Serious Monday Roundup #14

The forth Monday of October and this means that we are almost finished with October. This is just a recap of last weeks posts. I hope you enjoyed some of them.

Affordable Printing Brochures Online at PsPrint.com. Brochures offer an inexpensive and intelligent approach to driving direct response and making sales.

Although my posting has slowed down a lot, I have had two guest posts here and I’m happy that it’s starting to take off.

Best posts on Serradinho ending 25th October 2009

eBooks – Help you with your Business
Another 4 free downloads for you to try out. eBooks are Profit 13 Ways, AdSwap Master Class, Confessions of a Joint-Venture Broker and 10 Ways to Enhance Your Business.

WordPress 2.8.5 is Out – Protection Upgrade
I woke this morning to a notification about a new version of WordPress. Yes, that’s right. We are now at version 2.8.5 and this version is for protection purposes so upgrade ASAP.

Does your blog have a Contact Form?
This seems to be a straight forward question and it should have a straight forward answer, but I have seen some blogs not having a way to contact the webmaster/owner.

EasyComment to assist you in Commenting
In Essential Blogging Tips Part 2, Serradinho pointed out the importance of interacting with commentators and the building up of a community. WordPress plugins like CommentLuv encourages commentators to comment in your blogs. Guest post by John Samuel.

Great reads ending 25th October 2009

1. Optimize And Cleanup Your WordPress Database Easily – WP-Optmize is a great plugin for wordpress blogs that is a database cleanup and optimization tool. It allows you t cleanup your database by removing post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables.
2. The 5 Best Blogs to Improve Your Writing – If you’ve been around the internet for any period of time then you’ve probably heard it repeated: Content is King.  In fact, many of us have heard it so many times that it probably sounds redundant.  Yet there are so many people who still don’t get it.
3. How To Promote Your Blog Offline – Here are a few efficient offline marketing tactics to promote your blog.
4. What Dwarf are you? – Think about it. If you were one of Disney’s Seven Dwarfs which of the Seven Dwarfs would you be?
5. 7 Great Tips For Writing A Killer Blog Article – Killer blog post is a key to traffic on a blog that could be written so well and it should contain all the flavors that are needed by the general audience.
6. Quick Tip – Where Not To Display Adsense Ads – When selling your own product or promoting affiliate products, DON’T put ads for your competition on the same pages you are trying to promote those products on.
7. Question : How to Start with Professional Blogging? – Is  it possible to Migrate from WordPress.com to Self hosted WordPress blog?
8. How Much Are The Ads On Your Blog Worth? – So how do we determine the real value of our ad placements on our sites?  Check out these four factors to determine your ad values.
9. 6 Best Free WordPress Plugins for Advertising – I have listed below the top 6 free WordPress Plugins according to me that can be used for advertising in websites.
10. Wamp not Starting in Windows Problem – Last time when I wrote about How to Install wordpress locally many people reported that they have done every thing right, but wamp is not starting for them. When they click on Start all service under Wamp, nothing happens.
11. How I got started with my Google Wave Preview! – When you first log into Google Wave, you may wonder, what do I do next?
12. A to E of Blogging Tips And Tricks – Now that you intend becoming a professional blogger, you will need to remember some basic tips and tricks to make life easier. Glossary of blogging tips and tricksWhether you are just starting out or are a seasoned blogger, you need to make sure you don’t become complacent and go into ‘auto-pilot’ – acting without thinking – too often!
13. Why do all the blog ad networks suck? – The top three blog ad networks out there right know are Entrecard, Adgitize and CMF Ads.  They all are getting worse over time and I am not happy with any of them right now.

Final Thought

I hope you enjoyed last weeks details and that you have some kind of feedback for me. There were so many great reads by other bloggers, I had a tough time eliminating some.

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I am the proud owner of Serradinho Blog and have made this my second home. I'm into blogging, downloads, WordPress, meeting and helping others, etc. Basically the internet in general :) Serradinho Web Services is my own company whereby I offer my services to clients. This ranges from web design, website upgrades, theme customizations, support, premium WordPress plugins and many more .....

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