This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, less than one week to Blog World, and Ikea cats 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 / Writing
- 10 proven blog marketing tactics you can use today – design, categories, timeliness, connections, and more.
- YES! You do have time to blog – a look at some of the excuses that are made when saying you can’t blog, and some solutions.
- 5 traits for a great headline – these will get readers to dive deeper into your posts, articles, etc.
- Think outside of the blog: 7 ways to find inspiration.
- Growing a blog to 10,000 subscribers – a look at the stats behind this kind of growth.
- New Facebook groups explained – I’m NOT a fan of being added to someone’s group, but that’s beside the point. Also would be nice if they make group email notifications opt-in.
- 16 Facebook pages that will help you make a Facebook page – pages that focus heavily or soley on Facebook.
- 8 quick tips for developing a Facebook marketing strategy – competing with search engines, community pages, and more.
- Is Facebook suffocating the rest of social media? Interesting research and statistics.
- 7 tips to mastering Facebook advertising – do you know the difference between an ad for a Facebook URL vs. and outside URL? Find out!
- How to add the official Facebook page (instead of community page) to your profile employer link.
Infographics
- 10 more common misconceptions dispelled – do humans have only five senses, and are dog’s mouths cleaner? Find out!
- Google by the numbers – did you know Google allows dogs, but not cats on site and other interesting tidbits.
- 40 super-cool infographics you have to see – a variety covering social media, search, communication, money, the environment, and more.
- The Darwinian evolution of Microsoft Windows – from 1985 to 2009.
- A map of online communities – a comparison of the 2007 to 2010 map of what social networks would look like if they were countries.
Link Building
- Safeguarding your PC when link building – how to keep your machine running optimally while visiting unknown and possibly malicious competitor backlinks.
- How to find great directory link building opportunities – getting links on directories with high authority and traffic volume.
- 8 flawed link building strategies – do you agree that these do not work?
- The importance of follow up emails when link building – reminds me I should send a few today!
- A 12 video demo tour of the Ontolo Link Building Toolset – a toolset which sets out to automate some parts of the link building process, quickly connect you with the most important websites in your market, and more.
Making Money Online / Marketing / Reputation
- The truth about making money online – a look at the flip side of “monthly income reports” and how to evaluate whether your monetization strategies are actually profitable.
- Bad affiliate marketing behavior – some things to consider avoiding in the world of affiliate marketing.
- 7 step system to making money online – advice from a young entrepreneur and creator of Popup Domination.
- 36 reputation monitoring feeds you can’t ignore – reputation counts when you want to make money online. Be sure that yours stays good!
- Anatomy of a 5-figure flip: make your money when you buy – first article in a seiries about website flipping.
- 7 conversion tactics you probably aren’t using, but should – my favorite: remove CAPTCHA (or change to a friendly one).
Personal Development / Productivity
- How to change your luck for a better life – 4 things to do to change your luck for the better.
- Hindsight and our personal life lessons – how to use hindsight practically in learning process for the future.
- How to take criticism – why it is difficult, and how to reframe it as support.
- Are you pushing too hard to be creative? Why traditional time management doesn’t work when it comes to inspiration and flow.
- When you should do a half-assed job – or at least, why you should in some cases.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- SEO and competitive analysis – live blogging from the SMX Search Marketing Expo Eastern with a great list of tools!
- Is your SEO strategy making you too invisible? Finding the balance between long tail and broad keywords.
- The complete competitor analysis toolset – a great collection of tools.
- 7 SEO experts to avoid – inspired by The Oatmeal.
- 9 cool uses for Google Suggest – have a handy conversion tool, check popular models of a product, and more.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Social media professionals: How techie should we be?
- Social media humanization – why people buy from people, and how to move out from behind your logo.
- Building social media bridges – expanding your circle, exploring your sphere, and doing a bit of housecleaning.
- The top 10 biggest Internet communities – look beyond social media a bit to discover thriving forums and other communities.
- Join me and stop using social media for a day – could you lay off social media for a whole day (a Monday, nonetheless) for charity?
- Monitoring and Measuring Social Media – upcoming seminar in New York – full day conference followed by a half day workshop. Use discount code iem1 for 10% off registration.
- 8 tools for upgrading your Twitter experience – web applications, excluding the major Twitter clients.
- Hey Twitter! Stop telling me what I want – a look at the challenges of New Twitter.
- 5 useful features in the New Twitter design – a more positive look at the new design changes.
- How to customize your background for New Twitter – a look at measurements, the new Twitter theme designer, and plugins that will help you view your background on different resolutions.
- How many times do you tweet your blog post? A look at survey results and 4 reasons you should definitely tweet more than once!
WordPress
- The Growmap anti spambot plugin – a great alternative to Akismet!
- Ultimate roundup of 35+ WordPress CMS plugins – easily manage content, make it unbreakable, manage users, create a multilingual site, SEO, and more.
- Best WordPress contact form plugins – three plugins to try if you haven’t found the right contact form for your site.
- Arkayne – a must have plugin for traffic generation.
- An easy to use tool that will help you build a breakthrough blog – 4 reasons you need the WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin.
Blog World is HERE!
6 days left until the beginning of Blog World Expo. WOO HOO!
If you’re coming, let me know in the comments! If you haven’t registered, register now – use the code LATE15 to get 15% off Thursday, Weekend, and Full Access Passes. Plus, see what I’m doing to get ready for my first Blog World Expo, sessions I’m thinking about attending, and the don’t miss the list of meetups & parties in last week’s Fetching Friday.
1. BWE08_Expo_82, 2. Down on the Tweetup, 3. Blogworld – Day 2 – Morning Keynote,
4. Blogworld – TechSet Party, 5. Marsha Collier interviewing Guy Kawasaki
If you can’t physically make it, you can also attend from the comfort of your own home with a virtual ticket which are currently on sale for 50% off until October 12th. Definitely check it out if there are sessions that you want to get your hands on!
Finally, if you can’t make it or get the virtual ticket, you can watch the keynotes and some sessions which will be streamed live. Check out this post for more details!
As far as next week’s Fetching Friday, yes it’ll still be here. The articles will probably only be through Wednesday, as I have no idea what my schedule will be once I get into Vegas. But there will be a post, and the following week I’ll cover everything I missed from Thursday and Friday along with that week’s posts. 
Ikea Cats
I like Ikea furniture, and I love cats, so this is a great mix indeed!
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Kristi, you never do a “half-assed job” with Fetching Friday; I look forward to it every week. And I’m gratified that you included my post.
And I loved seeing the cats in Ikea!
John Soares recently posted When You Should Do a Half-Assed Job
I agree with John, your Friday posts are much loved here. They save me heaps of time and highlight things of interest that I may have missed.
Sarah Arrow recently posted Career options Become a WAG
As I’m returning slowly to normal activities this compendium is excellent to catch up some articles I missed lately. I’m seeing from infographics to social ones!
Have a great weekend,
Cheers,
Gera
Gera@SweetsFoodsBlog recently posted Bloggers- Fishes and Kayaks – a Recipe for Your Blogging Success
Kristi, Excellent advice via the twitter links this week. So great to have one of my lurking questions answered. Thanks, I appreciate this weekly resource so much.
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Kristi, the Manage Flitter tool from one of your Twitter resource links is just awesome. For anyone who wants a free tool to manage their Tweeps, it’s great for unfollowing non followers, people who don’t have profile images, or inactive users. You can drag to select instead of clicking manually through a bunch of check boxes too. No limits either…
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Six articles and new blogs to explore thanks to this week’s Fetching Friday, always so well done Kristi. Thank you, Im off to read
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Hi Kristi
As ever… lots of great resources and links.
The anti spam plugin from Growmap looks good.
Is anybody using it?
It would be nice to get a comparison with Akismet.
Akismet catches most of the spam but you still have to keep taking a look.
Would be nice to stop it at source.
Keith Davis recently posted Facts tell… emotions sell
Always the best Kristi. Many sites I would never find on my own travels.
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing recently posted Welcome! Part 3 – DennisEdellCom – Now & Future
Nice round-up kristi
Had missed few news this week. You helped me in finding them 
Thanks 
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YEs, there is always a time for blogging if you are passionate about your stuff.
Thanks for sharing some great links.Got some very good articles.These’ll keep me busy for next couple of days.
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Thanks Kristi. Really enjoying reading the 8 tools for Twitter page.
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I liked your article Safeguarding Your PC, sometimes when blog hopping, there are certain sites that you run into that is not really safe, so we really have to be protected and secure to be sure that we do get to build links and not viruses or trojans on our pc.
Kristi — Thanks for including the first of my 5-figure flip articles. I’ve published the first 3 in the series now, with the rest scheduled to publish this week. Great stuff on this list, as always.
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Hi Kristi,
Thanks for passing along another great group of articles to read through. You do a great job highlighting the information worth reading.
Brian@Charleston Marketing recently posted Best Web Design Tip For Changing Website Features
Love that “Yes, You Do Have Time to Blog!” article as it hits home with me when people around me say they are too busy to put time into something and it certainly applies outside of blogging, the reality is we all do have time if we look at ourselves realistically and truthfully.
Till then,
Jean
I loved it all – I am just learning online marketing, and a friend sent me this link – def. bookmarked – actually it is all a little overwhelming right now.