Serious Monday Roundup #20

Well, the first week in December is finish. 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 6th December 2009

Gift Ideas for this December
As some of you might need to go out and buy gifts for others out there, I have listed a few previous posts about ideas and it could help you out. You don’t have to go out and buy expensive gifts.

eBook – Your Body Is Your Temple
Self help and self improvement are very hot niches; add this report to your list of helpful tools. In this report you will discover some very good ways to help live a healthier life.

Firefox Plugins to Increase Blogging Productivity (Series 2) – SEO
We need to analyse our friends and other bloggers SEO tactics and traffic building source. Here comes the most useful SEO plugins for firefox. This is a guest post by Ricky.

Serious Monthly Roundup – November 2009
If you have missed any of November’s posts on Serradinho, then this post will help you identify popular posts from the month. Many posts about different topics.

Create shorter URLs with your Domain Name using GoCodes WordPress Plugin
As site and blog owners, we all know that some links can get very long in length. This can make your links look very unprofessional. There is a WordPress Plugin that can take the long URL and create a shorter one which includes your domain name.

Great reads ending 6th December 2009

Kids Reading in the park

  1. Promote your blog – 10 easy ways to get the word out - When I think about blog promotion, I think about getting the word out.  With that being said, I thought I would create a simple Top Ten post.
  2. 5 Bad Reasons to Quit Blogging – Bloggers tend to face challenges in the path to becoming a successful blogger which may make them think they should give up. Here are some of those common roadblocks in the blogging path, and a few suggestions on how to get past them.
  3. 10 front-end techniques to improve your site usability – Usability is a very important part of website building. Sadly, this is often neglected by designers and developers. In this article, you’ll find 10 great techniques that you should definitely implement into your website.
  4. 12 Bloggers that Share Link Juice – Every single one of the bloggers below work very hard to put together some of the best content available anywhere on the web.
  5. A One Sentence Answer To The Question “How Do You See Your Blog?” – For us bloggers yielding to the more serious, professional topics, it might be even harder to define what our blogs really mean to us.
  6. 50 Awesome Twitter Tools + A Free Report – here are lot of tools available for Twitter, free as well as paid. Some are just for fun while some are meant for serious business use. In this post, I have listed (and categorized) 50 awesome Twitter tools.

Final Thought

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

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{ 20 comments }

1 Senthil Ramesh December 7, 2009 at 11:49 am

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Thats cool and I am now going thru each of the article. I really like this idea of showing the best reads for the week. This helps us to read what we missed. :)
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2 Taranfx December 8, 2009 at 1:37 am

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All good blogs do it.
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3 George Serradinho December 8, 2009 at 9:37 am

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@Senthil – yes, it helps you the reader see what you missed as well as a bit of interlinking old posts.

4 Senthil Ramesh December 8, 2009 at 10:33 am

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Might be I should give it a try in my blog too.
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5 George Serradinho December 8, 2009 at 11:16 am

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@Senthil – let me know how it goes, it’s a drop and drag on the widgets.

6 Mr. I December 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm

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Thanks for listing 50 Twitter Tools post in roundup.
I am in process of checking other posts and they are informative.
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7 George Serradinho December 8, 2009 at 9:37 am

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@Mr. I – glad to be of help, wanted to share a good post with my readers.

8 Liane December 7, 2009 at 3:31 pm

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The gift ideas for december post saved me… literally. Haha.
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9 George Serradinho December 8, 2009 at 9:38 am

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@Liane – glad to be of help. How did it exactly save you? Some details would help.

10 chandan@work at home December 7, 2009 at 5:08 pm

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Thank you for this Monday round up. I have read your all previous article, Specially the article you write on firefox plugin, is really very nice.
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11 Sanjeev December 7, 2009 at 6:11 pm

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This roundup is looking great. Came across some nice posts. Thanks George for sharing them.
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12 George Serradinho December 8, 2009 at 9:39 am

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@Sanjeev – glad you liked them. There are so many great posts, sometimes it’s hard to choose.

13 Sahil Kotak December 7, 2009 at 6:42 pm

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Good list, will check them now.
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14 Curious Little Person December 7, 2009 at 7:19 pm

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going to read5 bad resaons to quit blogging.. looks interesting…
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15 Ankit @ All About India Blog December 8, 2009 at 12:43 am

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I became regular reader of this Blog..I find v useful post here..and main thing ..George you are very helpful..

I still have 1 question about How to add this tweetme Icon with the post ( on Homepage with each post..Hope u U’stnad my Requirements..
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16 George Serradinho December 8, 2009 at 9:40 am

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@Ankit – thanks for the words. I will set up a post about the Tweetmeme button on posts and homepage.

17 Arafat Hossain Piyada December 8, 2009 at 4:32 am

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As always very interesting compilation and help me to read what I miss through out the week.
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18 Dennis Edell December 8, 2009 at 4:23 pm

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Oh very cool, I missed that twitter tools post before. Thanks!
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19 Personal Massager December 10, 2009 at 6:13 am

Hmm….I am now seeing the importance of a recap post. It would help to increase your internal back link and drive your readers to older posts that you think needs more attention.

Ridas
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20 Extreme John December 13, 2009 at 12:27 am

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George thank you for being nice enough to include my post, you know I always appreciate the chance to be included in your round up.
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