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A blogs theme or template can make or break your site

by Tricia

If you are serious about blogging you likely know that having a well put together, organized and attractive theme for your site is important.

Believe it or not, there are many people out there that judge a site initially on how it looks and if they see a blogging theme that’s a general default theme or one that’s been used on 1000’s of other sites without any kind of customization they’ll often move on to read another blog. The content on the site could be the best they could find, but they’ll leave the site simply because they don’t like the look of it. Silly really, but it’s true.

It’s a good idea to find a theme that compliments your blog and to customize it with a header that further defines your sites topic. You can pay to have a designer create a custom made theme for your site, but it’s easy enough to go into the CSS stylesheet or CSS files of a theme and change link or background colors to give the theme a more personalized look and feel.

I have a number of WordPress blogs and after spending several months looking at themes I finally changed the themes on a few of my blogs in May. I’m still keeping my eye out for themes that suit my other blogs as a few of them need a new look and or better functionality. This site could certainly use a new look.

If you are like me and you’ve been thinking of changing your sites theme it might help to know which themes are considered some of the best. I went searching for people that had already written reviews on what they consider to be the top WordPress Themes.

Top WordPress Themes:

Options WordPress Theme

Options WordPress Theme by Justin Tadlock I’m not even sure where to begin when I type “features” because it would be a daunting task to type them all out. Here’s some things you can play around with, but there’s so much more you can do …

I love this theme. I’m trying it out on one of the sites I’m developing and it’s fantastic. Options is a great name for it because there are a ton of different ways you can set this blog theme up to customize it’s look.

Top 8 WordPress Theme Download Sites (according to me)

These are my top sites I pick for finding quality WordPress themes. I love to look at themes for Worpress. Not just any themes for me though, I am hung-up on 3 column themes and I guess I always have… [[ This is a content summary only …

Comment on 10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Best of 2008 …

10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Mashable Sean P. Aune showcases ten WordPress themes that go beyond standard 2- and 3-column formats with design elements like large banners, Flickr integration, 4-column layouts, Ajax, …

The Top 10 Premium Specialty Themes for WordPress

WordPress has been a popular blogging platform for several years, but the market for premium themes has really just developed within the past year or two. Premium themes ideally will separate themselves from free themes by achieving a …

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 – Vote on Round 6!

Here are the top 5 themes for this week’s voting polls:. Sign of the Nature by Roger. Bloggy Grass by Damien Allen. Blue Moon by Alexandr. Fresh Editorial by Maruf Rahman. Photo Frame by Brian. Round 6 Series 3 Best WordPress Theme is. …

WordPress Themes Converted To Blogger Templates

Yardloo – If you ever fancy Magazine Style WordPress Themes, then you should visit Yardloo. This site reviewed the Top 10 Best WordPress Themes converted to Blogger Templates. Some of the WordPress themes ready for download include …

I’ll write a post about the best blogger themes and where to find them in the near future.




Filed Under: Blogging, Site Maintenance, Webdesign, Wordpress Tagged With: background, bestthemes, blog, Blogger, Brian, column, content, CSS, custom, customization, customize, customtheme, default, defaulttheme, design, designer, download, functionality, header, JustinTadlock, look, Original, premium, quality, Series, site, Sites, stylesheet, Templates, theme, Themes, topic, topthemes, Unusual, Wordpress, wordpresstheme

DIY Search engine Optimization tips #1

by Tricia

Individual website owners and bloggers usually can’t afford to pay SEO (Search Engine Optimization) companies to optimize their sites so that they reach the top of the search engines, however there are a lot of things that you can do yourself to improve your page rank and publicize their sites.

Here’s some tips

1. Plan your site for optimization from the beginning.

Start by choosing a domain name that includes words that could be considered important keywords for your site. For example, if you are creating a gardening site it would be great to have the word garden or gardening in your domain name. Use keywords when you create pages on your site too. A sub page of a gardening site might be called rosegardening.html .

Titles of posts in your blog – if your blog is for a specific niche should also contain keywords that pertain to the post and to the theme of the site itself.

2. keep search engines in mind as you design your site

Search engines use the text on a site to figure out what the site is about, and in part, where to place it on the search pages. If you use photos on your site always use the alt text tag to describe what the photo is about. This will make the search engines spiders and robots job easier.

Sites designed with flash format are difficult for search engines to navigate and index, as they don’t contain much text for the search engines to use to classify the site.

It’s also been said that long strips of java script might be better put in an external file that is called upon from the main page or CSS style files.

3. Each page of your site should have it’s own title tag

It’s very simple to make sure that each page has a title – simple use a Meta Title tag in the header for each page, and individually give each page it’s own title. Search Engines look at the title of each page as being one of the most important factors in telling it’s robots and spiders what the page is about. As per my earlier example if you created a gardening site and you talked about different types of plants on the various sub-pages you would want each page to have a title that contains information about the plant that is being discussed in the page. For example a sub page of the gardening site my have the title “Growing Daisies” if it discussed how to grow daisies.

Title tags should also contain important keywords that will help people find that specific page on your site when they are using a search engine. Think about what words you would choose to search for the type of information that your page is about and use some of those words in the title.

The main page of a gardening site might have a title tag – “Gardening- plants for the garden, gardening tips, and gardening FAQ’s”

4. Be sure to add a description tag to each of your pages:

A description tag is as important as the title tag. The first couple of sentences on your page should summarize what the page is about using important keywords and search phrases that you think people would use when searching for that page.

A gardening sites description tag might say “XYZ Gardening provides information to gardeners about growing plants in the garden, plant profiles, gardening tips and advice.”

5. Put your keywords into headers and headlines on your page.

Search engines give high value to the use of header tags on a page. Header tags are used to enclose the title of an article or as a sub heading in a page. I can’t write the full code here but the tags are H1 H2 H3 H4 and so on. The headline of your page should have a H1 header tag around the words.

Good blog themes often come with CSS style sheets that incorporate important items like header tags into the theme. You shouldn’t really have to think of this feature on a well made blog theme, but if you are writing and designing your own site or theme please remember that header tags are very important.

Please remember that article titles and sub-headings within an article or page should contain important keywords as well. Use words that best describe the content of the article or page when you make a header tag.

Filed Under: How To, SEO, Site Promotion, Webdesign Tagged With: alt text description, articles, CSS, CSS stylesheet, description tag, domain, FAQ, flash format, header tags, headings, images, index, keyword, market, marketing, meta tags, optimize, page rank, search engine, search engine optomization, search engines, SEO, subpage, tags, tips, titles, traffic

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