Serious Monday Roundup #17

Well, November is in it’s third week now and it seems like it will be Christmas soon. This is just a recap of last weeks posts. I hope you enjoyed some of them. So lets down to business and start listing them.

Best posts on Serradinho ending 15th November 2009

Display Twitter link in comments using TwitterLink Comments WordPress Plugin
You have users commenting on your site and you want to somehow spice up the comments area to display a link link to their Twitter page. That’s very easy with this WordPress plugin.

Quick Tip: Make your Images stand out when Hovering over them
I have been sent numerous emails asking what I did to my banners to make them be highlighted when someone hovers over them. This technique is very simple and easy to implement on your site.

Thesis Tutorial – Displaying Users Twitter link in the Comments Section
A Thesis tutorial for displaying the commentators Twitter link by their comments. This tutorial works in conjunction with the TwitterLink Comments wordPress Plugin.

WordPress 2.8.6 Release – 2 Security Fixes
There is a new version of WordPress, it’s now 2.8.6. This version is for sites that have multi-authors. If you don’t have other authors, then I still think you should upgrade.

Great reads ending 15th November 2009

1. 5 Ways Blogging Can Kill You – As peaceful as your desktop space tomb is if you don’t do something about it your addiction to blogging could eventually kill you.
2. WordPress Tips – Avoid Creating Multiple Images for Single Image – WordPress creates three different images of different sizes for a single image upload. If you are attaching an image on your blog post, your hosting account upload folder will have 3 different image of sizes.
3. 30 Things to do After Publishing a Post – Many bloggers think that they can sit back and relax after working hard at writing a post.  They then complain when there are only a few comments, no one reads it, or few people read it.
4. How To Keep A Effective Posting Frequency Combined With Brilliant Consistency- Part 1 – Many bloggers seem to forget how important you’re posting frequency and consistency is.
5. 5 Ways To Keep Your Blog Readers Coming Back Again & Again – Are you struggling to make your blog readers return to your blog? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one.
6. Promote your blog- what are your top 3 ways? – When it comes to blogging, there are 2 basic elements. Write great content and promote your blog.  Sounds simple enough, but we all know that it takes a lot of time and effort to do both.
7. Warning to Affiliate Marketers: Be Careful Copying & Pasting Link / Ad Banner Code – I have just spent several hours writing about my unfortunate experience with blindly copying and pasting code for affiliate links and banners into my site. Actually, it involves Thesis Theme and code from DIY Themes affiliate program. A must read for everyone
8. Why Lists Are Better To Get More Traffic To Your Blog – Many bloggers focuses on the content writing techniques.Content writing is not a magic but it’s a way to compose the content in systematically way.

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.

Tagged as: blogger link love, influential blogger posts, Link Love, previous serradinho posts, top blogger posts

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