This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, an easy tweet sharing tool, and Maru, the box sliding cat, meows 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
- How to write a great blog post in 15 minutes – some great tips!
- How to blog on trending topics to get noticed and ranked – standing out and getting maximum SEO benefits.
- Over 300 great tips to increase website and blog traffic.
- How to detect content theft and deal with auto blogs – must read guide because if your blog is popular, it is probably being ripped off somewhere.
- Why guest blogging works better than article marketing – the reasons, and how to make your article writing more beneficial.
Business / Career / Finance
- Business blogging – benefits, best practices, and blog topic ideas – a guest post on why your business should have a blog.
- Is Arkayne good for your blog business? A review of the SEO, social sharing, and business benefits of this plugin.
- 3 ways to get more business at networking events – a guide for going to seminars, conferences, and other events.
- Get more productive today using office Feng Shui – 5 ways you can transform your work life.
- Mailbag: SEO, minimizing business cost, and ProStores – entrepreneur answers your questions.
- Facebook community pages – how to protect your brand while building your reputation.
- 10 ways to grow your Facebook page following – how to get people to “like” your page!
- All the traffic you want for just pennies per click – how to utilize Facebook ads.
- Ultimate guide to Facebook pages – a huge list of resources.
- How to block Facebook applications from your news feed – very nice way to clean up the clutter.
Infographics
- Reddit vs. Digg – whose side of the infographic are you on?
- 20 facts about pet ownership in America – great stats for pet lovers!
- The social media Monopoly game – not quite an infographic, but close showing different social media outlets. Guess which network is jail?
- Most widely spoken languages in the world – infographic showing the most spoken languages and where they are spoken. Looks like a transit system map.
Link Building
- Create a link building team in your organization – how everyone in your company can play a part in link building.
- 30 places to submit your website designs – places to build links based on great design.
- How to promote keyword streaming – ranking a page for multiple keywords.
- How to prioritise your link building to increase traffic – how to analyze SERPs to link build for more traffic quickly.
- Utilizing advanced search opertators – 6 operators and how to use them.
Making Money Online / Online Marketing
- Want to make money blogging? Build Reputation! Before you start launching your product, build your trust.
- Secrets to building online relationships – get this free whitepaper to learn how to build quality, lasting relationships online for online marketing.
- Abandoned shopping carts – a guide to why people abandon their shopping cart, and what to do to help lower that rate.
- Subscribers Magnet increases optins – how this plugin gets you more mailing list subscribers.
- Top ad management plugins for WordPress – the benefits of using them, and a review of three plugins.
Personal Development / Self Improvement
- Expect success and nothing less – a guide to the 3 ways to expect success in everything you do.
- 10 ways blogging can improve your life – the personal development side.
- Self improvement techniques to reshape your world – determine what kind of person you are, and apply self improvement techniques suited for you.
- Take a moment not to believe in yourself – an interesting perspective.
- The opposite effect: tips to save your sanity – a must in the super busy world.
Photography / Digital Art
- Stormy skies – amazing photography of lightning, tornadoes, and other otherwise terrifying weather situations.
- 30 brilliant female wedding photographers – beautiful wedding photography by great photographers.
- Dusk at Grotto Falls – a gorgeous panoramic view of Payson Canyon, Utah.
- Showcase of beautiful pinhole photography – beautiful photos using this photography technique.
- Awesome examples of bridges photography – gorgeous photos.
Search Engines / SEO / Analytics
- Branded vs. keyword rich domain names – the pros and cons of both.
- Black hat SEO – a guide to the dark side of search engine marketing.
- A phonebook inspired post – how local search can bring serious traffic.
- Portrait of a SEO – humorous look at different types of SEOs.
- Setting up your first Google Adwords campaign – a great starter guide.
Social Media / Social Networking
- 57 social media policy examples and resources – great information if you want to write a policy for your business.
- Social enabled emails have higher click through rates – why you should add your social profiles to your emails.
- Discover your email marketing audience on social media – find out where your audience is and get active on their networks.
- 4 steps to social SEO success – listening, creating content, socializing, and measuring for successful social SEO.
- 10 ways geolocation is changing the world – 10 interesting things you find local.
- 7 annoying Twitter habits you should avoid – #4 is my biggest pet peeve.
- Top tips to hit your Twitter targets – 6 tips from top Twitterers
- Top 20 sites to improve your Twitter experience –
- Does adding Twitter to a brand make it cooler – a case study.
- Get a Twitter profile checkup – great way to see your profile’s stats and get some recommendations.
WordPress
- 35 WordPress security plugins to make your site bulletproof – these posts are a nice reminder to secure your site before something unfortunate happens.
- Scribe vs. Arkayne – a side by side comparison of these top SEO plugins for WordPress and other blogging platforms.
- Wanted: Your Gravatar – if you don’t have it when commenting on WordPress blogs, it’s time to get one.
- The essential guide to WordPress 404 error pages – an overview, coding, and inspirational examples.
- 45 free WordPress themes with appealing designs – great free themes!
Last Week of Blogging Contest Promotions
Wednesday, August the 5th is official end of the Famous Bloggers and ComLuv blogging contest in terms of promoting entries.
So if you haven’t already dropped by to comment on my entry about article marketing promotion with CommentLuv, please do so – I know that if you are into article writing, article marketing, or CommentLuv that you will enjoy the post! If you use CommentLuv for promotion of your blog or article writing, please share you experiences. If you already have commented, I would equally appreciate a tweet. The more the merrier! 🙂
And good luck to all of the other contestants, whose hard work is listed in the blog commenting folder. There are lots of awesome bloggers and articles, so don’t miss it!
Easy Tweet Sharing Tool – Click to Tweet
Like the link above that helps you easily share a tweet? Then check out Click to Tweet – just enter your desired tweet message, and Click to Tweet will create a URL that, when clicked, will fill in your tweet exactly how you want it in someone’s Twitter status update box. You can use this link to help make your tweets easy for others to share. Some great places to share your Click to Tweet links include blog posts, forums, IM’s, emails, etc. Pretty much anywhere you can’t include a plugin or want your tweet to be exact, this is the right tool for you!
New Advertising Options
Looking for blog advertising? Check out the new advertising options, including a new multi-blog ad program that allows you to get your 125×125 banner ad on not one, but five websites in the social media / blogging niche for a total exposure to over 150K per month. See the stats about the five sites (including Kikolani) your ad could be on, and start saving on advertising today!
Maru Meows
Maru, the famous box sliding cat, has a new video meowing! For cat lovers, and those needing a cute break, this is the video for you!
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25 replies on “Fetching Friday – Resources, Easy Tweet Sharing Tool & Maru Meows”
Great list of resource Kristi.
I’m going to have to discuss your advertising program with my partner, perhaps it could be something we can take advantage off.
Glad you find it appealing! It’s a definite savings vs. advertising on each of the sites individually, especially if you go for the longer commitment!
yowzars, I was just coming here today to check out more from last weeks resources mashup and didn’t realize it was Friday.
Congrats on the advertising arrangement!
Thanks! It’s generated a lot of interest and was a superb idea for anyone who wants to save a little and not keep track of each site individually.
My office could use a whole bunch of Feng Shui! It is such a cluttered mess, someone please help, LOL
Another list of great resources and thanks for featuring my latest post here too. As for Maru, I’m not very much into cats, but I would not mind having a “huge” cute cat like this one for myself. Thing is, I don’t they are all like Maru 🙂
I can’t believe it, Kristi – you mentioned me in your Mashup!
I am really honored.
I will go check out your other resources once I stop giggling.
Best,
Ana
Awww I love the Kitty! Hello everyone! I am new to this blog and I’m really looking forward to talking to you all and joining in on this awesome network. Hopefully I’ll make it into Fetching Friday! Cheers!
Another great Fetching Friday! This time, since I’m starting some little niche sites, I’m checking out the SEO section first. Have a great weekend!
Hey Kristi – I love Click to Tweet! And I had completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it here. I’ve used it before and think it’s a great way to encourage tweeting.
It can be used in HubPages and even in articles (like EzineArticles resource boxes) Very nifty 🙂
Cheers,
Tia
As always, another great list! I was struck by the title of this post, Take a moment not to believe in yourself, well, mostly because everyone would say otherwise.However, when I read it, it is refreshing and so true. Let’s really start believing in others. And I also would like some Feng Shui! And Maru Meows is definitely a cute break. The cat is really well taken care of.
Hi Kristi! You always provide us a great list of resources to read up. Personally, i think “How to write a great blog post in 15 minutes” is a great article to be read. The Feng Shui article is interesting. This is the Chinese practice.
Hey Kristi,
Another awesome fetching friday. Very Useful. I really like the socialmediaexaminer Post :).
Thanks for sharing !! Great Job Kristi.
~Dev
Kristi – these lists are awesome. So glad you are on the team, you are our own little database of knowledge.
Hi Kristi, thank you for the link, I really appreciate it. I also love the lists you provide each Friday as they are so varied and have great content. Thanks again Kristi.
Wow. I don’t think I could find that many quality links if I search all year! Thanks.
Scribe vs. Arkayne was very insightful. I hadn’t even heard of Arkayne before and now I think I’m happy to have procrastinated on Scribe. Thanks!
These are great list of resources! This is what I looking for and very helpful as I’m a newbie on IM.
Thanks
Budi
Hey Kristie, I always check your Fetching Friday posts but I don’t always comment. I wanted to let you know how much they are appreciated. Thanks for sharing these awesome resources with us.
I almost guessed who would be featured in your new multi-blog ad program. They are all the best in class! I hope the rates don’t go up anytime soon because I want to tweak the theme and plugins on my new blog before I invest in advertising. I hope to be ready next month.
The best part of your helpful resources was the over 100 ways to generate traffic to your blogs. If you look at many of those suggestions, they revolve around the blogger being “engaged” so to speak in their blog. Not just posting content and walking away. If a reader or commenter sees a “real” person behind the posts, the news spreads through backlinks, others posting about your blog, etc and as they say in “Field of Dreams”……”they will come”. Thank you!
Wow Kristi, you continue to amaze me with your jam packed resources list, you really don’t skimp out on us! You really are too kind to us 🙂 Going to have a busy reading time ahead of me now 😀
Till then,
Jean
Benefited from the “How to write a blog in 15 minutes.” article. Also appreciated from the same blogger, the “Increase Likes” article. Plus, I enjoyed the cute cat video.
I am kinda loving your “resources” posts. The tips for writing a blog post in 15 minutes are pretty good.
Hey Kikolani, I just wanted to stop by and tell you how much I have enjoyed reading Fetching Friday posts, over the past year. I am excited to see what awaits the blog in the upcoming new year. Let me know if I can help or guest blog here, from time to time. Anyways, thanks for the great blog, and keep up the good work!
Awesome article post really. Wonderful information related to tweeting. I am pretty much pleased with your good work.You put really very helpful information. Keep it up. Keep blogging. Looking to reading your next post.