This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Voyage dans notre Galaxie, and the week in review on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
- 3 ways to increase your Alexa ranking
- Who’s on your blogroll
- Blog commenting and high PageRank
- Getting the most out of Comment Luv links
- How to pick yourself up from blogging downturns
- How to create a minimalist and typographic blog layout from scratch
- Make your blog sail like the Santa Maria
- 300 resources to help you become a WordPress Expert
- 800 most wanted free icons for bloggers
- Pros and cons of showing full posts
Business / Finance
- 10 tools every small business marketer should have
- The danger of hotlinking
- Lessons learned the hard way from the first four months of freelancing
- Track calls not just clicks
Graphic / Web Design
- 12 really useful image optimization tools for web designers
- 30 most important web and graphic design blogs
- How to write a good logo rationale
- 12 tips for creating a great portfolio site
- 65 new examples of beautiful single page website designs
Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health
- How to get motivated – 8 tips to break your motivational funk
- Laughter is the best medicine
- What will make you happy
- What remains when the newness wears off
Photography / Art
- 21 great shots and how they were taken
- Stunning photos of thirsty bats swooping down in a garden pond
- Creative and artistic colored pencil sculptures
SEO / Tech
- 100 useful bookmarklets for better productivity
- Yahoo hits and misses four months later
- How to stay organized with Google Calendar
- Crawling and indexing – its not just as simple as in or out
Social Media
- Cool Twitter t-shirts you can buy
- 8 things to consider when building a quality network
- Facebook launches a Facebook lite version
- How Readtwit improves Twitter productivity
- Effective Twitter backgrounds: examples and current practices
Related News
Thanks to some good suggestions by Robert Barr of Big and Tall Clothing blog, I have made some subtle updates to the ads around this site and at oes tsetnoc as well. Although I do love blogging for the sake of blogging, I also would like to at least make enough income from the sites to cover the hosting and domain costs, as most bloggers would.
Week in Review
This week’s post is for bloggers – what is your favorite part of blogging? It’s interesting to see the mix of how many bloggers are more into the actual blog writing and content vs. the other aspects like social media marketing and SEO. It was also good to see some bloggers who enjoy different aspects, depending on the day, which is how I am.
Voyage dans notre Galaxie
A beautiful short movie by Frédéric Tapissier of the galaxy. On this same site, you can find the amazing photos stitched together of the Milky way taken with a Nikon D3 digital camera.
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Great Galaxy video. Loved the feeling of moving through space. Another excellent collection of links and resources. I’ve only had a chance to get through a few items so far and found the Blog Commenting and High PageRank post especially interesting. Can’t wait to dig into the rest this weekend. Thanks for the helpful weekly roundup.
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Hey Kristi,
Looks like you have out done yourself with this Fetching Friday’ s Resources and Mashup. I will read each article in my free time this weekend. There are a lot of great articles.
I love the video!!!!!
You have a wonderful and relaxing weekend.
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Great fetching friday, I found some really good stuff in your fetching friday as always. Thanks for the link luv.
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Good links, thanks. I especially like the article on blog rolls and agree it’s an area that a lot of people seem to overlook. The image optimization is helpful too – I’ve been on the hunt for some good low-overhead (i.e. – not photoshop) editors.
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Nice job Kristi. Lately I find myself drawn to the SEO and blogging info. It’s help for the technologically challenged (me). Much appreciation for the link love and all the great resources.
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Nice SEO articles, but the Alexa one written by John needs to share other ways (that are well known) to increase rank, but it was still a good read.
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wow nice tips for increasing Alexa rank It is good to get good Alexa ranking. It means more traffic and also opportunity to make money. but i think if you improve your traffic via any method i hope your Alexa rank increases, good video here i like it….
I am more into the ‘Personal, Art and Video’ sections of this Friday. Nevertheless as for SEO, I am encouraging the readers to follow up with your 96 day SEO experiment. Keep up on the good work, Kristi!
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To be honest, I have never really worried about Alexa, but having a high alexa rating can be a great tool if you are selling your site.
I enjoyed that article on Indexing, because I have been having a lot of trouble getting it indexed how I would like and the article provided a nice overview of how things work. I am fairly certain the theme was causing a big part of the problem and made a number of changes to it this week, because even though it is getting crawled/indexed, it isn’t happening the way it should…
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Thanks for another great FetchingFriday resource, Kristi. I really like the way you revamped the ads, it surely improves your overall blog readability and I’m sure the click rate is also trending up. As always, I highly appreciate the link love.
Have a great week-end
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Wow Friday’s come by quick I thought it was Tuesday
Thanks for adding my blogroll post I do appreciate it
Now I’m going to scroll up and check out some posts
thanks
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Just wanted to say thanks for the link to the “Alexa ranking” post – I think I will definitely get some use out of that.
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Some really good links. I think stumbleupon has the best posts to offer. I have started following u on stumbleupon. I got to know about your blog through other pro bloggers.
Looking forward to your posts
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Hey Kristi, your fetching friday is always a wonderful treat. You gather such a massive array of information from all different sources. It’s just amazing how you do it. The short music video is so cool. I loved the shots, and the music is soothing and great.
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Kristi thank you so much for including one of my posts in Fetching Friday this week it’s a pleasant surprise as I go through my reader on this lovely Saturday night.
Frank, it’s Extreme John.
Extreme John´s last blog ..3 Ways to Increase Your Alexa Ranking
You have linked to some best post over the blogosphere. Most of the blogs are unknown to me. I’ll have a look at them.
Awesome group of links! Ended up clicking on a bunch of them and got lost on the web somewhere.
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Very nice set of list for Fetching Friday. I need all night to visit them all.
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Awesome set of references…Thanks Kikolani for sharing this…Yours is 1 place from where i can figure our the rest of the world, thanks for sharing.
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I’m in on the oes tsetnoc seo contest. Just signed up from the post you highlighted Blog commenting and high PageRank. Thanks for the recap!
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yup Kristi, ultimate list of resources i want give some light for Alexa Ranking if you want good Alexa you need to focus traffic how much you increases tragic your Alexa implement!!
nice fetching Friday thanks for sharing Kristi
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wow nice list in fetching Friday i love it and book mark it thanks Kristi!!!
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I read the Post on How to Increase Alexa Rankings? But as per my Best Opinion Alexa is crap as it can’t trace Number of Visitors accurately for Sites without Alexa Toolbar.
I must say Alexa must provide Hidden Tracking Code, so that we can insert the code in Site/Blog Footer or Header, instead of displaying that Crappy Alexa Ranking Box 
For Me Google Analytics is the Best
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I really love your SEO Tool list. I’m a beginer of SEO, so I need help from SEO blog.
Thanks
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