This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a great discount code for November, and life on Facebook 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
- The 10 most effective things you can do to build traffic – the best tips offered by readers.
- 5 ways to measure your online reputation as a blogger – what really counts beyond the stats.
- The new rules for winning the blog game – kissing digital babies, strategizing like Napoleon, and more.
- 7 blogging and writing lessons from Blog World – definitely some of the top tips from the experts!
- What benefist do you get from blogging networks? Great question posed by the post, and interesting discussion about the benefits of blogger specific networks.
- 11 reasons why you need to get a Like button – pretty comprehensive reasoning that is likely to convince everyone.
- Is Facebook missing 370 million users? A look at logins vs. unique visitors.
- Learn what your Facebook profile looks like to others – make sure your private information is really private.
- 5 ways to create welcome tabs for Facebook – a look at five applications.
- Facebook’s EdgeRank and how to stop it from filtering out your friends in the news feed.
Link Building
- How to get your community to build links for you – ways to motivate your community to link to you with badges, leaderboards, and more.
- Link building tips for personal blogs – directories, forums, guest posting, and more.
- 10 tips for developing better internal link architecture –
- 28 link building suggestions – the what, whom, and how to utilize for link building efforts.
- Can I get 5,000 links please? Stories from the world of freelance link building.
Making Money Online / Online Marketing
- Affiliate marketing for beginners – an interview with Corbett Barr.
- Faking Adsense earnings and why you can’t even trust video “proof” – I wonder how many people do this to convince others of their expertise in making money online as well.
- How to increase sales with video marketing – interview with James Wedmore on video sales letters and their effectiveness.
- Ways to make money blogging – a look at the monetization of FamousBloggers.com.
- 21 entrepreneurs reveal why people fail to build a profitable business – great advice on how not to fail at making money.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Goals are not wishful thinking – how to set personal goals and follow through.
- Embrace changes of season with 9 promises – a look at how to keep a warm heart during the cold season.
- 7 simple ways to be happier – listening to your inner child, being grateful, and more.
- Inspirational words: life acceptance vs change – why practicing acceptance does not mean giving up change.
- 12 tips to make your to-do list actually work.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- The best SEO tip – search engine optimization, link building, etc. is all about trust!
- Implications of Google instant preview – guess what? Design will matter a whole lot more now, and goodbye Flash!
- Microsites vs one large website – an SEO argument for each type of site.
- Removing pages from Google: a comprehensive guide – what you need to know when something you don’t want showing up on search from your website.
- 30 ways to use Blekko for search and SEO – a guide for power users.
- The YouTube SEO cheat sheet for Pubcon – 12 tips for video SEO.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Why social media is a better investment than SEO – eight reasons bloggers should focus on social networking.
- How to get the most from a small business social media presence – 12 tips from the experts.
- 10 do’s and don’ts for being a good social media citizen – tips especially geared for social bookmarking networks.
- How to use StumbleUpon: a comprehensive guide to using StumbleUpon, including how to find followers.
- Want to lead corporate social strategy? Read this report on the career path of the corporate social strategist.
- Why I auto follow and direct message on Twitter – my personal strategy, and how it works for me.
- Increase your influence with Twitter lists – a guide to how and why you should be using them!
- Calculating and improving your Twitter click through rate – a pretty in-depth way to analyze your tweet strategy and conversions.
- Building niche Twitter empires – the next Internet rush.
- Twitter tips for publishers – beyond the usual basics.
- Best celebrity Twitter accounts – 10 famous celebs on Twitter.
WordPress
- Overview of SEO Data Transporter from StudioPress – the plug-in WordPress bloggers to transport SEO data between themes and plug-ins.
- 21 of the best magazine style WordPress themes.
- How to start a freelance business using WordPress – how to get out of the content mill.
- How to protect your WordPress from getting hacked – important steps to take as the hacking continues.
- WordPress adds feature for embedding tweets – a short review of Blackbird Pie.
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Life on Facebook
Kind of interesting to think of what our lives look like if you just analyze the constantly moving lifestream of updates.
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Another great mashup! This one will surely keep me busy this weekend and loaded with information as well. Thanks as always.
Andrew @ Blogging Guide recently posted The Plugin That Gets You More Sales
You’re welcome! Hope you have a good weekend!
Kristi, I’m honored you chose one of my posts for Fetching Friday. I typically explore your FF offerings over weekend coffee.
Thanks for all the work you put in to creating FF.
John Soares recently posted What Benefits Do You Get From Blogging Networks
You’re welcome for both! Great discussion you have on that post about blogging networks.
Wow! Such a fantastic list!
I will be spending all weekend on this. I will definitely be checking out the wordpress posts, I need to do some tweeking for my WP blog. Thanks for such a great resource! I always love FF’s!
Lisa Udy@Providence Real Estate recently posted Providence Utah Yearly Residential Real Estate Statistics-11-11-2010
Thanks Lisa! Have fun tweaking (your blog that is)!
yeah i was following a lot this week and i have read many interesting posts , thank you for sharing this great list !:=)
You’re welcome!
Thanks for including my post Kristi!
I’ve also included on that post of mine one of Rand’s tip for personal blog link building (the strategic author bio links), he’s really a genius. I’m guessing that I’ll be reading more stuff when I wake up, since I’m seeing a lot of great headlines up there.
Regards,
Jason
Jason @ Kaiserthesage recently posted SEO Strategies
Yeah, I saw that post on SEOmoz… definitely a good one for bloggers! Thanks for including me in your post.
Dear Kristi, what an honor to be listed here in the Fetching Fridays! I am delighted – and as Andrew said so aptly, this WILL keep me busy at least part of the weekend, thank you so much!!
Farnoosh recently posted Embrace Changes of Season with 9 Promises
Thanks for your comment and tweet, and you’re very welcome. The tweet confused me, because I know I’ve linked to you before… then I remembered it wasn’t a Friday post but the Blog World Recap.
I hope you have a good weekend!
Thanks for rounding up all this content and including my new Twitter lists post among them. I rarely have time to read these days and count on what you share to see what I need to make time to see.
Gail Gardner recently posted Twitter- Increase Your Influence with Twitter Lists
You’re welcome… glad I can help you filter the good stuff!
So many resources to read but so little time for me. Well I guess I need to bookmark some of them for future reading. Nice round up once again Kristi.
Ron Leyba recently posted Pacquiao vs Margarito Live Stream
Awesome list as usual.
I think analytics can do with its own section altogether. Some very good content is pushed out on the web.
I know all major blogging communities do not want to talk about analytics interpretation. Its not the most hot topic.Although, I personally believe a beginning to a better site is more data for analysis.
Ajay recently posted Case Study – Three Simple Tips To Making The Most Of Your Googlers
A fab list of resources once again Kristi, thank you. The books on offer are exceptional books and well worth the money. I recommend that if you haven’t got them, that you invest in one of them at the very least.
Sarah Arrow recently posted Citing your sources when blogging
Hey Kristi, your always seem to find some great posts in your mashup, and I always find one that interests me. This week it’s the one about faking adsense earnings. I know a lot of people do this to build their credibility, and unfortunately it does suck a lot of people in.
Sire recently posted Don’t Mess With Mature Women
WoW Kristi.
I really enjoyed all the value you had provided here. You are really a unique coach and great resource.
This will be bookmarked and shared
Cheers… Are
Are Morch recently posted How To Outlisten Your Competition
Absolutely awesome resources as always. I loved the post by ThinkTraffic and a lot of the Facebook info was really helpful to me this week. Keep up the good work.
Nea | Self Improvement Saga recently posted How to Reduce Anxiety Symptoms and Panic Attacks
Hi Kristie, great recap as always. The video was a little bit of a downer and I’m not sure if it was the music or the concept that left me with such a strange sense of gloom.
Have you had a chance to try out the new Blackbird Pie plugin? I think it’s one I’ll skip because I really don’t embed tweets in posts. If I did I would simply take a screenshot so I wouldn’t need to worry that the tweet might be deleted eventually.
Thanks Kristie, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Ileane @ Basic Blog Tips recently posted Video Blogging Women On The Rise
That video should’ve been in the Facebook movie trailer.
Tony recently posted How I Earned 1125 GB of Free Storage on Dropbox
Pleasure to pop up on Fetching Friday radar again, Kristi – I am honored.
Best,
Ana Hoffman
Ana @ Blog Traffic Generation recently posted Blog Audit Friday- How To Make Clever Marketer Even More Clever
I didn’t make it here on Friday but these are some good links. I hope that someday I can write something worthy of being added to the list. Just a heads up for you, the Youtube video isn’t working anymore.
Josh Ray@Freelance Business Writer recently posted Blog Goals Update – Week 2
Kristi
this is just incredible, I have no words!
lots of good stuff to read.
Listen, would you write about how to create a successful Facebook fan page?
I am sure it would interest readers very much
have an awesome day
Nicole
All goldmines and worthy of being here on FF. Kristi, nice job as always!