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
- Creating a Successful Blog Post – From Idea to Promotion – My blogging process, from compiling topic ideas to promoting posts for success.
- 7 Tips to Increase Your Blog Comments – What you need to know about blog comments and how to build a strong blog community by encouraging your readers to leave more comments.
- Get The 7-Step Extreme Blog Makeover – 7 cosmetic improvements you can make today to breathe new life into your blog.
- 7 Creativity Roadblocks You Need to Be Aware Of – 7 of the most awful creativity roadblocks you need to be aware of that might stand between your vision and success. Also see 5 Tips To Boost Your Creativity.
- 61 Ways to Lead Readers with Directional Keywords – Directional keywords can help guide your website visitors to do what you want them to do.
Business / Career
- 21 Big Marketing Ideas for Small Marketing Budgets – Are you trying to market your company online? Well, who isn’t? But do you know how to market your company online without spending too much money?
- 3 Simple Strategies to Double Your Webinar Attendance – If you run webinars and want to increase you webinar attendance then use these simple strategies to boost subscribers and profits from your webinars.
- The Ultimate Online Marketing Recipe – KISSmetrics has crafted the ultimate online marketing recipe. One that’s easy to follow and breaks everything down into steps.
- 23 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Sales Letters – Every has their own idea of what a sales letter should and should not be, but the fact is that some simple convert better than others. Learn which one is right for you and your blog / products.
- Become A Good Online Marketer In 5 Really Hard Steps – Experienced online marketers know there are no shortcuts to building long term web visibility.
Graphic Design / Web Design
- How to Create An Effective Complex Footer: Content Design and Examples- Ways to incorporate relevant and user-friendly elements into your footer.
- Compilation of Well Designed Donation Pages – Take a peek down through to see some examples of both subtle and more extravagant designs that have tackled this task with style.
- 45 Creative Examples of Large Typography In Web Design – Some very creative layouts using huge typography.
- 42 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Websites – Dzine Blog has a collection of single page portfolio websites for you to enjoy.
- Traits of Successful Website Welcome Pages – Some analyses of a range of successful website welcome pages below
Personal Development / Productivity
- Falling Into the Seth Godin Way through Reading “Linchpin” – Becoming Indispensable. Quotes. Shifts in perspective. Creating your own art and genius.
- How to Become a Big Thinker – Thinking big is not a gift, but a skill—one that anyone can develop. It starts by understanding the process and then consistently practicing it.
- 75 Most Inspirational Kickass Quotes on Life, Love, Happiness, Change & Growth – Inspirational quotes for life, love, happiness, change, growth when you need some motivation and inspiration.
- Beating the Afternoon Slump – 3 preventions and 3 cures.
- Toss Productivity Out – Let’s look at some traditional productivity advice, and see why we should just toss them out.
Search Engines / SEO
- 10 Ugly SEO Tools that Actually Rock – SEOmoz loves ugly SEO tools. They’re practical and more often than not, made by a single developer. Let’s spread the love by appreciating those under-designed tools that are actually awesome.
- 26 Creative and Innovative Link Building Experts and Their Strategies – Some of the most creative and innovative link builders in the industry that I know, including their works that somehow influenced my views as an SEO.
- 14 Awesome Features in the New Google Analytics V5 – This article presents 14 awesome features that are new or have changed in Google Analytics and details about how to use them.
- In Defense Of Search Engine Optimization – The SEO industry has a very bad name for favoring shady tactics over sustained efforts. Not all apples are bad but too many spoil the bunch.
- SEO Traffic 101 – Simple strategies to build up your SEO traffic.
Social Media / Social Networking
- The Holistic Approach To Social Media – The holistic approach to marketing applied in social media, the return of the four P’s and a different and the right questions to ask before you hit the social web.
- Facebook Page Setup for Bloggers: An Ultimate Guide – Step by step guide to creating your own Facebook Fan Page for exposure and as another way to communicate with potential customers, clients or your blog readers.
- What to Tweet to Get More Followers – 10 simple ways to Tweet in order to grow my followers exponentially.
- Social Media Engagement and Long Term Relationship Building – One of the greatest benefits of social media is creating real long term relationships with your audience – this post highlights several stories and examples!
- Getting Started With LinkedIn: How to Grow Your LinkedIn Network Fast In 4 Steps – 4 more fail-proof ways to significantly start building and expanding your LinkedIn network really fast.
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Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo is a tribute to my hometown state of Mississippi, even if it was ironically captured in Australia.
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A Timelapse Journey with Nature
Advertisers are apparently learning my language. Who can resist this!
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Nice resources like usual, I am interested in design inspiration these days, I loved the “42 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Websites”, I need to build my personal page, just waiting for some free time.
Have a great weekend ahead Kristi
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I love my design subscriptions – hope you have a great weekend too Hesham!
Awesome resources, Kristi. I like the Kaiserthesage – link building roundup post and 21 big marketing ideas post.
Keep up the good work!
Kaiserthasage always has great link building / SEO articles Devesh. Haven’t run into one I didn’t like!
Awesome flower. Didn’t know you were from M! I was in the Army with a couple of Mississippi-ans! Tearing through that marketing for small businesses on a budget article. Very cool, love Neil’s stuff.
Yep, I’m a Southern girl at heart Ryan.
Awesome!!
Hi Kristi, thank you very much for featuring my latest blog post along with such great bunch in your resources mashup. Keep rocking!
A.R.Karthick recently posted 7 Creativity Roadblocks You Need to Be Aware of
You’re welcome! Looking forward to more of your posts!
Kristi excellent compilation as always. You’ll make me busy reading next days good articles, ugly seo tools (need to check it), directional keywords, and about writing, just to begin
Fantastic the video in terms of pure nature and music too.
Have a great weekend!
Gera
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I thought that was a funny title – Ugly SEO Tools. But sometimes, design isn’t as important as function! Have a great weekend too Gera!
Kristi, thanks for posting up the ideas and for the time to sort it in just one post. Have a great week ahead and happy blogging everyone.
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Happy blogging to you too Charleston!
Hi Kristi,
I have enjoyed going through your “Fetching Friday” posts over the past few weeks since finding them and they have helped me find some great blogs I would not have known about otherwise.
I am posting daily on my blog so hopefully you’ll find something worthy of inclusion on your list one week!
David
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I’ll definitely check it out David!
As always, I see a couple of interesting posts to work my IM self development, this week. I’m going to start with these:
Sales Letters Talk; Traits of Successful Website Welcome Pages; Ugly SEO Tools that Rock And Link Building Experts and Their Strategies
Thanks for taking the time to bring us your “best of the week” stumbled posts AND thanks for including my LinkedIn post:)
You’re welcome Stella – glad you found some new ones to check out!
Thanks for the beautiful labour of love, Kristi! I’m always stoked to be included in your kickass resource list
Gracias!
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You’re welcome Tia!
Hi Kristi,
Thanks so much for taking out the time and effort for sharing such a useful and awesome resource list with all of us! This sure takes care of my weekend, as I do intend visiting the links I still haven’t! Love the video as well!
Thanks once again
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Great great round up! And its nice to see my buddy’s blog out there! Kaiserthesage!
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Excellent roundup Kristi. I loved Neil’s blog post very much. Off to check on the others. Have a great weekend!
Jane@Blogging Success recently posted Thesis Product Skin Review: Beautiful High Conversion Landing Pages
Wow, Kristi, how do you find the time to do all this research? Really valuable material: I’m so pleased I found your blog.
There’s enough reading here to keep me going until Thanksgiving!
Thanks
Alan
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Kristi,
Fabulous collection of links (as always)! I loved the timelapse video too. That was amazingly beautiful!
-Steve
Steve@Affiliate Marketing Tips recently posted The Challenge: How to Build a Million Dollar Blog
Always love the Fetching Fridays as you have done the hard work for us in picking the best posts for us to read about throughout the week
I live in Aussie so, go Aussie! heh heh
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Great list as usual Kristi. I really loved your photo too. You have a real talent for taking great photos. Just as a matter of interest, do you post them exactly as you’ve taken them or is there some editing involved?
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I particularly enjoyed the 26 creative and innovative link building experts, although I have only read two of their posts, there is a wealth of knowledge all in one place, so it is a great resource, thank you! I also liked the Social Media Engagement and Long Term Relationship Building post, which really hits it home that you have to build long-term sustainable relationships through Social Media, and keep people engaged whilst you are marketing your company through other channels in order to maximise the benefit of your efforts.
Awesome and worth reading collection . You really make me busy in reading ….. The Seven extreme blog makeover is one every blogger should implement and the graphic in the post is fabulous and self explanatory.
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Thanks for including my “7 Tips to Increase Your Blog Comments” in your resource list, Kristi. It’s a great list, and I appreciate being included.
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As usual you do your best and share with us all the best post you have. Thanks a lot and the pic is awesome and cool in fact!
Great list and I loved the article on tips to get more comments.
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