Another week coming to an end. This week I got banned from digg. Woo that was fun because I found out that they just ban about anyone who they really think. They confused me with someone else. Anyways, I have decided that I will give them a call. I got a number of the person incharge at digg from a source that shall not be identified. I will update you guys what happens when I talk to this person at digg. Aside from that the exciting thing that happened this week was that I upgraded to WP 2.7. If you want to know why I didn’t for so long you can read in this post. Tomorrow I will be posting about what changed my mind. Another exciting thing that happened this week was my revenue boosted. And I will also post about that tomorrow, so keep your eyes open.

13 Quick tips to Make Your Blog Stand out from the crowd

100 Beautiful Free Textures

Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends

10 websites to help you master GIMP

I wrote a series post on Balkhis that you should read if you want to get backlinks from top bloggers.

How Not To Ask For Links To Your Blog

How To Ask For Links To Your Blog

So this is the first sweet monday post of 2009. Not only that but a lot of things are going around in my life as well as in the blogosphere that I would like to share. There are other things that are going on in local areas that you might want to see as well.

Well first of all, I don’t know how many of you guys keep track of NFL, but Pittsburgh Stealers defeated Ravens and Arizona Cardinals will be entering Superbowl for the first time after six decades. So that will be an interesting game to see. Also Superbowl advertising hits to to its records high in this dreadful economic period. 3 million for 30 seconds. Insane isn’t it.

Second major news is that Circuit City is closing down, so there is a liquidation sale that means good bargain. But fellow bloggers, make sure you compare prices before you buy anything. Second, I would recommend not to buy something very expensive because all sales are FINAL. So be careful.

Third news is for my female bloggers. I know a lot of females are interested in getting make up and other cosmetics. Well due to a major lawsuit big brands are giving out free $25 gifts. It will start on Tuesday. For detals read here.

Now lets come back to my life. I think it is time that I buy my own house. What do you guys think? Well I have already started paperwork with the bank. I have started looking around, and I have also started to call realtors and such. It is a long process, but I am hoping that I get a house. Lets see how that goes.

Well coming back to the blogosphere. There are a lot of interesting reads that you guys should see.

12 Useful Web Tools for designers (My Favorite)

80 Best of Adobe Illustrator Resources, Tutorials, and Freebies

Top 10 fonts of 2008

The Ultimate Collection of Free Vector Packs

How to create your own Firefox themes

17 Really Useful Wordpress Plugins

10 Twitter Tools to Get Information About your Twitter Stats

Those are some of the suggested readings. I read them during the course of this week. I recommend you read them too. Specially the freebies ones because there are some good stuff there. Things that you should’ve read on Balkhis in this past week:

7 Reasons Why Your Website was Penalized or Banned by Google

What if you Never Make Money Blogging?

7 Personality Traits that are found in Successful Bloggers

Big Bloggers Desperate for Subscriber Count

This is the last Balkhis Sweet Monday of this year as it is now coming to an end. There has been a flu that is going around. Almost everyone in my family got sick and it was my turn, so I got it too. I was sick for almost about 3-4 days. Which delayed a lot of work. But I am slowly recovering. Next week be prepared to see a lot of pictures from my trip to Tennessee. Hopefully I will be better and ready at my pace.

My schedule is following:

We will leave for Tennessee on the morning of the 2nd of January. It is about 9 – 10 hour drive. We will be in Ober Gatlinburg, so if you are in that area feel free to contact me and I will be glad to see you there.

Expect tons of pictures and hopefully some videos of me falling too.

Some posts I read while I was sick:

Ultimate Blogging Resource Guide for 2008

101 Blogging Tips I’ve Learned in 2008

How to Restart a Dead or Dormant Blog

I hope you guys enjoyed your Christmas and all. I got sick on the day of Christmas, so o well. I am hoping to Enjoy some of New Year’s Eve. You guys do the same. Keep me updated. It is nice to get emails from you guys.

After a long week of working and enjoying, It has come to an end. And I am looking forward to a new week. My great uncle from Belgium is here, so I am taking him around all over Florida as well. So it is fun and work. I get really exhausted by the end of the day. Due to that, I really didn’t read a lot of blog. I didn’t check out any new blogs in the blogosphere either. I will share some of the posts from the places that I am subscribed to.

4 Widget Ad Options to Make Money Online

Thinking Outside the PPC Search Box

Timeless Blogging Tips for Bloggers

How to create Ebooks and PDF files using Google Doc.

Now those were some that I found interesting and useful. I will not put a lot of details out, but Uzzz Productions is also getting a redesign. I am hoping to launch in January for the product, and the redesign of Uzzz. So keep your eyes open. There will be an affiliate program to come also

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.