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
- Eventually, Mr (or Ms) Blogger, You Actually Have to Do Something – Most blogs die because they stop growing and never push hard enough so their words translate into action. Here is the reality.
- How to Promote Your Blog on a $100 Budget – Some of the simplest, yet the most effective ways to promote your blog.
- The Dale Carnegie Approach to Blogger Outreach – Learn how can the principles in this book can help you develop a strong blogger network and create the perfect blogger outreach pitch.
- Does Publishing Interviews On A Blog Help – Interviews are one of the things you will read a lot about, as one of the traffic generation strategies. How effective are they really?
- 11 Hottest Blogging Tips So Far in 2011 – These are the best blogging tips the author has found and used so far in 2011.
Business / Career
- How To Stay Up To Date With Every Piece Of Info In Your Industry – Staying up to date with every piece of info in your industry can make or break your online business. You need to know everything to stay ahead of your competition.
- 11 Tips for Using Social Media to Land Your Dream Job – Stop hiding your online presence from potential employers and learn how you can use social media to your advantage when searching for a new job.
- 45 Kick-Ass Resources for Online Entrepreneurs – Online entrepreneurs will increase their productivity and be more successful by making use of quality resources. Learn about 45 resources that you can’t ignore.
- 7 Tips For Building Your Business With Podcasting – Podcasting is growing fast though it remains a missed part of social media by many. Use these 7 tips to use podcasting for your business.
- How to Overcome Fear and Turn Uncertainty into Success – Watch the replay of this webinar on how you can turn your fears into business success.
Personal Development / Productivity
- 7 Ways To Tell That You’re Not Living Your Highest Purpose In Life – Here are 7 ways to tell if you’re not living your highest purpose in life (plus 7 tips and tricks that you can use to help you find your purpose).
- 7 Tips for Accomplishing your Goals in Bite Sized Pieces – With a few changes in the way we do things and the adoption of some simple mindsets we can make progress towards our goals much faster.
- 21 Life Lessons from Steve Jobs – Steve Jobs will be remembered as a digital visionary. But before he was a legend, he was a person. We can’t all be Steve Jobs, but we can all learn from his extraordinary life.
- Best 18 Quotes From Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest†– Here are a few golden nuggets from my recent indulgence of Oscar Wilde’s witty, fun, original, and rhythmical play, “The Importance of Being Earnestâ€.
- 10 Things To Stop Caring About TodayEvery day is a new beginning. But in life, sometimes you have to stop before you can truly begin.
Search Engines / SEO
- Google Panda 2.5: Losers Include Today Show, The Next Web; Winners Include YouTube, Fox News – See what websites ended up on the winners and losers list for the most recent Panda update.
- Top 10 Negative Google News Ranking Factors – If you are trying to get traffic from Google News results, here are then things that could be hurting your rankings.
- Branding in SEO – The Big Shift in Online Marketing – Traditional marketing methodologies, like social marketing and branding, are being more appropriate and efficient to be utilized in today’s, or perhaps tomorrow’s online marketing needs. As methods that can leverage a brand’s exposure seem to tremendously impact a site’s SEO efforts.
- Keyword Research: Dealing With Uncertainty – When selecting the keywords you would like to rank for, you must take several factors into account. Preferably you’re able to calculate its potential ROI by finding out what effort is required for a return in profit. There are, however, various uncertainties that you can choose to minimize.
- The Best SEO, Social + Content Strategy: Thought Leadership – There’s no better way, in my opinion, to create a great brand on the web and simultaneously supercharge your social media, SEO and traffic-growth than thought leadership.
Social Media / Social Networking
- Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+ – Did you know only 3 of the 12 people listed on the Google Management Team page have ever made a single public post on Google+, totaling just 29 posts ever and only 6 in September?
- Digg Marketing Guide – Digg is a little bit more marketing friendly than their main competition Reddit which still makes them worth trying. The following guide will help you learn to use Digg for sharing your awesome content with a larger audience.
- 15 Twitter Activities That Annoy Me – 15 Twitter activities that makes the author want to smack you and how you can fix them.
- Are You Disclosing? What You Need to Know about FTC Rules and Social Media – Have you wondered about U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) disclosure regulations? Wondering whether you’ve been compliant? Read this for a detailed understanding of FTC rules and regulations on endorsements and testimonials in social media.
- How My YouTube Videos Got 8,500 Views in a Few Days – Here’s the story of my videos, followed by some tips of what you can do to create videos that get more YouTube views.
Photo of the Week
This week’s top photo is of an abandoned building with a lot of interesting grafitti from top to bottom. I still wonder how they got so much done at the top!
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!
Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech
I’m sure most have heard this by now, but if not, it’s something you should learn from. Especially the third story. RIP Steve Jobs.
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A lot of tips this week. I’ll be sure to check them out.
Grafitti is really a great work of art sometimes.
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It is sometimes Tom – there’s tacky graffiti, and then there’s the stuff by people who are obviously artists!
Always a gem or 2 in these posts Kristi! Great image by the way!
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Thanks Keith! 🙂
Thanks Kristi for adding my post, I Appreciate that.
Luv the pic… some see garbage in that building, others (me) see awesomeness.
And the Jobs vid.. something to watch everyday… you should work to fail. fail a lot.
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You’re welcome John! I love buildings like this – urban exploration is probably my favorite photography subject.
Hi Kristi,
Ana Hoffman article “How to Promote Your Blog on a $100 Budget” is outstanding. Together with “Top 10 negative Googlenews rankings factors”.
Everybody should read them.
Ana always writes great articles Marbella – this is definitely one of them to learn from! 🙂
OMG, I got 2 of mine today 🙂 Thanks!!! I was looking forward to this list for some extra reads and I see at least 4 posts I am going to read right away.
It is funny that Google people don’t use G+, I heard about it yesterday. First one I am reading is the Twitter stuff that annoys people, I am very receptive to posts like those. Thanks again. Kristi, you rock!
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You know, I’m not too surprised about Google people not using G+. I’d like to think of it as if you worked for 8 hours in a specific place or on a specific app, would you really want to see it during your goof off time at work or when you get home too? 🙂
Another great collections of the best of the web to round out that week. As always thanks for collecting these good tidbit, Kristi!
-Steve
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You’re welcome Steve – glad you enjoy the roundup! 🙂
Cool Stuff! I’ve already seen some of these articles from my followings on Twitter. Going through the rest of them now. Thanks for sharing =)
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Kristi, great fetching Friday! Lot of articles to read about blogging, seo, keywords and the famous recent panda, those guys of Google like animals, no doubt about it 🙂
Incredible the pic, regrettably this is an abandoned building and someday will be gone, I suppose soon.
Have a great weekend,
Gera
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Hi Kristi, well, after reading the post by you I shared on your blog at least I know how you put these amazing lists on your blog every week! Thanks for including one of mine this week. I always know I’ve hit the spot when I get in your Fri Mash up;)
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Fantastic links and resources Kristi. I actually did have a chance to read Ana’s “How to Promote Your Blog on a $100 Budget ” and I recommend everyone to read it. There are a few really good tips there.
I’ll be sure to check out other links your mentioned. Thanks.
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Gonna tear up these SEO articles. Heavily immersed in some SEO stuff right now. This resource thing you have going on never falls short, Kristi. Always the good stuff. And I love the personal development stuff too 😉
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I love Steve Jobs’ (is that apostrophe supposed to be after the S?) Stanford Commencement Speech. I used to dislike him for hindering progress in other companies with all the ridiculous patents; I’m an Android user and I’d love to have all the technologies that Apple has patented, and I feel like Apple’s users could gain a lot from Android – they need to work together.
Anyway, now I truly realized how much he has helped advance technology, from inventing the GUI to starting the “smartphone era” and so on. May he rest in peace.
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I think ths “How to Promote Your Blog on a $100 Budget ” was one of the best posts I’ve read last week. Any new blogger can build a marketing plan with just $100 Budget and all effective methods can sure get you some attention. I missed out quite a few posts here.
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Cool round up! I have to check them one by one. Thanks for compiling them!
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Great photo of the week and as always a lot of great resources Kristi. That should keep us all busy for a lot of hours 😉
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Thanks for the awesome collection Krist. Always helps me to catch up. Marcus’ post has a great kick-ass insight. Thanks 🙂
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I love the Graffiti work of art. And most of all, I love this Steve Jobs’ speech. Remarkable and highly inspiring and moving.
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Brand new to your site but love this round-up of links with so many different complimentary interests covered (I have about ten tabs open now 🙂 I’ll be back and hunting around your archives to be sure!
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Great round up – plenty of bed time reading.
Unlike most, that’s the first time I saw the Job’s video. That’s a really moving video and learnt a hell of a lot about him. Never knew he had such as interesting upbringing. Who would have known that he’d turn into such an icon…
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