Okay, just a quicky to wish you all a Happy New Year and a lot of happiness and obedience in the upcoming 2008 year! May all your dreams come true and fill your life with joy, love, health and success! Don’t forget to send a free ecard from our service to all your friends and spread the joy

Happy New Year!!! 

I found this really nice website with tons of fun quizzes, among which there was a “are you addicted to stumble upon” test. I decided to take it, since I am dedicating so many posts here to stumble upon and so much valued content flows from there, I was amazed to see I am only, in fact, 53% addicted. I swear I thought it would be more. Anyway, it was fun to take and I’d have taken more quizzes before sleep, but… I want to browse a few new sites at Stumble Upon…

53%Are You Addicted to Stumbleupon?

Structured Settlement Cash

All the webmasters who earn over 10,000 dollars with Google Adsense can expect the Merry Christmas gift from Google, while most advertises who availed of the Google Adwords program and spent a few good thausands on their campaigns can as well expect a lil` appreciation gift from Google team. If the spent money did not bring the desired effect, at least you will get a nice digital frame with Google’s logo on it.

Last year, in 2006,  I remember some people got a high standard digital frame, or even a mini fridge, while this year the gift’s budget was obviously cut because gifts consisted from flash memory, that everyone seems to get.

Still not bad, but why am I grumpy? Well, as you could guess, I did not get anything… That’s fine, where do I say I wanted it anyway?

Dear TopTut.com readers, Merry Christmas!! Thank you for dropping by to check my blog on this special eve when you were supposed to be with your families yet you chose to spend the time online with toptut.com. I really think you should get back to the table instead of sitting here alone (computer is still considered as non human company, serious!) But, since you are here, I will try to entertain you. Although I don’t actually have many special offers for you, except the following deals from our friends and partners…

• Get $50 discount + Free domain at DreamHost.com hosting, using coupon code “Lorelei”.
• Sign up with LinkWorth, and get $50 affiliate payout from every advertiser you refer, as well as start earning money placing links, billboards, blog posts and more.
• HostGator.com, one of the leading hosting service provider today, gives you 20% discount off everything (any plan, any registration). Valid until January 1st, use the code they give you on the front page.

That’s it for now. Don’t forget to send a FREE Christmas eCard to your friends and family and spread the wintry joy!

Just like I did on Halloween a few months ago, here is a new seasonal collection of avatars for forums, IM, myspace and other places where you need a buddy icon and want to add a bit of a showy touch. Some of them are a bit empty, this is only because I wanted to leave some space for you to add your nick or personalized text. I hope you like this collection of my Xmas avatars! Feel free to hotlink directly to our server, we have enough bandwidth for everyone.

Merry Christmas!

 Christmas is almost here, don’t forget to avail of our free eCards service for the holidays! Just a little reminder as we will be adding even more cards for our upcoming holidays collection during the next week. Click below to see what we have in stock.

Most people bring each other something traditional for Xmas, — sweaters, books, or winter-related products… why no one ever brings sunglasses as a gift? It’s much cheaper as you buy them at this time of the year off season and you can purchase some great brand online (for example Dior sunglasses — would be an excellent choice!) and bring them to anyone in your family who likes to look like a celebrity. Since we always see the well-known brands (again, like Dior) on famous stars and singers, it’s always an amazing gift to get something “like the stars have”… Isn’t it? This about it, it’s a cheap way for a breathtaking gift and original as well — not everything has to be decorated with snowflakes!

Yay, today toptut.com celebrates one year online, not that anyone cares. And, in 16 days from now I will celebrate my birthday as well, not that anyone cares either, but anyway, let’s get back to topic!

So, 365 days online as well as 356 days of blogging, as this was my first ever blog. Spending time around the blogsphere teached me a lot, in fact from -200% knowledge I think I am successfully reaching for about +65% of being a good blogger, not only making money off this blog, but also producing my own WordPress themes and helping others (a bit).

History

Originally I got this domain free, off my DreamHost deal and was planning to make a blog, pull it to PR3 and sell for 50 bucks, putting 100% profit in my pocket. Upon the first Google PR update TopTut.com hit PageRank 5 and of course I couldn’t imagine selling it, let alone this whole blogging thing started to be interesting.

Notable MileStones

From the notable milestones I would outline 2 comments I got; one from Jim Westergen, and the other from Steve Pavlina, both gurus I highly value and learnt a lot from. Other than that, last month I got MyBlogLog installed and was pleasantly surprise to see 3 well known faces here — John Chow and his copycat, (who ended up beating his search results in Google — John Cow), as well as Cow’s blog designer Hyder. Looks like the whole family came to visit toptut.com!

Our first design got featured on Screenalicious (back then we used a free theme, now I have my own) and our Photoshop tutorials were published on pixel2life, good-tutorials, tutorialized, Photoshop Roadmap and dozens of other tutorials databases. Our Free WordPress themes got used by over 2000 (!) of websites, and at present, toptut.com is Top 2k Blog on Technorati! (On this occasion, also many thanks to Colleen Chard from Kalina Web Designs who kindly blogged about my first WP theme and help me greatly with getting started).

Moreover, we got featured on Paula Mooney’s Bloggers Salary list, although the blog revenue went MUCH higher since then, even back in April I was already on the respectable 90th place (let’s not forget that the first places are all monopolized by Wall Street blogs, CNN money blog, Times, USA Today and other empires).

So, How was this year?

Apart from the unpleasant and unjust fight with some other wp themes designer, and apart from the fact we got banned from digg.com– it was an awesome blogging year! Having my entire forum’s community support and people who willingly promote and link to this blog, it was really great being a beginner blogger, although I think my blogging revenue (x,xxx$ monthly) can easily push me into pro-bloggers category soon.

About half a year ago I also opened the Dark Light of Love blog, dedicated to romance and bedroom (to its farthest extent), which gets more and more exposure as well (surely people would be more interested in tips for improving their sex life rather than in tips for improving their SERPs! :D)

So, that’s it about the exiting last 365 days of toptut.com floating somewhere in the cyberspace of WWW.  Cheers!