Another Monday is here. Woot Woot. Glad to say that today Balkhis is 1 year old. Yeah no special party for that. I will do one though when it turns 5 year old. Anyways, Life is going good so far. I made a digg account, hit the FP the first day then ended up getting banned. Digg said that I obtained false diggs or some BS which was lame because I only had 47 friends and only 38 were mutual. So I couldn’t have obtained fake diggs. I didn’t submit my own article either, it was some other article from cnn.

Aside from that we are looking for sponsors for a Break Dancing event in Gainesville, that will be attracting over 5000+ audience. I know I am sponsoring it. Red Bull is sponsoring it. I have sent emails to few other companies and waiting to hear from them, but if you guys want your logo in a pamphlet that is being hand out all over University of Florida then contact me. Donations of a large amount also get to put their banner on the stage. We are looking for either cash prizes, or materials equivalent value that will interest Hip Hop Industry.

Pittsburgh Steelers won their 6th superbowl most ever by a single franchise. Amazing game.

I have been doing some reading lately.

Designs of 404 Error Pages

10 Seriously useful Photoshop Tutorials

Website and Social Media Metric that you should monitor

Why Blogging is an Undisputed Culture

Posts you should’ve read on Balkhis

Feedburner to Google – The earlier you move, the less you will lose

Case Study: Authority Status in Google Boost your Search Engine Ranking and Traffic

List of Wordpress Plugins being used on Balkhis

Ok another monday is here. This week is a tough one. I have some exams and a paper due. It just feels like I was done with the finals few weeks before and they are back again. This week not a lot is going on in my life, so I will just put some of the useful reads that I came around and found it interesting.

30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers

22 Most Used Free Fonts used by Professional Designers – Balkhis logo font is there. Cicle, I think should rank really high because I use it a lot.

10 Ways to Increase your Twitter Followers – Don’t think this article is just another wannabe blogger trying to get some readers. This is from Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg who right now have 88,000 followers on twitter. Which is the second highest following after President Obama.

250,000 People Showed up at my blog – Darren Rowse got a big hit day, and see what he says about his experience.

Top 15 Countries with Internet Population – With Internet population passing one billion check out the top 15 countries and see where your audience relies.

That is all for this week. Have a nice week and keep a lookout for my latest post.

Last week I missed the Link Love monday because of my little brother’s Birthday. I spent most of my day taking a test and than driving down south for his birthday. But that doesn’t mean that no link love this week. Today is the first day of the last month of the year. So it is time to get all the receipts together and see how much you made in the year

7 things you should be doing while your blog is still young

How to do keyword research for search engine rankings

20 reasons to choose wordpress as your platform

So there will be major announcement coming out this week that will upset a lot of people here. But there are other things that will make up for it also. So keep checking with Balkhis.

You might have noticed the post frequency have decreased on Balkhis and the sole reason for that is because I am on a break and I came back home. I prefer to spend more time with my family because I only get a few days. That is why I am only posting every other day.

Other than that the three articles you should check out on Balkhis this week are:

Keywords in Post Titles, Does it really matter?

How to limit number of archive months displayed

How to organize your wordpress blogroll links

I hope you all have a very good december. Keep up to see what I have planned for the upcoming year

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.

Today is Labor day in United States of America. Today is also important because today is Balkhis Sweet Monday Link Roundup. Past week was relatively good for me. I wrote some very good articles that you should check out. I will link to them in this post, also I think you should check out the posts that I have below:

Keyword and Internet Marketing

8 Reasons Why your Blog Might not Be Accepted into an Ad Network

11 Must Install Plugins for a New Wordpress Blog

What to Look for In a Blog

15 SEO Tips for Beginners

These were all the interesting ones that I found for that was written this week. If you write a good post in the week, please email me once posted. Don’t email me older posts because I won’t publish them.

Now what you should’ve read on Balkhis in the past week.

Tips on increasing website speed.

List of 11 ways you can get free stock images for your blog post.

50 must know shortcuts for Photoshop.

Now a little bit of my personal life. I will write a bigger article on my Sunday later this week. But I went rock climbing, I played basketball with two of UF Basketball team. Chandler Parsons and Adam Allen. I went on a canoe on Lake Wauberg and more. A lot of fun stuff. Enjoy your Labor Day.