This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media 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
- How to Write Good Blog Posts on Boring Topics – What do you do when the business or service you are promoting is not something you think anybody will want to read about?
- Seven Key Steps for Finding, Evaluating, and Implementing Good Ideas – A concise list of how you can find, evaluate, and implement good ideas for writing, business, and the rest of your life.
- The Ultimate Writer’s Guide to Blogging Part I and Part II – Whatever type of writer you’re aiming to be, a blog should be central to your strategy. This series is the perfect guide to blogging for writers.
- Blogging: Why You Hit A Brick Wall (And What To Do About It) – What to do if you’re feeling let down and wondering if you made the wrong decision to get into blogging.
- What Do the Top 100 Blogs Actually Blog About? – 21 categories or topics that the blogs focus on. Every one of the Technorati Top 100 blogs fits into one of those categories.
Business / Career
- Seven Tips for Creating Killer Product Pages – Read this post on how you can improve your e-commerce product page to be big time converters!
- 15 Ways to Avoid Bad Online Reviews – 15 things you can do today to help prevent an online reputation disaster in the future.
- What Being an Advisor to 17 Companies Taught Me Learn the ins and outs of being an advisor, and whether you would want to be one for other companies.
- 69 Top Negotiating Tips for Businesses – Experts weigh in on the top strategies for negotiating with vendors, negotiating with service providers, and getting the most favorable deal terms in business overall.
- How We Use Google Analytics To Improve Our Online Store – Checking your traffic levels is both fun and rewarding but ultimately Analytics is about tracking specific metrics that will allow you to improve both the engagement and conversion rate of your website.
Graphic Design / Web Design
- 26 Popular Business Card Designs for Startup Entrepreneurs – 26 examples including designers, freelancers, and some popular startups who have created very inspirational and eye-catching business card layouts.
- 30 Free Grunge Fonts You Can Use on the Web – The top 30 out of the thousands of grunge fonts available for free online.
- How Metrics Can Make You A Better Designer – By incorporating analytics and A/B testing into design process, you can improve the business outcome of redesign and get better at design.
- 12 Useful WordPress Coding Snippets And Hacks – Useful functions and hacks to get even more from WordPress.
- 15+ Inspirational Examples of Website Redesign – Examples of redesigned websites that might inspire you as you work on your own redesign projects.
Personal Development / Productivity
- How to Live Without Debt and Be in Charge of Your Finances – A debt-free financially liberating program and the author’s 9 tips to your financial freedom.
- 5 Things to Know Before Leaping Without a Net – Sometimes the biggest mistakes pave the path for the greatest joy. Here are 5 lessons I learned when I lost my way.
- 300 Reasons to Be Happy – The happiest people are the ones who practice gratitude and focus on loving life consistently (along with having goals and making progress towards them).
- Why Curiosity Is The Way To A Better Life – In this post, Tom Meitner explores why curiosity is the answer to escaping an unfulfilled life.
- Detect Daily Anxiety Symptoms To Avoid Energy Leakage – Do you find life rather stressful nowadays? Do you experience daily anxiety? How have you been handling your anxiety symptoms?
Search Engines / SEO
- 5 Search Engine Optimization Strategies to Rank for Highly Competitive Keywords – Other methods that you can use to make your site’s pages visible through search engines.
- The 20-Minute (Or Less) SEO Audit & INFOGRAPHIC – Sniffing out most of a website’s basic search-engine-optimization problems can be done in 20 minutes or less if you know what you’re doing. Here are the essentials for an effective and fast SEO audit.
- Need a Domain Suffix or Prefix? Here are 30 Ideas – Finding a good domain name for your online business or blog can be a tough task these days. It seems like every decent domain name has already been taken. The situation is not that hopeless because you can use a domain suffix (or prefix) and put it after (or before) your ideal phrase when you register a new domain.
- 5 Free SEO Tools You Need To Discover – Automated SEO power in your hands (or at least on your screen).
- 62 Steps to the Definitive Link Building Campaign – 62 steps to the definitive link building campaign including strategy, management, metrics, prospect hunting, content creation, promotion, and more.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Facebook vs. Google+: All The Latest Updates In The Battle To Win YOU Over – Facebook and Google Plus battle for world domination, here is the list of the latest updates before the F8 Developer Conference started.
- The Complete 101 Guide To The Biggest Changes In Facebook’s History – What was presented is a huge change to the way in which you experience Facebook, extending way beyond a simple design change, into a complete change to infrastructure at Facebook.
- Basic SEO for Facebook Fan Pages – If you want to keyword optimize your Facebook fan page, these are the areas that actually pull SEO elements from your page’s content for additional optimization.
- The Power 150 Real Numbers Revealed – A look at the actual social power behind the top 25 blogs in the AdAge Power 150 marketing list.
- 34 Awesome Twitter Ideas for Engaging Your Prospects – Ever wonder what you should say on Twitter? Here are 34 ways you can engage your target audience on this social media platform.
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo is a dedication to one large, loveable kitty! 
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!
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Who wouldn’t want to travel after seeing this video….
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Another great round up Kristi, couple of gems in here, especially the SEO for FB pages (which I see you wrote too)… have a great weekend!
Keith @Social Web 101 recently posted How I Used Twitter To Build My Offline Biz
Excellent resources, Kristi, as always!
The kitty is really cute and Rick Mereki just made me more productive.
Eugen Oprea recently posted 14 Awesome Features in the New Google Analytics v5
Great roundup! I really liked the blogging posts this week. Good info that I’ll probably use with clients (e.g. blogging about boring topics).
Tom Treanor recently posted Twitter Chats: What are they and how to find them?
Once again another great round up Kristi.
I am constantly amazed at all the good stuff you find when you have a full time job and also do so much work online.
Thanks,
Steve
Steve@Earn Money Online recently posted I Need $1000! THE 30-Day Plan for Making Fast Internet Income
I really look forward to this awesome collection of links every Friday now Kristi! Coming from you, it sure has to be good and something to keep aside to view at one’s own time over the weekend.
Thanks so much for sharing
Harleena Singh@Freelance Writer recently posted How Freelance Writers can Use Google+
Excellent resource list Kristi. I enjoyed the reading the social media resources and specially the first one in that section.
Thanks for Sharing
Jawed@online advertising recently posted What is CPA Advertising?
I love the video you found this week Kristi. I shared it on FB and gave you credit for the find.
Mitch Mitchell recently posted Video On Your Website Or Blog
Hi Kristi you continue to inspire and motivate me. Your tips are the best and I’m working on a round up post including one of your hot links:) Thanks for sharing a guest post on my blog here! One day I’ll be as productive as you and start cranking content out faster! x Annabel
Annabel Candy, Successful Blogging recently posted 5 Ways to Handle Blog Comments Like a Pro
Great round up. Just makes it an ease especially for me who is free after Friday. After work, just sit back and read all the links. Thanks Kristi
Yay, time passes by so fast. I haven’t read all of the links from the last week’s Fetching Friday and here comes another one. Thanks for this Kristi, I love the Search engine/SEO topic the most.
RonLeyba recently posted Dress Up Games For Girls Who Love Fashion
I don’t know how you do it Kristi, I see you blogging everywhere, running and promoting multiple sites and you find the time to gather the best blog posts for us. I appreciate that.
Brian D. Hawkins@Blogging Tips recently posted Why Do You Blog? Getting The Most From Blogging (w/Poll)
Hi Kristi,
You’re the bomb. You deliver so much. I don’t know how you manage to write really indepth, tutorial type long posts on Kikolani as well as do similar kinda guest posts. You also have time to read, comment, tweet and share other blog’s links. On top of all that you have a day job!
Pretty amazing
Thanks for featuring my guest post at Traffic Generation Cafe!
Cheers,
Jane.
Jane@premium commentluv recently posted Moving A WordPress Site To A New Domain: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide
Nice roundup Kristi, There some really good posts mentioned above. I am gonna give all of them a read right now. The picture of the week is also amazing
Thanks,
Sahil
Sahil Kotak recently posted South Africa vs Samoa Rugby World Cup 2011 Highlights – 30th September
Great round up Kristy. I actually red Tristan’s “What Do the Top 100 Blogs Actually Blog About”, it was a rather interesting observation. I’ll make sure to check out other links you mentioned. Thanks.
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