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I was wondering why people make wordpress themes and are running for it crazily. The logic may be simple. The popularity of making website gradually falling with the advent of blogging cms provided by wordpress. Now a days blogger.com has also started working on their blog interface. Less people are internet/tech savvy, moreover people have little time to devote on managing different things at once. So if you want to target a non-techy, like a doctor who wants to share his knowledge and experiences and express his ideas, he’d definitely go for either blogger or wordpress or any other blog providers. I’m not going to promote anyone.

In continuation with 8 elements of a good blog theme or template, following points may be worth-mentioning for you to decide before making a blog theme:

(1) Target niche bloggers/subjects - You are going to get a link/reference (something like design by …. or blah..blah.. ) if someone downloads your theme and launched in their blogs. So always make sure to find a specific or highly searched keywords subject to target niche bloggers. Visit popular themes/most downloads sections of blog themes providers and try to study the theme features.

(2) A stat can be beneficial - A simple stat would be a great thing to study before deciding for a blog theme. Refer to something like this if available. They have categorized their theme database in terms of colors, layouts, and theme subject. I’d suggest you to go for less popular colors, and theme subjects to avoid too much competition initially.

(3) Don’t try to do anything for making it simply unique - As I said, if you want to target non-techy guys, make sure you keep it simple enough to understand that don’t make them think twice.

(4) Eye catchy look and presentation - Give your theme a great look with high resolution meaningful images that can hunt the eyes of bloggers. Almost over 80% people are going after look these days.

(5) Think of visitors’ usability - Make sure your theme is compatible with IE, Firefox and Safari browsers. A simple translation of your theme in world’s popular languages other than English would be a great idea to acquire geographical benefits for your theme. If you are going for wordpress themes, make themes that is compatible with the latest wordpress release.

What’s your ROI on blog theme?

Downloads: 10,000 and 8000 back links in yahoo

That’s your ROI. What else? Yeah, something more. Put two sponsor links for your theme will earn you some dollars for devoting your valuable time and exercising your brain. How to sponsor your theme?

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‘Green Delight’ v1.0

• 3 columns
• Widget Ready
• XHTML 1.0 validated
• CSS level 2.1 validated

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So friends, Watch out next in my Blog for
‘Green Delight’ Wordpress Theme v1.0 (Download Free)

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Some of the terms mentioned here require a detailed study to understand their importance in the search engine optimization techniques. Apart from that, always try to make a page for the user benefits. It will make search engines happy and they will rank you better for the good user experience from that page.

If you find any other strong factors which affect website ranking, don’t hesitate to share with me and I’ll put it right here with your name and url.

I’m not god. I may miss something.

Bye friends……

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1) Why to depend on the SEO companies for getting incoming links?
2) Why to invest dollars on link building campaign?

I always believed in “Do-it-yourself” link building as you can be the best judge of your requirements and capabilities. I’ve not planned for the title of the book till now. You may know it in the next update.

You may now question why to read your book as there were plenty of resources available online and offline. The reason is I’ve tried to collect and document all the required information chronologically, thus making it a complete non-commercial resource only for acquiring knowledge. so Please wait…..

basics of link building, DIY link building

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From human perspective:

1. As many of you know that visitors don’t read contents of a page. They simply scan it at a first glance. So you need to represent your content in such a way that user can find easily what they are looking for. For that, your theme/template should have:

• Good visible navigation.
• Systematic ordering of information in a logical way.
• Use of different font style and font faces.
• Use of proper colors and style to differentiate between two objects.
• Use of brightness/darkness of objects and background.
• Good neat and clean appearance at first glance.

2. A blog theme/template provider should have plenty of room for the users feedback. If they are able provide prompt support to the users and make continuous improvement in the look and working of the the theme/template, the users will be happy.

From technical perspective

3. HTML and CSS validation is just like keeping the code of your theme/template syntactically correct. To check if the html is validated, use W3C Validator and CSS validator to validate style sheet. It’s difficult to say if it is required for search engines or not because a number of top ranking websites do not have validated markup and css. But search engines can read CSS. So you can stop them catching you spamming (by hiding your text) with the css.

4. The theme/template you choose should have good compatibility with different web browsers specially the popular ones like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera etc. People also use different screen resolution (most viewed: 1024×768) for viewing web pages. For that, a liquid layout (that fits well in any resolution) will be an ideal one for increasing the usability.

5. A good theme or template has verbose comments in the code section to understand the starting/ending and reason for using the section. Perhaps you may need to change something after 1 year, you can be sure of where you are making the change based on the written comments.

6. If you are using wordpress blog, check if the theme is widget-ready. This option will help you adding/modifying/deleting contents easily.

7. A good theme always has a customized 404 page. You can get an idea of visitors experience when they land up to a 404 page. You can always put a search box and a contact form in that page to help visitors navigate to your other pages.

8. A good theme should have a search-engine friendly layout to help better indexing of a page. If you want search engines to crawl you keyword specific content to meet the keyword proximity demand.

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Do search engines crawl blogroll links?

What will be your answer? Probably

yes

As blogs are becoming more popular, many sites are providing utility features like the one I’ve found. Blogrolling.com gives widget to automate the linking process through javascript. The concept is when you create your profile and links there, they will provide you with a small javascript code. If you add that code in multiple blogs, all your blogs will be updated at a time with those links. It’s that simple to manage your blogrolls.

But my friends, Be Aware!
those links are not crawlable by the search engines if you are pretty conscious about SE rankings and getting link juice out of those links. For example, visit http://wealth-and-money.blogspot.com/ and look for “More To Explore!” links at the bottom of left sidebar. Also check the code for this javascript.

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