Two Blog Resources, A Competition and I’m Off To Sydney
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Sarah Lewis, a Blog Mastermind student who blogs at Blogging Expertise, sent me an email yesterday about a website she’s just released.
It’s called WordPress Theme Review and here’s how Sarah described it to me -
Because SEO can have a significant impact on overall traffic, I always encourage clients to get a blog theme design that’s optimized for search engines, even if they go with a free theme. The difficulty, of course, is for them to find a theme that’s optimized without knowing code.
For my own clients, I help with this, but I know many people don’t have the resources/willingness to hire help, and they really don’t know what to look for. Last year, I published a couple of posts highlighting themes that were optimized out-of-the-box, and they turned out to be some of my most popular themes. Since there was obvious interest, I sat down and figured out exactly what makes a theme search-engine-friendly, and WordPress Theme Review is the result.
The site offers thumbnail images of the theme in use, as well as info on whether or not it supports tags and widgets, if there’s a cost, etc., but the main feature is that each theme is assigned an SEO score (out of 100) that helps the average user know how optimized the theme is.
Continuing the blogging theme…
Blog Monetization Report
Matt from Blogging Fingers let me know he’s just released a free report titled Blog Monetization Strategies – Make More Money From Your Blog Without Increasing Traffic.
It’s a short and sweet read of 16 pages that cuts straight to the point about monetization tactics for blogs. If you are a veteran there’s nothing that new here, but it’s a good read and well worth investigating if you need ideas for how to best monetize your blog.
You can grab a copy of it here – Download The Blog Monetization Strategies E-book
A Crazy Competition
Gyutae from Winning The Web has put together what he calls the Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen.
There’s over $7,000 up for grabs, including a nice chunk of cash, so you might want to check this one out.
I’m Off To Sydney
I’m heading down to Sydney tomorrow through to Friday and I’ll be popping in to the World Internet Summit, so if you are attending, say hello if you see me.
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Blog theme site looks neat, it’s nice knowing what works and what doesn’t.
Also just took a quick look at the ebook and it looks alright, but doesn’t seem to cover anything new. Still, it would be a handy resource for a beginner who wants a clean list of what needs to be done.
Among many of the blog systems I have come across, Wordpress is one of the most popular and most easy to use. I used to write for two blogs and they both used wordpress. Uploading files was not a hassle and the designs were clean looking.
Sarah got a point, Blogging is very much significant to SEO knowing that they’re all forms of internet marketing. I also review her blog…
Thanks for the mention Yaro, I hope your readers like the e-book and enter the contest that is running along side it!
That theme resource looks very promising. Since seo is so important to many of us making money online, it is nice to see someone willing to help us out and save me sometime from having to dig through all of the themes to find the best one. Thanks for sharing.
the theme on the site a pretty good what’s a good idea to all who want a custom look is download and tweek the team to make it look like your own it beats paying $1500 for a custom theme
The blog theme site looks very good – thanks for the resource.
Another factor to focus on in a theme is how it can help you with certain marketing goals. For instance, when I chose my theme I wanted to be able to easily add an opt-in form at the top of the blog where it would be prominent. I also wanted a clean, professional looking design as well as my RSS feed reader signup icon in the top right of the side-bar. I thus chose my theme with these factors in mind (although I’m curious now to see if she has rated my theme SEO-wise).
I think her site, therefore, is a great place to start looking for themes – find the one’s that are SEO friendly and make that your short list. Then figure out your other marketing goals and needs and see if any of those themes meet them.
I agree what Sarah wrote. I just buy SEO optimized wordpress theme and looking forward to use it.
Why bother with coding if I can buy optimized and professional theme. It will live me more time for writing!
Finding a seo friendly theme which looks good is a tough job indeed. Buying it would be a good option.
Thanks Yaro.
As usual, you wrote useful tips and information. Love it.