December 2008 is the third month since I began to write this blog seriously. In the past three months, more than 50 posts were published. There are still not too many visitors but the number increased month by month. You can find my monthly report for October and November.

Now let's begin my Monthly report for December 2008.

What did I do in December 2008:

We are now in 2009 and Your Money Online would like to wish all my readers, both old and new, have a brilliant New Year.

It is so important a time that we are all having our family together and sharing the interesting things with them.

But I need to take a few minutes with my blog and my blog readers as well. lol... In the past three years I have been writing posts on YMO and it grew steadily. I need to thank myself for my sticking to it but I must thank you very much for your kindly support in any way.

Although I have got some backlinks for Your Money Online by blog commenting and forum discussing, I have been looking for a REAL link from other blogs for a long time. Because only when other bloggers link to your blog on their own initiative can you get a real positive vote for your blog: it means your post but not your comments on other blogs attracted other bloggers' attention. So I was very excited when the first link from another blogger's post was found in my Technorati's blog reactions.

The post The November earning report of 7 bloggers and what we can learn from them was post on binaryday.com by Sita on Dec 21. Binaryday is a blog mainly talking about Mobile and Mobile apps. But in this post Sita itemized YMO and other 6 blogs that published their blog income reports for November 2008. YMO was listed in the first position because among all the 7 blogs, YMO made only $5.95, the least money in Novemver, aha!

Displaying related articles is a good way to keep your visitors staying at your blog/website and get more page views. However, the default plugin in the Joomla! core can only be placed at predefined position and is not flexible enough to use. So as long as I finished migrating to the new server, I installed one of the best Related items plugin for Joomla!: The Plugin extranews J1.5.x - extra news with tooltip.

This plugin is developed by Viet NguyenHoang and released under GPL v2.0. Thanks for Viet's great contribution and you can use it for free. I personally think it is the best plugin for Joomla! to show the related articles. It can display related, newer and older news items with the present article.

I am glad to inform all of you that Your Money Online has been moved to a new server with PHP5 successfully today. I thought I need about 3 days to finish this migration, but the Progress took much less time think I expected. In fact, with the quick response from IXWebHosting support, it just took me several hours to complete all the progress!

After I finished backing up all the files and databases, I submitted a ticket to IXWebHosting support team at 05:52 on Sunday, December 7th, and got their quick response at 06:18 the same day, informing me that they have created a new account which is blank, no domains, no mailboxes, no databases, but gives me access to the new features I requested.