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 seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
- How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It – Some potential link building benefits to content scrapers, how to find out what sites are scraping your content, and what you can do if you to have them take it down.
- 10 WordPress Plugins & Other Enhancements That Will Make Your Business More Social – These tools can help you do just about anything, including make your blog and your website more socially engaging.
- New, Inspirational Ways to Develop Engaging Article Ideas – Check out my list of inspirational ways to develop engaging article ideas using new websites and sources for 2012 and beyond.
- 3 Tools For Managing a Killer Multi-Author Blog – There are three core ingredients in the special sauce that is a multi author blog: contributors, content, and editing. Let’s go over the tools that will allow you to manage these important blog elements.
- Forget Blogging as Usual: 5 Outrageous Tips for Super-sized Attention – Do you want attention for your blog? What about super-sized attention—the kind you get when someone likes Drudge or Time magazine links to your blog because of your work? Well, here are some tips on how to do that.
Business / Career
- How to Turn Complaints Into Compliments & Compliments Into Brand Advocates – This post will teach you how to monitor your online brand mentions, turn complaints into compliments, and turn those with compliments into brand advocates.
- The Ultimate List of Email SPAM Trigger Words – An exhaustive list of email SPAM trigger words to avoid using in your emails’ subject lines.
- Making the Transition From a Day Job to Full Time Entrepreneurship with Carmen Sognonvi – The challenges of growing an audience, why you can’t rely on previous success, building a brick & mortar business through blogging & social media, and more.
- 6 Ways To Tell If You’re Social Media-Ready – Some companies would fare better to run like hell from social media than use 2012 to join the conversation. Do you know which side you fall on?
- How To Deal With Competition – Ever find that you can’t stop thinking about someone you feel is “so much further ahead” than you? Knowing how to deal with competition in your industry is vital for success.
Freelancing
- 25 Ways to Boost Your Freelance Writing Business in Under 5 Minutes – Improve your freelance writing business with these 25 tips you can implement in five minutes or less, from contacting an editor to networking on LinkedIn.
- What Do I Do When My Client Will Not Pay Up – What can you do if your publisher suddenly finds it convenient not to pay you?
- How to Deal with Freelancing Change – Practical tips to help you keep the inevitable freelancing changes in perspective so you can stay at your best as a freelancer.
- The 5-Step Approach to Gathering and Using Client Testimonials – Here’s a 5-step process you can use to remove hesitation, improve response rates, and make the most out of your client testimonials.
- 3 Ways to Succeed as a Freelancer by Conducting Experiments – Are you stuck in newbie-land because you don’t know what to do? Here are three ways you can find the right way and move forward — by conducting experiments.
Personal Development / Productivity
- Your Top 10 Clutter Questions, Answered – This post is a quickstart guide to decluttering with the most common questions answered.
- How To Be Successful With Anything You Do – Being successful is made up of various aspects and you need to master all those aspects should you wish to achieve your success.
- 10 Practical Ways to Boost Your Energy Level How being deliberate about managing your energy level can make a big difference.
- How To Be Happy: 10 Timeless Principles for Lasting Happiness – This post focuses on intrinsic, permanent steps to achieve happiness, rather than extrinsic, surface-level tips which only have a temporal effect.
- 28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life – Life is not complicated. We are complicated. When we stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things, life is simple.
Search Engines / SEO / Traffic
- 10 Hard-Hitting Link Building Tactics That’ll Boost Your Rankings – Ten more ways you can build links to your site…giving a jolt your linking building campaign.
- Yahoo! Site Explorer Alternatives: Hits and Misses – Yahoo! Site Explorer Alternative backlink checker tools are numerous, yet few of them lived up to my expectations. See which ones did in this post.
- Use This SEO Planning Template For Your Next Web Design Project – A template for building solid SEO into your next website design project.
- 5 Questions To Streamline Your Keyword Research – Use these five questions to streamline and simplify your keyword research, from your first meeting with the client.
- Testing the Accuracy of Visitor Data from Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, Doubleclick & Quantcast – These sites report massively lower and wrongly trending data – and SEOmoz isn’t alone in experiencing this frustration.
Social Media / Social Networking
- How to Strategically Dominate the Facebook News Feed – Facebook engagement is the secret sauce for Facebook marketing. When people start interacting with your page daily, you amplify your reach through the real-time Ticker.
- How To Never Run Out of Social Media Content – Stuck on what content to post on your social profiles? Learn how to create an editorial calendar for mapping out social media updates.
- 6 Essential Google+ Features for Marketing Your Business Online – If you think Google+ is a fad or a failure like Buzz/Wave etc. then you’ve got your head in the sand. This time they got it right. Here are a 6 tips to jump start your Google+ business marketing campaigns.
- What Google Personalized Search plus Your World Means for Marketing – Here are some observations for you as a marketer as it relates to Google Personalized Search and more specifically, the recommended personal and brand pages.
- Best Twitter Tips, Tools and Tactics of 2011 – How can marketers and PR professionals use Twitter more effectively? What’s the best way to build a quality, relevant Twitter following? Of the hundreds of third party Twitter tools out there, which are really worth utilizing? How can Twitter to used to support SEO efforts? Discover the answers to those questions and many more here.
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo comes from southern Utah in Bryce Canyon National Park. This waterfall, probably about 10 feet high, is a wintery wonder – frozen in time.
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!
The Unseen Sea
Beautiful time lapses taken around the San Francisco Bay area.
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Love your list Kristi!
Always look forward to bookmarking this page to read all the goodies of the past week- makes it so much easier for us to find them all in one place
Awesome frozen waterfall- love the take it looks simply out of the world- thanks so much for sharing it and the unseen sea- took me with its flow
Thanks once again
Harleena Singh@Freelance Writer recently posted The Power of Prayer in a Family
Excellent site you have here but I was curious if you knew of any message boards that cover the same topics discussed in this article? I’d really love to be a part of online community where I can get feedback from other experienced people that share the same interest. If you have any recommendations, please let me know. Thank you!
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Hey Kristi!
It’s your blog that inspired me to finally create my own curated list of photography articles each week. I love this list every friday even if I can’t comment each week. Love the links for the personal development section this week so much.
Thanks again,
Scott
Scott Webb @ Killer Photography Resources recently posted WordPress Themes for Photographers: The Theme Foundry Collection
Some excellent posts this week Kristi. Thanks for all the work you put in to create this list, and thanks for including me once again.
Love the shot at Bryce. I’ve visited in spring, summer, and fall, and it’s one of the coldest parks in southern Utah due to its high elevation.
John Soares @ Freelance Writing recently posted 25 Ways to Boost Your Freelance Writing Business in Under 5 Minutes
As like every Friday, this list is also awesome with some wonderful articles listed here. I always look forward to this, keep them coming.
Praveen Rajarao@DailyMorningCoffee recently posted The Naked Truth About Kristi Hines
Another great list Kristi and nice video too.
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I love Bryce National Park! It’s way too cold to visit in the winter but it’s very nice in the summer because southern Utah is so hot and then you get up to that high elevation and it’s beautiful at a great temperature.
Techie @ w3techie recently posted Maximizing SEO Opportunities with Extended Keyword Targeting
Another fantastic list, Kristi. I like the article about managing multi author blog.
Would love to see you sharing some WordPress stuff !!
Have a great weekend, kristi.
-Dev
Dev @ Thirsty Affiliates recently posted 8 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Site and Get More Traffic in 2012
Another great list. Lots of reading for Ryan to do today. Love the frozen waterfall. Hahah, “frozen in time.” Nice.
The SF timeline is sweet. Really beautiful. Love the way you mix it up on your resource pages. Most people just have links, you have awesome videos and cool pictures. It means something!
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The time lapse video is STUNNING!
Also, the list of SPAM triggering keywords was very helpful for me as i send out email blasts numerous times a week and always wondered what extra steps i can take to ensure they don’t end up in the junk folder.
Chris @ Homes For Sale Austin recently posted How To Search For & Find Austin Real Estate
Thanks so much for including my BlogcastFM interview! I love Fetching Friday and was totally startled to see my name there. LOL!
Carmen Sognonvi@local business recently posted How to Set Goals (Even If You’re Not the Goal Setting Type)
Hi Kristi,
I really enjoy reading your weekly post (well, all your posts) where you list interesting posts, I always find an at least one new blogger that I didn’t know.
Thanks Kristi! A friend of mine mentioned a website that would allow you to view who has scraped my content, but I misplaced the link. Very valuable that you shared that!
Excellent list of articles to read for this week) I’m sure that there will be much helpful for me information. By the way, the photo of this waterfall is totally amazing! It looks as an unreal one!)
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Nice,
I really enjoy your post Kristi, you make nice list, all articles are nicely explained, I got lot of material to enjoy it whole week, please carry on to write such type of post in future,
Thanks for sharing with us…..
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Hi Kristi,
really enjoyed with your post and let me know from where did u get this awesome pics.
Thanks for sharing.
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