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
- A Systematic Approach to Writing Successful Blog Posts – Your blogging success depends heavily on the success of your blog posts. If you can systematize your blogging, you can create a more reliable path to whatever you’ve defined as success.
- Redesigning Your Blog to Drive Reader Behavior – Jay Baer maps out the blog redesign for Convince & Convert, and how blog redesign should yield desired behaviors among readers of his popular social media blog.
- The Secrets Behind Content With 10,000+ Shares – What makes content go viral? Learn the 5 key traits shared by the Web’s most popular content.
- How Should You Handle Expired Content – Expired content is content on a website that is only relevant for a limited period of time. Here are examples of different scenarios that would need to be considered expired content and what you can do about them.
- 20 Ways to Kill Your Writer’s Block Forever – Here are my 20 best tips for defeating writer’s block and getting the writing done.
Business / Career
- 35 Beautiful Landing Page Design Examples to Drool Over [With Critiques] – This post is all about showcasing awesome landing pages, to give you some inspiration for your next design. It’s worth stating that no page is ever perfect – or conversely, every page can be better.
- Introducing The Remora Method: Earn a Side Income of $500/Week (or More) – There are a group of people who are consistently earning money with a strategy that is the complete opposite of what most people do. Find out what it is.
- How The Mobile Version Of Our Online Store Has Performed Along With Some Real Data To Back It Up – While I’m going to show you some actual data taken from my mobile ecommerce site along with some of my observations, today’s article is actually only going to be part 1 of a 3 part series about my experiences in the world of mobile website creation.
- 5 Ways to De-Clutter Your Website For Better Conversion Rates – How to de-clutter your website and improve conversion rates in 5 simple steps.
- Why Marketers Should Invest in Visual Content Creation – Learn why visual content is a critical part of your content creation strategy.
Freelancing
- New Freelance Writer Community: About Writing Squared – Interview with Anne Wayman and Lori Widmer, the founders of About Writing Squared: The Supportive Community for Freelance Writers and Other Creatives.
- 5 Tips to Ensure Maximum Performance When Working for Multiple Clients – Here is a secret that most freelancers who have been in the business for a while are aware of: You won’t reach full earning potential until you move past this fear of handling multiple clients, simply because you waste time that could be broken up among multiple orders trying to find one new project at a time.
- How Freelancers and Other Writers Can Use Pinterest – Are you using Pinterest? If not, you could be giving up a new outlet for showcasing your writing, whether you’re a freelancer or author, or do other type of writing.
- 65 Fresh and Creative Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration – We spent the last few weeks to compile this list of highly beautiful, creative and most importantly inspirational portfolio designs which might help you to get inspired with their past work and gives you bright directions for your next project.
- Freelance Tasks To Do Without the Internet – Yes, the internet is essential for many of our tasks, but we often forget that quite a few of these can, and maybe even should, be done without it. The next time you can’t connect, don’t get mad – get efficient.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Travel with Confidence: How to End Your Excuses and Go – How many years will you be waiting to take your dream trip? And what exactly is making you wait?
- How Podcasts Can Fuel Your Personal Growth – Podcasts have become an indispensable part of my personal growth strategy. Here’s why you should take advantage of them and how you can get started quickly.
- Why People Suck at Getting Healthy and What to Do About It – Today, you’re gonna learn why most people suck at getting in shape, and how to avoid that trap.
- 12 Questions to Ask Yourself to Simplify Your Life – Asking yourself the following questions will help you get clear on your priorities, be honest with yourself, and hopefully, make steps towards a more balanced and simple life.
- 10 Commandments for Happy Relationships – Happy, healthy personal relationships are one of the greatest joys of life. So starting today, choose to take control of your relationship with your significant other. Here are ten commandments to follow together.
Search Engines / SEO
- How to Track, Analyze, and Improve Your SEO Strategy – Learn how you can make actionable improvements to your SEO strategy by looking at your marketing analytics.
- How Accurate are Alexa, Compete, DoubleClick and Google Trends – Back in January, SEOmoz did a test of free statistics services like Alexa, Compete, DoubleClick, and Google Trends. Their conclusion was that the visitor data provided by these services did not match their own analytics. I tried these services again to see what value they really have to offer.
- 18 Advanced Link Building Secrets – When link building experts Patrick Altoft, Kristjan Hauksson and Mikel deMib Svendsen got together this year at London SES, the result was an insight into the world of advanced link building Here is what these experts had to say.
- Steps to Take After Receiving an Unnatural Links Warning from Google Webmaster Tools – If you’ve received this warning recently, your situation is a bit like one of those “Chose Your Own Adventure” books—Which door will you choose?
- 7 Link Building Mistakes You Ought to Avoid – Some significant changes have been made through those updates that can affect your link-building strategy. So let’s explore those changes and others to help you maintain if not increase your rankings.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Famous Bloggers and Internet Marketers Facebook Timeline Images – I thought it would be a cool idea to feature some of the top names in the industry and see what pictures they are using for their Facebook accounts. As you will see, the majority of images are quite personable, while some are used for branding and marketing of their companies, brands and web sites.
- 5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+ – Today I want to show you five ways you can use Google+ to engage more with you community, all the while helping your site and brand page show up more in searches.
- Facebook Custom Tabs Are Not Dead, They’re More Alive Than Ever – Why you need to create multiple tabs and how to use a tab as a landing page.
- 15 Essential Twitter Chats for Social Media Marketers – If you want a few tips on how to best create a great chat on Twitter, here are 15 hashtags that fit the bill.
- 5 Top Google+ Tools and Apps for Marketing Pros – The tools you need to enhance your marketing, manage and promote your Google+ business community.
Photo of the Week
One thing I didn’t expect to find while out hiking in Sedona was a little bit of urbex heaven. Yet, here I was, standing inside this little rundown building, looking at two perfectly aligned doorways.
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!
My Arizona
A lovely timelapse shot in my home state!
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Thanks again for the great source of useful links.
I actually look forward to Fridays not only because it leads to the the week-end but also because I know there’s plenty of me to learn and read via Fetching Fridays.
Shamelle just posted Facebook Timeline Pages – Making of Better Blogging Ways Facebook Timeline (dofollow)
Glad to hear that Shamelle! Have a great weekend.
I read a couple of these over breakfast Kristi — another great list, as usual.
And thanks for including me once again!
John Soares just posted New Freelance Writer Community: About Writing Squared (dofollow)
You’re welcome John!
Love this Kristi!
Something I look forward to in my RSS every Friday, and keep it nicely stacked up to read through the weekend. And there are many I haven’t really been able to catch up with due a busy week, though am glad now I can!
Yes indeed, those doors are aligned and seems like they are still under construction. And the videos are always wonderful as usual
Thanks for sharing
Harleena Singh just posted Why are Grandparents Parenting Grandchildren? (dofollow)
Thanks Harleena! Always glad to see you visit!
It is raining cats and dogs outside while I sit here at my computer with a cup of good and hot coffee and can take my time to read my way through this of learning material.
Thanks for putting all the list together!
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You’re welcome Anja. Hope the weather turns around for you!
Hi Kristi,
yes, the weather has changed
I’m on my way to the beach looking for a sunny shade spot where I can continue my study the material you put together.
Can’t wait for the next Fetching Friday!
Looking forward to it.
Anja just posted More Organizations Launch Anti-Bullying Campaigns (dofollow)
I really love those Friday mashup’s. My today’s favorite is: “The Secrets Behind Content With 10,000+ Shares” – I was always wondering what I can do to get my content (at least a little bit) viral – this amazing post provides lots of very useful answers. Thanks a lot.
Robert just posted Free Rank Checker Tool – Google Rank Checker (dofollow)
You’re welcome Robert!
I always love your Friday posts. They always give me some good resource to look at and to think about all weekend long.
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Glad to hear that Sara! Have a great weekend.
Awesome list – some great finds in here. Rest assured I’ll be digging into these more this weekend!
John just posted Springtime in Central Park – A New York City Photo Essay (dofollow)
Hi Kristi
As always it is a pleasure to read your Fetching Friday post. So much great info on one single post. I also enjoy the video you have started to add to these posts. Arizona really seems like a lovely place.
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Dear Kristi,
I love blogging, but I have not promoted my blog well enough yet. Recently I have become very interested in the concept of “curation.” I think it is the new journalism. Your fetching-friday-resources is the best example I have seen yet of curation. Thanks for the model, and also for the excellent content youhave aggregated for our convenience. I subscribed with the email address I check most often and seldom use for subscribing to lists. That is a compliment to your value.
Buddy Hodges just posted Interdependence vs. Independence Reconsidered (dofollow)
Such a great list again! I really like the fridays because I only have to check your blog if I want to get the latest and most interesting news!
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I learn so much each time I view your Friday mashups. Then I try and implement different strategies throughout the week and just when I’m finishing up, more great content! These posts are a great resource and everyone should be visiting your site simply for this reason!
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Hi Kristi,
Thansk for a great round up, I love seo articles.
Hi Kristi!
Great mashup as always! And love the fact that you’re including your wonderful photography in your mashups now! It’s been a while since I’ve last visited your resources. I’m really glad to have stumbled upon “How Should You Handle Expired Content”. I’ve a lot of those in my earlier blogs.
Kudos to you! Oh btw I think over optimization penalty should be included in the SEO part. It’s BIG, BIG news in a lot of SEO companies. (Liked to mine in my Commentluv – wink*)
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Great article – You’ve featured some keen links in this article. I’ve found quite a lot of them really useful and offers a load of viable information. Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed this weeks blog and looking forward to reading the next one on Friday.
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Wow, I loved the landing page examples. Great mashup as usual Kristi. Great photo of the week, maybe you could even make it a slideshow of 10 top photos of the week? PS Arizona seems like a very nice place.
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Good Job Kristi for this very informative links you have posted here. It is a great help for all the writers out there who needs more improvements with their job.
By the way, thanks for the video!
Kristi
Whoahh this one was excitingly interesting “The Secrets Behind Content With 10,000+ Shares” it really opened my eyes on how certain articles go viral
Kenny Fabre just posted Republishing Old SEO Blog Post (dofollow)
This is a nice list. You can certainly learn alot about internet marketing with this list. The best way to market can be marketing others. Pay it forward I say.
Jeff Casmer just posted 100+ High PR Backlinks From Web 2.0 Properties List (dofollow)
Nice Kristi,
Great Job, All articles are full of knowledge, I really enjoy it..
I like time-lapse shot that is awesome..
thanks for sharing..
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Kristi,
This is an excellent list. It looks like you found some of the same blog posts I found. A couple I found very helpful were: 1. “A Systematic Approach to Writing Successful Blog Posts” – I would say the dream of any successful blogger is to have a blog that attracts thousands if not millions of visitors. This article is a must read for those bloggers who dream big. 2. “How Freelancers and Other Writers Can Use Pinterest” – Pinterest is becoming the fastest growing social networking site, and every serious blogger needs to be on it. I like Pinterest because it’s easy to use. Simply upload a photo and then link it back to a blog post.