Weekly Wrap-Up
I am grateful for all of those who so positively commented on my Are We Having Fun Yet blog. It was evident that posting other blog posts that I found useful was also helpful to others. How wonderful! So I decided to post a Weekly Wrap-Up blog every weekend sharing blogs that I found over the past week that were fun, helpful or inspiring.
Inspiration
I think we all need inspiration to keep us going when we are feeling down or lost and even when we are feeling like all is going well. A pick-me-up can do wonders to propel us forward. In Rod MacBeth’s blog post The Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee, he shares a wonderful story about setting priorities and remembering what is most important in your life.
Fabulous Tools/Resources
This week I came across two blogs that shared tools that I found helpful. The first is from Adam Sicinski who posted an amazing mindmap and blog post about Twitter called How to Twitter: A Beginner’s Guide. It is so complete it could have easily been an ebook. For those of you who twitter and/or market with twitter, you don’t want to miss Adam’s post.
Paul Hooper blogs about a free Squeeze Page Generator in his post called Create a Squeeze Page Using Instant Squeeze Page Generator. This is a great post if you are looking for an easy and free way to create squeeze pages.
Alexa Ranking
If you are interested in lowering your Alexa ranking, there are several excellent posts that I have come across this week. Rob Canyon wrote a blog that started me on my journey to creating a better blog that would help my Alexa rank drop. It is called How to Get Your Alexa Ranking to Drop Like a Rock to Increase Your Popularity.
Tom Burke wrote a fabulous post about how to use Alexa to determine how interesting your blog is in his post Alexa Engagometer. He also blogged about increasing your ranking in a post called Secrets to Boost Alexa Ranking.
Finally, Paul Lear has written a wonderful post about how to lower your alexa ranking in Top 10 Tips to Increase Alexa Rank.
I started tracking my Alexa ranking on September 26 and in 24 days I was able to lower my Alexa ranking from 2.8 million to ~750,000 using some of the tips that Rob, Tom and Paul speak about. Great stuff!
Finally, to end this weekly wrap-up, I’d like to mention a wonderful free ebook called Failing Forward By Design. This ebook was written by Heine Wentzel and it speaks about how to use failures to propel your success. It is an incredibly inspirational ebook and well worth the read.
I hope you enjoy these posts as much as I did! Let me know what some of your favorite blogs have been this week!
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
Hi Norene,
Great idea to do a weekly wrap up of all the blog posts that caught your eye, and that you learnt something from over the last week.
I remember visiting some of those blogs, and commenting on some of those posts this week. But there are also a few blogs mentioned here that I must of missed. So I will have to come back here and pay them a visit the next time I’m on my rounds, as those posts highlighted here definitely sound worth looking at.
Also thank you very much for mentioning my Alexa tips blog post, I really appreciate it.
You are doing a fine job here with this blog, keep up the good work!
Take care,
Paul.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Thanks Paul! I really enjoy your blog, and your writing style. I am sure I will be mentioning your posts often! -Norene