
How many of the blogs you stumbled above aren’t using it?
.-= New from Ari Herzog What I Did For 5 Minutes Last Night That Could Have Changed How Blog Comments Are Added =-.
Nice relaxation video, I wish it’s summer time.. you have no idea how much I miss it, maybe because I see it raining everyday on my swimming pool LOL!
mmm.. this is the first time I realize that listening to your post video is making me feel great while writing this comment! wonderful feeling.
.-= New from Hesham @ FamousBloggers Join The First Making Money Online Social Network and Bookmarks website =-.
Kristi this is an impressive list! I know how long takes to compile all these data.
Thanks for including my healthy eating post!
I’m now bookmarking at delicious to read it slowly with enough time and with the beautiful relaxing video on background
I’m expecting your goals for the 2010
All the best,
Gera
.-= New from Gera @ Sweets Foods Best of the Week – FoodBlogs with Recipes, Foodies, Social Media & Blogging – Internet Marketing, Health & Wellness =-.
Thanks for linking to my blog post with your Fetching Friday blog posts that are becoming better each week. Always gives me a few additional blogs to subscribe to. Keep it up!
.-= New from Wayne Liew Rocky Reichman, Editor-in-Chief of Literary Magic Interview =-.
Thanks, Kristie, for gifting us one more post with lots of information and resources. Now I’m going to spend a day reading all those SEO, WordPress, Tech, and Blogging posts.
By the way, Thank you very much for including my post in the series. I really appreciate it and hope that in future my blog will not be removed from the list of recommendation.
.-= New from Aminul Islam Sajib How to Match Your Adsense Unit Color with your Theme by ColorZilla =-.
Very useful list, as always! Thanks.
In a serendipitous twist, I followed the link to Freelance Friday where I found the link to the Writer’s Credit List Or Resume. This is a great addition to the resume advice list that I posted today! Thank you!
.-= New from Sandra Foyt How To Write The SAHM Blogger Resume =-.
Hi Kristi, thanks for the list of links. I just dropped by and left a comment on 13 ideas to inspire blog content as I just wrote on the same subject today. Nice to read what others are saying.
.-= New from Rose Blog Post Ideas =-.
Wow that was weird I was actually reading another post and BING the thought came
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Thanks for adding my post I do appreciate it Hope all is well
Hey it’s Friday
I’m down for a Bloggers Convention in Hawaii
.-= New from John Sullivan Do follow Comments with page rank for YOU =-.
I’ve read some of the post….I like all about the SEO =)
I don’t know how you get through so many articles
Thanks for the link – I’m glad you liked the article.
.-= New from Kim Woodbridge 12 Silly and Pointless Facebook Groups =-.
I’m honored to have the Extreme Ezine in this week’s Fetching Friday list. Much appreciated Kristi
.-= New from Brian D. Hawkins Fine Example Of Viral YouTube Marketing =-.
another great sires of post. Well I would like to inform you that I have listed your blog on my most favorite blog list that I have posted on my blog. If you want to change anchor text of your blog please let me know.
.-= New from chandan Most favorite blogs of work at home blogger =-.
Hey Kristi,
Once again, thanks for including one of my posts in this mashup, highly appreciated. As always, your fetching Friday sets the week-end up, now I know what to read
.-= New from Dragos Roua 100 Things I Did in 2009 =-.
I like the list of SEO blogs that you have compiled. Thanks for the list.
-Kai
.-= New from Kai SEO Company =-.
Thanks again for the link love Kristi! I have no idea how you manage to work on copywriting/seo for a company, blog regularly AND compile lists like this. Very helpful resource though. I just finished going through your recommendations. Look forward to next Friday
.-= New from Justin McGill An Introduction to Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) =-.
Another great list, Kristi, but I have to admit that I almost stopped going through the list as soon as I saw the words “Star Trek”. I’m heading there now! lol
Hey Kristi thanks for mentioning my latest post – I really appreciate that. Keep wirting the fantastic posts, I love reading each and every one of them!
Brandon Walker
.-= New from Brandon @ How to Make Money Blogging 21 Outstanding WordPress Plugins =-.
Great roundup! Thanks for the mention and link love.
.-= New from Jaypee Movable Type 5’s Controversial New Dashboard =-.
Hi Kristi,
I hope you are not offended if I offer a critique / opinion. In the beginning I really enjoyed your “best of” style posts, but with time I find myself skipping them more and more, reading max the first two or three links. Wouldn’t it be better to either add a “recommendation of the day” to each of your “normal” blog posts and / or limiting them to fewer links? Imho less is often more, SY
.-= New from hospitalera@Gummi Crib Rail Comment by =-.
Looks like I need to check out 3 Lesser Known Blogs You Should Read and 5 Tips to Boost your Guest Posting Success, always a killer mashup thank you. Thank you as always for including my post it’s greatly appreciated.
.-= New from Extreme John How to Leave a Comment =-.
Thank you Kristi for including my article on this list. I appreciate this a lot.
It’s great to see my blog post for Famous Bloggers was shared with your readers, especially as it was my guest post about successful guest posting.
Thanks for the round up… I’m going to work my way down the list.
Regards,
Karl
.-= New from Karl Foxley Have You Seen The Brand New OnTheGo Theme? =-.
wow great resources again thanks Kristi making great resources i book mark it thanks for sharing…