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 plus slow motion kitten action 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
- Blogging pitfalls: how to build and maintain trust – how quickly trust can be destroyed, and five things bloggers should do to minimize damage if a slip occurs.
- How to get permission to use copyrighted photos – if you’re looking to incorporate some great images into your blog posts, be sure to read this so you are doing it the right way.
- The 8 most greatest tips to write unstoppably killer headlines guide ever – two things every headline needs to do and eight ways to crush it!
- More money for no work from your blog archives – how to find gold in your older articles.
- A simple guide to dominating your niche – two things that will dramatically increase search engine traffic to your blog.
Making Money Online / Online Business
- Advanced email marketing for bloggers: how to segment your list and geo-target your list – simple ways to target your email marketing list through Aweber.
- 8 smart ideas for getting a business mentor – find out what to (and not to) do when it comes to landing a great business mentor.
- An illustrated guide to the science of influence and persuasion – this in-depth guide covers the affect of reciprocation, committment, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity on conversions.
- How LinkedIn apps can promote your business – learn how to get more out of your LinkedIn presence to reap major business benefits.
- Can you trust online reviews? Who to trust and where to go to find good reviews.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Can you train yourself to recognize opportunity – great article to make sure you don’t miss any hidden opportunities.
- 10 toxins that pollute a happy life – not chemicals, but mental and emotional toxins that hold you bak from living the best life.
- Whispers of the Pacific Ocean – a reminder about how the ocean can put everything into perspective.
- If you had an extra 30 minutes – short post that makes you think about what you are doing with your time.
- An instant mindset shift – how what you focus on will help you get control of your life.
Search Engines / SEO / Link Building / Analytics
- 10 local search tools you can’t live without – quick review of ten local search tools that are a must have.
- 9 awesome search engines that are not named Google – some great alternative search engines!
- A tweet’s effect on rankings unexpected case study – how one tweet led to a #4 ranking.
- 33 ways to measure your online competition – what key factors to look for when performing competitor research.
- Keyword research in Google Webmaster Tools – areas in Webmaster Tools that can help you with keyword research and how to use them.
- 8 excellent WordPress SEO plugins – these are a must have if you want to get a grip on your website’s rankings.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Twitter marketing guide – a guide to help you setup your Twitter profile and implement a successful Twitter marketing strategy. It gives suggestions and tips for those who are new to Twitter or are just looking for some new ideas.
- How to monitor your brand online without losing your shirt – aka, the less expensive way to keep track of everything that you need to know.
- 33 Quora resources on how to get actual ROI – links to articles on the pros and cons of using Quora, how to use it, SEO benefits, tech resources, and other miscellaneous resources.
- Social media strategy learning curve and framework – a high level framework is designed to illustrate the social media learning curve and to help business and non-profit leaders understand how strategy relates to investment, value and culture.
- How to create your own social networking community – a look at the pros and cons of creating your own community.
- The best Twitter articles of 2010 – nice, well organized compilation with a short summary of why these articles made the list.
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Nice! This is a lot of really good information. I’m going to go over the Twitter ones first
Ben recently posted Here’s How to Check Your Rankings for Specific Keywords
Hope you like them!
Awesome Post this week Kristi. Love the Kitten video, they are so adorable (even though i normally don’t like cats…)
I especially liked the one about using the blog archives. That is one untapped resource that many people forget to use.
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I didn’t think I liked cats until I got my first two. Now I couldn’t imagine my life without one. And the blog archives is one I need to go plucking through myself!
Kristi, thanks once again for featuring one of my posts in Fetching Friday.
And I’ve been reading this blog and following what you’ve been doing with blogging and social media over the last year. You are excellent at getting your blog posts in front of interested eyeballs, probably better than anyone I know. I’m sure Blog Post Promotion: The Ultimate Guide will be top notch. (I just signed up for your list.)
I do hope you take some time off from the computer this weekend.
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You’re welcome, and I appreciate your support of my upcoming ebook. Unfortunately, this weekend will be pretty much all on the computer cause of those “final touches” that I have to work on to get it ready! But I’m sure it will be worth it.
I LOVE the kitty!!! That’s just awesome, but I’m sad that the kitty never really caught the feathers…I’m sure he’ll keep trying…
Now I wish my day was done and I can go play with my kids.
I’m finally getting back into the swing of blogging and networking, and your posts every Friday have helped me find some great people. Thanks for continuing this series, I’m looking forward to every Friday’s post now.
Cheers!
Yeah, I was hoping he’d get it eventually too.
Good luck getting back into the swing of things. I know from experience that can be tough, but there’s always a great audience out there to reconnect with again!
I’m going to check out the monitoring your brand online amongst some of the other as well, after I’ve typed this comment, I think I’ve become a bit of a brand with the Blazing Minds names so it’ll be good to check that one out
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That is a great brand name… definitely capitalize on it!
Cute Kitty! I love my cat this makes me want to go snuggle with him now. lol
Thanks!
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I always miss my cats when I’m at work, especially when I see videos like that!
Hi Kristi, how do you compile these amazingly useful list each and every week? Me thinks you are an RSS reading master:) Hugely proud I made the grade this week. Thank you!
Tanya, I don’t have a cat because we’re renting a house right now but I adore them and am always going to visit friends because I want to snuggle their cats!
Right off to tell all my friends about this now. xox A
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The process entails going through the posts I have tweeted throughout the week, my RSS reader, Alltop, and other various sources so I make sure I get a good variety.
Nice collection of articles. I found the seomoz article on tweets interesting. It looks like SEO can take a turn soon. Personal I am not to exited for this. I think tweets will be manipulated amd traded if it becomes a important SEO factor.
Tweets, sadly, are already being manipulated and traded simply for the “social proof” when people show the counters and such on their pages. As with anything though, either Google or Twitter will start figuring out a pattern and finding a way to fight it.
Another great Fetching Friday as always Kristi. It looks like you have some good articles for Blogging / Writing, and I can’t wait to check them all out.
By the way, that video of the kitten would have melted my mothers heart. She loves kittens, and the one in the video was adorable. Thanks for sharing
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Thanks John!
How to get permission to use copyrighted photos is extremely important. I know one blogger caught off guard receiving bill of sorts for $400…he had no idea he did anything wrong.
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Ouch. Yeah, it’s easy to just go out and grab images off of Google and not worry about it, but you have to be more careful than that, which is why I had to share that article!
Another great list of resources, Kristi. Thanks for all of your hard work putting this together. This video is hilarious, but I couldn’t help but think that the poor kitten was Charlie Brown and the lady with the cat toy was Lucy pulling away the football.
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Thanks Brad! Yes, I’m hoping that after they wrapped up filming, the kitten got the last laugh with the toy!
Wow! nice list Kristi.
I opened a few links in new tabs to go explore.
I also got an idea for a new blog post, as I have never thought of compiling a list of great articles as a post.
I have a couple of great articles on my blog you may want to write up like Keyword research and Google Analytics come to mind.
Glad I found you. Now to follow you on Twitter and Facebook
@ClayFranklin
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Will definitely check your site out. Glad you got some great ideas from here!
Thank you Kristi, I went to follow you on twitter and see we are already friends. I like you Facebook page with the welcome tab, call to action and great content. I still need to set up my welcome tab and improve the call to action. So much to do
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Whau Kristi, that is a lot of great resources. I better begin to read right away
Thank you very much for sharing
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Thanks for sharing tons of useful information, Kristi. I will first go for checking out the first portion i.e. Blogging/ Writing.
Liked the video of kitten.
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Hi Kristi,
Welcome back from vacation; I hope it was as amazing and fun as it sounds like!
This is a mind-boggling roundup of a ton of articles and some really great websites! It’ll take me days to get through it all, but I look forward to it!
Delena
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That’s such a really great video! It’s my first time to watch a cat play in slow motion. I didn’t know it would be that great. Just beautiful… awesome!
Looks like that holiday Downunder has refreshed you Kristi, your latest roundup is excellent.
Say, what did your hubby think of Aussie beer? If he didn’t like it he probably had VB
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Hey Kristi,
Great video – what a cute kitty – he just needs to keep trying to catch the feathers
Thanks once again for putting the amazing resources together. Keep up the good work!
All the best,
Mavis
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Hi Kristi, I love the idea of the Friday Mashup. Maybe I’ll start my own.
I have a couple links from my blog that might be good for your next fetchin’ Friday. Can I just post them here in a comment or should I email you?
Thanks Kristi!
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Nick
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The kitten in slow motion is priceless… Thanks for making my work day not be a complete bore!