Monday is always sweet isn’t it. Well this one was as well. Because my experiment last week that I was trying on Balkhis worked. Traffic, the entire week was crazy high. So keep your eyes open to see the update on what I tried. Other than that the important thing you need to know. If you live in U.S, and you are planning to attend one of the blogger/webmaster conferences then you are in luck. Get 250 free post cards. So I got a few emails to mention their sites.

So check out Atif’s new plugin that he wrote. It is called Techytube. What it does is embed your youtube videos to your blog posts in your admin panel. You will say that it has already been done. But wait there is more. His codes actually converts the youtube videos into being XHTML Friendly.

Alright my good friend Gyutae Park from Winning the Web has launched his ranking system for blogs called IM Top Blogs short for Internet Marketing Top Blogs. If your blog is not in there. Then get it in there. Even though I am not ranked very high, I still got 25 visits from his list in one week.

45n5 has rebranded to Digital Product Reporter. He actually have the list for top money making blogs. I am ranked #15. If you want some more free traffic. Get into that list. I got 43 visitors since this month from that list. So definitely get your sites listed in there.

When I wrote a post about how I increased my subscribers. A question was asked in one of the forums that what if the subscriber never visits your blog. Darren wrote an awesome article answering that question. Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they don’t visit your site?

Well that is enough for the news around the blogosphere. If I missed something and you want it included next week. Let me know by heading over the contact page and emailing me. I will try to include it.

Most articles I wrote last week, are the ones that you should read. Heck a lot of people from Stumbleupon and Digg chose to read it. So don’t miss out.

Case Study: How I increased my subscribers to over 1800 in 10 months

Ultimate Guide to use Digg for bloggers

War of Browsers – And how it is effecting your site

Don’t let your identity be lose, let others know who you are

How do I make money online

Don’t forget if you want some exposure feel free to send me an email and get mentioned in the next week’s link love.

Last week was a busy one. Life is getting busier and busy. I have to fight for every spare minute. But I am trying to do the best in getting school work done, having fun as well as working online. Aside from the normal boring routine, this past week I went to Lake Wauberg. We cooked on the grill, throw some football around. Climbed the rock and played Frisbee golf.

Other than that, I read some good posts on the forums. Helped a few people setting up their site and I enjoyed seeing my subscriber count increasing crazily. Can’t wait till it gets to 2k. Maybe it is time to add a newsletter. What do you guys think?

Well while you are thinking of that check out some cool posts that I liked.

Mike Kelly, my affiliate manager at Market Leverage wrote an awesome blog post at my friend Nabil’s blog talking about the Importance of the Affiliate / Affiliate Manager Relationship

A proof of how email subscription boxes really work is pretty obvious at Yan’s blog. He increased his blog email subscribers by 60 in 7 days. So if you don’t have email subscription box you might want to think again. Read this tutorial to find out how you can add one to your site.

One of the few blogs that are in my daily feeds is problogger. Darren always write quality articles. So check this article that tells you how you can improve your blog even when you are not online.

Past week on Balkhis

If you haven’t checked out all of my posts well the four below are a must read for you.

How Social Media made me from a nobody to a somebody

How to Save Time when you Edit Wordpress Posts and Comments

Display the Last Modified Date for your posts on Wordpress

How to move to a new Domain without losing Search Engine Rankings and Traffic

Monday is here and we are staring a new week and a new month. I am happy and looking forward to what comes next. The past week was hectic. If you didn’t read what happened, here is a small summary. My old host went down for 2 days. I switched to Hostgator. The day after I switched they came back. But I am with host gator. I had to upload 10GB of files to hostgator now.

I was crazy sick and that delayed a lot of posts that I wanted to write which you will see this week. I am still not completely over the sickness, but I am feeling much better now.

Check out some of the cool reads that I had.

Google Debunk Webmaster Myth – Some excellent questions and answers about Google.

Technorati Authority is Manipulated to Easily – Most ranking systems online have break through, and this is another one.

Five Ways to Cash in Big Before New Year – Zac has always come up with new ideas. There are some more ideas for you if you want to make money before New Year.

Hunting Down Buyers for Website Flippers – Everyone talks about site flipping. This interesting article shows you how to actually hunt buyers.

Election day 2008 and your resources – You all know election is coming pretty soon. This is the article that shares some of the best resources. Don’t forget to go out and vote.

That is the end of the Sweet Monday. Hopefully we will get the pimp my blog done soon. I can say that web designing industry is not going down due to economy because my local clients are just increasing.

Its time for another tip sunday. Last week it was Shutter Stock that gave me a shirt. This week it is another stock image company called Erickson Stock.

Personally I am going to say, I have never used Erickson Stock before, but what I did notice was that the pictures on their site were very nice. The best part that they told me was that the pictures are taken by one experienced photographer. And you can see that if you see the pictures, you will see the consistency in them. It is a great set of pictures, to use only on one website because the consistency it brings into the site.

Well you are wondering what they sent me. They gave me a cool Hat.

I am sure you like the cap. Definitely go check out Erickson Stock. If you want to appear on Tip Sunday. Send me a shirt or any gift that have your business logo on it.

So Shutterstock gave me a shirt because they like my blog. I think it was because of my designing tips. If you don’t know who shutterstock is, then here is some info. Shutter stock is basically a stock image provider that sells images for cheap. Well I like their shirt, so check it out.

Well if you are a designer, then you should definitely use them because they have a lot more variety, but if you are a blogger and can’t afford them, you might want to use some of the free ones that I mentioned in 11 Amazing free stock photos.

After seeing this picture, I think I need to start working out again, and eat less chocolate. If you think my face looks weird it is because I have Kit Kat in my mouth. And I think I am getting fat. So time to hit the gym tomorrow.