Premium Wordpress Themes
Nov 2, 2008 Blogs, RSS and Podcasting
Summary of Wordpress Premium Themes
There seems to be a growing demand for higher quality themes for WordPress. Whether to choose a Premium theme or a Free theme is sometimes a difficult choice. Some free themes are really top notch so depending on what your needs are there may be no need for you to purchase a Premium theme. But, there are more and more high quality (and some unfortunately low quality) premium themes as well.
There are usually three types of Premium themes available - single site, multiple site and developer license, although some sites just have either single site or developer licenses. In most cases you would normally go for the multiple license unless you are certain you will only use the theme for one site. If you are a developer, obviously you would want to choose the developer’s license.
One thing that has changed recently is Revolution going Open Source, so you can now download some of their Premium themes for free. But, you have to pay for support. This is probably a smart move as more people will try their themes out and realise they then need support. Hopefully this move will get rid of some of those people trying to make a quick buck by selling cheap and nasty generic Premium themes.
My current favourite theme is the one I use on this site, which is WP-VYBE. It has a lot of flexibility in the admin menu, great support and a great design.
Below is a description of some of the best Premium Themes that I have found. I’m constantly adding to this list so hopefully will be putting a few more up here soon.
1) WP-VYBE
No. of themes: 12
Pricing: $99 (single), $199 (multiple), $299 (developer). But there are cheaper themes from $49 up.
Type of themes: Magazine
Customization services: Possible through other developers.
Notes:Theme settings page in your Wordpress control pane, 2-column or 3-column layouts, 10 different color options, Gravatar integration, Optional banner ad integration, Optional built-in post thumbnails, Optional logo/header image integration via control panel, Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages, widgetized sidebars and alot more….
2) ARTHEMIA
No. of themes: 1 (but customization through admin panel is possible)
Pricing: $70 (1 site), $140 (5-site), $240 (developer’s pack)
Type of themes: online magazine, corporate, personal blog
Customization service: Nothing mentioned
Notes: Flexible theme admin panel, category colour assignment, auto-thumbnail old posts, banner and adsense management, show or hide headline spoilers, adsense friendly.
3) PRESS 75
No. of themes: 3
Pricing: $75 (single), $150 (mulit-site), $250 (developer’s license)
Type of theme: Video/TV themed
Customization service: None listed
Notes: Ability to post using videos from several sources including Blip, TV, Flickr, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube. You can separate the blog from the video and there is an embed code allowing others to embed videos on their site.
4) WOO THEMES
No. of themes: 10
Pricing: $70 (single) , $150 (multiple) for each theme
Type of themes: Business, CMS, Magazine/News, Personal blog, Portfolio
Customization services: none advertised.
Notes: Theme options backend, custom write panels (to make the addition of custom fields easier), same base backend for all themes.
5) ZIDALGO
No. of themes: 2
Pricing: $75 (singl), $249 (developer’s license)
Type of themes: News/Magazine
Customization services: None advertised
Notes: Google adsense, Widget, plugin ready, custom category search, author pages, 100% Valid XHTML/CSS, cross-browser tested.
6) MIMBO PRO
No. of themes: 1
Pricing: $99 (single), $199 (developer’s license)
Type of theme: Magazine
Customization services: none advertis
Popularity: 59% [?]
Tags: Adsense-Ready theme, Free WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Themes, WordPress, WP Themes
Make Money Blogging With Fresh Dynamic Web Content That Keeps Users Happy
Oct 29, 2008 Blogging Tips, Blogs, RSS and Podcasting, WordPress
Webmasters planning to make money blogging and preparing to launch their new blog should always bare in mind that it is extremely important to keep the design as simple as possible as this helps the site visitors to focus on your site. These days, most website visitors are most interested in being able to quickly and easily find the dynamic web content that interests them without getting bogged down with fancy bells and whistles.
Dynamic content has proven to be one of the most important elements in not only attracting targeted traffic to a website, but also in encouraging them back to the site again and again. Webmasters across all over the internet agree that it is much better to provide the things that web visitors crave so that they come back rather than constantly trying to attract new visitors. It is much easier to make money blogging when your blog attracts repeat visitors as most experts agree a site visitor often needs to see your message up to seven times before making a purchase.
Dynamic web content is not only of great importance to site visitors, but it is also a key element in how the search engines value the content and place the page in the search engine ranking pages, or SERPs. The major search engines all place a lot of value on content that is not only fresh and relevant, but also on content that is user generated as well.
Because of these factors, having dynamic content throughout a blog or site can weigh heavily in favor of a site that is diligently trying to make the most of search engine marketing. Good search engine optimization, combined with great web content that is regularly updated, is a powerful combination that can improve your potential to make money blogging dramatically.
Ranking high in the search engines for specific keywords that are directly related to the topic and purpose of a website is an essential internet marketing strategy and one of the cheapest ways to assure a regular stream of visitors, without having to go to the expense of advertising your blog or site. At the same time, once visitors arrive at a site that is filled with dynamic content that provides the kind of information they are after, they are more likely to bookmark the site, subscribe to your rss feed, or subscribe to your email auto responders that promises additional free web information on the topic they are interested in.
One key to generating dynamic content that visitors enjoy and benefit from and that the search engines are attracted to is to provide a way for visitors to interact and add to the content. Allowing visitors to submit comments about your posts will encourage open discussion and debate amongst your visitors. This encourages repeat visits plus the search engines love the fact that your pages are constantly changing and growing with more content.
WordPress is a popular blogging platform and it is a website development tool that can also be used as a dynamic web content type of management system. WordPress is free and easy to use, and it is widely used so there is a great deal of support, training and enhancements for the platform. With a WordPress blog even a person who has never built a website can quickly become a webmaster and start to make money blogging.
Popularity: 91% [?]
Tags: Blog Tips, Dynamic Content, RSS, Targeted Traffic, WordPress
Social Networking Can Give You Freedom Today
Oct 17, 2008 Blogs, RSS and Podcasting
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What do you do for a living? If you’re like most people that walk this planet, you work for a living. Not only do you work, but you likely gained your position of employment through someone else. This is not necessarily bad. It’s often easier to invest your efforts into something larger and more secure. Well, at least large companies should be more secure. Unfortunately in the real world you’re merely a cog in the machine and they can do away with you at will. That’s just the way the corporate world tends to work. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. However, what would you say to a passive residual cash that requires less effort? This could be your solution to a better lifestyle with tons of capital and ample free time.
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Let’s examine the incentives of a passive residual income. For one, you can essentially work for yourself. This is obviously a perk since you won’t get fired working for yourself. Secondly, many jobs that lead to a stellar passive residual income can be done online. Maybe you want to sell a particular custom product you make or maybe you sell through a third party and simply collect a percentage of the profit from each sale. Think about all the sales that could be made in cyberspace while you’re sleeping. This is what residual incomes are all about. Tons of individuals are seeking out passive income by building websites and web pages. Money can be earned this way through affiliate programs and major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. When it comes down to it, there truly are countless ways to acquire a passive income via the web and you can become a part of it all. You just need to take the first step and understand that residual income is awesome.
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Take note of helpful tips found on websites such as xsitepro2, which explains many different ways to effectively earn a nicefamily, working from the home, not being able to get fired and greater profits from the time you invest. Start making your passive residual income today!
Popularity: 100% [?]
Making Money Blogging Is A Lot Easier Than You Ever Dreamed
Oct 16, 2008 Blogs, RSS and Podcasting
Did you know that there are millions of folk making money blogging online? Setting up a blog does not require any money or knowledge of fancy programming jargon, yet to use one for marketing solutions for promoting your business as well as making money is extremely effective. Blogging is the best business resource for any e-entrepreneur who may have brilliant ideas, yet has next to no funds for investment.
You hear success stories everyday about people who have soared from rags to riches. You wish that you could discover a way to ensure success for business ideas you have as easily as it is described in these Cinderella stories. Making money blogging is truly the best business advice you could ever receive. This is a method from which you will be able to get one of the best, needed business resources, i.e. your opt-in lists. What you have to do is choose a topic that relates closely to your business idea, do a little research with a few free keyword tools and set up a blog for it. You can even set up several blogs and use these to promote your main money making blog.
Blogging, which is now recognized as an excellent business marketing solutions tool, offers an e-entrepreneur many advantages. Three of the most important ones are: blogs are faster and easier to set up than websites, it is an excellent way to connect with people who are more inclined to read a blog than visit a website for information for businesses they are interested in, and blogs have the a capacity of being utilized as easy as websites. Additionally, making money blogging is far easier than you might think as blogs can easily double as a platform for selling products or services.
It is easy to see why blogs are touted as such powerful and complete marketing solutions tools for businesses online. They are easy to set up, free of cost, easily indexed and ranked, which means high visibility, as well as being the preferred source of information by a good number on internet surfers. You can use a blog to advertise, market and sell at the same time or separately without worrying in the least about the design, and other parameters upon which websites are dependent.
As you can see, both making money blogging and using blogs to market an existing business is both easy and cost effective. To learn how to build a business and not just a blog, download your free report by clicking here.
Popularity: 82% [?]
Tips for getting fast Internet Traffic to Your Website
Oct 2, 2008 Blogs, RSS and Podcasting
This is why it would be a good idea for you incorporate blogging into your overall internet marketing plan. What blogging can do very effectively is to build your target markets and bring you a steady flow of internet traffic and customers.
Everybody has a blog. No matter the topic or conversation someone has got it covered. From online diaries in the mid nineties to becoming one of the foundations of the internet, blogging along with video and social bookmarking is changing not only how we get our information but also the manner in which online business is conducted.
Blogs are free and easy to run. Just go to Blogger or Wordpress.com, signup and start posting. Try to start out posting on a daily basis or at least a three to four times a week then use these tips to get traffic to your blog
Free RSS Feed
Rich Site Summary also known as Really Simple Syndication is the process of delivering constantly updated content to your blog by pacing a block of code (known as a feed) on your webpages. In our fast paced information age, RSS fits absolutely. It allows your visitors to stay up to date on any new information you’ve added to your blog without necessarily having to visit every page on your blog. Instead they view a window that list the headlines followed by a quick summary of what each article is about.
Having a free RSS feed accomplishes two things besides getting more site traffic. First since the content is updated frequently it keeps the search engines coming back to your site and crawling for the new information. Second it can increase your visibility among your blog visitors. This is important because while they may not visit your blog everyday, providing a feed to your subscribers is a good way to for them to stay in touch.
Network
A blog network is a compilation of blogs under a sole domain or company name. Some web visitors take comfort in clicking a link that takes them to different bloggers who cover the same topic. This is also an excellent way to get free advertisement and free web traffic to your site since people who visit the network will invariably be exposed to your blog.
Email Marketing List
In a recent survey, 100% of online users say they communicate using email. This is a good way to send messages to your opt in email list with links going back to your blog web site. Let them know you’ve posted a new article or video on your blog. Use snippets or summaries to entice people to click on the link and get further information. The more times people on your list see your blog the more they will get to know you and give a second look to some products or services you maybe offering.
In addition you can gain more viewers to your blog by giving away a subscription along with free report. Advertise in ezine publications that target your niche as well as forums and classified ad sites like US Free Ads.
You can also submit to blog directories or just ask your readers to give you feedback on something you posted (the search engines view comments as updating content on your blog). No matter which technique you choose, blogging offers a new way to connect with your readers. Simple, unfiltered and a perfect fit for today’s internet blogging is a smart resource to have in your internet marketing online tool kit.
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Popularity: 69% [?]
Tags: Blog, Blog Traffic, Blogging Tips
