It’s the beginning of July and here we are at the end of the first week. So far, everything is going very well for me, I hope everyone reading this is having a great month so far, as well.

So, here is a summary of this week:

• The Milk Man, (John Cow) released his eBook “Building a Buisness NOT a blog“, this week. The eBook is completely free with no strings attached. I definitely recommend you get a hold of this, it is a very good read.
• Ben shares with us his list of plugins that he uses on his blog. Ben explains each one very well. Check out his list of “13 Essential WordPress plugins”.
• A post that really got my attention was Jim’s post on “Speeding Up The Load Time Of Your Blog.” Blog load times are more important then what some of us may think. Jim explains the different ways on how you can increase the loading time of your blog. Be sure to check this one out!
• Tom has been very busy lately, and has been getting a lot of readers on his blog. Tom is currently giving his subscribers on his blog free links. If you want your free link, be sure to sign up and get it. Tom has already doubled his RSS count just by doing this. Great work Tom!
• I’d also like to give a shout out to Shoemoney and congrats. Shoe got a baby girl earlier this week. Hope all is well!

Blogging Idol also kicked off this week. The competition is fierce and everyone is giving it all they got to get those RSS counts up. Good luck to everyone who entered. IronBlogger was supposed to be featured in this contest, but I was a little late with the sign up. I guess I will have to sit this one out and just watch this time around.

IronBlogger is also growing a nice a steady rate. RSS reader count went from 1-24 in the last 3 days! I can only hope that this number will only continue to increase. Alexa and Technorati rank are slowly but surely rising higher.

This blog is growing each and every day.