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
- 17 ways to grow your blog from top bloggers – best blogging tips from the finalists of the Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest.
- Free is boring – why you need to change how you give away content and three ways to make your blog remarkable again.
- 5 universal principles of business and personal blogging – what they are, how they work together, and what happens to your community when one is missing.
- 7 tips for building a massive blog – what seven things do authority blogs have in common? Find out and apply them to yours!
- Stop boring your readers by doing this – six ways to spice up your writing.
Making Money Online / Marketing / Online Business
- The only inbound marketing guide you will ever need – how Hubspot generates leads for their software, including their top three lead generation sources.
- The productive online business toolbox – 27 online tools that are a must have for successful business owners.
- How to build a six figure blog without anyone knowing – a huge, comprehensive look at what needs to happen to build a successful, profitable blog.
- Business beyond blogging – a five point online business strategy to make sure your income stream is not soley depending on your blog.
- 22 creative landing page designs – a showcase, critique, and optimization discussion to help you learn better ways to increase conversions.
Personal Development / Productivity
- 3 steps to stop making comparisons and start valuing yourself – ways to assess your worth based on your own uniqueness.
- How to recognize an idea worth pursuing – a quick list of 20 things that will help you identify great ideas from the ones that are ok to let fall by the wayside.
- Positive thinking in 3D – how to be motivated by personal vision.
- 12 ways good communication skills blast off your success rocket – a look at how improving your communication skills will lead to some amazing benefits, especially for self improvement success.
- Has passion jumped the shark? Has the word become so overused that people don’t get motivated by it anymore?
Search Engines / SEO / Link Building / Analytics
- Google’s collateral damage – a look at Google’s cat and mouse game with SEO over the past decade.
- The keys to content marketing improving search rankings – it’s not just the content, but these two important elements that will lead to content benefiting your SEO efforts.
- What Google knows that you don’t – interesting insight into what we tell Google via their toolbar.
- Local search case study – how Universal Business Listings led to increased local search traffic.
- SEO checklist – 60 essential optimization checks before launching a website.
Social Media / Social Networking
- 7 tips and marketing strategies for the new Facebook fan pages – learn how the new Facebook changes can help you get more likes and engagement for your Facebook fan page.
- How to remove your name and profile picture from Facebook’s Social Ads – the privacy setting you need to make if you don’t want to show up in Facebook ads.
- When social bites back – how to deal with missteps as the offender and as the boss.
- How to find good Twitter people – goals, attributes, and search engines for finding fellow Twitterers for business and personal usage.
- Build your social media embassy – a six step thought exercise on how to create your social media presence.
Red Pandas
I would like to close this week with some cuteness. Enjoy! 
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Hi Kristie, thanks for the cute red panda video, that was fun to watch. Great mashup as usual. Have a nice weekend.
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Yes, I love those little guys! Hope you have a great weekend too Ileane!
Hi Kristie,
Very useful compilation as always. The red panda video is really funny and cute! Have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Jane.
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Hope you have a great weekend too Jane!
Red panda, what a cutie. From a distance, you’d tell they look like big fat squirrels
First time I hear about this specie. Now, how do I get featured in your post? I like what you’re doing. Hope the feeling is reciprocal…
Best wishes!
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I saw one at a zoo once… didn’t see the sign for it, but came home with a picture and it took awhile to figure out what the little guy was.
I’ll come by and check out your stuff!
I feel so bad that I haven’t been around for a few weeks. I have always loved these resources!
Thank you for these and I’m going to get some of that inspiration from the land pages you linked up. It’s important to see what’s going on out there in the wild.
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I can understand being busy Scott.
Glad you got a chance to stop by again!
I am glad too! I’ll be around much more to soak up your wisdom. I keep saving your stuff on stumbleupon too for reference and help out.
Cheers
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Another excellent list of posts for my weekend reading.
And I really dig those red pandas!
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Yeah, that was a great find – I think I saw it on http://cuteoverload.com or a similar site.
Hey there Kristi,
A great list of post, will be reading each of the post this weekend in my leisure time specially the ones on SEO, since I am trying to learn more about SEO.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Shiva
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Thanks Shiva!
Awesome links! That video is amazing
Hi! Thanks for including a post from Ghostwriter Dad on this list. I’m looking forward to reading the other posts, as usual you’ve pulled together an insanely useful list.
You’re welcome Tracy! It was a nice share on StumbleUpon!
Sweet linkage this week Kristi, the SEO checklist should be printed and tacked above the computer.
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It definitely should Dennis! Especially for those (like me) creating a new site here and there every week!
You just keep bringing on the awesomeness. Keep up the good work. Thanks so much Kristi for including me.
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You’re welcome Nea!
Great video Kristi.List of posts is great as usual.
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Thanks Lakhyajyoti!
Kristi,
This week you’ve rocked it with this tender video. Pandas are so cute!!!! They made me smile and feel fine. Of course, as well as your usual Friday resources. But pandas ….
Thanks Anna! I’m glad you liked it!
Hey Kristi,
Fantastic round up (my GF loved the video as well haha). Lots of great stuff to look at and apply to the new site that I’ve been working on. I know quite a bit of SEO because I’m used to developing websites from the ground up but I’m really looking forward to the 60 checklist post that you’ve linked to see if there are any that I may have missed.
Additionally, I recently talked to a client about content marketing so anything related to that is always A+ in my book (checkin gout the one on SEJ now).
Thanks for all the wonderful stuff; it’s Sunday which means I generally spend a lot of my day in ‘research mode’ so I can apply everything throughout the week when I’m heavy into my projects and ventures.
Hi Murray,
I should eventually add a content marketing section to this site, as that is the thing everyone is talking about now!!
Amazing list of links this week. Thank you so much. Found at least 5 that I can put into action on my site right away.
Fun to see the red pandas. I just updated to FireFox 4 this week and discovered that their mascot is not a fox. It’s a red panda! No kidding.
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That’s awesome MaAnna!
Hi Kristi!
Whenever I think, “Yay! I’ve seen that post already!” on your blog, I feel accomplished and smart. =) I know, kinda silly.
But there’s a lot of things there that I have to put on my list, like with every Mashup.
Thanks for the pandas! They made me forget my head cold for a couple minutes. =)
Delena
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It’s not silly at all Delena.
I try and shoot for different sources of content so that everyone finds something that they missed in (hopefully) every category. 
And hope you’re feeling better!
Hi Kristi! Thanks for your resources sharing! I have left blogging community for quite some time. Therefore, the first thing I did is to visit your blog and get the latest resources from your Fetching Friday Resources Mashup. I love to read the article about “7 Tips Building a Massive Blog”.
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