This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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.
Blogging / Writing
- 12 Things That Will Kill Your Blog Post Every Time – When you look around at successful blogs, whatever industry or topic, there are several undeniable basics to success. It starts with blog posts that kill it rather than get killed. But what kills a blog post? Here’s a list of 12 things – ignore them and you will have a tough time being successful.
- Mastering Blogger Outreach: 35+ Tips and Tools to Help You Find the RIGHT Contact Info – Improving your ability to find essential contacts in the blogger outreach process can give you a significant competitive advantage over others who are trying to get their content published.
- The 5 Keys to Blog Usability – Total user experience must be baked into blog content if you want to make it bigger and better so that you stand out and dominate in your space. These five elements of user experience are essential to doing just that.
- 6 Pro Blog Tweaks to Get More E-mail Subscriptions – How can you tweak your design to get a greater percentage of visitors to subscribe? The answer to those questions is different for every website, but this post will show you six tweaks the pros use to get more e-mail subscriptions.
- 5 Key Innovations Made to the Blogosphere This Month – If you are a Triberr fan, you have to check out their latest plugin!
Business / Career
- 7 Business Apps To Help Entrepreneurs Travel Smarter – Apps that will allow you to travel smarter and more efficiently.
- 2,154 Words and One Question Answered: Should Every Business Have a Blog – Trying to figure out if your business should be blogging? Want to know if content marketing is right for you. Read the most in-depth answer.
- 9 Hard-Hitting Content Strategies for Small Business Blogging – The steps and the tools you need to create killer content…day in and day out…so you can take your business to the next level.
- The 7-Point Checklist for Powerful Landing Page Copy – Learn how to write compelling landing page copy that helps engage visitors and yield a better conversion rate.
- How to Set Boundaries: Exactly What to Say to Late & No Show Customers – How to set boundaries with your clients and clearly communicate your policies about lateness, no-shows, payments, refunds and all the other stuff that drives you crazy.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Beyond Fitness and Weight-Loss: The Miracles of Exercise – 3 rules of exercise to increase productivity and gain clarity and unleash creativity.
- How To Be Successful: 9 Tips To Get Started – You don’t necessarily have to affect the whole world to be successful – even affecting your nearby circle in a positive way can equate to success. As long as you are focused on helping others positively, you’re on the path to success.
- 12 Stressful Things to Stop Tolerating – You can’t live a happy, successful, fulfilling life if you’re spending all your energy tolerating things that shouldn’t be tolerated. Sometimes you need to put your foot down.
- Choose to be Happy for Happiness’ Sake – You know happiness is a choice, but how do you choose to be happy when things go wrong? Get inspired! Learn how to be happy, to choose happiness, no matter what.
- How to Overcome Loneliness – Don’t be afraid to try and strengthen a weak friendship or build a new one. There are people everywhere and I truly believe that all of us are worth getting to know.
Search Engines / SEO
- 6 Indispensable Free & Freemium SEO Tools – Six free and freemium SEO tools for keyword research, on-site optimization, link building, suggestions, and monitoring keyword rankings.
- 5 Practical Link Building Strategies for Local Businesses – The best link building practices involve leveraging a businesses existing network for traffic referrals first because the return is the highest there.
- A Link Development Strategy for Large Websites – There’s one practice that can extremely work well for any type and size of website (news, blog, magazine, affiliate and/or ecommerce websites), and that is building strong links to the site’s categories.
- 7 Tips for Developing a Killer Keyword Strategy – Develop a keyword strategy that will have a much higher success rate and provide you with the results you are looking for.
- The 6 Hidden Identities of an SEO Consultant – If you’re a true SEO consultant, you’re actually a lot of things, too. Lisa breaks them down.
Social Media / Social Networking
- 15 Creative Tips to Rock Your Timeline Cover Photo for Facebook Pages – How shall we, the (smaller brand) facebook page owners can make use of cover photo for brand awareness? Here are 15 inspirational ideas (with examples) to rock your page!
- 8 Industry Experts Weigh in on the Toughest Social Media Topics – Read the answers to some difficult questions about how social media is changing in 2012.
- Google+ for Business – This infographic has a bunch of marketing points scattered throughout it. You’ll see why Google+ might help you take your business goals to the next level.
- 21 Warning Signs You’re Becoming a Social Media Snob – No single warning sign damns you on its own, but if you find yourself nodding to many or even all of these, you may be in trouble.
- 14 Ways New Facebook Betrays Small Business – In word and in deed, the new design and rules accompanying the new Timeline version of Facebook pages is a boon to big business, and a blow to small business.
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo is of my Miniature Schnauzer, Dobby. He is one of the happiest dogs I have ever seen, and this is a photo that proves it!
Be sure to check out my photography blog for more photos and follow me @kristihines for my photography tweets or become a fan of Photostry on Facebook!
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Hi Kristi,
Being behind several blogs lately, so this round up is very welcomed
The first about 12 things to not kill your blog is a must for all bloggers.
I’m seeing more posts to explore further in next days seo, facebook…great work!
The temporal distortion is a wonderful way to enjoy right now, hours and hours in few minutes. Wish the same with the tasks pending I’ve haha… hours in few minutes
Hope a great weekend for you!
Gera
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Hi Kristi,
That picture of the dog is great!
I really enjoyed that!
I’m looking forward to reading several of these posts, starting with the one on getting more email subscriptions!
Thanks,
Stacy
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Love your list Kristi!
Yes indeed, your adorable dog steals the show away, and he sure looks like he is smiling- thus must be the happiest
Bookmarked your wonderful list of fetching Fridays for reading over this weekend- it’s something I always look forward to
Thanks for sharing
Harleena Singh@Freelance Writer recently posted Prayer and Fasting for a Better Life
Well done…
Todd Lohenry recently posted How Not to Think About Thought Leadership (and How to Do It Right)
Yes, every company should have their own blog and they should inform people what actually they are doing and how they are performing. If they are successful in their business then they should write some encouraging posts to help other fellow entrepreneurs.
Bishwajeet @Comptalks recently posted Comptalks Giveaway: All new Nokia Lumia 800
Love the roundup, kristi. It seems I’ve missed many posts, as I am behind with several blogs. Thanks for doing this roundup.
PS. Your dog looks really adorable.
Devesh @ WordPress Marketing recently posted WPKube Is Now Powered By Thesis Theme Framework
That photo of the week is SOO cute!
Thanks for this mashup! I always get introduced to new and useful resources.
Thanks again!
Morgan@SociableBoost recently posted Why You Should Participate in Follow Friday
Another fantastic mashup. Thanks.
I’ve started on the 12 things that will kill your blog post everytime. What a gold mine.
Articles like these remind me that I have so so so much to learn still. But the good news for me is there is definitely room for improvement
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Choose to be Happy for Happiness’ Sake – I LOVE it!
PS. Keep the time lapse video’s coming!
Chris @ Austin Owner Financed Homes recently posted What Is Austin Owner Finance?
Yes if we wants to see ourself in best position in online marketing then we need to connect with group of our niche where we can gain and share experience for much more better results.
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Another great compilation of list here Kristi. Thanks for the share.
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As always, I enjoyed reading through your lists. Because my time is usually limited, I appreciate your style of selecting 5 sites in each category. The time it takes for me to read those pretty much matches the free time I have! By the way, I like your photos! (I checked out your photo blog). You must have used zoom for that closeup photo of a chicken (otherwise, that chicken has no fear of cameras
Hi Kristi. You are still my shero. Week after week you offer a great compilation of the most useful resources available. I always look forward to Fetching Friday. Thanks for including me in the mashup. You are appreciated!
Nea | Self Improvement Saga recently posted 12 Inspirational Life Lessons Learned From Children
Great fetching Friday links, as usual, I had great time briwsing through them. Haha, the dog looks really happy!
Look at him, what a sweet little thing!
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Really liked 12 things that will kill your blog post, really worth reading, especially for someone like me who is still leaning the finer details of blogging.
Matt Kinsella recently posted Make Money Fast
I found the list for SEO really handy and informative, especially the link building strategies post.
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Now I have my work cut out for me. Your list of blogs and worthy articles will take many hours to read. You have established yourself as a pivot point.
The li’l Schnauzer puts a smile on my face. Thank you.
David Sneen@Earn more money recently posted How to Get a Lifetime’s Worth of Raises in 4 Years
Great compilation of advice for all topics… I like the first article a lot as it has really important tips for any blogger…I esp like what they mentioned there about linking other authority sites and give credit where it is due. I think some people are just scared of linking to their competition, but that’s not the way to become successful…you need to be unbiased and inform your fans about all the options out there! Like you are doing!
Thanks
Leon
Leon@Learn to dance recently posted Your guide to dance partner search
Kristi
I like the seo section alot
Kenny Fabre recently posted On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO
Hey Kristi, as usual you’ve helped me with your collection. I’m off to reading your suggestions. Hope they will be great
Thanks a bunch!
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Thanks for the social media/networking resources. Gotta read them all now for me to learn and practice new things relating to community building and networking. Cheers!
RonLeyba recently posted Top Fashion Magazines
Nice Kristi,
Another nice post, like the way of explanation, and specifically photo of the week..
thanks..
Brainpulse recently posted Analyzing the Wide Scope of Functionality Present With CSS3
Hey! Of course, cool round up. I like the one about the Facebook Timelines. Some people hate them and some people love theme. Some people just love to hate change.
The cool think about the Facebook Timeline is the design aspect that’s come from it. While we don’t need to fully design the pages, designing the cover image transforms the page. The design adoption that’s come from it is interesting as well. I just saw a pin on pinterest about all the different dimentions – from Timline to images, to highlights.
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ROFL Dobby looks very funny. Great roundup by you as you always do. Will look in to the links and see if they can help me or not.
Thanks.
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Hi Kristi,
Wow, those are some truly great posts. I read the 12 ways to kill and then on to the blogosphere with their newest plug-in with fantastic features. Got all hung up there and I’ll have to check the others later. As usual, you have given us plenty to work thru the weekend!! Keep up the great work.
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The dog remembers a scary movie from England in the XIXth century.
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