21 New Resources for Designers and Bloggers – Weekly Round Up May 2nd 2010

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Last week was a great week for catching up on some of the blogs I haven’t visited in the last few weeks. I was surprised at all the good stuff to read.  There were so many great articles that I could not list them all. I have listed some of my favorites from last week. They are broken up by subject and I gave a short summary about each one. 

Every week I try and post the “best of” on the internet covering a broad selection of New Media topics including design, social media, blogging tips, SEO, and WordPress. If you have some articles that you would like featured on my weekly round up, please start commenting and Retweeting. I get most of my reading from commenter’s on my site and those that are part of Blog Engage and MMO Social Network.

Design Resources

40 Amazing Resources for Design Freebies – This article is a round up of 40 sites full of design resources. If your a designer or you have your own site and want to keep up with the latest design trends, bookmark these sites and stay update with these helpful sites.

Traffic Building Tips For Designers and Developers – Link Building for Designers. A list of Social Bookmarking sites for the designer in mind. You can also find a lot of design resources, blogs and inspiration from the various topics that are posted.

Top WordPress hacks of early 2010 – Need to hack your WordPress Blog? You might be able to find a solution here.

Social Media

20 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed – Another great round up over social media. Keep up to day with these. The links to newest t tools, tips, trends, and strategies in social media.

HootSuite for Blogging – Twitter Management for Bloggers -  What else is there to say. A review of Hootsuite.

12 Tips to Engage People on Twitter – A great list of tips to help you engage with your followers on Twitter. This can help a Twitter user with just a few followers or those that have several thousand followers.

Blogging Tips and Resources

10 Things that Unnecessarily Complicates Your Blog -  Great list of tips to follow to make your life, your readers and your less complicated. Trust me your readers will be thanking you if you have some of these issues.

4 Ways To Overcome Writer’s Block -  A short write up on some tips to help you get over writer’s block. A great read  and may help you if you are stuck and can’t write anymore.

How To Stay FOCUSED When Working From Home – What distracts you? A guest writer Welly Mulia wrote a great article over at famousbloggers.net about distractions and how to avoid them.

WordPress Plugins

10 WordPress Plugins To Speed Up Your Blog – 10 Much needed plugins to help speed up your WordPress Driven Blog. If you have a slow loading blog, I highly recommend taking a look at some of these plugins. Slow loading sites can effect your Page Rank with Google.

My Top Five Plugins To SEO and Increase Backlinks – SEO should be important to every website owner and blogger. SEO helps you gain organic search engine traffic. The better your SEO skills are, the more traffic you will get. So why not use tools to help you with your SEO?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Auto Directory Submission Software – Karl wrote an excellent write up on the right way to auto submit your sites and individual pages to directories using software to speed this up. He even suggested  a free one for us to try out.

A Comprehensive Guide To Keyword Research Techniques – Shirley shares with us some links to a guide about keyword research. Keyword research is the words users use when searching to find a certain subject on the web. By proper keyword usage, you can easily drive organic traffic to your site.

What People Say about Site Speed – Google has announced that they are now considering site speed when grading a sites page rank. The author gives you a link to test your speed and tips to get you a better page rank.

MMO a Great Place to Submit Bookmarks -  I did a guest article at Famous Bloggers earlier this week over MMO Social Network. MMO is a new social bookmarking site. This site is less than six months old and its already has a page rank 4! Check out my article to find out more about the site.

30 Web Design SEO Tips for Web Masters – Tips Every designer should know. As a designer, you need to think SEO and implement as you design. Even you are the SEO consultant on this case. Designers can design their work and keep in mind that someone will be working on your project once you are done with your part. Why not make it easer for others that have to work on the project.

10 Powerful SEO Tips for WordPress Users – Tips and Tricks you can use to get your WordPress Blog noticed by the search engines.

14 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic – Every website owner and blogger is looking for ways to get more traffic to their sites. Nicholas Cardot of Sit Sketch 101 gives four examples of how to drive traffic to your site.

Community Verses SEO – Keith from Hot Blog Tips did a video over building a blog community is important but you still need to have SEO. For those that think you only need social media to build your blog community check this video out before its to late.

30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 1 of 2) – Part one of two blog entries covering SEO issues and tools to solve those issues.

30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 2 of 2) – Part two of two blog entries covering SEO issues and tools to solve those issues.