Before I get into today’s links, I wanted to let everyone know my apparel & accessories company, Ex-Boyfriend, is doing a charitable fundraiser for homeless animals. As an animal lover, this is a cause that’s near and dear to me. Anything my readers can do to help would be greatly appreciated! Check out the details on how to help.

Now on to the links…

• 3 Tips for Better Email Subscription Forms
• 3 Myths of Guest Writing for Big Websites and 6 Tactics for Doing it Well
• The Complete Guide to Setting Up Facebook Pages With Timelines
• Kabbage: A New Funding Source for Ecommerce Merchants – A great alternative to programs like Kickstarter. Kabbage makes small loans to ecommerce merchants, so you can get the cash you need to grow.
• Top 5 Reasons to Use Google Webmaster Tools

Every day I check out the 100s of subscriptions in my RSS feed about marketing, PR, advertising, branding, social media, and a host of other topics of interest to small businesses that sell online. Most of what gets posted isn’t earth shattering but I reserve Fridays for the best reads of the week. So here you have it, the most valuable things I read in the business blogosphere this week:

• Sprucing Up Your Product Photography with Photoshop – Fantastic and highly visual tutorial on how to fix product pictures
• Tutorial: Use Aviary for Free Photo-editing and Other Design Tools – Can’t afford Photoshop? Here’s a tutorial for a FREE online photo editing tool.
• Strategic e-marketing: Everything should be connected – Great tips on hooking up your blog, newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Who Google Webmaster Tools is Your Best Friend – an overview of how to use Google’s Webmaster Tools to fine tune your website
• 25 Tips for Optimizing Your Online Forms – Fix everything from contact forms to check out pages with these tips.
• The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!

Also, I selected a winner for my FREE 3 for 30 Giveaway. Congrats to Helen and thanks for spreading the word about Smaller Box.