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 thousands of words every single week – for those of us that have a lot of writing to do, here’s some ways to get it done.
- How to get your blog noticed in a crowded niche – different ways to stand out from the crowd.
- Blogging like a pro – how to do effective content research to generate great ideas for your writing.
- 6 common slip-ups that make your blog look bad – while I don’t necessarily agree with the point about taking dates off your post, the rest are pretty solid.
- Generate success with 37 winning titles – stuck on coming up with great titles? Try these formulas!
Making Money Online / Marketing / Online Business
- Finding the faith to work for yourself – inspiration for those who are not going to give up on living their dream!
- 7 fast fixes to increase your website’s conversion rate – if your conversion sucks, here’s some things you can do about it.
- Let’s get viral: 6 strategies for viral exposure and growth – apply these ideas to your business site or blog!
- Make more money with Google Adsense – a simple tweak to increase earnings.
- 7 reasons why self-employment sucks – from someone who has been self-employed for 18 months but has tripled their income.
Personal Development / Productivity
- 10 powerful ways to dramatically increase your personal growth – use these tips
- Time management and television – what is the real cost of your time spent watching TV on your productivity and life.
- Stop worrying about what others think – 9 tips to gain confidence and be inspired to be, create, and share your talents without fear.
- Why you want to give and receive brutally honest advice – plus ways to give it with a little more tact.
- Use questions to change your mindset – what to ask yourself when you first wake up in the morning.
Search Engines / SEO
- Top Google rankings – six ways to do it, straight from a Google site clinic in London.
- Google real time search adds more sources – see the complete list of social networks included in Google’s real time search , now including Quora, Gowalla, Twigoo, and more.
- 5 ways to attract and generate leads through link building – a look at different link building strategies and their short-term / long-term advantages.
- How to bake SEO into viral-friendly posts – sometimes titles that spread through social media aren’t the ones that are the most search engine friendly. Here’s a good way to optimize for search and not hurt the spread of the content.
- What is the click-through rate on Google’s top 10 organic results? Find out in this simple infographic how much traffic the top spot gets vs. the rest.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Using RSS to monitor your industry and brand reputation – how to find the right feeds so you can easily see what you need to know.
- 10 LinkedIn tips and tricks you might not know – I didn’t know several of them, so I’d bet you’ll find something useful here!
- 6 tips to increase your Facebook EdgeRank – aka the thing that will get you better position in your fans’ news streams.
- Useful tools for making your online life easier – includes tools for social media and much more.
- How to search Twitter like a pro – use these different operators to find just the tweets you have been searching for.
Royal Wedding 2.0
Whether you have royal wedding fever and have gotten up in the wee hours to watch the cermony or you could care less, one thing you have to give props to is the way they have used social media to give everyone a piece of the experience.
If you’re looking to use social media to promote an event, take a look at some of the ways social media has played a part in the royal wedding of 2011.
- First of all, there is the royal wedding blog that has been giving updates about everything to do with the royal nuptials.
- Next, you can share your excitement with fans of the British Monarchy on the official Royal Wedding event page.
- Want to watch? You can catch the the
live broadcastrebroadcast and highlights of the cermony on the royal Youtube channel. - Follow the currently promoted #RoyalWedding hashtag for the latest conversation on Twitter.
- Want to know what’s going to happen? Download the 27 page official wedding program from the Prince of Wales government site.
- Ready to see some photos? Head over to the British Monarchy Flickr account to see the latest and best snapshots.
And lastly, it’s not just the royals that are providing us with lots of lovely information. There has been a surge in content about the event, including some great royal wedding infographics created about royal weddings of the past, the cost, and other factoids of interest.
At the time of writing this, I haven’t decided whether I’ll get up at 3am to watch this live or just go for a replay later in the day. Will you be watching?
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I guess I’ll be watching it live since I can’t stop staring at the TV while working – I’m seeing a lot of updates on every channel here and most will have a live telecast of it this afternoon (here in PH).
By the way, thanks for including my guest post on Oni’s blog on your list
I see some very interesting titles up there that I haven’t checked this week, I’ll probably enjoy this weekend reading.
Regards,
Jason
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That guest post was really awesome Jason, I don’t always publish guest posts the same day I receive them
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You’re welcome! I missed it live but am watching the rebroadcast on YouTube before work.
@Kristi: you work on weekends? Wow, you are a machine!
@Oni: It’s an honor
I was also surprised that it was published right away. I thought that it would take weeks before it gets published, as I have noticed that there were a lot who were sending guest posts over your blog.
I work on my blog and all my other projects through the weekend, yes.
Amazing post as usual. Always looking forward to this.
Read some of them and commented on some like you did. Cheers thanks for sharing. Must be tough to pick what is great from so many blog post out there.
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It is… I will have five in a category, then find another post that I like even more and have to decide who to cut. It’s a daunting task!
Hi Kristi,
Amazing collection as always. With the Royal Wedding, I simply will go for a replay. Can’t sit up at odd hours. Thanks for the #Royal links
Cheers,
Jane.
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Agreed Jane! I would’ve only gotten 3 hours of sleep if I tried to watch it live.
Hey Kristi, thanks so much for including me in the list
I really appreciate it. I clicked 5 posts that seemed the most interesting on the first read here, and I gotta say they were great. Are great. Not that I doubted your choice… You always make such great round ups!
As far as the royal wedding goes, I really didn’t care that much, but there is such hype that even I decided to watch it. Yes, live, it is almost 3 AM here and I believe it is about to start.
So although I would love to stay and chat I am dumping all blogging for a few hours of royal wedding dress and almost 53 mil pounds
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You’re welcome Brankica! I’m just catching the replay on the side of my screen. Nice to see all of the people celebrating their big day on the streets!
This is a really great mashup and I’m particularly interested in the posts in your SEO section. I have been developing interest in SEO recently due to how power it is and I’ll be giving them a read.
Also, thanks so much for including a link to YoungPrePro, I really appreciate it.
-Onibalusi
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Great time to be getting into SEO Onibalusi – it’s becoming more quality, less quantity oriented. Guest posting is a big trend to, and I think you’ve covered the market on that quite well!
Hey Kristi,
Nice collection of great articles as usual. Thanks for sharing your choices.
We’re so excited here in Britain and will be celebrating all day long. I’m off to watch the wedding as soon as I finish here. I won’t be working today
Have a great weekend!
All the best,
Mavis
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Didn’t know you were in the UK Mavis. That’s awesome – I bet the energy there is incredible!
Quite a nice list again!
Can’t promise I’ll be able to read all of them, but I’m sure gonna go through alot of them!
Hope you enjoy the ones you check out Bjorn!
It’s all a bit crazy isn’t it? It certainly seems that the world is gripped in Royal Wedding fever, almost every channel you turn on the TV is the Royal Wedding or a wedding based subject or film!
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Yeah, I don’t think I would have cared except it seems to be covered so well that it just seeps into your veins.
hey Kristi. Great list of blogs as always. Gotta say, maybe its a guy thing, but I have largely ignored all the wedding hype myself. Girls get all goo-goo over weddings, but for me, its just not that big a deal.
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It’s probably a guy thing James. My husband could care less too!
Hey Kristi, thanks so much for the shout out – I’m honored to be in such good company.
Here’s what I really love about these round-ups: you think you know what’s out there on the web, the who’s who, and then you discover these amazing posts and blogs that you’d never heard of. I love it!
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Glad you like it, and you’re welcome Danny!
Thanks Kristy. I found a few good resources here.
And that wedding, that’s like almost a million percent more expensive. But, they are the royals.
You’re welcome Ivin!
Thanks for including my post on the impact of watching TV.
Speaking of (not) watching TV, I’m giving the whole royal wedding a miss, just like James Pruitt above. I do wish the happy couple all the best.
John Soares recently posted Time Management and Television- The Real Costs of Watching TV
You’re welcome John! I’m not watching it on TV – just the replay is open on the side of my screen while I work. Kind of adds a little excitement to the day, listening to how happy the crowds are.
What a great list of resources. By the way… wasn’t Kate amazingly beautiful today?
She was very beautiful. The dress was understated yet elegant and royal. I heard she even did her own makeup!
Hi Kristi – Thanks for the highlights video! Also, I saw the infographic on Sandy Sidhu’s blog, too. I can’t make out the actual costs for some of the things; the image is too small. Argh! I am obviously way too interested in this stuff!
Hope you have a great weekend!
Tia Peterson recently posted Images of William and Kate – Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Hi Tia. I’m not sure which infographic you mean, but if you go direct to this post, then you can click on each one and enlarge them to the full size.
As long as they never-ever try to give anyone financial advice…
Dennis Edell@ Direct Sales Marketing recently posted Link Building and List Building – A Blog or Newsletter
They could give other royals financial advice.
Wow Kristi hot like FIYAH this week, I pulled six new blogs to connect with (hopefully). I haven’t pulled that many in one week in a while, thank you
Now, in regards to the Royal Wedding, I have zero interest in it haha. I couldn’t wait for the news coverage to end so that the regular news would be back to normal. haha.
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Glad I got you some good variety this week. I’ve been working on expanding my reading to expand the scope of sites on the mashups.
And all I have to say about the royal wedding is trending topics – it never hurts to jump on one!
I saved a whole wack to instapaper and read over a few right away. None of those were related to the royal wedding either. I’m behind from the other week as I just got back from Cancun, Mexico and ready to soak up this info instead of sun.
Very interesting about the google clickthrough stats.
Thanks as usual – can’t wait to catch up on your photos too!
Scott
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Ah, hope you had a good time Scott and got lots of awesome photos!
Well now the wedding is done and over. I am sure we will hear about it for a few days yet. For those that got up in the middle of the night to see it must be die hard fans. With all the internet and news coverage these days I sure wouldn’t stay up all night.
I’m glad I didn’t… there were replays and highlights everywhere. The CNN highlight did the job for me!
There were some great resources here. Enjoyed them all. And what a hassle that wedding must be. I don’t ever want my wedding displayed all out in the open like that. I think that would be plain awful.
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Great list Kristi in regards to the Royal Wedding i live here in london so there was no getting away from it the cost wow however one lady said that she hope that they have a child next year and make the birth a public holiday Thanks for the post it is great going through them
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This is exactly why I’m glad to have stumbled upon your blog Kristi, and meeting such a large new group of great people within your community. Props to you for promoting others like you do.
Marcus