Serious Monday Roundup #23

Well, the first four weeks of December are finish and Christmas has passed. This is just a recap of last weeks posts, I hope you enjoyed some of them and left comments. So lets down to business and start listing them below for you to check out.

Best posts on Serradinho ending 27th December 2009

eBook – Delicious Candy Recipes
The Holidays are near and this product will be a wonderful addition to your Holiday treats. It’s time to take a break and enjoy this collection of candy and cookie recipes. You can use and enjoy these recipes or make a little money on the side by wrapping these wonderful recipes up and selling them.

5,000 Comments Milestone for Serradinho Blog – Thanks to All
I wanted to say thanks to all my loyal readers, family, blogger friends and visitors for making it possible to break the target of 5,000 comments before the end of 2009. It has been a hectic few months, but we pulled through and we made it with a few days to spare.

Serradinho.com Wishing You all a Merry Christmas
All of us here at Serradinho.com would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. This is one of my best holidays and days of the year, so cheer up and spend the day with your loved ones.

Great reads ending 27th December 2009

1. How Google AdSense Earnings Compare With Text-Link Ads – Why I think Text Link Ads and is better than Google AdSense. The differences between the two advertising streams expressed in a comparative table.
2. 4 Crucial Phases In The Life Of A Blogger – Blogger has a fantastic future because blogging gives lots of exposure as well as money in life. But every blogger has a starting point. From starting point I mean a phase in a blogger’s life when he came to know about blogging thing.
3. 51 New Year resolutions for graphic and web designers – Below you will find a few ideas that I hope will be helpful in making you a more successful graphic or web designer next year and for the rest of your career.
4. Top WordPress hacks of 2009 – 2009 has been a very prolific year for WordPress hacks. In this article, I’ll show you the most useful hacks I came across during the whole year.
5. Most improved blogs of 2009-3rd place runner up – Kikolani a blog owned by Kristi Hines  is in my opinion one of  the most improved blogs of 2009.
6. 10 Things to Consider Before Becoming a Professional Blogger – So discussion is, Is it really worth to resign from a current job and to go for professional blogging?
7. 5 Wordpress Themes For Under Construction Blogs – Here are some beautifully designed wordpress themes for under construction blogs.
8. Why You Should Monitor Your Link Popularity – As we know, link popularity represents the fame of a web address in term of number and spread of links, compared to other sites in the internet. Its algorithm is based on the indexing of major search engines.
9. How to Market your Blog with Comments? – We all know the importance of Comments. One of the basic advices that most bloggers give is to regularly comment on other blogs.
10. WordPress Stops Pinging – How To Fix It! – It’s been a funny old week since I updated to WordPress 2.9, don’t get me wrong the new update is fantastic and some of the new features are extremely useful to use, but, and this is a big but, after installing the update, every time I made a post or used a ping back or trackback my WordPress blog would not ping or send pingbacks to other sites!

I won first prize at John’s site and feel very honoured and surprised. The prize is for Most improved blogger for 2009, I’m still shcoked and would like to thank all my readers and friends for pushing me to be better.

Final Thought

I hope you enjoyed last weeks details and that you have some kind of feedback for me, whether it be good or bad. There were so many great posts by other bloggers all around the net, I had a tough time eliminating some.

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Article by George Serradinho

I am the proud owner of Serradinho and have made this my second home. I'm into blogging, downloads, WordPress and the internet in general. I also love meeting and helping others and learning new techniques.