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.
On Kikolani
- 10 Premium SEO Tools That You Can Try for Free (or Cheap) – Need premium SEO tools to optimize your website or blog for search? Here are 10 tools you can use for free or cheap for a limited time plus some best practices.
- Google Reader Alternatives: 3 Web Based RSS Readers to Manage Your Subscriptions – Google Reader is shutting down on July 1st. Find out which web-based RSS readers will make great Google Reader alternatives.
Blogging / Content
- How to Get More Content for Your Blog – If you’re struggling to create enough content, then here are some great ways to get additional content for your blog.
- 15 Tools For Generating Killer Content – Let’s take a look at how to use these 15 tools to generate linkable and shareable content in a pinch.
- Content Marketing Essentials 2013 – A huge interactive infographic on content marketing.
- Book Deal to Book Shelf in 3 Months: 8 Steps to Delivering Under Aggressive Deadlines – How to write a book under an aggressive deadline and not compromise on quality and your life balance in seven manageable steps.
- How I Conquered 200+ Emails Per Day and Reclaimed My Writing Time – Are you drowning in email? I was, until learned to reduce and better manage my email. Here is how I cut my email time and got my life back.
Business / Career
- How to Use SlideShare to Generate Leads – Here’s how to use SlideShare as part of your visual content marketing strategy.
- 21 Tools for Maximizing Productivity – Mary shares BlueGlassers’ favorite tools and apps for email tracking, research, task management, organizing notes, and more.
- 5 Secrets for Using Industry Groups in Job Search – Industry associations are a job seeker’s best friend–or at least they should be. Here are 5 secrets for getting the maximum benefit from these groups.
- The True Benefits of a Standing Desk – This case study of a company’s standing desk experiment should provide evidence to start using one for yourself.
Search Engines / SEO
- How to Use Schema Markup for Local SEO – Local businesses that want to utilize the internet to get more customers should implement Schema Markup, as it allows search engines to display important information, such as hours, testimonials, reviews, and even menus easily in search results.
- The State of SEO: The Experts Weigh In – Part III – The SEO experts weigh in on link building, digital media, web development and e-mail marketing in the third part of the state of SEO series.
- 5 Unexpected Keyword Research Sources – If you’ve exhausted the list of popular keyword research programs that are available today, you might be interested in the following five unusual keyword research sources.
- 5 Custom Google Analytics Dashboards And How To Use Them – Want a better way to look at your Google Analytics data? These custom dashboards in Google Analytics could be the answer.
- The Guide to US Census Data for Local SEO – By using census data, these viable hyper-local markets can be identified before you even publish a single tweet. You can plan micro-campaigns designed to match each of the various cities, counties, towns, or even city blocks in your selected location. This type of analysis is particularly important when considering where to open a new brick-and-mortar establishment.
Social Media / Social Networking
- 4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever – Twitter is changing dramatically, become more of a platform than a tool. This has major consequences. Here are 4 ways Twitter is changing.
- 10 Killer Tips on How to Get More Facebook Fans James Bond Style – How to get more Facebook fans James Bond style: killer tips for killer results. Warning: don’t click on this link if you want a quick fix.
- 5 Ways To Pay For Twitter Exposure – If you want to boost the visibility for your tweets, here are five ways to make it happen plus the pros and cons of each.
- Utilizing Social Media to Help Improve Your Local Rankings – Social networks, review sites, deal sites, and mobile applications can be some of your best strengths if you utilize them to your advantage.
- Social Media’s Dirty Little Secrets – Nichole Kelly exposes some dirty little secrets about social media – It’s not free, you need to listen first, you must have a strategy and advertising is key to building a strong presence.
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Seals on a Surfboard
Great use of a GoPro camera!
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Nice to be back on your awesome Fetching Friday series Kristi!
I’ve always enjoyed these and look forward to reading them over the weekend at my own peaceful time. Thanks for sharing the thread, will check it out soon as well, and the video is cute indeed.
Happy weekend
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Thanks Harleena! You too!
Thanks for the mention — seems like a particularly tasty collection this time, off to check out quite a few of these links!
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You’re welcome Carol! I strive to keep my inbox down to just my notes email at the end of the day.
Thanks for the list Kristi!
Everything is organized just nicely.
Thanks!
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You’re welcome Samuel! Hope you had a great weekend.
Wow.. Kristi,
Nice Video, how pretty they looking, really adventures incidence.
your fetching friday series is cool and always serve lot to read.
thanks for share.
You’re welcome!
The article on how Twitter is changing was very interesting. It just goes to show that businesses cannot rely on just one channel of social media for their social media marketing efforts. Yes Facebook is trying to monetize by promoting posts and Twitter may follow suit. That doesn’t mean that businesses need to pay each time they want their posts seen, it just means they need to have a good social media strategy in place that continually adds new content across a variety of platforms.
True. I use Facebook Promoted Posts, but I’m really thinking it’s not all that helpful. My most popular promotion reached 88K people but only received 77 likes. Not 77K – just 77.
Hi kristi
This is the first time I have read your fetching Friday post. So much more info to look through on different subjects was looking for social media help going to check out some of the posts you have listed.
So thanks lee
I hope you keep stopping by on Fridays for more of them!
Kristi, much appreciated. This is a great example of providing value-add to your readers. I was looking for strategies and tips in building my site and I ended up spending hours on just this one page going through the links, ironically it saved me even more hours scouring the net myself. Great stuff. Into my favorite bookmarks it goes! -Pat
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You’re welcome Pat! I’m glad you find the resources useful. I try to pick the best ones every week.
Hi
I forgot to mention before that video of the seal pups on the surf board really gave me a giggle have just shown it to my girlfriend she loved it.
Thanks lee
You’re welcome Lee! I love throwing in fun videos to end the week with.
Forget about SEO and social media posts, that first dog in the video is way too cute. Looks like a teddy bear!
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