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 Essential Ingredients for Building a Blog That Ranks in Alexa’s Top 10,000 – Would you like to know how I grew Quick Sprout to have an Alexa ranking of 10,000 in under four years? Find out here.
- How to Treat Your Blog as a Business Not A Hobby – How do you clearly send a message to the world, aside from printing it on your forehead or on the front page of your blog, that you are running a business as a blogger and that, as fun as it may be, you are not just in it for the fun?
- 7 Ways to Spy on Your Competition – In this article, Kim reveals 7 super cool ninja
tricks for spying on your competitors. - 7 Ways To Make Money From Your Blog – A list of various strategies that you can implement to monetize your blog.
- 23 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Blog to Book – Having a blog is without a doubt one of the routes you can take to becoming a published book author. These brilliant bloggers can help you out with even more great advice!
Business / Career
- 92 Ways to Get (and Maximize) Press Coverage – Here are 92 ways/tips/thoughts/things that have helped Chris get and maximize press coverage over the last 12 years.
- 10 Content Ideas To Improve Organic Visibility – In the past series of articles, we focused on determining what keywords were already generating business for a web site and then optimizing your existing pages to improve organic results for those keywords. In this and some future articles, we’ll cover adding new content to a website as well as other web venues to improve organic visibility.
- How to Deal with Negative Reviews – Watch this video now to get a simple, yet fool-proof three step strategy to deal with negative reviews online.
- 25 Reasons I Work From Home – When Christian first started working online, from home, I didn’t know all the reasons for working online. Over time, however, he’s come to understand a myriad of reasons why working online is a positive experience.
- HUGE Mistakes Most CEOs, Small Business Owners & Managers Are Making – What to Do Instead – Staying too busy working IN your business to work ON your business is an extremely common mistake – one that has always separated the successful from those barely making it.
Freelancing
- A 4-Step Guide To Finding Freelance Clients While You Exercise – You can get in a nice workout while you find quality clients. You will need to get up from your computer and leave your house. But if you’re willing to do that, you could come home with some great client leads or even a gig by the end of today.
- 25+ Professional Resources for Getting Started as a Freelance Editor – Launching into a career as a freelance editor is relatively easy. Unlike our web and graphic design colleagues, editors can start working on their own without too much investment in expensive software or equipment.
- Tips and Guidelines for Smarter Price Estimates – These tips below should get you thinking about estimates for project work. All freelancers must come to terms with the monetary aspect of the job.
- Six Tips for Marketing Your Freelance Writing – Lori Widmer shares her best freelance writing marketing tips, including asking for referrals, partnering with other businesses, and time management techniques.
- 7 Common Objections Freelancers Face, Now Answered – Laura discusses seven common prospective client objections. She also invites you to share client objections that you’ve faced and to explain how you’ve handled them.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Are You as Happy as You Can Be? 10 Surefire Ways To Be Unhappy in Life – Today’s guide is to bring your awareness to top 10 things you may be doing which are directly or indirectly making you unhappy (or less happy than you can be).
- 12 Things To Start Caring About Today – Here are twelve things to start caring about on your journey forward.
- 29 Life Lessons in 29 Years – 29 important life lessons from a 29 year old reflecting on life as a 20 year old.
- The 4-Step Process To Breaking A Limiting Belief – Our limiting beliefs can hold us back, and deny us the right to truly enjoy life. Here’s a process to break those limiting beliefs!
- 29 Ways to Beat Procrastination Once and For All – We all procrastinate. Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, but it can turn into something evil and nasty if we aren’t careful. Try these procrastination beating techniques to destroy this deadly foe once and for all.
Search Engines / SEO
- 78 Resources For Every Internet Marketer’s Toolkit – These free or affordable SEO tools, link building tools, coding tools, conversion tools, convenience tools, social media tools, forums, news and blogs, and social profiles will help keep your marketing up to date and help you do your job better.
- 12 Google Link Analysis Methods That Might Have Changed – Bill lists a dozen possibilities and granted Google patents that describe them, but Google uses link analysis in a lot of ways, and what Google turned off might involve something else entirely, and/or something that might not even be described in a patent.
- 40 More Google Search Quality Updates From Google – As we have been writing about a lot this morning, Google announced 40 changes to search quality they made over the past month or so. This is an update from their 17 changes in January.
- Hardcore Local SEO Tactics – Learn some great local search marketing tactics from the local search panel at SMX West.
- How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO – Every day we tell our clients to build good content and Google will reward them we know that it’s a white lie most times, because the other side of that coin is and ALSO build anchor text links so you can actually rank well, because community building is not enough of a factor yet.
Social Media / Social Networking
- 9 Social Media Hacks I Use Every Day – Using your limited social media time wisely is all about going beyond the obvious activities. These nine efficiencies — hacks — are what you need to embrace right now.
- The Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn – This post will show you the important areas you need to be taking advantage of on LinkedIn for branding and traffic including your personal profile, groups, answers, company pages, and plugins.
- 250+ Brands on Pinterest – Like moths being drawn to a Martha Stewart decorative candle, brands are flocking to Pinterest. Whether you think they should or not doesn’t really matter.
- PlusBlogging – How to Dominate your Market in Google+ – Jason details and dissects some factors that can help boost your SEO, content marketing and social campaigns using your Google+ brand/profile page or by PlusBlogging (blogging on Google+).
- 26 Tips for Using Pinterest for Business – How to create a business presence, drive traffic to your website, increase SEO value, and improve your social media marketing.
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo comes from my first camping trip in Sedona. I miss the fall colors! This was taken with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS8 and edited in Adobe Lightroom.
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!
Journey Through Canyons
Some Southwestern treasures for your viewing pleasure this weekend!
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Hi Kristi, great roundup as usual. I’m certainly going to check out the Pinterest post. I’m curious to know your views on Pinterest. As a photographer how do you feel about having your work shared there with or without a link back to your sites? Pinterest seems so harmless but I heard that Flickr is blocking some content from there. Thanks Kristi and have a great weekend!
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I think I need to check out pinterest too Ileane. I’ve seen it mentioned everywhere and I still haven’t visited it!
Great round up Kristi, I don’t know where you get the time to find all these sites
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Kristi,
As always an amazing roundup. I now have to spend another 20 minutes reading articles because I just took four more off your list that I want to read.
Thanks for putting this together every week.
Ryan H.
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Beautiful Sedona shot Kristi. I’ve been there several times, including once at the peak of fall color in October. I’m hoping to get back to the Southwest later this spring, probably southern Utah.
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I find this artice “25 Reasons I Work From Home” very interesting and helpful.
Thanks for all the great resources.
~Anja~
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I’m such a sucker for those time-lapse videos. No matter how many times you see them, they never get old. Thanks for all the great resources this week! Haven’t read many of them yet, but trust me when I say I have plenty to do this weekend.
Great stuff & I love the picture. However, the video isn’t showing up for me.
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Kristi, here’s a resource to help you BEFORE you go running off with all of those other resources:
http://transom.org/?p=24153
Blog On!
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Great links as always. I am always grateful for the freelancing resources.
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I know one thing about that each and every one can take advantages from your friday post which is so nice to learn.
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Thanks Kristi. As always you make my weekly reading a lot easier. And I’ve not read almost all of them. So going to check them all out.
Have a great weekend!
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Hi Kristi
As always some great resources you share with us. I really love the video your share in this post. It is so awesome.
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I’m especially interested in your 5th resource — going from having a blog to writing a book. I went to check out that website, and there is a lot of interesting information there. I’ve never written a book, but just reading that website makes me think “wow this is something even I might be able to do.”
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Kristi, another great compilation of list here. You make my life easier. Thanks a lot.
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Hi Kristi,
Lots of interesting reading, as usual, now have I to find a couple of hours of peace and quiet for reading.
I just read the article in your list: “The Essential Ingredients for Building a Blog That Ranks in Alexa’s Top 10,000″ and I recommend to everyone who wants to build a successful blog to read this article. This shows again, succee is all about providing great value and building relationships and not about gimmicks and secrets. Fantastic article – thanks a lot for the share.
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life is like a box of chocolates you never know which one you get.
Unless your like me and you can smell the milk chocolate ones.
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Good job Kristi! Thank you for providing us such useful links. I must check Pinterest. I am invited to sing up, through e-mails, facebook etc, and haven’t an account yet. I thought it was just one more social networking thing, but seems to be a useful tool to promote your work.
Journey through canyons was very relaxing. Seeing the clouds travelling above the cliffs
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Great Resources, as always. Love the video you shared, great job.
Thanks for sharing, kristi.
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As always great list Kristi.
I love the SEW’s 78 resource list. It is must read for everyone. Thank you.
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Nice Kristi,
Again a nice post, I like all post of this series and always eager to read new posts, thanks for sharing such a nice post please keep sharing these…
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