Serious Monday Roundup #4

Can you believe that another week has passed. The weeks now days are flying past and I just can’t seem to keep up anymore. There are so many posts being published that I have had to keep record of what I have read and what I still need to read.

Best posts on Serradinho ending 9th August 2009

reading news Serious Monday Roundup #4

Newest WordPress Plugins 6/08
Here are this weeks WordPress plugins 6/08, I hope you enjoy them and if there are ones that you could use on your site.

Review of AdRotate WordPress Plugin
We all know there are many WordPress plugins that we could use to show ads on your site and they are all very different. I go through reviewing AdRotate plugin.

Premium StudioPress Theme
They say that StudioPress themes are perfect for a small business or an individual looking to establish their online presence with WordPress.

Update WordPress to 2.8.3 – Security Reasons
They have just released version 2.8.3 of WordPress. Please first make a backup of your database so that you can restore if something goes wrong.

2 Killer Comment Prizes for Serradinho
I had a fabulous weekend and I logged in this morning to find out that I had won 2 prizes. Yes, 2 prizes for commenting on cool and informative websites.

Serious Monthly Roundup – July 2009
I can’t believe that another month has passed, time flies when you are having fun Below are posts for the month of July 2009.

Great reads ending 9th August 2009

special glasses Serious Monday Roundup #4I have had to use my special glasses given to me by a certain Super Hero to browse through the net and find the most awesome posts. I can’t mention his identity, otherwise I will have to kill you.

It took some time getting use to as these glasses have unlimited power and I’m still classified as a hero in training icon smile Serious Monday Roundup #4 As you can see, I had a bit of fun last week searching for great reads.

  1. 10 ways to achieve a winning first paragraph for your article – What’s the second most important part of your posts, after that catchy title? The first paragraph.
  2. 20 Useful Blogging Tips for Bloggers – Here is list of essential Blogging tips you should read and you should know.
  3. How To Make Money With Affiliate Products – Promoting affiliate products with the Ninja Affiliate Plugin. With this plugin, my links look more professional and trustworthy.
  4. Stumble Upon Me and I Do Follow and Stumble You – Now I have a theory about Stumble that I would like to try out with a few of you so that perhaps we can all benefit from the sweet traffic addition from Stumble Upon. Please help John out here.
  5. Ultimate Resources to Help Secure Your WordPress Blog – I will share some tips, tricks and resources which will surely help you to secure and lock down your WordPress site and to fortify it from unwarranted attacks.
  6. The Value of Your Site’s First Impression – The problem is that every visitor that hits a less-than-amazing blog ends up leaving before even looking at the first post titles.
  7. Backlink Checker for Counting Backlinks – As I visit the various blogs and webmaster resource blogs out there I am constantly hearing about “Backlinks” and how important it is to build your backlinks.
  8. What Does Your ‘About’ Page Say About You? – Is your ‘About’ page effective? What should be included there? How can the ‘About’ page make (or break) your site? It’s all about being informative, personable, and approachable.
  9. Sweet ‘n Simple HTML: Use those codes for Comments – This gives you the go-ahead to use html codes to make your comments stand out even more.  This post gives samples for these seven sweet and simple tags.
  10. 37 Ways to Make Blogging Easier – 37 points about making blogging easier for you.
  11. 10 Steps to Creating an Authority Blog – Contains 10 fundamental rules to becoming an authority in your niche online.

Final Thoughts

I hope you have enjoyed last weeks posts and great reads as much as I have. If I have missed your great post, please leave a comment below.

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I am the proud owner of Serradinho.com 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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Typhoon August 10, 2009 at 11:33 am

Thanks buddy for again including my blog article to your Monday roundup :)
.-= Typhoon´s last blog ..KPMRS: The ultimate SEO tool to monitor Search Engine Rankings =-.

George Serradinho August 10, 2009 at 3:49 pm

@Typhoon – no problem bud :) Thanks for the great post.

Harsh Agrawal August 10, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Needless to say , another amazing and useful round up of post. I loved the Adrotate plugin review :)
.-= Harsh Agrawal´s last blog ..FaceYourManga : Create Free Online Avatar =-.

George Serradinho August 10, 2009 at 5:47 pm

@Harsh – thanks man, I enjoyed reviewing it :)

Hesham August 11, 2009 at 10:53 am

Time runs so fast, thanks for the links, I have jumped to check my “about” pages, I really need to edit it!
.-= Hesham´s last blog ..What’s Going On my Twitter =-.

George Serradinho August 11, 2009 at 1:29 pm

@Hesham – have a look and better it.

Matt Cheuvront August 11, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Thanks for including my ‘about page’ post here – great roundup of articles overall, very useful. Look forward to connecting with you in the future. Cheers!

George Serradinho August 11, 2009 at 1:36 pm

@Matt – no problem, I even changed mine after reading your post.

Asswass August 11, 2009 at 4:44 pm

I have to make more interesting blogging posts to get in your weekly roundup.
.-= Asswass´s last blog ..BlogEngage Review: Way cooler than Digg =-.

George Serradinho August 11, 2009 at 6:01 pm

@Asswass – you just me lol :) Keep the work up and see the results

Stefan August 19, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Going through my Google Reader and noticed I had several posts I’ve still not read by you. Thinking back on it, old round-ups are great method to read through and remind yourself of great content you’ve already forgotten about.
.-= Stefan´s last blog ..How to Install Wordpress on Hostgator =-.

George Serradinho August 19, 2009 at 4:16 pm

@Stefan – you have left many comments today, glad you came back :)

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