This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a new SEO blogging contest, and some creative sheep LED art on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week.
Blogging / Writing
- 5 reasons why blogging is not easy – what you’ll need to be successful.
- Ultimate guide to blog commenting – part of a series which also includes guest blogging.
- 45 link building tips to help you promote your blog – oldie but goodie and a must read.
- How to increase blog traffic, subscribers, and sales – interview with Michael Dunlop.
- In praise of spam – how do you feel about spam comments?
Business / Career / Finance
- A simple question to jump start your finances – start getting your personal finances on track.
- Staring a service based business online – targeted for under 18 entrepreneurs, but valuable tips for everyone.
- Cause marketing 101 – marketing partnerships between profit and non-profit organizations.
- The Klingon guide to online marketing – a perspecive for sci-fi fans.
- How social are your customers? Applications to help you find where your customers are online.
- 10 ways to grow your Facebook page following – great tips to get more fans!
- See your Facebook invite history – a link on Facebook that I didn’t know about, but is kind of interesting when it comes to seeing who you’ve invited to the Facebook network.
- 10 Facebook pages that are exploding in popularity – great examples of successful pages.
- How not to win friends and influence people – a big no-no on Facebook.
- 8 powerful ways to use Facebook landing tabs – great ways to maximize your Facebook real estate.
Infographics
- Linktoberfest! SEO infographic and link building data visualization – fun, animated infographic showing the value and difficulty of different types of links (one of 12 kickass SEO infographics ).
- Star Wars infographic – great visualization for sci-fi fans.
- 90 seriously creative infographics – a huge collections for infographic junkies!
- The lowdown on apps infographic – the real numbers behind the world of apps, and why they are so popular.
- Aliens & Avatar – a funny comparison of the similarties between the two films.
Link Building
- Simple co-citation analysis and link prospecting – a process for finding link prospects for a linkable asset using simple, targeted, hostname-only co-citation analysis.
- Salvaging old links to save PageRank – how to look for 404 pages on your site and save the link juice going to them.
- SEO spammers vs. the white hat army – how to know them and who will win.
- Links matter: how to measure and attain them – great tips from a Rand Fishkin / Dave Snyder presentation.
- Manage your backlinks with Delicious – a free way to keep track of your personal link building efforts.
Making Money Online / Online Marketing
- Introducing a new generation of monetization – the multi-blog advertising system – advertising on not only one, but five powerful blogs in a niche.
- Using multiple blog monetization strategies to generate income – covers all the basics to start earning on your blog.
- What could you sell from your blog – a brainstorming activity.
- 8 powerful tools to turn your blog into a profit center – concise reviews of 8 services you will want to use to start generating income on your blog.
- Make money online with Fiverr – a marketplace where everything is no more or no less than $5.
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- How to identify your passions – 7 questions to ask yourself.
- How to feel great and keep a smile on your face – tips to make life happier (just the picture will make you smile).
- Top 13 inspiring movies to make you think about life – part one features the first six – Forrest Gump is probably my favorite out of these, being southern based.
- 5 simple ways to make time for your dreams – sadly, one way involves getting away from your computer.
- Achieving peak performance – how you can operate at your best to achieve your goals.
Photography / Digital Art
- 21 examples of natural light photography – gorgeous, almost surreal photos.
- 20 moments of beauty in terrible disasters – photos that pulls something beautiful out of something tragic.
- Is it possible to take great iPhone photos? 20 great photos, manipulated with iPhone apps.
- 55 incredible, amusing, and strange photoworks – interesting photo manipulations.
- 40 breathtaking examples of silhouette photography – beautiful sihouettes of people, animals, and nature.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- Conquering big industries with a bulletproof SEO strategy – using long tail keyword optimization from the start through site structure, optimization, and link building.
- Is PPC still working? Your opinions wanted!
- 10 SEO tips to remember when building your site – nice checklist for creating a new website.
- 75 local SEO meetups – great networking opportunities!
- Calculating ROI on Internet Marketing – measurings your return on investment for PPC, organic search, and social media with Google Analytics.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Top 10 ways to promote your social media presence offline – fun ways to wear your social media enthusiasm.
- How to use PostRank for social media analytics and engagement – check out the social sharing statistics on your site & others, plus get a free three month trial of their analytics to get in-depth engagement analytics.
- How to get more visibility with online video branding – in-depth video interview with transcript.
- Your introduction to intense social sharing – the percentage of network, content, and luck needed to be successful on social networks.
- 25 upcoming social media and tech events – includes Blog World Expo and many more!
- Write the first line of your email like a tweet to grab interest – sounds like a great idea, until you read the comments.
- Utilizing Twitter for conversations and information – how to get more out of Twitter.
- Jump start your company Twitter account – from setup to acquiring followers and building community.
- 5 tools to help you automate Twitter – not fully automate it, but automate some aspects.
- Timelapse of our Twitter moods – interesting infographic and video of how the moods of the US change throughout the day on Twitter.
WordPress
- 50 premium commercial and business WordPress themes – Most for less than $50.
- Leadership lessons learned from the WordPress / Thesis / GPL issue – an interesting viewpoint into the Mullenweg vs. Pearson battle.
- 11 ways to speed up WordPress – great ways to optimize your WordPress site.
- How CommentLuv stole my heart from Disqus – a beautiful love story.
- 9 essential SEO WordPress plugins – a few in this list I didn’t know about but sound good!
A New Blogging Contest for SEO’s
Gerald of the SEO blog for will Search Engine Marketing Group is looking for sponsors for his upcoming Bad Ass SEO Guest Blogging Contest.
Why should you sponsor? Here are 3 great reasons!
1) The blog has over 8,000 subscribers.
2) @the_gman has over 100,000 followers.
3) Like the recent Famous Bloggers / ComLuv contest, there will be lots of link juice flowing from people who know what quality link juice is all about!
Sponsors are already rolling in, including the popular web hosting company Hostgator. So contact him today through his website or reply to him on Twitter and get some major exposure for your business, blog, or website.
Extreme Sheep LED Art
It starts out a little iffy, but you will be amazed by the herding skills of these dogs and the imagination and choreography skills of the people behind it all.
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Twitter: sweetsfoods
July 23, 2010 at 10:30 am
Kristi, Fetching Friday is getting better and better every week! See lot of material to read, about blogging 45 link building tips, just link building posts, SEO, Facebook…and still have pending your article of PostRank between others. Busy weekend ahead
Have a great weekend!
Gera
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Kristi, It’s another lovely friday and another great post with great post’s list just was waiting to get this post. Oh sorry no time. I have to all of those post now so. Bye
Twitter: BlazingMinds
July 23, 2010 at 10:48 am
I really do love these Fetching Fridays they give me an excuse to do a bit more blog reading, not as if I need an excuse
So I’m making note of these taht I haven’t ready read and will be reading over the weekend 
Karen @ Blazing Minds recently posted..Buzzom Premium Twitter Marketing Now With Lifetime Subscription
Ya Gera, the mashup does seem to get better and better every week and I was reviewing that article about PostRank (posted on stayonsearcy.com) also and finally testing out the service.
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Twitter: ditesco
July 23, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Cool list once again Kristi, tks for the mention. Just sent a reply and a DM to the_gman. Hope I can meet his requirements. It will be massive for anyone who participates, lots and lots of juice, lol.
Will the rest that I have not yet read. Have a great weekend.
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July 23, 2010 at 2:09 pm
I’m always blown away by the breadth and depth of your Fetching Friday posts. And thanks very much for linking to the interview with Lou Bortone about boosting online visibility with online video. Look forward to meeting you IRL at BlogWorld!
Denise Wakeman recently posted..Authors – How to Use Blogs and Social Media to Promote Your Book
Another lovely link round up. Thanks.
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Twitter: linknami
July 23, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Kristi, can you invent another day for me? I’d like to read through most of the articles you pinned here but I am just overwhelmed
Twitter: heydevesh
July 23, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Hey Kristi,
Another awesome fetching Friday.
Going to read all of them. Thanks for sharing.
~Dev
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Hi Kristi! Thanks for your Fetching Friday Resources sharing again! I love “Is PPC Still Working” article. However, i do not see much comment for that article. Anyway, it is good for us to think back the effectiveness of PPC.
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Kristi, I’ve been hiking and busy with other aspects of life over the last couple of weeks, so I really appreciate these Friday posts that help me catch up on all the important stuff I missed.
Keep up the good work!
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July 24, 2010 at 10:22 am
I have said this before butthis kind of post is one of my favourite types because I ALWAYS discover posts that I would not have found otherwise.
Dean Saliba recently posted..Would You Pay To Have WordPress Installed For You
The article in Blogussion about link building options is very relevant, as it is a basic activity on content promotion.
Thanks for the resource mashup, have a good weekend !
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Hey Kristi, just went through the 11 steps to speed up wordpress
Now my site feels like its running on steroids! it’s awesome, especially given the announcements recently that google loves faster sites. Thanks for the share!
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Another awesome Fetching Friday. Lots of articles I want to read here – and I’m already digging into that Fiverr to see what’s available so far!
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Twitter: andrewrondeau
July 25, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Thanks for the include and the video is just awesome and amazing!!!
Great mashup. I looked at quite a few over the weekend. Thanks.
Hey Kristi – I certainly need to go read that post about Facebook Fans! lol I just have not gotten the hang of using it for anything other than bewildering my friends with my status updates.
So now that my fan page is growing, I’m going to tap into some Facebook resources so that’s going into my bookmarks.
Thanks!
Tia
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July 26, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Wow! Thanks for linking to my post on the WordPress, Thesis, GPL thing. I really wanted to help establish that there was so much deeper meaning behind what Matt was doing compared to Chris. While Thesis is an amazing WordPress theme, I wished that Chris could better convey his message for creating the theme, the reasons why he gets out of bed everyday. I truly feel that it’s why we do things and not what we do that is why people become loyal.
Thanks again and you never cease to impress with your killer resourcefulness! Thumbs up every week!
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July 27, 2010 at 4:38 am
Thanks for the line up of infographics Kristi. For some funny reason I’ve following in love with them and always looking around for them.
Keep’em coming!
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July 27, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I always look forward to this post of the week, Kristi – you do have a neck for compiling the best posts I would’ve never heard of otherwise.
New contest – sounds like a great link opp; I’ll definitely check it out.
Also, I would be absolutely honored, Kristi, if you could take a look at my new posts Blog 202 Bite-Sized Tips To Insanely Increase Your Blog Traffic; who knows, maybe it will make it on your list of Friday Mashups some day.
Thanks,
Ana Hoffman
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Ok, am I the only one that fast forwards to the Fetching Friday video? Ok, I digress.
I liked the “10 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Page Following” We need more fans!
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Hey Kristi I found some great article.I have saved some of the links which are really awesome.Keep it up.
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