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.
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 / Writing
- The Ultimate Guide to Guest Blogging – In this article we are going to look at exactly how you can get guest blogging opportunities and make the most out of them.
- 17 Copy-And-Paste Blog Post Templates – Ever feel stuck when preparing a blog post? Here are 17 Copy-And-Paste Blog Post Templates that you can use as your own.
- 23 Lessons You Can Learn From Corbett Barr – A compilation of 23 awesome tips and posts from the successful blogger behind Think Traffic.
- 7 Powerful Ways to End Your Next Blog Post – Without a powerful end to your post, all the work that you put into the title and paragraph one is wasted. Because the end of your post is what keeps your readers coming back for more.
- How To Get Over 50,000 Visits to Your Blog in the First Month – Peep Laja got 600 RSS subscribers, a double opt-in email list of 700 and a bunch of new Twitter followers. Not bad for the first month. Here were the strategies he followed to achieve this.
Business / Career
- The 100 Blogs You Need In Your Life – 100 blogs on entrepreneurship, blogging, Internet marketing, social media, SEO, niche sites, freelancing, affiliate marketing, and other topics to help you achieve the goal of leaving work behind.
- The 5 Truth Bombs That Are Silently Destroying Your Business – Lots of people are teaching business owners about the latest online tools and tactics for getting more customers, but almost nothing is said about the unchanging fundamentals that underpin all successful marketing.
- The Most Effective Piece of Content – 24 content strategy and marketing experts reveal common mistakes that people make in their content and marketing efforts.
- Sales Tips Revealed: The Must-Do Sales Strategy That Will Shock You – There’s a way for you to make more sales by asking a few simple questions. This strategy is based on some surprising research about the human brain and how it works and when James shares it with you below, you’ll realize just how powerful it is for making more sales.
- 37 Free Video Answers to Your Business and Marketing Questions – 37 answers to questions about choosing your niche, making money, launches, marketing, sales, traffic, and social media.
Freelancing
- 10 Places to Find Potential Clients that You can Engage with Online – To save you time looking everywhere, Alex put together a list of great places where you can look for prospects in your target market, before adding them somewhere like LinkedIn or Google+.
- 7 Get-Real Questions to Ask to Set Your Freelance Writing Fee – What should you charge for writing? That depends. Here are seven questions I ask in determining how much I will charge a new freelance writing client.
- 21 Times for a Freelancer to Say “No” – In this post, I list twenty-one situations where a freelancer might need to say “no” to a prospective client. I also provide a sample response (as well as some discussion) for each situation.
- How to Write a Guest Post for WordCount – Writing a guest post for WordCount is a smart move if you have a book, ebook or other project about to debut that you’d like to promote, or if you’d just like to gain some more exposure for your own blog.
- 44 New Portfolio WordPress Themes Collection – You may want to check out this 44 Premium Portfolio WordPress Themes. Browse through the samples and brief features.
Personal Development / Productivity
- 10 Ways to Stop Forgetting Things & Get More Done – We all want to stay on top of our tasks and obligations. What we need are good habits and strategies to remember what we need to do.
- 10 Good Reminders for Stressful Times – ust a few things to think about when life delivers a dose of difficulty and stress.
- How Meditation Improved My Life in About 30 Days – Last month, Stacy created a new habit: meditation. It drastically improved her life! She shares why and how it has brought so much positive change. Music included!
- How to Keep Going In The Face of Constant Setbacks – How to keep going in the face of life’s setbacks and disappointments, how to stay motivated by remembering what sets others up for success and what makes you special.
- The Ultimate Guide To Becoming A Doer – If you are tired of inactivity robbing you of your potential, then here are 15 ways to be a doer.
Search Engines / SEO
- The Inside Scoop to Finding Link Building Opportunities with Free Alerts – Exploring ways to automate the search for link building opportunities with free alerts.
- What is AuthorRank – With the maze of content and myriad of authors on the Internet, how do you stand out from the rest? If you publish content, you’ll want to learn all you can about the AuthorRank and the Rel=Author attribute.
- How To Test Your Google Authorship Markup in One Clicks – Did you implement your Google Authorship markup correctly? Is your review microformat being recognized by Google? The best way to find out is to run it through Google’s Rich Snippets Testing Tool.
- Everything You Need To Know About SEO Web Structure & Internal Links – Using internal linking to create a vertical site architecture is like setting-up a Monopoly board for game play. You still need to buy properties and add houses and hotels to have a chance at winning.
- Google+ Box Ranking Factors Report – How does Google decide which pages and profiles get that coveted spot? Also, how does Google decide which search queries get the plus box, and which ones don’t?
Social Media / Social Networking
- Pinterest Marketing Tips for SEO, Traffic, and Online Reputation Management – This post includes some additional statistics about Pinterest, how it compares to Tumblr, and tips for marketers looking to get more out of the Pinterest network for SEO, traffic, and online reputation management.
- How to Become a Twitter Ninja in Less Than 30 Minutes a Day – Twitter is one of the key tools in my platform toolbox. Here’s the strategy and tools Michael uses to maximize my impact and minimize my effort.
- 10 Tips to Optimize Your Facebook Page for Brand Visibility – Are you satisfied with your page presence so far or yearning for better results? Here are 10 tips to improve your Facebook Page for brand awareness and visibility.
- 10 Ways to Get More Traffic, Attention and Higher Rankings Through Social Sharing – If you write a post that gets 500 tweets, 100 likes and 40 +1s, and you do that consistently, your bound to grow your traffic and grow your search engine rankings. So how do you get people to share you content across the social web?
- 6 Mistakes That Get You Ignored On Twitter And Social Media – There are several tricks for getting people to retweet or share your content, and respond to you when you contact them.
Who’s Going to BlogWorld New York?
It’s that time again! BlogWorld New York is happening June 5th – 7th. Get the best prices with early bird registration now through February 22nd! For those who don’t want to hoof it to the West Coast (Los Angeles), then this East Coast event is for you.
BlogWorld Expo is my favorite conference to attend to network with other bloggers. So far I have only been to the ones on the West Coast, but I’m *strongly considering* the trek out to NY which is coincidentally starting on my birthday. So if you are planning to go, be sure to get the best prices by registering now. Let me know if you’re going too!
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo is from the snow covered Grand Canyon. Since it got chilly again here in Phoenix, I thought I’d post something wintry.
Be sure to check out my photography blog for more photos and follow me @kristihines for my photography tweets or become a fan of Photostry on Facebook!
HDR Skies
If you’ve got a good Internet connection, blow this one up to full size. It’s worth it!
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My pack of goodies once again- thanks Kristi!
I love these awesome list of fetching Fridays- and the freelancing ones are the first to be checked during the weekend. I guess I really don’t have to hunt and look around, thanks to your wonderful list here itself!
Loved the wintry picture- it sure sends a chill down the spine!! And the wonderful warm sunny video below- nice contrast
Thanks for sharing
Harleena Singh@Freelance Writer recently posted How to Move On and Get Over a Break Up
Hi Kristi,
I always look forward to your Friday roundups! I’m excited to be included in the list this time, thank you!
I love that picture too, it reminds me of the snow we had last month. It always seems odd to think about snow in Arizona but it did snow when I was at the Painted Desert one time.
Have a great weekend!
Stacy recently posted Interview with Mavis Nong from Attraction Marketing Online
Checked out a few posts, Kristi – nice picks!
You always make much life easier by compiling the perfect reading list for me. lol
Ana @ SEMRush recently posted 35 Headache-Free Split Testing Resources to Increase Your Conversions and Sales
Once again, you hit a homerun with some great links Kristi. I have been pretty bad in keeping up with my reading this week, and found some great ones from your list.
As always, thanks and love your Friday link list.
Steve@Affiliate Marketing Tips recently posted How to Make Money with Amazon Kindle Books
Always love your Fetching Friday resources Kristi! Thanks for taking the time to put these together.
Danielle McGaw recently posted Fiversworld | Tips for Promoting Your Jobs
Just the 100 blogs I need in my life post alone will keep me busy for a while. Thanks for this!
We are having a bit of a cold snap in the Valley, aren’t we? Anytime it is only in the 60′s, I am considering getting out the parka!
Marshall Davis@Business Service Reviews recently posted Talking Small Biz with TailGate Beer
Great list as always.
Articles from Personal Development / Productivity part always motivate me so much.
Other links are great too. So much good reading.
But I do not like the Photo of the Week
. Last week we had so much snow in Europe, that I have enough of winter this year.
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Seriously, I have had trouble to find my car, because all cars in the parking lot were covered with snow. Lots of snow! Few neighbors have similar cars to mine – not funny!
Daniel Sikorsky @ Fibonacci Trading School recently posted Eurusd protected 1.3 level
Kristi,
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You never disappoint with your posts and you did it again. I however wondered if anyone spent time watching the HDR Skies video at the very bottom of your post. Simply magical (and I never thought I would ever use the word “magical” in my life
Kodjo recently posted Health & Fitness Vacation in Majorca Spain
I LOVE reading these roundup lists. It must take you forever to compile them!
@larryphoto
Larry Lourcey@photography blog recently posted Think You Know Ana Hoffman?
Great collection Kristi and the 10 places to find potential clients online gave me a couple of great ideas and I’m reading the Author-rank post next!
Tom Treanor recently posted 6 Small Business Blogging Myths Debunked
Thanks for sharing this useful list. This is that kind of list from which we can learn lot of things about our Niche which can be change totally art of work with good result in coming time.
Beside that thanks for shared this nice “”Snow covered tree”"pic with some sunshine.
India carnival recently posted Goa Carnival 2012
Hey Kristi,
There are some awesome posts. I love the Dave’s post about Twitter mistakes.
Thanks for putting this together. Have a great weekend.
Devesh @ Best Real Estate Themes recently posted How to Implement Google Rich Snippets for Reviews In WordPress
Hi Kristi
As always some great resources and what an awesome video (HDR Skies). Always nice that you do all the research for us
Thomas@Techwork recently posted How to get more free space for your Dropbox account
My larger site finally started showing the authorship boxes on Google search, but I haven’t noticed any huge increase in Google’s CTR. I thought the picture would make it look a lot more authoritative but it has almost no difference. People don’t seem to see the site as any more credible.
Nevertheless, I like Google’s auhorship tags now.
Hi Kristi,
I’ve just read some of the posts – some really useful stuff. Thanks.
And thanks for mentioning my post too!
Megan Heaney recently posted The 5 Truth Bombs That Are Silently Destroying Your Business
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday my only day off when I can in peace and quiet read your well-selected articles without being disturbed by phone or customers. I look forward to a good afternoon. Thanks Kirsti.
I love the HDR sky video. I love taking HDR photography.. Nothing more beautiful than that when done right! Great mashup as always!
Chris @ Owner Financing Homes For Sale recently posted Where To Find Owner Financed Homes Austin
I love the HDR sky video. HDR photography is one of my favorite hobbies so I am a little biased to that vs. the rest of the mashup. With that being said, I have a lot of reading to do! I learn something new every week in the SEO section which is my favorite.
Chris @ Owner Financing Homes recently posted Where To Find Owner Financed Homes Austin
Great list, I especially like one about 50,000 visitors – I wish it was that simple to achieve but I guess doesn’t hurt to try!
Thank You!
Linda Campbell recently posted A Review of Medication for a Yeast Infection
I’m just in the process of searching for good ideas and articles about Guest Blogging and I’m really happy that you posted a link to “The Ultimate Guide to Guest Blogging” in your Resources Mashup. This article on guest posting is absolutely fantastic – pretty much everything is explained: how to find blogs that accept guest posts, how to write a good bio box, how to find good post topics… and much more.
Thanks a lot.
Robert@Free SEO Tools recently posted Free Rank Checker Tool – Google Rank Checker
That was one of my favorites as well. I’m just starting to refine my writing skills and hopefully can start guest blogging somewhere, soon!
Chris @ Austin Owner Finance recently posted Austin Real Estate – Find Luxury Homes in Austin Texas
Nice Kristi,
Awesome I love your Fetching Friday resources Kristi!
The way you present is really nice, thanks to keep it posted.
Thanks for including my interview post on this wonderful list Kristi! I’ll have to run through some of the rest (because I know you always pick great reads).
Eugene recently posted How to Grow Your Presence with a Formulated Content Mix
Great collection of articles, one thing I would like to add that I think is missing – WordPress security
I apologize if it doesn’t fit the overall list but due to the nature of our business we have to work with a lot of clients who use WordPress blog as primary publishing platform and have no clue how to defend their site. Considering that in last few weeks we have seen a spike in hack attacks against our own blog network – I think it is essential people are aware of the importance security has on their blog.
After all – all the marketing, social, etc makes no differences if your blog is owned by some script kiddie!
Alex Sysoef recently posted WordPress Hack Attack Against Login Increase
Another great compilation and great writeup Kristi. Thanks for the list again as usual.
Ricardus @WordPress Hosting recently posted Extension of Buy 1 Elegant Themes from WPWebHost & Free 1 WordPress Hosting Deal
The 100 blogs in your life is a great list, that I peeked at, but will definitely be doing a double take on in my spare time. What a great list. Kudos to the photo of the week too. I don’t like snow, but viewing it is awesome.
Ray@dolphin tutorials recently posted Enough with the Social Media Sharing Buttons
Interesting resource, and will visit more often! Keep up the good work Kristi!